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after a lot of soul searching
Mar. 30th, 2006 11:38 amI have reached this conclusion. I do not hate George W. Bush. I have felt hatred in the past toward him, expressed various degrees of it, and been subject to paroxysms of rage, delight at his failures, and desire for his downfall. I am so totally over that. The way Godwin's Law is inevitably It's completely five minutes ago. Outre. So "Hey kids it's 1998, let's go get Bill Clinton."
I hate his policies, I hate the culture his adherents promote, I hate the atmosphere created by his royalist family loyalty cult, I hate the decisions he's made about war, I hate the rulings made in the past by his various choices in judges, I hate the rulings and opinions of the judges who he says share his judicial philosophies, I hate the underlying theology of his particular species of Christianity, I hate his choice in neckties, I hate the sound of his voice, I hate the perception that he doesn't care about poor people and the perception that he can't hear dissent but also the perception that what he really wants is to intimidate and crush dissent and the facts that his administration has actively sought out suppression of dissent and the secret prisons and detention camps in other countries and the fact the dollar is collapsing and the burgeoning deficits he countenances and the outrages expressed by his supporters in congress and the perception in many debates that all a president has to do is declare a war and people should be expected to support our president and the policies and judicial decisions that appear to uphold the notion that a woman may be forced into servitude as a broodmare for the state in violation of her constitutional rights and I hate the anti-science language that infuses so much of his administration's policy statements and that of his supporters' and I hate the characterization by his supporters of anything that asks questions as unamerican and I hate that he went to Yale and summers in Kennebunkport and yet he remains a regular guy and I hate that he gets to take so many vacations and I hate the fact that he's campaigning for Tim Pawlenty and I hate the way he laughs and I hate how he can talk about being addicted to oil one day and his staff and the Vice President can moderate the statement the next
none of this is the same as hating him, the man himself.
But I still feel hollow inside when I think about our country.
Did you know I was a champion Citizens Bee competitor in high school?
I hate his policies, I hate the culture his adherents promote, I hate the atmosphere created by his royalist family loyalty cult, I hate the decisions he's made about war, I hate the rulings made in the past by his various choices in judges, I hate the rulings and opinions of the judges who he says share his judicial philosophies, I hate the underlying theology of his particular species of Christianity, I hate his choice in neckties, I hate the sound of his voice, I hate the perception that he doesn't care about poor people and the perception that he can't hear dissent but also the perception that what he really wants is to intimidate and crush dissent and the facts that his administration has actively sought out suppression of dissent and the secret prisons and detention camps in other countries and the fact the dollar is collapsing and the burgeoning deficits he countenances and the outrages expressed by his supporters in congress and the perception in many debates that all a president has to do is declare a war and people should be expected to support our president and the policies and judicial decisions that appear to uphold the notion that a woman may be forced into servitude as a broodmare for the state in violation of her constitutional rights and I hate the anti-science language that infuses so much of his administration's policy statements and that of his supporters' and I hate the characterization by his supporters of anything that asks questions as unamerican and I hate that he went to Yale and summers in Kennebunkport and yet he remains a regular guy and I hate that he gets to take so many vacations and I hate the fact that he's campaigning for Tim Pawlenty and I hate the way he laughs and I hate how he can talk about being addicted to oil one day and his staff and the Vice President can moderate the statement the next
none of this is the same as hating him, the man himself.
But I still feel hollow inside when I think about our country.
Did you know I was a champion Citizens Bee competitor in high school?