Confessions of a Bush Hater

This is my final column written during the George W Bush presidency. While I have never been a fan, I was incredibly taken by this president’s ability for consistency. No matter how many opportunities to make the past eight years somewhat bearable for the Union, his judgement mostly sided against what the American people would have wished. He called them tough decisions. His favorability ratings called them wrong.

Many in the right wing have called it Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS), believed to be originally coined by Anything Not Far-Right Derangement Syndrome (ANFRDS) sufferer, neo-conservative pundit, Charles Krauthammer. Krauthammer defined BDS as “the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency — the very existence of George W. Bush.”

It stems from the belief that some extreme criticisms of President Bush are emotional rather than based on facts or logic.

In the hands of the functionally literate BDS would be considered an honest take if it applied to those who blanket-hate the President. But it has been applied by the Right’s entire noise machine to anyone who doesn’t have their tongue so far up the President’s butt you can taste his chewing gum.

Problem with Krauthammer’s assertion is that the polls show that vitriol lobbed towards this president consistently climbed during his presidency. Did our emotions change or did the facts? Did we fall out of love just because the dew had fallen off the rose or were we so regularly physically beaten by our suitor’s bad judgement that we needed to attain a restraining order because we were tired of explaining to the world that the fresh black eye we greeted them with each week was caused by a flying door.

The fact is, the door that slammed into our collective faces was a President and his administration who didn’t give a damn about what we thought. Bush, Cheney and their minions are famous for the “we don’t pay attention to the polls” style of administering their duties. The President has called them a snapshot of yesterday’s news. Problem is, the snapshot has grown into a seven and a half years of “Shoah.”

Unfortunately, we couldn’t find a lawyer courageous enough to get us out of the marriage until this abusive presidency died of natural causes.

As they have done for years the Right just added BDS to the nomenclature built on dismissing disagreement with the President or his actions as emotional or anti-American.

Bill O’Reilly sold half his show this past week asking his objective pundits - Glenn Beck and Bernie Goldberg: Does the Left senselessly hate President Bush or are they just sick? The “Did you stop beating your wife” question is at the core of most talk radio debate. It doesn’t open the discussion for actual…discussion. For if it did, they’d be discussing lost lives in Katrina and Iraq: vice presidents who feel that “I think so,” is an appropriate answer to whether 4500 American soldiers and 100,000 Iraqis dead was worth invading Iraq; that torture was approved; that covert American spies could be outed…by their own government; that environmental standards could be lowered; that justices selected were being chosen politically ; that…oh hell, I guess I’m just being all emotional.

But as the ANFRDS sufferers, the few of them left, would say, he did keep us safe - though if they weren’t just being emotional they’d have to add - “…from a SECOND attack on his watch.”

Sick, full of hatred, or just plain tired of watching this country being pulled every which way but up, this BDS afflicted American can only say…

DON’T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE ASS ON THE WAY OUT.

8 Responses to “Confessions of a Bush Hater”

1. Mary K Ojeda on January 19th, 2009 3:41 pm

   Well Steve, sorry but I DO hate the s.o.b. Hated him back in Texas; hated him when he was just ‘Shrub’; Hated him when he wrongly convinced himself he was qualified to be Governor; Hated him when he grossly ‘mis-overestimated’ his ability to be President; Hated him when he and his ‘goon-squad’ stole the 2000 election; Hated him when he took us into an unjust and badly mismanaged war; Hated him when he let New Orleans drown; Hated him when he tortured; Hated him when he spied on and wiretapped his political enemies; Hated him when he ran for cover as the war got worse and the dead piled up; Hated him when he desperately tried to justify his divisive policies; Hated him when he slunk off to Dallas STILL crowing about the ’success’ of his abuse of the Constitution; Hated him just for being Bush; Always have, always will. And guess what? YES! I feel GOOD about it.

2. 1PissedOffLady on January 19th, 2009 5:03 pm

   This belongs on your “best” top ten list.

3. Maureen Meyer on January 19th, 2009 5:55 pm

   The anthrax attack was a terrorist attack on Bush’s watch. Why does everyone forget that?

4. ed lazarus on January 19th, 2009 7:44 pm

   I cannot imagine a single moment of whatever time I have left on this intensely interesting planet that….if I give Bush a thought at all….my hatred for him personally, for the miserable job he did of “protecting and defending” our Constitution….will have diminished. He is….and always will be….little more than a pathetic doofus who set out—with his band of criminal co-conspirators—-to spit on our laws, crap on any kind of fairness, and vomit out his indefensible lies that caused so much DEATH and destruction. He truly needs to be punished, although even if he is not called to account for his malfeasance…..I feel quite certain that he will ROT IN HELL FOR ALL ETERNITY!

5. Guinnevere on January 20th, 2009 1:06 am

   @All Of the Above Posts

   …What you all said! I’m with you.

   I’m so relieved the Bush crime family is finally getting the gate, but I’d be ecstatic if they all got taken to the Hague by “extraordinary rendition” and tried as the thieves and murderers they are; every last one of them.

6. AL HUEBNER on January 20th, 2009 9:48 am

   ALWAYS,ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT BUSH IS A REPUBLICAN & THAT THEY SUPPORTED HIM ALL DURING OUR 8 YEARS OF HELL WITHOUT QUESTION…REMEMBER HIM EVERYTIME THE REPUGS ASK YOU TO VOTE FOR THEM FOR ANYTHING…IF YOU WANT THAT HELL TO RETURN, VOTE FOR THEM…THEY CARE ONLY FOR THEIR PRIVILEGED OWN…TO THEM, IT’S ” A GOVERNMENT OF “US” PEOPLE, BY “US” PEOPLE, & FOR “US” PEOPLE, & THE REST OF US ARE JUST THEIR HIRED HELP UPON WHOM ALL FREEDOMS ARE WASTED. IF YOU NEED TO HATE, HATE ALL OF THEM LIKE THE PLAGUE, BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT THEY ARE…

7. indon on January 20th, 2009 5:20 pm

   Great OBAMA safe for the world and palestine.

8. Youngin on January 21st, 2009 2:46 am

   Don’t be too short about seeing the end of the Bush legacy..Bush senior is still hoping to see his boy “Jeb” run…that is if Jeb is interested

   But we have at least 3 years before we have to worry about that….

   PAWTYYYYY on Barack Hussein Obama…and did you see Chief Justice Roberts ( think he went to the same school of language as Dubya!? or Dubya’s language foilbles are contagious?
   Barack, make sure you clean the white house well before going to sleep

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