Bush haters--it's chic to be one | NH Union Leader--freep implosion

[ima_sinnic]

Commentary:
Bush haters — It’s chic to be one
By WOODY HOCHSWENDER
June 7, 2004

. . . For example, my wife and I go to an antiques store housed in an old barn, a place that fairly reeks of Americana. But if you leave an e-mail address after making a purchase, as is customary these days, you later get a message from the store exhorting you to join a "Bake Bush" sale, sponsored by MoveOn.org, a left-wing group working to defeat the President. . . .

In our rural corner of Connecticut, the bumper stickers have begun to bloom. Nearly all run along the lines of "Beat Bush," "Regime Change Starts at Home" or, rarely, "Kerry for President." Remember the days when campaign posters said things like "We Like Ike"? Gone. Now it’s "Anybody But Bush" or worse. . . .

Yet in Litchfield County, Conn., the rolls of registered Democrats and Republicans are about equal. So you would think that common decency would lead people to respect this large body of opposing views — or at least refrain from belligerent "sharing." Nope. It’s chic to be angry at this administration, which results in random acts of political cheek.

It takes a certain amount of effrontery to parade your opinions in public in such negative ways. Democrats think of themselves as the sensitive ones. But maybe they’re not anymore. . . .

http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showa.html?article=38738

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pardon me while I shed a tear for the poor effronted Bush lovers--who have been rabid and strident in their condemnation, their withering scorn, their sracastic and hateful diatribes against libruls. Hey bozo, remember back in March 2003 when that disgusting little prick of a so-called president imperiously declared war on a defenseless sovereign nation and you called us who cried out against it antiAmerican and worse? I didn't hear you tell Reich Limpballs or Neal Bores to be more "discreet" in their hate-filled gasbag attacks against limp-wristed bleeding-heart fascist liberals. remember that disgusting picture of Janeane Garafalo eating crow you so smugly posted all over freeperland? (ooohhh, if I could only photoshop . . .). well, eat THIS, dumbass.

btw, the writer blames the use of cell phones for the current "loss of personal boundaries," the reason people feel so free to air their views in public, they've forgotten that some things should just remain private. helloo?! it couldn't have anything to do with the fact that WE ARE PISSED and rising up with pitchforks or anything, could it??

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edit: fix date of war 1st started

[bluestateguy]

1. The Union Leader

The right wing toilet paper run by the cowardly William Loeb. The guy who smeared Ed Muskie in 1972 and then refused to take on Muskie mano a mano when Muskie challenged him to come outside the building. Then that cantankerous old bag, Nackey Loeb took over the paper, penning some of the nastiest editorials in all of the country.

These people are going to lecture us about civility in politics?

[trumad]

2. Understand this

repukes are bullies until you confront them with their own tactics... Once you do that they turn into the biggest sniveling babies on this planet... We've got our foot on their necks and I think we should push it even harder....

[displacedtexan]

4. Republican Whine Alert!

It's time for them to "get over it and move on."

[Cocoa]

3. lol, the cell phone theory

We have a theory of why people feel so free to air their views in public. It has to do with cell phones. People accustomed to chatting away on their cell phones — on trains, in theater lobbies, on the street — forget what it is like to be discreet and what is appropriate to share with strangers within earshot. They lose their sense of personal boundaries.

Everyone in the store does not need to know about your dinner plans. Nor does everyone need to know for whom you are voting — in fact, that’s one reason voting booths have curtains.


Not only is Woody determined to miss the point that being angry is to be expected under the Worst President Ever, but he sets out to miss the point in the most trite manner possible. Cell phones in public, the current mainstay of third-rate newspaper columnists.

[girl gone mad]

6. it's always something stupid, isn't it?

Cell phones in public, men wearing their hair long, women getting the vote, rap music. These idiots latch on to any trend they don't like and blame all of their woes on it.

[slor]

5. I do not know if it is...

"chic" to be one, but it sure in the hell is RIGHT to be one.

[Cocoa]

10. how can one not be?

I'm not a hater by nature, but I just can't help it. And I really cannot relate to people that don't hate him, of which there are fewer and fewer every day.

[Stuckinthebush]

7. Proud to say that I was a "Bush hater" when Bush hating wasn't cool

This article does show how GOP-minded individuals who turned a blind eye to the "Clinton hating" can now be accused of hypocrisy as they decry the "Bush hating".

[colonel odis]

14. that would make a great bumper sticker

n/t

[stellanoir]

8. OMG. . .

not meaning to derail but did anyone just catch Brokow interviewing * in Normandy. . .?

Brokow said something to the effect of. . ." you must be aware of the widespread anti-americanism there is in Europe now. . . "

* responded. . ."I er ah I er ah. . .have a future. . I have a vision for the future. I believe in freedom. . ." blah blah blah.

He then said that Reagan was unpopular in Europe aslo.

Such an unbelievable embassassment.

Oh they're showing more of the interview right now. . .(EDT)

[mrsadm]

9. they have forgotten ...

how much they hated Clinton.

[rfkrocks]

11. "chic to be angry"?

When do freepers get angry about going to war in Iraq while the nation's greatest cop killer, fireman killer mass murderer is allowed to escape? When do freepers get angry about "their" beloved constitution being played as a document installing right wing so-called Christians as the state priests? What about the economy-cutting taxes whiles spending vast sums and passing the buck to the next generation? When do freepers get angry when we have lost the support of every democracy in the world pursuing this Presidents evil and moronic foreign policy? The list is endless but in the final analysis the American public is now waking up from the abused spouse syndrom-yes the GOP really hates you by stealing your social security,by killing your loved ones in a stupid greed driven war and wants enslave you in coporate chains so openly described in the Enron trader tapes-Its not chic-its the "burning bed"

[MikeG]

12. Hey. Can't we all just get along?

I've never seen these bumper stickers:

"Abortion is NOT Health Care"

"Don't Blame me, I voted for Bush"

"Sore/Loserman 2000"

[Jade Fox]

13. More self-appointed conservative Dads lecturing the kiddies....

on how to behave.

It like if nothing else works, they fall back on trying to make us all
feel like bad children.

Pathetic, really.