August 8,
2005
A 12 Step Program
for the Left’s Hatred of “W”
Let’s begin, shall we?
1. We admitted we were powerless over our hatred of
(INSERT George W. Bush HERE) –and that our (INSERT
“thinking, logic, and strategic vision” HERE)
had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves
could restore us to sanity.
Power? Oops. The recovery effort begins to break down
at this point, since many of the Bush haters in Europe
and America don’t believe in a power higher than
the human mind. But hey, I was concerned enough to try
to help them.
You might think I’m being mean, but it’s
precisely when Bush starts talking about THE Higher Power
that the left in Europe and also in this country do a
collective eye roll. “What a simple, simple man,”
I can hear them think, and no, simple is not meant as
a compliment.
Bush hatred is ubiquitous in the euro-press, and just
sort of pops up in pieces where you wouldn’t necessarily
expect it, like one in which a liberal
Briton tries to persuade his fellow left-wingers to
stop opposing Britain’s war on terror now that everything
is blowing up around them. But he then admits... “Wars
are usually worth opposing, especially capricious wars
advocated by a…repellent US President.”
Repellent? Jarring to some red state eyes, but true
to exactly how the left feels about that creature in the
White House.
It’s been a couple of years since Jonathan Chait,
an American, drew heaping amounts of flak from the right
and adoration from the left for a New
Republic piece in which he admitted “I hate
President George W. Bush.” Chait might be better
known for a more
recent piece that ran in several newspapers that the
President exercises too much.
Next time you’re reading a hit piece on President
Bush, replace W’s name with Bill Clinton’s,
and it immediately stops making sense. Think you’d
ever see a piece from the liberal media that Clinton exercises
too much? He’d be defended as an example for the
nation.
In fact, take almost everything Bush has done in his
Presidency, and make it the actions of William Jefferson
Clinton, and we’d all be reading about the most
successful presidency in U.S history.
In an intellectual process that reminds me of the Stalin
purges in the 1930s, Bush is declared an enemy of the
people before he wakes up in the morning simply because
he has deviated from the left’s party line.
His dangerous views? The United Nations doesn’t
always do the right thing, the Kyoto Protocol to fight
global warming is a disaster, Capitalism is good, and
children shouldn’t be cut from the womb and thrown
unto a waste bucket. And he expresses faith in Christ
in a very simple, offensive red state kind of way. But
I think that there’s no question his most criminal
thought is that America is great.
That alone is enough to drive the lefties nuts.
