I hated bush before hating bush was cool.

[Philosoraptor]

I hated him from the very first second I realized he even existed, and my hatred grew exponentially every day into a seething, white hot hate of hell, long, long before it became the latest fashion.

Remember when everybody absolutely just LOVED his royal ass? Right after his first major fuck up, nine eleven, he was suddenly the most loved man on the planet. Am I exaggerating?

In fact, if you said anything bad about bush, you'd get a severe tongue lashing and called unpatriotic because 'we're at war', you were told to stand behind our president as a nation and to stop hating all the time and start loving bush, it stretched credulity to the max.

Now apparently EVERYONE hates his royal ass, now it's cool, and I don't have to be the Lone Ranger anymore, hating bush is trendy now, even republiks who've held him aloft with false praise all these years now hate him, and that's a whole new kind of hate we haven't seen since Nixon.

Come on all you former bush lovers, give in to the feelin', the water's fine out here in hate land. We who've hated bush all along welcome you, get on the bandwagon, join in the parade, it's cool to hate the ape now!

[bananas]

1. "Nobody goes there anywmore, it's too crowded"

quoting some famous person.

[magellan]

2. Big parade

Newbies at the back. Us old guard get the first go at spitting in his face.

You know, in my life I've only hated two people on sight. Bush** is one of them. I didn't have to know a thing about him or hear him speak. It was instantaneous.

My gut is never wrong.

[Philosoraptor]

3. You're a trend setter like me.

The cranks in the back of the cave have never fallen for the ape.

[Little Wing]

4. When I saw his official picture as Texas Gurvna I thought

"Now there's one dumb-looking piece of work"
In fact while a very good friend was trying to get me to move to Texas, two things kept me away. The heat and George W. Bush

[JohnnyLib2]

5. Not me. The first reaction, late 90s, was alarm.

My intuition said, "uh oh, lightweight." Then the Texas execution chuckle story came along and alarm grew. Hasn't stopped growing.

[Philosoraptor]

7. Alarm turned into terror, terror into horror.

[Philosoraptor]

6. A friend asked me, 'don't ya just almost feel sorry for the jerk'?

I said, uh, no.

[Jeanette in FL]

8. I've been a member of the 10% club from the beginning

Saw right through that phoney cowboy accent and that phoney pig ranch back in 2000. I even signed up numerous 19 and 20 year olds to vote for the first time, telling them what would happen if he were elected. Oh how I wish I would have been 100% wrong.

[Philosoraptor]

9. bush 'in the cellar of public opinion'

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16755951/


WASHINGTON - When President Bush delivers his next-to-last State of the Union address Tuesday night, he will confront this reality, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll: Nearly two-thirds of Americans appear to have given up on success in Iraq and also on his presidency.

[Philosoraptor]

10. 'bush down the drain'

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/491136p-413611c.html

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

46. The world would be a better place if that picture was literally true.

And W was on his way to a waste treatment plant.

There's one problem - he's too toxic to mix with regular sewage.

[Skittles]

11. I bet I hated him before you did

I hated him on sight when he was running for governor here - I knew from the first time I saw him what he was

[Philosoraptor]

12. I hated his daddy, & never thought I could hate a bush more.

But I was wrong. Oh, and I hated his mommy real hard too.

[Skittles]

13. same here

absolutely, although I did accept bush I as my president, something I have never done with his dipshit son

[Jeanette in FL]

14. Me, three

I thought the same thing. If we never here the name Bush again it will be too soon.

[Bjorn Against]

45. Yes, his father was the first President I really did not like

I was only twelve years old when I realized who his father was. Once he brought us into the Gulf War I figured him out. Now in retrospect I should have disliked Reagan before I turned against Poppy, but I was too young at the time to realize what Reagan was doing.

[TreasonousBastard]

22. Beat me by a coupla years...

I still don't say I "hate" him-- I refuse to "hate" anyone-- but news of his revolting existence managed to filter up to New Jersey in record time soon after he got elected guvnah. And when it became clear he was running for President, all the miserable details of his sorry-ass life were laid out up here for anyone who cared to look. It was clear from the beginning that if he wasn't born to wealth and power he'd be pumping gas somewhere between barfights and jail terms.

From day one, and to this day, I cannot look at or listen to this miserable excuse without a serious gag reflex.

[cornermouse]

15. Don't have to hate him to impeach him.

[ClayZ]

16. Up it goes... K and R

[Tatiana]

17. Oh yeah, well I protested Bush at the St. Patty's Day Parade in Chicago when he was still a

"War President!"

[babylonsister]

18. And I got a shirt for X-mas that says just that!

My sister knows me.:D

[ikojo]

19. I was there with you...I never had positive feelings about this

guy or the crowd he runs with.

