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pan6467 · 08-06-2004, 05:34 AM

As for Bush himself, I find him to be a likeable guy. Kind of like Flounder in Animal House, actually. Someone, who's a little dim witted and wanting to be liked so bad that he allows the older guys to walk all over him and when they wreck his dad's car he just gets drunk and says," Um guys, you wanna fix the mess, my dad is gonna kill me."

That said, when it comes to the GOP I dislike the fact anyone speaking out against them is "hateful" and "unpatriotic, lefty whacko's" while they can have Limbaugh, O'Reilly and especially Ann Coulter say anything they want with no proof and, "that's not hate speak, that's just true."

I dislike how GOP mortgage the future (education, send jobs overseas, don't stand up to China's ignoring of patents and copyrights and so on) that cost the current economy millions and bankrupts our future.

I dislike the fact that the GOP preached all through the late 80's and 90's that they wanted social programs cut and a balanced budget amendment, yet, now they see nothing wrong with a president who took a projected $5 trillion dollar surpluss and is spending us into record deficits.

I dislike:

the way the GOP totally opposes universal healthcare

gives tax cuts to the top 1% while schools are going bankrupt

how they say they are 100% behind the military and spends big on the war BUT gives the soldiers a bare minimum pay and benefits AND SEVERLY cuts veterans benefits

their stance that they can walk all over seperation of church and state, and other constitutional civil rights and checks and balances and not care

the fact that there are papers that link their leaders to torture and the rest of them act like it is us who oppose torture that are the true bad guys because "they are terrorists and they don't deserve humane treatment and we're wimps and socialist pinko's because we want the terrorists to at least be treated civilly.

I could go on ......

08-06-2004, 05:34 AM	#37 (permalink)
pan6467 Lennonite Priest Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA	As for Bush himself, I find him to be a likeable guy. Kind of like Flounder in Animal House, actually. Someone, who's a little dim witted and wanting to be liked so bad that he allows the older guys to walk all over him and when they wreck his dad's car he just gets drunk and says," Um guys, you wanna fix the mess, my dad is gonna kill me." That said, when it comes to the GOP I dislike the fact anyone speaking out against them is "hateful" and "unpatriotic, lefty whacko's" while they can have Limbaugh, O'Reilly and especially Ann Coulter say anything they want with no proof and, "that's not hate speak, that's just true." I dislike how GOP mortgage the future (education, send jobs overseas, don't stand up to China's ignoring of patents and copyrights and so on) that cost the current economy millions and bankrupts our future. I dislike the fact that the GOP preached all through the late 80's and 90's that they wanted social programs cut and a balanced budget amendment, yet, now they see nothing wrong with a president who took a projected $5 trillion dollar surpluss and is spending us into record deficits. I dislike: the way the GOP totally opposes universal healthcare gives tax cuts to the top 1% while schools are going bankrupt how they say they are 100% behind the military and spends big on the war BUT gives the soldiers a bare minimum pay and benefits AND SEVERLY cuts veterans benefits their stance that they can walk all over seperation of church and state, and other constitutional civil rights and checks and balances and not care the fact that there are papers that link their leaders to torture and the rest of them act like it is us who oppose torture that are the true bad guys because "they are terrorists and they don't deserve humane treatment and we're wimps and socialist pinko's because we want the terrorists to at least be treated civilly. I could go on ...... __________________ I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"