What, the president is showing righteous indignation at the people who are planning terrorist attacks against our civillian population? Why, alcoholics show righteous indignation. See. Actually, I wouldn't trust a president who wasn't a little pissy on the topic. We need a commander in chief, not a lip-biting understander in chief.
What, the president rewards people who do what he wants? He witholds favor from those who work against him? Why, there must be something wrong with him. What, he should reward his enemies and punish his friends to prove that he's magnanimous? Are you people retarded?
None of these people would admit as a possibility that President Bush may have laid aside petty personal issues, and made an honest decision that he thinks it important to our national security to take out Saddam and generally show a willingness to use force in the world.
Whether these are wise policies is a completely different issue. Just consider the possibility that the president might be a decent, honest, mentally healthy person who has honest and reasonable disagreements with you on public policy issues.
I don't know what all goes on inside the president's brain. I just know I'm sure glad that it's a halfway sensible, stable guy with his eye on the ball who is leader of the free world rather than some therapeutic culture idiot.
Article comments
1 - NC
Indeed. Just one more step in the creeping IndyMedia-ization of Blogcritics. What a shame.
2 - Tom Johnson
I think my favorite part of all this is that the way the outspoken liberals here see it, Bush is either a complete idiot or a complete lunatic, but credit to him these enormous, complex, and impenetrable conspiracies that neither an idiot nor a lunatic would be capable of carrying off.
And I also agree, it is really sad to see Blogcritics becoming the place to hangout for the belligerents. And I know this will incite some comments about how they're the only ones here who really "understand" the "danger" represented by this administration. Unfortunately, it's these very people that always feel the need to raise their voices - all the time. I really wish there were more people like you, Al, who will stick their necks out against these people. If I were more politically inclined, I would too, but alas I simply am not.
3 - Doug Thorburn
The analyses of George Bush by by von Wormer, Justin Frank and others is clouded by their pseudo-liberal bias. As an addiction expert who has authored four books on alcoholism, I have written a top story on Bush and review of Frank's book for my online www.addictionreport.com. They're in the November issue. Readers here will find them most interesting.