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Sunday, June 24. 2007George Bush: 'Worse than Fascist Dictators'Trackbacks
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Because not only is he eeeeeeeeeevil, he's also incompetent.
He =has= been trying to kill these people, but the worst he's been able to do is make their local organic co-op fail.
Oh, where to begin… Let's start with when he says "everyone from Helen Thomas on down" says Bush is the worst president ever. What -- or whose opinion -- would be below Helen Thomas, as in "on down" from her? Is there really someone with less credibility than Thomas to give us an opinion on anything? I mean, is he trying to be funny? That line just had me laughing and laughing.
Now, as to Hitler and Stalin's "good intentions." Since he doesn't list them, I guess I'll have to imagine. Ummm… Ummm… Let's see… I'm thinking… What could Hitler have been "intending" to do with those camps and ovens and the 6 million dead Jews? What was Stalin's actual "intent" in murdering millions and sending millions more to their deaths in the gulags? Wait, I think it's coming to me… Yes, I get it, killing people who don't agree with your political ideology or who believe in things you don't is well-intentioned, just a little messy at times. Okay. I got it. Welcome to the American leftist mind, where the genocide of your own countrymen can be "well-intentioned." Remember, folks, elections matter…
Of course not -- these fools aren't potent enough.
They just need exposure...
In all of the 90+ comments on HuffPo so far, there is exactly one that says "whoa, that's sort of a crazy thing to say" but concurs that Bush is a vile human being, and there is one more that disputes the assertion that Hitler meant well, but nothing else about the comparison of Bush and Hitler.
The rest are full of the most batshit crazy stuff I have ever heard. The pathetic thing is that these idiots must be sentient enough to known that the Nazis would have rounded up and gassed them for saying about Hitler what they are saying about Bush... how do they explain to themselve the fact that they haven't been? Are they wearing invisibility suits, or what??
I wouldn't read too much into the lack of critical commentary. I make a non-partisan effort to call out even less outrageous hyperbole than this nonsense when I see it. But my comments rarely see the light of day on sites like Huffpo, where the poster as well as the site administrator gatekeep the comments section. They prefer commentary that either sings to the choir or disagrees offensively enough to validate their biases about trolls and wingnuts. By the way, my experience is likewise at many Conservative sites with similar editorial practices. It's why nowadays I mostly stick to sites like Volokh Conspiracy, where the discourse is usually civil and sane.
"Time for Civil War 2, yet?"
No, but in the circumstances, perhaps they would find a "Mondhiebnacht" to quite appropriate.
Only a liberal could say that Adolf Hitler was well-meaning but misguided when he slaughtered millions of people. Sheesh.
this is the stupidest most fucked up article i have ever read. this moron needs to be institutionalized and lobotomized - a.s.a.p.
With 6 mounths to go we have the most ignorant comment of the year hands down. no more nominations. its over!!!
Hmm.
Actually, Hitler thought all of Germany should disappear, along with the lives of all its inhabitants, if they couldn't defeat the Allied powers. If the Germans couldn't win, they didn't deserve to live; or so Hitler believed. How exactly does that fit into Hitler's grand scheme of "meaning well?"
Wait! There may be something to this "epitome of evil" label for Bush. After all, he stole all his elections didn't he? Who knows what evil, diabolical trick (like the Electoral College) he and his unscrupulous foul assistant, Rove, used to confuse the Democrats causing them to mark their paper ballots incorrectly in Florida. And as if thats not evil enough, he corrupted the Supreme Court by appointing judges who worry about things like "original intent" instead of implementing the Left's good-intentioned strategy of sidestepping Congress and using the court to implement their agenda by judicial fiat.
Then the blood-thirsty villian Bush rushed to War in Iraq while ignoring the wise counsel of the collective wisdom in the United Nations. (Everybody knows that the only country worth going to war against is Isreal.) Surely all this tops Hitler's alleged crimes.
