Bush Derangement Syndrome
Dec 2nd, 2007 by Larry
The term BDS refers to a purported tendency by some American liberals to blame President George W. Bush for virtually every ill in the world. It also purportedly refers to opposing a position advocated by the President just because he supports it, regardless of the position’s merits.
I don’t agree with everything the President does but he is our President whether you like it or not. Say what you want about President Bush, it’s your right, but he does have strong convictions and he holds to them. I think that he should allow funding for stem cell research but our President thinks otherwise and holds to his conviction. Even though I disagree, I applaud him for sticking to his guns. Whether you disagree with everything he stands for you always know that when he makes a decision he will stand by it. That is a lot more than you can say for some of today’s Presidential candidates.
March in My Name
Have you heard of this movement, it also about people with strong convictions and one man named John Nirenberg walking from Boston to Washington D.C.? These people want to impeach our President and Vice President. John Nirenberg is walking to Washington D.C. to confront Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in hopes of persuading Congress to take up this deranged cause. More than anything else, it’s about hate, Americans hating Americans.
Man Hitting Road to Lobby on Impeachment
John Nirenberg has waterproof sneakers, a bright yellow poncho, and a plan. He also has outrage in his heart and much of his retirement savings tied up in his cause.
I think these four words sums it up “He… has outrage in his heart….” Hate is a powerful conviction. It blinds ones view and takes over ones heart. Hate is wasted energy focused in the wrong direction.
I’m all for people standing by their positions as long as nothing in the world changes. Firmness in one’s opinion is a fine thing as long as it doesn’t cross over into idealogical stubbornness. Bush’s position has, thank God, changed on climate change, or at least he’s changed his public position on the human role in climate change.
I’m the first to admit that I am not a fan of President Bush’s but I can’t see how anyone can blame him for everything. I get annoyed with fellow liberals who let their emotions get in the way of rational thought. Bush is not a King. Everything he has done has been with the complicity of the congress and the courts. My main problem with the “blame Bush” crowd is that they are setting themselves up for a huge fall. If you invest this much emotional energy into blaming one person for the ills facing the country you are, be default, assuming that a change in the presidency will fix everything. Thats just not gonna happen.
I will concede that even I see his ideological stubbornness shining through on some issues. Thanks for your input.
Couple thoughts on Bush.
I don’t particularly like the man, mostly because he can’t give a speech to save his life. That’s really what the Presidency is for, being a figure head that can move people emotionally. Everyone gets all “most powerful man in the world” and “finger on the red button” with the Prez expecting them to be superhuman, but that’s what the thousands and thousands of advisers are for. Always have been. The Pres isn’t about the details, he’s all about the big picture. Which way is the ship going.
The second disappointment is his lack of fiscal responsibility. He should have canned Greenspan the second he was in office. Monkeying around with the rates was horrible. Greenspan could have deflated the internet bubble safely by changing the MARGIN RATE to kill the massive speculation in the tech market, instead he messes with the base rate driving it up-up-up and then into the ground. This housing crisis is just an echo of the dotcom boom.
I care less now about a Democratic congress and President combination than the impending recession and the horrible inflation I see now. Does anyone else notice that groceries are twice as expensive this year as 2 years ago?
I voted for the man twice. No way in hell I’d vote for some loony who wants to rape me to buy votes from the gimme-gimmes. I’ll take a chance on fiscal conservatism versus a guarantee of pork spending and rich raping. According to the Dems, anyone with a high school diploma and a job is rich and worth plundering.
Our government is not what made this country great, it’s our military and our industry. Our military bitch slapped the pansies and bullies in Europe two straight World Wars and our industry has given us a standard of life never before seen on this planet. Sure, we find visits to the Mediterranean pleasant and even preferable to the hustle and bustle, but when our ass gets sick, we’re coming home to American Hospitals, and when we’re bored, we play on technology developed in America, even if the Japanese stole it, and when someone has to stand up instead of surrender, there’s no one else to call except America.
I’ve met the President, even drove in his Motorcade (longest Prez motorcade in history, buuu jah) with a Senator and Representative in my car. He’s very charming in person, almost like the popular frat boy in college. That charm is entirely invisible on TV.
That being said, the guy is horrible at managing his image (despite winning the world’s biggest popularity contest twice). He’s let the media dictate his Presidency, and even when he does find refreshing voices like Donald Rumsfeld and Tony Snow to actually stand up to the media, he leaves them out on a ledge in the cold.
Another disappointment is that he’s done nothing to thin the ranks of government. Even when the entrenched lefties in the state department were openly obstructionist and hostile, he did nothing to get rid of them. He didn’t get the line item veto passed and he didn’t stand up to a single spending bill (or any other except stem cell research).
And let’s be honest here about stem cell research. It might be amazing and it might be crap, but if it has all this amazing potential, let private industry take it on. There’s no BAN on stem cell research, Bush just cut off government funding. And good for him. The Dems want to use stem cell research to put a happy face on abortions. Dems don’t care about science. It’s only when it can be used to get votes that it matters. When science comes out with evidence and theories that don’t pander to the hoi polloi, the PC Dem movement starts the book burning.
Just look at the hatred for the Bell Curve and recent DNA studies dealing with race and IQ. The information can’t be faced and confronted and assimilated and used to make better policy, nooooo, we must cry RACISM! and character assassinate the economists and biologists who put the data forward.
And the Iraq war, my main problem with it is that we aren’t pumping enough oil. Powerful nation states have been plundering the rest of the world for resources for centuries, and now it’s our turn. We should be draining Iraq dry and making lots of Iraqis rich and prosperous all the while. We SHOULD secure our oil interests in the middle east, and we SHOULD have a launching point for an invasion of Iran. I’m all for slapping them from both sides, Iraq and Afghanistan, if only the wars had been managed a bit better so we’d actually be in a position to do that now.
Osama bin Laden doesn’t need to be killed any more than Fidel Castro needs to be killed. They just need to be castrated and marginalized and used for propaganda while we march on into the future and they stay in the middle ages.
I think we need another Teddy Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan. Someone who isn’t afraid to take on the bully and bring him down. And while we prepare to take down the bullies, it’d be good to slim down and drop some domestic weight too. Less nanny state, less hand holding, and less entrenched bureaucracy who get cushy jobs to push paper.
People like Bush and Clinton who get elected and then move to the center makes no sense to me. You won, use it.
Huh?
I think I mostly agree.