Comments on: Shame on You, President Bush

By: b.rox » Blog Archive » Mention

b.rox » Blog Archive » Mention — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:55:12 +0000

[...] And yet it is good to be remembered, unlike last year. [...]

By: Garvey

Garvey — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:15:29 +0000

Tax cuts for the rich, from that bastion of radical conservatism, Slate:
http://www.slate.com/id/2108201/

By: Garvey

Garvey — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:11:41 +0000

It’s precisely your conspiracy theories and misunderstanding of basic economics which will always keep you and those like you marginalized, Sophmom.

I predicted that the tinfoil hats would come out, and they have.

By: Sophmom

Sophmom — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:08:42 +0000

Thanks, saltyC. My understanding was also hard won.

By: saltyC

saltyC — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:04:00 +0000

Sophmom, I lived with an abuser and you are so right.

By: Sophmom

Sophmom — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:56:34 +0000

I’m no expert, Garvey, but my gut tells me that raiding the nation’s treasury to fill the pockets of its richest citizens while millions go without access to basic medical care and wasting the blood of brave soldiers to raise the bottom lines of war profiteering cronies is pretty evil. Then there’s the Constitution, or what’s left of it. Of course, standing idly by and doing nothing for five days, knowing that people were dying without food or water or hope of rescue, all by itself might qualify. I don’t think it’s melodramatic. I didn’t call him a facist or a Nazi or compare him to Hitler. I called him evil, in the manner of an abuser. I stand by that.

By: Garvey

Garvey — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:42:44 +0000

Bush isn’t evil. We’ve never had an “evil” president. Flawed presidents are a dime a dozen. So are bad ones and weak-willed ones. But I truly refuse to believe that any of these humans we’ve called president have been evil.

It’s kind of like calling people we disagree with “fascists” or “Nazis.” It diminishes the power of those words so that when one really comes along, we’ve cried wolf for so long that we don’t even recognize it any more.

(This post really isn’t a troll, though I doubt that will stay the usual and inevitable Chimpy McHitler nonsense.)

I probably disagree with 90% of the politics presented around here, but that doesn’t make me evil, nor do I believe that anyone here is likewise evil.

But what is really the heart of the matter is this: there are things the govt should be doing and things the govt is actually capable of doing. I think we agree on the latter half a lot more than the former.

“The past has baked my loaf, and in the strength of the bread I break up the old oven.” –Emerson

By: Sophmom

Sophmom — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:00:12 +0000

I have long thought that Bush’s behavior mimicked that of the abusive partner, his “stay on the offense” tactic strongly resembling the classic verbal abuser’s “divert and attack” response to being caught red handed. The next step in the twisted mind of the abuser would be to vilify the victim, to blame the source of the guilt, thereby assuaging his own haunted conscience, preserving his delusions of rectitude. He doesn’t mention ya’ll ’cause he can’t bear to think of you. He’s evil.

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:00:45 +0000

We know we have a more perfect union thanks to Ms. Baby Einstein, right? Your right on all points there B. You can almost compare rebuilding NO and the gulf region as reconstruction after the civil war.

By: Scottica

Scottica — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:16:38 +0000

Keep your head up, you’re my hero….pressure makes diamonds