Why do *you* hate Bush?Follow

Edit: Fixed. So much for getting a decent answer.

Edited, Tue Sep 27 19:51:14 2005 by Mearyk

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there are some extremely intelligent posters in this forum.

Eh, wot?

Yeah, okay, I'll bite.

I hate Bush because he couldn't care less about the common, middle-class American person. His concern is solely reserved for the ultra-rich and far religious right. He is not in office to be a public servant, he is in office to wheel and deal in favors that will get him multi-million dollar "consulting" deals when he goes back to the private sector, the exact same kind of consulting deals his father now makes billions of dollars from. His policies, from environmental legislation (or the lack thereof) to tax breaks are all designed to give him more chips to call in when he's back to the private sector.

I hate Bush because he doesn't care about women's health issues. The first Surgeon General he appointed was a right-wing fanatic who frequently prescribed PRAYER for "women's complaints" and refused to prescribe birth control to many of his patients.

I hate Bush because of what his policies have done to family planning and sex education in this country and around the world. A number of health organizations that provided much-needed medical care to women around the globe have faced the prospect of losing their funding if they so much as MENTIONED abortion to their patients. Schools now have to kowtow to the "abstinence only" mode of sex education the Bush administration has dictated, despite the overwhelming evidence that not only does abstinence-only sex ed NOT prevent teenagers from engaging in sex, in INCREASES the likelihood that when they do engage in sexual activity, they will not make safe and healthy choices. In other words, to Bush, currying favor with the religious right is more important than saving the lives of women and kids.

I hate Bush because he doesn't seem to recognize that getting this country deeper in debt is going to weaken us. The vast majority of our national debt is being held by China and Japan now, which means they can dictate terms to us in all economic and foreign policy negotiations, because they essentially have the American dollar as a hostage and can utterly devalue it pretty much on a whim.

I hate Bush because he is not an honorable or scrupulous man. When the 2000 election was still in question, he should have REFUSED to accept the victory until it was absolutely certain he had legitimately won, especially with all the accusations of malfeasance. Instead, he threw a lot of babyish tantrums until he got his way. And don't even get me started on how shady the 2004 elections process was.

I hate Bush because he used 9/11 as an excuse to run rough-shod all over the Bill of Rights, and capitalized on that tragedy to accuse anyone who just happened to question him or disagree with him of being "unpatriotic" or "unAmerican."

I hate Bush because as a direct result of his economic policies, the income gap is widening, the middle class is sliding further and further toward the "lower class" bracket, and now this country is inexorably heading toward becoming a feudal system where a micro-minority of ultra-rich weild all the power over a huge majority of wage-slaves.

Enough has been said about Iraq already. He was dishonest in how he went about marketing that war, everyone knows he was dishonest, I'll leave it at that.

I could go on, but it's dinner time. As for your claim that no one who dislikes Bush can come up with a good reason for it, I have just given you plenty of them, and there are plenty more where that comes from. Every single direction in which he is taking this country is the exact direction that I feel the absolute worst way for us to go.

You know the giant pus-bag of the infection known as the Assylum is coming to head when Samira has cause to flame.

Actually, they have had their funding from the U.S. cut off. It was one of our current president's earliest acts in office. Not long after he created the office of Faith Based Initiatives.

To the OP: If you lack the courage to stand behind your convictions when faced with opposing views, you'd best stay in the sandbox.

Take a lesson from Gbaji. That man takes more heat than just about any poster here, since many of us believe he's full of hogwash most of the time. Does that stop him? Back him down? Induce him to concede a point or provide a cite to back up his claims? Not on your life! He stays in there swinging!

/huggles, Gbaji.

That was hot.

Elderon is apparently desperately horny lately.

Samira, that's the first time I've ever seen you flame. I don't mind saying it got me a little hot.

Okay maybe now its bodhisattva

Hmm.. Maybe I should change my "K" to a "C"..

hmmm