Post by Benji Duncan on Dec 22, 2007 0:11:37 GMT -5
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To get political for a moment, the last couple years of W's 8-year administration just have this feeling of political "dark ages" in this country. What America really is, and what its government is, seem to have become two separate, disjunct things, or something.
As a watcher of American history, this president is definitely in the lower one-third of all the ones we've ever had. Personally, I'd rank him 4th worst, only being above Warren G. Harding, Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant (how Grant ended up on the $50 bill I'll never know...). Hell, even NIXON ranks above this guy...
Being distracted with the mess in Iraq that the country was "tricked" into, about the only thing that ever came out of George W. Bush's administration he can point at for his legacy is the Department of Homeland Security. The arguement is good, though, that this was only done in obvious reaction to a major disaster the country experienced in 2001, and, it may not have really solved very many bureaucratic communication problems elementally at all, but merely just shuffled around a few thinly-related entities of the government, and just looked awful good "on paper" in an image sense. Other than this skimpy thing, I can't think of one good thing that came from the presidency from 2000-2007...
(Excuse the rant; My apologies to the lock-step Republican party followers and Rush Limbaugh zombies...)
I recall during the 2000 election thinking "Gore- Bush, what's the difference?" I voted libertarian that year and then when all the drama went on about the hanging chads and all, I just laughed it off.
Then when the war started I was working at the hospice house at the time. One of the residents burst into tears the night before the invasion because she just heard that her grandson was being put in the front line to go into iraq. Recalling the gulf war, I shook my head and laughed with one of the nurses about it. "The war is going to last two months at the most. During the gulf war only 170 american troops died. That kid probably has a bigger chance of dying from a drunk driver here at home than over there."
Boy was I wrong.
The war just kept going and going and going. And my anger just grew and grew. then when I caught sight of the 1994 cheney interview that did it for me.
I didn't really hate Bush until January of 2004, the day he decided to try to amend the constitution to ban gay marriage. He said something to the effect that "banning gay marriage needs to be done for the protection of children," I was like "hasn't this moron read any of the psychological journals that have come out about homosexuality in the past 30 years that shows there is no link whatsoever between homosexuality and child molesting?" I couldn't believe the bigotry. Gay acceptance took a 360 degree turn after that too. If it was okay for Bush to say those things, then it was okay for every redneck retard in every honky-tonk bar in the country to say them. We were really close to social change on this issue until that day.
I got big behind John Kerry and every time one of those damn Bush commericals aired where he said "I'm george w bush,and I approve of this message," I would without thinking about it go "whoowheee!" at the tv, to imitate all the southern fried pieces of shit that endorsed that hillbilly fuck.
Election day that year was the darkest day I can remember. It just felt like a big slap in the face.
Do I hate bush? Yes, I suppose I do. But I don't blame him for all this crap. I blame those hillbilly fucks who voted for his dimestore hick toughguy ass.
gene said:
It's getting to the point that me just LOOKING at this guy's face makes me angry. To get political for a moment, the last couple years of W's 8-year administration just have this feeling of political "dark ages" in this country. What America really is, and what its government is, seem to have become two separate, disjunct things, or something.
As a watcher of American history, this president is definitely in the lower one-third of all the ones we've ever had. Personally, I'd rank him 4th worst, only being above Warren G. Harding, Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant (how Grant ended up on the $50 bill I'll never know...). Hell, even NIXON ranks above this guy...
Being distracted with the mess in Iraq that the country was "tricked" into, about the only thing that ever came out of George W. Bush's administration he can point at for his legacy is the Department of Homeland Security. The arguement is good, though, that this was only done in obvious reaction to a major disaster the country experienced in 2001, and, it may not have really solved very many bureaucratic communication problems elementally at all, but merely just shuffled around a few thinly-related entities of the government, and just looked awful good "on paper" in an image sense. Other than this skimpy thing, I can't think of one good thing that came from the presidency from 2000-2007...
(Excuse the rant; My apologies to the lock-step Republican party followers and Rush Limbaugh zombies...)
I recall during the 2000 election thinking "Gore- Bush, what's the difference?" I voted libertarian that year and then when all the drama went on about the hanging chads and all, I just laughed it off.
Then when the war started I was working at the hospice house at the time. One of the residents burst into tears the night before the invasion because she just heard that her grandson was being put in the front line to go into iraq. Recalling the gulf war, I shook my head and laughed with one of the nurses about it. "The war is going to last two months at the most. During the gulf war only 170 american troops died. That kid probably has a bigger chance of dying from a drunk driver here at home than over there."
Boy was I wrong.
The war just kept going and going and going. And my anger just grew and grew. then when I caught sight of the 1994 cheney interview that did it for me.
I didn't really hate Bush until January of 2004, the day he decided to try to amend the constitution to ban gay marriage. He said something to the effect that "banning gay marriage needs to be done for the protection of children," I was like "hasn't this moron read any of the psychological journals that have come out about homosexuality in the past 30 years that shows there is no link whatsoever between homosexuality and child molesting?" I couldn't believe the bigotry. Gay acceptance took a 360 degree turn after that too. If it was okay for Bush to say those things, then it was okay for every redneck retard in every honky-tonk bar in the country to say them. We were really close to social change on this issue until that day.
I got big behind John Kerry and every time one of those damn Bush commericals aired where he said "I'm george w bush,and I approve of this message," I would without thinking about it go "whoowheee!" at the tv, to imitate all the southern fried pieces of shit that endorsed that hillbilly fuck.
Election day that year was the darkest day I can remember. It just felt like a big slap in the face.
Do I hate bush? Yes, I suppose I do. But I don't blame him for all this crap. I blame those hillbilly fucks who voted for his dimestore hick toughguy ass.