"Confessions of a Bush Hater"

[jackster]

Sorry if a dupe - this is an excellent piece!

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2006/01/03/confessions-of-a-bush-hater/

“Bush hater” is a term invented by people who didn’t like being called “Clinton haters” because it was true. I don’t mind being called a Bush hater because it is not.

My antipathy for George Bush is a thousand miles wide and a micro-millimeter deep. Underneath that thin veneer of dislike lurks one million metric tons of couldn’t-care-less.

On that glorious day when he goes back to Crawford for good - and the world once again becomes safe for democracy - before the sun sets, I will have forgotten him. Seriously. George who?

I especially LOVE the last quoted paragraph!!!!

[Contrary1]

1. I am in perpetual amazement that this man is the President

"...Imagine the outrage from the Right and the “librhul media” if Roger Clinton, Billy Carter or one of John Kerry’s kids had uttered such a vulgar word. Sometime after the Republican convention in 1988 I read a quote from George W. that singled him out in my mind from among Vice President Bush’s half-dozen or so grown children. During the convention - where his father became the Republican presidential nominee - Bush Jr. had given an interview to a reporter from the Hartford Courant that went like this:

REPORTER: When you’re not talking about politics, what do you and talk about?

GEORGE W. BUSH: Pussy.
When I read this, it struck me that those two syllables spoke volumes: “I am a dunderhead, and I am brazen about it. And by the way, fuck you.”

<snip>

Imagine the outrage from the Right and the “librhul media” if that word had been uttered by Roger Clinton, Chip Carter or one of John Kerry’s kids. The campaign would have been putting out that fire for months..."

[BlacknBlue in Red NC]

2. Last paragraph IS great:

"The problem in our country today is not Bush hating, it’s Bush worship. It is the minority of people who give blind obedience to this man, especially those in the middle and lower classes whose interests he opposes, who are giving aid and comfort to the destruction of American democracy."

Whole piece is great; thanks for posting.

[Old Smokey]

3. Great Read