Can I just say that I hate George Bush?
Not his policies or his actions alone…I hate the man himself.
This is a long standing hatred. It goes back to before he was even running for President…
It goes back to Karla Faye Tucker, a woman put to death in Texas on Bush’s watch.
I’m opposed to capital punishment…but that’s not why I hate George Bush. I can understand someone who believes in the death penalty — I don’t agree with it, but I do understand the conceptual arguments for it, and can see how someone could be in favor.
I can see how a person in the governor’s chair could enforce the law. I can.
What I will never understand, and never forgive, is when said governor, with the power of life and death in his hand, MOCKS the woman he is about to kill.
Mocks her, trivializes her death…acts as if her death was unimportant. I can understand anger at her crimes; I do not understand the barbarian snicker at the meting out of rough justice.
It should never look like fun, George. Get it?
This is evil. Evil.
I do not understand “Bring it on” for one who will not feel the pain his words invite. I do not understand the fawning, simpering, cavalier attitudes of one who holds such power in his hands.
Gravity, ponderous gravity…I want such a man, one in such a position, to feel the weight of his decisions.
George Bush, I am sure, feels nothing of this.
Character issue, indeed.
Dark Matter 
January 29th, 2004 at 12:22 am
i hate him too.
his education comes solely from bumper stickers.
and he embraces his ignorance. rubs our fucking noses in it, just to prove he can.
to me, he is the equivalent of a date rapist.
he does not listen to the cries of his own country, does whatever he wants to whoever he wants.
evil, indeed.
January 28th, 2004 at 11:28 pm
Thank you for that.
You’d think he’d at least know enough to hide his insensitivity.
January 28th, 2004 at 10:28 pm
Re: Amen.
see, there you go winning my agreement on even more levels!
yes, yes, and yes.
January 28th, 2004 at 9:40 pm
Re: Amen.
Thanks, Jeff. It’s taken me a long time to put it into words…
I don’t throw the word “hate” around lightly. It’s the only word that works for me here; and while it’s not a logical, rational refutation of the policies of this administration, it’s a pretty accurate reflection of what I think drives them — a petty, vindictive, ignorant and self serving blindness to any needs that don’t seem to reflect the nature of those in power. It’s a culturally derived willful reductionism.
It’s frat-boy logic.
January 28th, 2004 at 9:29 pm
Amen.
Beautifully said.