Bush Earned Our Hate

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VIEW FROM THE LEFT

Monday, February 2, 2004

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I would like to say a kind word about George W. Bush: He's usually not as dumb as he pretends to be.

Acting dumb is Bush's style. He likes to sandbag people. He plays dumb, people underestimate him and, all of a sudden -- wap! He nails them.

People say I hate Bush. That may or may not be true. I use the word hate a lot, but I think it means different things to different people. Genuine hatred is not high on my list of personal emotions. If I consider someone bad, all I ask of them is that they stop being bad. If they can do that, I have no further quarrel with them.

The point I hope to get to in this little essay is that those of us who dislike Bush did not simply get up one morning and decide we were going to hate him. He had to earn our antipathy.

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Hatred for a Republican president is not a knee-jerk liberal emotion. Opposition, yes, but not hatred. This Bush fellow is a special case.

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[acmavm]

1. OOPS -Link

http://sfgate.com/columnists/sorensen/

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2. No matta what others say.....

G-Dub is an idiot!

Refer back to all that's he has said.

In my opinion, it would be very hard to "act" all those stupid, idiotic things that he said/did in public.

The RW media wants their opposition to believe that he's a "smart guy acting stupid".

I say.....

POPPYCOCK!

HA!

[forgethell]

4. Harley Sorenson cannot, by any stretch of the imagination

be considered "right-wing", or even "moderate". Heck, his column is entitled "View from the Left".

[glarius]

3. I disagree...Bush IS DUMB.....but he has a quality that rescues him from

being burried in his own stupidity...HE IS CUNNING....Not intelligent, or informed or questioning or wise....just cunning....This sly, cunning man is able to cover his deficiencies with jokes and bluffing, so that he has fooled the average American voter into thinking he is a strong, compassionate leader.....However, it seems he is starting to be found out...His lies about his Viet Nam military service are being revealed....I think it will be a domino effect....At least I hope so!!!

[historian]

5. unbearably stupid and smug

A person who is incapable of conducting an intelligent conversation without rehearsals, prompts and preordained questions is, to my mind, not only unbearably stupid but ignorant.
The few times he unexpected questions flung at him he responded like the cretin he is. "Bring em on" is one famous quote.
In fact, I would place him at a slightly lower level of ignorance than Reagan who, in his wisdom, declared trees cause pollution.

[donhakman]

6. Don't even buy into the hate bait arguement

It is designed to discredit any opinion you form no matter what credible facts that opinion is based upon.