{"id":1654,"date":"2003-08-25T18:23:19","date_gmt":"2003-08-26T08:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/26\/why-i-hate-george-w-bush\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:29:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:29:29","slug":"why-i-hate-george-w-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/25\/why-i-hate-george-w-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I hate George W. Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13662,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/bbs.slate.msn.com\\\/?id=3936&amp;m=7880950&amp;&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20030802053611\\\/http:\\\/\\\/bbs.slate.msn.com:80\\\/?id=3936&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 12:36:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 17:54:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 17:54:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13663,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.esoterically.net\\\/log\\\/archives\\\/000889.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050817025418\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.esoterically.net:80\\\/log\\\/archives\\\/000889.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/easy-energy.biz&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 17:54:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 17:54:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Alright, you asked for it. I&#8217;ll try to keep my wits about me, though the emotional base upon which this argument is built is quite tumultuous.<\/p>\n<p>  Why would I say that I &#8220;hate&#8221; George W. Bush? Isn&#8217;t that a little strong? Isn&#8217;t he just your average politician? Isn&#8217;t this just some natural extension of your overall left-leaning political views?<\/p>\n<p>  No, not really.<\/p>\n<p>  &#91;&#8230;&#93;<\/p>\n<p>  &#8230;the final mark of disrespect&#8230; the gut-level intuition that leads me to label him an EVIL man, rather than a merely despicable one is his casual contempt for human life. There aren&#8217;t words to describe the horror I feel when I see Bush look into the nation&#8217;s television cameras with that sadistic little smirk and tell us euphemistically, as if half-choking on a stifled snort that our enemies&#8230; &#8220;let&#8217;s put it this way: they are no longer a problem to the United States and our friends and allies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  &#91;&#8230;&#93;<\/p>\n<p>  When I look at George W. Bush, I don&#8217;t see a patriot. I see a lying, psychopathic narcissist. And it pains me, it grieves me, it WOUNDS me to realize that this puts me not only in the minority&#8230; but in the &#8220;whacko fringe.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; &#8216;Geoff&#8217;, <a href=\"http:\/\/bbs.slate.msn.com\/?id=3936&amp;m=7880950&amp;\" title=\"Why I hate George W. Bush\">Why I hate George W. Bush<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esoterically.net\/log\/archives\/000889.html\" title=\"Reasons Why\">Len<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I look at George W. Bush, I don&#8217;t see a patriot. I see a lying, psychopathic narcissist. And it pains me, it grieves me, it WOUNDS me to realize that this puts me not only in the minority\u2026 but in the &#8216;whacko fringe.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}