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I hate that he is smug, intellectually challenged and proud of it (and I don't mean stupid, I mean intellectually incurious), assumes that he has a monopoly on moral truth, and couldn't give a shit what the 50.1% of the country who didn't vote for him think. I don't find him compassionate at all - quite the contrary. I think he is mean-spirited (go find that interview of him discussing granting a stay of execution for that woman right before the election), small-minded, lacks any capacity for nuance, and is easily led by the ideologues he has surrounded himself with. After 9/11 we needed a strong leader to bind us together, and he did that for about 5 minutes before he manipulated the situation to push through his and his advisors' vision of America's role in the world, which has been in the works (by Cheney and Wolfowitz) since his father's administration - they saw an opportunity to grab the hegemonic golden ring, and the grabbed at it, consequences be damned. He's at heart a selfish coward who ran from service on all levels and is callously expending our military for questionable aims.
That's it in a nutshell.
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"If ten million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
- Anatole France
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