Comments on: Bring Me Your Dispossessed … http://www.luckyrob.com/2009/01/bring-me-your-dispossessed/ Consultant. Artist. Father. Writer. Idot. Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:50:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rob http://www.luckyrob.com/2009/01/bring-me-your-dispossessed/comment-page-1/#comment-1843 Rob Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:05:15 +0000 http://www.luckyrob.com/?p=1397#comment-1843 I DO have a problem with an American saying that he hopes the President fails. I never said that about Bush, ever. He WAS my President, though I was highly critical of his obvious failures. In Australia and England, they separate the head of state from the leading politician, which gives the rest of the country full impunity to engage in vicious, juvenile attacks at either party (even in the midst of their Parliament they boo and hiss like 3rd graders). I don't want Obama to fail and I now have a bit of a soft spot for Bush, who I believe was guided wholly by his faith, but incapable of handling the expectations of office and poorly guided by a staff of wanton cronies. Cheers! I DO have a problem with an American saying that he hopes the President fails. I never said that about Bush, ever. He WAS my President, though I was highly critical of his obvious failures.

In Australia and England, they separate the head of state from the leading politician, which gives the rest of the country full impunity to engage in vicious, juvenile attacks at either party (even in the midst of their Parliament they boo and hiss like 3rd graders).

I don’t want Obama to fail and I now have a bit of a soft spot for Bush, who I believe was guided wholly by his faith, but incapable of handling the expectations of office and poorly guided by a staff of wanton cronies.

Cheers!

]]> By: John http://www.luckyrob.com/2009/01/bring-me-your-dispossessed/comment-page-1/#comment-1842 John Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:39:28 +0000 http://www.luckyrob.com/?p=1397#comment-1842 The best part about seeing a democrat in the office is that conservatives get to be on offense and liberals on defense. Because the tired old joke that bush is dumb/evil/satan incarnate/etc. has had eight years of play, and it'll be nice to see the same fairness and respect being paid to the new president. The vile invective thrown at bush during the last eight years was absolutely, well, vile. The hatred jumping off the blogs was palpable. So now that conservatives have a whipping boy in the white house, liberals cry foul and want a return to "bipartisanship". Someone writing a play about assassinating bush was hailed as some freedom fighter speaking truth to power. But anyone not experiencing the religious experience that is the obama is close-minded and a bigot. My how the worm has turned. Apparently openly rooting for the president to fail is only kosher if said president is a republican. So sensitive, you liberals! John Wayne was quoted as saying the following in response to the election of a democrat (I can't recall which president he was referring to): "I didn't vote for the man, but he's my president, and I hope he does a good job." Before becoming so outraged at all the idiots out there that haven't sucked down obama's kool-aid and seen the hopey changey light, ask yourself if your side of the aisle would ever see their way to saying something as classy about bush as Wayne said about a democrat. The fact is, political "debate" is a misnomer. At this point, it's just a cut-down contest. And now that liberals will get to see what it's like to see "their" guy brutally berated in a 24/7 news cycle, I wonder if they'll regret the way they treated the "other" guy. The best part about seeing a democrat in the office is that conservatives get to be on offense and liberals on defense. Because the tired old joke that bush is dumb/evil/satan incarnate/etc. has had eight years of play, and it’ll be nice to see the same fairness and respect being paid to the new president. The vile invective thrown at bush during the last eight years was absolutely, well, vile. The hatred jumping off the blogs was palpable. So now that conservatives have a whipping boy in the white house, liberals cry foul and want a return to “bipartisanship”. Someone writing a play about assassinating bush was hailed as some freedom fighter speaking truth to power. But anyone not experiencing the religious experience that is the obama is close-minded and a bigot. My how the worm has turned. Apparently openly rooting for the president to fail is only kosher if said president is a republican. So sensitive, you liberals!

John Wayne was quoted as saying the following in response to the election of a democrat (I can’t recall which president he was referring to):
“I didn’t vote for the man, but he’s my president, and I hope he does a good job.”

Before becoming so outraged at all the idiots out there that haven’t sucked down obama’s kool-aid and seen the hopey changey light, ask yourself if your side of the aisle would ever see their way to saying something as classy about bush as Wayne said about a democrat.

The fact is, political “debate” is a misnomer. At this point, it’s just a cut-down contest. And now that liberals will get to see what it’s like to see “their” guy brutally berated in a 24/7 news cycle, I wonder if they’ll regret the way they treated the “other” guy.

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