Why do they hate George Bush?
Here is another big puzzler for me. Why do so many liberals just absolutely HATE the President of the United States?
1) He has been a highly successful executive who began in the corporate world, then became a two-term Governor of Texas and now a two-term President. Those are achievements difficult to match. They say he is incompetent.
2) He is an Ivy League graduate (Bachelor's degree from Yale, then MBA at Harvard Business School) whose grades and IQ tests both exceeded John Kerry's and has tested well above normal on intelligence tests. They say he is stupid. (Since he has above-average intelligence, this indicates that probably the small majority of people who label him as stupid are actually not as smart as he is....ironic, eh?)
3) He served in the military as an officer rather than avoid military service, a fighter pilot, in fact, in the National Guard. They forged documents to try to discredit that service.
4) We can now be certain that the President went to war with Iraq based upon some intelligence that was faulty, but virually the entire world and most of his political enemies also believed the same intelligence. They say he lied. (Ironic again, see number 3. A forgery is a lie in the form of a document.)
I could go on. The President is not a great public speaker, but he is a very straightforward speaker who presents himself as an "everyman" who became President. I get the idea he is remarkably comfortable in his shoes, a man's man who is a good husband and father (no hints of marital infidelity at all) whose family obviously all love him dearly. He is a man of faith, a guy who loves dogs and enjoys clearing brush and fixing fences back home at his ranch. There is a Texas term - "All hat, no cattle" - that is more or less the opposite of George Bush. There is more substance than style to the man, definitely more cattle than hat.
George Bush came into office only to be faced with one of the great trials of the last 100 years - the attacks of 9/11. He has been decisive and determined in his efforts to revive the economy and protect our shores while rooting out and defeating terrorists abroad. Afghanistan has become a sovereign nation with a democratically elected government under his watch and Iraq now follows suit. The deficit is going down and tax receipts have gone up even after the President cut our taxes.
Yet liberals hate him with a remarkable vengeance. Go to the Democratic Underground to see the kind of language typically used about him. Cartoonists portray him as an imbecilic monkey or a crazed dictator, or both at once!!!
Can liberals only respect people who characterize themselves as intellectuals, cheat on their wives and polish up their speaking skills? Is a slick veneer and an aristocratic manner what they consider most important?
I simply don't get it?!
1) He has been a highly successful executive who began in the corporate world, then became a two-term Governor of Texas and now a two-term President. Those are achievements difficult to match. They say he is incompetent.
2) He is an Ivy League graduate (Bachelor's degree from Yale, then MBA at Harvard Business School) whose grades and IQ tests both exceeded John Kerry's and has tested well above normal on intelligence tests. They say he is stupid. (Since he has above-average intelligence, this indicates that probably the small majority of people who label him as stupid are actually not as smart as he is....ironic, eh?)
3) He served in the military as an officer rather than avoid military service, a fighter pilot, in fact, in the National Guard. They forged documents to try to discredit that service.
4) We can now be certain that the President went to war with Iraq based upon some intelligence that was faulty, but virually the entire world and most of his political enemies also believed the same intelligence. They say he lied. (Ironic again, see number 3. A forgery is a lie in the form of a document.)
I could go on. The President is not a great public speaker, but he is a very straightforward speaker who presents himself as an "everyman" who became President. I get the idea he is remarkably comfortable in his shoes, a man's man who is a good husband and father (no hints of marital infidelity at all) whose family obviously all love him dearly. He is a man of faith, a guy who loves dogs and enjoys clearing brush and fixing fences back home at his ranch. There is a Texas term - "All hat, no cattle" - that is more or less the opposite of George Bush. There is more substance than style to the man, definitely more cattle than hat.
George Bush came into office only to be faced with one of the great trials of the last 100 years - the attacks of 9/11. He has been decisive and determined in his efforts to revive the economy and protect our shores while rooting out and defeating terrorists abroad. Afghanistan has become a sovereign nation with a democratically elected government under his watch and Iraq now follows suit. The deficit is going down and tax receipts have gone up even after the President cut our taxes.
Yet liberals hate him with a remarkable vengeance. Go to the Democratic Underground to see the kind of language typically used about him. Cartoonists portray him as an imbecilic monkey or a crazed dictator, or both at once!!!
Can liberals only respect people who characterize themselves as intellectuals, cheat on their wives and polish up their speaking skills? Is a slick veneer and an aristocratic manner what they consider most important?
I simply don't get it?!