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i have to say that i have never seen the level of disdain and anger directed at a president in my lifetime as i now see directed at bush--nothing like it against reagan, though most of my friends opposed him and his polices, particularly in central america--i wonder about nixon, however: at the time, i was young at the time, and may have missed out on things in new hampshire because...well....
that conservatives hated clinton is not a surprise--an entire colonization of am radio by right talkshow hosts legitimated itself and extended its reach into the right's heartland by articulating hatred of clinton. the disdain for bush is not centrally managed--its reasons are diffuse, its ways of expression various.
whether bush turns out to be understood as a disaster historically will be a function of who writes the histories--it always is. hell, there are people who think reagan was a genius, thanks to people like dinesh de souza et al. anything is possible in constructing a signifier.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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