What kind of horses ass could conceive of George Bush being a worse person/leader than Hitler(6+ million dead), Stalin(30+ million dead). And you actually get paid for writing this garbage.
Mehlman is a bit over the line, but the basics of what he's saying is true.
"No Child Left Behind" actually REDUCED spending on education for poor children. The Social Security reform helps the rich get more out of it, while not doing anything for the really really poor. Hitler, while certainly more evil than Bush, did mean well (he believed in some weirdo theory about Jews taking over the world, and wanted to prevent that; he believed the terms imposed on Germany after World War 1 were unfair, so he tried to get the lost land back for his country, ... -- Hitler was certainly a madman for believing these things, but unlike Bush, he acted out of the belief that he's doing the right thing no matter how wrong that thing is objectively). Bush is in it only for his own personal profit and that of his super-rich friends.
Stop Bush is obviously in the final stages of cranial rectumitus. Hopefully it isnt contagious
The deadly siren of sloppy "good intentions"
The crushing stupidity of leftist liberals originates from the seduction of "good intentions". "No matter how sloppy or foolish I am in my actions, I at least mean well--therefore I am a force for good". This is the lure: The most stupid, sloppy, lazy among us can all claim to be a force for good--as long as they mean well. What a horrible mistake in thinking this is! What is worse than bad intentions? Good intentions sloppily carried out. I will prove it to you this way: Consider a homeless person on the street living under a box. The well-intentioned (but sloppy) liberal decides to build for the person a house. Because he is so wrapped up in self-glorification that he must be a force for good because he means well, that (s)he gives workmanship short shrift and ends up building death-trap. The poor homeless person gleefully moves out of his cardboard box, moves into the death-trap and is promptly killed. The liberal has already moved on to the next ostensible "good deed" and is so busy basking in the self-gratification of polishing his halo and showing it off to friends that(s)he doesn't even realise he effectively just killed the guy. He is indeed worse off than if he had been left alone in the cardboard box where he was at least alive. He would have done the guy more good if he had been so "greedy and evil" as to buy himself a Ferrari or something with the money. The desire for a quick hit of "feel good" the same way you used to get a quick bong hit or toke on a doobie back in college leads the typical liberal to overlook the sloppiness in careful thinking as well as execution --on the grounds that "yeah but intentions are good, (so it will come out good.)" No so: In the political sphere, when an blatanly bad man blatantly does evil, at least, because it is so blatant, good men will step forward to oppose him and mitigate the evil. But when foolish and sloppy people who are deemed to be acting out of good intentions do something which (due to sloppiness) is easily exploited by evil people shewdly looking for such "useful idiots" to cause harm, such idioits easily become trojan horses to explode behind the lines of the forces of good. They are unopposed and able to go where they do much more harm than those who are blatantly evil--due to the "sheep's clothing" of their "good intentions". Thus the well-intentioned sloppy people end up doing the worst harm of all. And why are the liberal well-intentioned so typically sloppy in execution? Because the salve of "good intentions" dulls the need for rigor. After all, it is more democratic to let stupid, lazy and sloppy al participate in good deeds than limiting good deeds to the rigorous, intelligent, well-educated, competent and scrupulously exacting in workmanship. As you can now see, rigorous thinking, and workmanship are more important than good intentions by far, and without those things, good intentions do more harm than good.
Bush is a fascist and has done his damndest to destroy the United States.
He has redefined patriotism, freedom, dissent, and truth to mean exactly the opposite of their real definitions. Show me where the Constitution states that dissent is not allowed just because the president is a republican. Show me where it states that Bush can ignore it on the basis he thinks doing so will protect us. Show me where patriotism is defined by how many American flags (made in China) you can fly while increasing the number of poor people by taking their jobs away in the interest of corporate profits. Screw Bush and anyone who voted for him.
Thanks for your comments, Richard.
And thanks for helping to underline the point about the political derangement of many in this country! |
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