As Clayton Bixby, the black white supremacist created by Dave Chappelle says, "if you got some hate in your heart, let it out."

[sofa king]

20. I think 50.5% of us hated him before hating him was cool.

I think the ten percenters were the people who accurately guessed that George W. Bush would be the most corrupt, most criminally incompetent President America had ever seen.

And truth be told, I and most of the rest of us were wrong about that, too, because few of us guessed that he could steal two elections and thus cement his legacy as The Worst President Ever.

He's the Commodus of our time. Lazy. Superficial. Incompetent. Stupid. Grandiose. Commodus was murdered by Narcissus. Bush has Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Biggest difference: when Commodus dressed up like a gladiator, he actually fought.

Second biggest difference: When Commodus died the Roman Senate damned his memory for all time. Our Senate will probably name an office building after George W. Bush.

[Nay]

21. I also hated this lightweight dumbass punk from the very beginning,

from the first time I was ever aware of his existence. We had legacy admissions at my university who were just like Bush, and I hated them, too, because I knew they were going to step into cushy jobs their daddies gave them the moment they "graduated" from school. These people are poison, and anyone with any brainpower at all knew it long ago.

The mystery is why so many did NOT seem to know it. Waves of idiocy and hubris roll off that whole family and Bush in particular, and no one felt it? Impossible.

And how he mocked that woman he had put to death? Even braindead Christian fundies should have been disturbed by that. But no.

[cassiepriam]

23. I wish the freepers would admit we have been right all along.

But that would take maturity on their part.

[DarkTirade]

24. I mistrusted him before he even ran...

but that's just because I live in Florida, so I've seen what kind of damage a Bush can do. Of course, I didn't realize that Jeb is the less evil brother... back in 2000 I had no clue Bush could have (*&%ed up as badly as he has.

[Red Right and BLUE]

25. I was disgusted when he was my governor. nt

[Chalco]

26. Me, too.

In 2003 I put up crosses on my lawn with words like "liberty", "freedom of speech", "democracy", "voting rights" etc on them to symbolize the death of our democracy. Cars came by and people gave me the finger for the most part. People shook their heads. And this was in a very liberal neighborhood. What do you think they'd do now?

[mwb970]

27. I was *just* thinking this same thing!

Remember when his approval-disapproval rate was 82-15 after 9/11? I was in the 15%. I thought he was an idiot even before he stole the first election.

I couldn't believe the R's would nominate a piece of crap for president. When they did, I couldn't imagine how he could win, but he did!

Then, after he completely screwed up everything he touched for his entire first term (as predicted), WE RE-ELECTED HIM! After Iraq, after Katrina, after Schiavo, after Miers, the country said "Yes! We want more of the same!" I was flabbergasted.

It looks like the public at large, including thinking Republicans, is finally catching up with this dishonest, mentally ill criminal. But why oh why did it take them so long?

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

35. I think a lamp would have had that kind of support if it was president right after 9/11.

If this crowd had channeled the international good will and the unequivocal coming together of the American people for good things intead of corruption, greed and power...oh well, lessons learned.

A friendship that was ruptured in the days after 9/11, when I told my friend that I thought gwb was a coward for giving a speech from a bunker and hiding out all day, is now finally on the mend. I was right then, I'm right now. MKJ

[motocicleta]

28. You are a finer person than I

I didn't start to hate him with the undying rage that I hold so dear today until, oh, along about mid-December 2000. I actually thought for a while that he was so clearly an imbecile that things would be okay because Poppy's handlers would keep him somewhat under control. I figured we'd see some egregious tax cuts, a little environmental degradation, but nothing spectacular.

I think that was the very end, the teensy little vestigial bit, of my adolescent hopefulness rearing its ugly head. I am quite certain it is well and truly dead now, though. Thanks, *!

[tavalon]

36. Yeah, I held that misconception about him too

I don't have much excuse because I lived in Texas when he became guvna. But he was a neutered imbecile there (governors don't have all that much power in Texas) and I wrongly assumed he would be useless but fairly harmless as a President. Boy, was I wrong and I admit it now. I've admitted it since a few months after 9/11. No, I didn't think he was good or bad after 9/11 but I did spend about a week after 9/11 with the belief that we should unite behind him. I got over that too, about the time I saw that he was going to bomb Afghanistan back to the stone age but clearly wasn't trying to get OBL. By the time it was clear he was going into Iraq, I was furious and have remained so since.

[hatrack]

29. Disliked him intensely from Day One - but he had to EARN my hatred

That started to kick in sometime around the moment he walked away from Kyoto, if I recall correctly.

[Phrogman]

30. I can't hate something I don't even consider human..

he's more like some kind of evil anamatronic characters like you might see at Disneyworld or some such shit.

