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Originally Posted by ottopilot
Thanks dc-dux!
I guess I am looking for intellectual honesty when we assign blame or make judgments against anyone. I think the intense hatred for "W" has at times become politically fashionable rather than proportionately accurate. Piling on is human nature.
I'm merely listening at this point. I have no desire to challenge anyone here. I just want to hear what people are upset about in more specific terms. Going through old posts is what prompted me to ask. To be fair, I should have asked specifically why people like him so much.
If this is not worth exploring, I'm willing to bump.
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I dont hate Bush but I think he is incompetent and more importantly, immoral and unethical when it comes to honoring the public trust that was placed in him. I dont think any of the examples I listed were "piling on."
I do hate what he has done to the institution of government by anointing himself chief legislator and chief justice in addition to chief executive by unilaterally deciding ("I am the decider") what is (or is not) the law and how such laws are to be interpreted....thus obstructing Congress and the federal judiciary from performing their Constitutional responsibilities.
The Founding Fathers, in their wisdom, created a federal system that would ensure the each branch was checked by the others. Bush's actions in the examples I cited above piss on the concept of checks and balances and separation of powers.
IMO, these actions have a far greater negative impact on the public than lying to a grand jury about a private affair or covering up/obstructing justice of a break-in of a private office or certainly any shortcomings of Carter.