August 25, 2008
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I Don’t Hate President Bush
I really don’t. There’s nothing about him that inspires my hate. I look at him and I don’t feel passionate rage and disgust. I don’t feel a desire to eviscerate him for his crimes. Nor do I feel some sense of repulsion from him to the point that I can’t stay in the same room where a television is on and he’s giving a speech or I would run screaming if I ever had the misfortune to be in his presence.
I don’t feel that way at all. I know a lot of people do. But really I’m cool with the President. I don’t hate him. I don’t even dislike him particularly. He doesn’t even bother me personally in the slightest bit….
I just think he should be impeached, tried, convicted in national and international courts and sentenced to a considerably large amount of time in prison.
No offense intended. That’s just the way I see it.
Seriously, there’s no malice in that belief. I don’t have a problem with the Man. Personally, maybe we’d be friends if I knew him. I even get why he did what he did. I’ll even buy the idea that he and his followers espouse that he all along has had the very best interest of the country and indeed the world at heart.
Well so do I.
And the best thing for the country and the world is for the President and his Vice President and much of his administration to be put on an open public trial and brought to justice for the choices that they’ve made. Everything he’s done, every choice he’s made needs to be put up to public scrutiny. And for any national or international crimes he’s committed he should be held completely accountable.
For those who believe he’s in the right, that would be the perfect test too. Maybe he will be acquitted. I seriously doubt that, but if it did happen I’d be fine with that. Provided it’s ALL on the table and we all see everything and judge soundly on the basis of the reality of the facts of what has happened to our country.
That’s not the only way to fix the harm that has been done to the American government’s reputation at home and abroad, and it’s not the only way to fix the harm that has been done the checks and balances that lie at the heart of our conception of our democracy. It’s not the only way. But it’s the best way. It’s the cleanest and most comprehensive repudiation of the last eight years and would go a long way toward a quick healing of this divided, bleeding, lost and confused nation we live in.
It’s what should happen. Not because we hate the President, but because we love the Nation and we love Peace and we love Justice and we love ourselves and we want better for them all.
But sadly it’ll never happens. It’s far too late.
Comments (8)
Can’t help but be at least a little angry with the Bush administration… not Bush by himself, the administration, and all the neo-con idealogues who wouldn’t listen to reason. So many people are dead, the nation’s reputation is rotting, the economy is dissolving, the American military is weakened. I can’t help but be angry about those things.
But I don’t hate Bush or the others either. Can’t expect justice too.
Argh, sorry I haven’t been over here in ages. >_< Sometimes it feels like I can’t keep up with anything on Xanga.
@fullmetalbunny - you took the words right out of my mouth. (seriously.)
@fullmetalbunny - hey don’t worry about it! You’ve been busy with birthday festivities and the likes
Sorry I couldn’t make your party.
Yeah I feel like I can’t keep up with Xanga a lot of the time too. I’m definitely going to write something soon that you in particular might be interested in reading, but it’s taking a lot of research and it’ll take a while to write. I’ll let you know when I’ve posted it though.
And yeah I agree with you that there’s A LOT to be angry about for all the people who have been seriously negatively effected by the direction the country has been going in. And I’m not saying we shouldn’t be. I don’t even mind if people ARE pissed off at the President personally let alone the Administration as a whole. I’m not though. And I think hatred can cloud us from the important concerns like the questions of Justice and accountability.
I don’t hate him either,
but I think it’s time for something new.
@nephyo - Disagreement mode appears to be over.
wow there are people that hate bush? but he’s such a loveable personality … it’s hard to hate someone like him… i mean he just seems clueless most of the time… ^_^ i agree with the first comment i think that makes more sense…
@fullmetalbunny - lol. oops. well actually my goal was only to disagree with everyone once. And I already disagreed with you! You just missed it I think. I wrote a post called “In Defense of Recommendations”. ^_^
From an “outsiders” perspective: Yes, I would love to see the whole Bush administration on trial, and Dubya himself.
There are lots of things for us Canadians to be angry about … We have been treated quite badly in some areas.
I hope whoever the new president is, he repeals the act that requires all Canadians to have a passport to enter the U.S. … I mean, c’mon, a passport? Just ’cause I wanna bop down to Pembina and play some blackjack for an evening? I think the tourist trade will suffer from this. Not a lot, maybe. But some.
And it sure makes us feel resentful. That border has been called the “longest undefended border in the world”, and shown as an example of countries that can get along together. And now this. Checkpoint Charlie all over again. Will there be a fence and/or wall put up next? To keep us hoodlums out?
Sure makes life tough for us maple syrup smugglers …