[zbdent]

31. Actually, it's more like "I was saying Bush's policies were wrong

long before saying Bush's policies were wrong was cool ..."

Why should people listen to Repukes, anyway?

In 1993, they said that Clinton's economic policies would bankrupt this country ... had the longest period in modern history without a recession ...

In 2000, they said that electing Al Gore would tank the stock market, drive gas prices up, and throw us into a recession ... Bush was installed, and all that happened ...

In 2001, they said that Bush's economic policies would bring great prosperity to the entire US ... it's taken us until late in 2006 to actually reach the point where the Dow was under Clinton ...

In 2001, Bush swore on a bible that he would uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States ...

[HughBeaumont]

32. I respect and acknowledge NO one who steals office.

Corporations and the government were suspiciously DESPERATE to get him in.

Hey it's worked out well for them. The other 99.5% of us got the shit end of the stick, but who cares? What's good for the wealthy is good for YOU! Now get back to work or we'll outsource your job. Here's the firing finger .. . point!

[AValdoux]

33. He was my governor first

I hated him the first time I saw him, campaigning for governor here in Texas. He was running against one of my favorites, Ann Richards. When he won I refused to say "governor" & "Bush" together, it was one or the other.

Its been difficult being a bush hater here in Texas but it feels good now. I refer to the people who still support him as "the 30%'ers". I ask them when are they going to join the majority and leave the loony fringe.

AValdoux

[KarenS]

34. I did too,,,, hated him, not on sight, but the first time I heard

him speak,,, I worked at one of those big multi-national corporations for 20 years,,,, I knew what that arrogant entitled CEO double-speak non-answers to questions and full speed ahead on pet projects was already,,,, He reeked of it.

My Husband & I were watching the first Gore/Bush debate and we decided then that we could not in good conscious vote for our first choice Nader.

[ms liberty]

37. Me too...now we've got all the bandwagon jumpers and it's getting crowded!!!

I despised him from the moment I saw his beady little eyes and heard his butthead little laugh.

[etherealtruth]

38. I defer to those that had to endure the fool in Texas

I must admit I didn't view him as a serious threat initiially ... I saw him as a spoiled frat boy (still a frat boy in his 50's) that was not a real threat (I couldn't fathom him ever becoming pResident)

[Sweet Freedom]

39. I hated him even before that

I live in Texas and had to deal with his dumbass as governor.

(Being stuck here during all the Bush-lovin' years was horrible.)

[Bjorn Against]

40. Me too, in fact my loathing of him only grew deeper on 9/11 at the height of his popularity

I knew right away on 9/11 that he was going to exploit the event and use it to destroy our civil liberties and take us into a major war. I really wish I was wrong. I really wish all the people who supported him were right, and we did have peace in the world today.

But I based my opinions on fact not false patriotism, and unfortunately everything I predicted came true. Of course I am still one of the "loony left", while those who stood before the television cameras praising his every move and being wrong about everything they said are still the "experts".

It would be nice if the people who stood up to Bush even after 9/11 finally got some credit for saying what no one else dared.

[Balbus]

41. I need to work on my hate skills, I guess.

And I never knew hating was a cool thing to do - tells you how much I know.

[Gregorian]

42. Snickering at Karla Faye Tucker was one example.

But all I needed to know was his father. People say that isn't neccisarily a good comparison to make.

So yes, I would even say that everyone here felt the same way. Why else would I say the war was coming as he was sworn in. I'm not even a Congressman. Lucky guess, I suppose.

[JCMach1]

43. hated his ass as gov. of Texas...

what an asshat!

Could never understand how the pugs could nominate him over McCain...

[Swamp Rat]

44. Dubya is the Demon Seed

[Philosoraptor]

47. nbc talking head: The people don't like him anymore do they?

[kdpeters]

48. I admit it, I gave Bush a chance after 9/11.

I was in that 90% that couldn't imagine any human being be so inhuman to manipulate and use the trauma we went through for political benefit.

Took me a few months and a depressing blow to my own optimism to find out that, yes, yes there do indeed exist such despicable creatures capable of such pathological self-centeredness -- at that point I realized we were dealing with evil. It wasn't until I saw they would do or say anything, and none of it made any sense, to send other people to war so that yet another generation of veterans' children could live their lives with what I lost in Vietnam. That was when I learned to hate him.

My hat is off to you, my friend. I'm much more cynical these days, but my eyes are now open wide. It's no personal comfort to tell you that at least I was part of the small percent of the 30% who went to the streets against this war. I was still late to figure it out. You can bet, if I live long enough to see such a sick, sad, sorry moment in my American experience, I too, will be one of those defiantly in that 10% of patriots labeled traitor by the common knowledge.