!
! Bob, this is the first assassination theme that I've seen but
! you imply there are others. Can you tell us about the
! others? I would think that if it were such a common premise,
! it would not have drawn the shock and awe reaction that it did.
Well, there was the book that came out around 2004 election about two
guys in a hotel describing their Bush assassination plan, that one
comes immediately to mind. I'll try to find the title and author but I
think one can sift the leafe.com archives and find the references
faster. Then there's the ranting of various Hollywood and
entertainment types---wishing someone would shoot Bush or to that
effect. There was if I recall a cartoon that depicted his
assassination at one point, and other examples. I really don't care to
find them, but they're out there.
!
! Hate is a horrible emotion. It represents the complete
! breakdown of morality and tolerance. For most people the
! feeling does not come easily and does not last very long,
! although the word is bandied about quite a bit.
!
! If Mr. Bush is the subject of all this venom and ill-will,
! there must be a reason
Yes, they hate his policy and hate him personally. Because to them
politics is everything, they wish him dead for it.
! Pointing a finger at other people
! who might have or could have inspired similar feelings is not
! a dispositive refutation of how people feel today.
I was simply pointing out that many of us who supposedly "hate"
Clinton do not harbor such deep, irrational lust for his blood that
apparently many who definitely and openly hate Bush harbor.
I simply cannot fathom it. I think part of it is anger over having
their arses handed to them in several recent elections. By someone
they consider so much dumber than themselves, no less!
!
! With each day that passes, more and more of the sentiment
! that people put aside three years ago because their leader
! asked them to is coming back. Those feelings cannot be
! repressed; it is not healthy. The facts are clear and as the
! leader of this nation, Mr. Bush must take responsibility for
! them and their ramifications. The "mea culpa" defense is
! wearing very, very thin.
The 'facts' are disputable and which facts are relevant and how they
are weighed is a question of philosophy, not science; and the feelings
some have are irrelevant except insofar as they have been whipped up
by an unrelenting propaganda machine funded by billionnaires like
Soros for more than four years now. That is a relevant point.
The lie repeated often enough, and all that...
Don't get me wrong: I have stated on this forum many times my specific
areas of policy disagreement with Bush, and on a couple levels I
regret his presidency. I don't think the Democrats fielded anything
close to a good alternative, but I also can't whoop up any real
enthusiasm for Dubya at the moment. But these outbursts of irrational
hatred are assinine. The man is NOT a terrorist, nor is he on any
level comparable to the real terrorists. An incompetant boob?
Sure---what president hasn't been called that? But a monster who must
be killed? Here I think they go off the deepest of the deep end.
It seems to me decent men are more often hated for doing a good thing
than outright scoundrels are reviled for doing a bad thing. I think
Bush is misguided but decent, not the sharpest knife in the drawer but
not the dullest either, as his critics love to claim. (It also helps
explain Bubba's unrelenting popularity.) Why Bush is so hated by those
who hate him is a question of human psychology and the direct
correlation to his policies that you see is a symptom that you're
affected by the hysteria more than you care to realize. It's sooner
than not correlated to how the haters view politics and the omnipotent
role it plays in their identity.
Just IMHO. And we all know how H my O is! ;)
(Yes that was a softball, waiting for someone to whack it out of the
ballpark...)
- Bob
!
! HALinNY
!
! => -----Original Message-----
! => From: profox-bounces .AT. leafe .DO.T com
! => [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Bob Calco
! => Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 11:50
! => To: 'ProFox Email List'
! => Subject: [OT] Another day, another Bush assassination fantasy
! =>
! => http://tinyurl.com/ffpaa
! =>
! => - - -
! =>
! => This is just nuts.
! =>
! => For people who whine about criminalization of disagreement,
! => they have ironically already tried, convicted, and executed
! => Bush for his policy positions so many times and in so many
! => different ways that it hurts my head to think about it. All
! => these kill-Bush fantasies are beyond disturbing anymore.
! =>
! => Oh, I know, it's all about being "thought provoking". Why
! => doesn't somebody come up with a film waxing Bill Clinton or
! => Kofi Annan thirty different ways from sundown for a change?
! => That might provoke some thought too.
! =>
! => I really, really, really didn't like Clinton, but I don't
! => recall ever wishing death or physical harm upon him like
! => Bush's opponents seem to fantasize about Bush's assassination.
! =>
! => Between pull-the-finger president dolls and dream-fantasies
! => about his assassination, I think the disrespect shown the
! => man and the office has gone way out of bounds and off the
! => charts. Talk about self-righteousness gone beserk.
! =>
! => These hate-Bush people have some nerve claiming they live in
! => a dictatorship or are being censored in any way, shape or
! => form. Nothing could be further from the truth, and in fact
! => it is they who are criminalizing disagreement--and making it
! => a capital offense.
! =>
! => - Bob
!
!
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