What would YOU consider "bush Bashing"?

[AlabamaYankee]

The DLC appaarently wnats us all to play nice and avoid "Bush Baashing". It's also a common put down to forceful - or even mild - criticism of the current occupant of the White House. Nobody, however, has really defined it, so let's give it a shot. Examples are welcome.

I would not consider it to be Bush Bashing (BB) when I condemn his policies as radical, destructive, anti-American and just plain evil. It is not BB to call him inarticulate, incurious, unreflective and an assasin of both grammar and syntax. Those are facts.

It's borderline to call Bush* himself evil; it's inaccurate to call him stupid.

I would consider it BB when dealing with personal habits, characteristics and mannerisms. For example calling him a bandylegged, pointy-eared simian-faced son of a syphlitic whore who is unfit to wash the windows in Al Gore's house is definitely BB, with a swipe at Babs. The various other colorful titles and nicknames bestowed on him by DUers and others is BB.

If the DLC wants the candidates to give up Bush Bashing during political debate, I have no problem with it. Insults and denigrating remarks really should not be part of a formal campaign. After all, they detract from what should be the main message: The maladministration is driving this country to disgrace and ruin; it has to be stopped and driven from office. As for DU, we're not part of the formal process, so let's get creative.

[whoYaCallinAlib]

1. Acceptable: Deficiencies in his record such as deficit, unemployment.

Unacceptable: Impeachment, mass murderer

[Shoedogg]

2. I say...

...in my book, it can NEVER be bashing if your complaint is legit.

[methinks2]

3. BASH

:spank: :spank: :spank: :kick:

I was right about the war! Nah nah nah!!! I was right and Bush was wrong I was right and Bush was wrong I was right and Bush was wrong . . .
He's a dumbass too!
:P

[drb]

4. Well, let's see...

...would it be BB to say he's a war-monger? Nope! Guess not!

...would it be BB to say he is involved in class warfare? Nope! Guess not!

...would it be BB to say that his dad was involved in business with Osama's dad, and to ask whether the listener thinks that might have just a little bit to do with why the CIA, FBI (at first typing, that was "FIB" - talk about a Freudian typo, huh?) U.S. Army, U. S. Navy, and the Air Force can't find him? Nope! That's just asking a question!

...would it be BB to ask whether billionaires should get tax cuts, when we have no money left for working poor folks to take care of their kids? Nope! That's just asking aother question!

[Gringo]

5. There is no such thing as Bush Bashing.

This little boy and his cadre of killers are at a level of depravity where no amount of criticism could do them justice.

Hammer away at the bastards.

[Clete]

6. I don't consider saying the truth about Bush as bashing.

Now if you accused him of partaking in Satanic baby sacrifices, then I would consider it bashing because it's not true. (I think.)

[ewagner]

11. I'll check on that

:evilgrin:

[Ani Yun Wiya]

7. I would think...

Nothing short of the actual use of a baseball bat is "bashing".
Anything merely said is just commentary or opinion or statement of fact.

[Zephyrbird]

8. Hitting him with a 2' x 4' would be "bashing"

All the rest is fair game.

"Bush Bashing" is a catchphrase used to criticize Democrats speaking up about the mess in the white house.

It's a wonder sometimes that the Statue of Liberty hasn't peed in her toga from embarassment. Bush running rampant in the world, trashing the Constitution, and here are a bunch of Democrats shaking in their little pink tutus every time somebody claims they're "bashing Bush!"

FEH! I pick my teeth at them!

[MrBenchley]

9. I consider Bush bashing totally justified

The unelected drunk is the worst pResident in US history...

Presidential record.... GUESS WHO?

I am the first president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.

In my first year in office I set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history.

After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, I presided over the worst security failure in US history.

I am the first president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and then lied, saying the enemy had the code to Air Force One).

I spent the US surplus and bankrupted the Treasury.

I shattered the record for the biggest annual deficit in history.

I set the all-time record for the most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.

I set the all-time record for the most home foreclosures in a 12-month period.

I am the first president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.

I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by any president in US history.

In my first two years in office, over 2 million Americans lost their job.

I cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than any other president in US history.

I appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history.

I set the record for the fewest press conferences of any president since the advent of TV.

I signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any other US president in history.

I presided over the biggest energy crisis in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.

I cut health care benefits for war veterans in the middle of a war.

I set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.

I dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history.

I've made my presidency the most secretive and unaccountable of any in US history. Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history.

I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud in any market in any country in the history of the world.

I am the first president in US history to order a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the will of the United Nations and the world community.

I have created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.

I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any other president in US history.

I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations remove the USA from the Human Rights Commission.

I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations remove the USA from the Elections Monitoring Board.

I removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history.

I withdrew from the World Court of Law.

I refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.

I am the first president in US history to refuse United Nations Election Inspectors access during the 2002 US elections.

I am the all-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations. The biggest lifetime contributor to my campaign, who is also one of my best friends, presided over the largest swindle in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).

I spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history.

I am the first US president to establish a secret shadow government.

I took the world's sympathy for the US after 9/11, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history).

I am the first US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.

I changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.

I set the all-time record for the number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling their huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.

I have removed more freedoms and civil liberties from Americans than any other president in US history.

I entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years weakened the economy to its lowest point in decades.

[diplomats]

12. I read some of the articles on the DLC homepage

and I'm under the impression that they say Bush's record is so bad if we confine ourselves to that we have plenty to go after him on.

[Not a robought]

10. Basically if * whipped it out for an intern

or there was some other activity we got to hear about involving his penis, condemnations and criticism would be in order.

Anything else would be bashing. :eyes:

[TXlib]

15. No, even if Chimpy got caught pants down in a sex scandal

All he'd have to do if beg forgiveness on TV, and the Repukes would let it drop.

Repukes think sexual impropriety is forgiveable if you truly repent it, but only the religious GOP is capable of such repentance; the secular Dems can't repent, and therefore, can't be forgiven.

[trof]

13. ANY criticism of our Naked Emperor

is bashing.
Pure and simple.
By definition.
Now...if we can catch him in bed with a live boy, or a dead woman,
we GOT his ass.
;-)

[robbedvoter]

14. We are light years away from bashing

Every time I think we nail the depth of this abomination, he reveals new levels . I cannot keep up (and I try!)

[Pepperbelly]

16. "restoring honor and dignity" lays his personal character and its

deficiencies right on the table.

[Trajan]

17. If THEY dont stop .....

I'm gonna up and puke on their Gold Leaf tea cups ......

The Clinton's were bashed MERCILESSLY ..... bashing which HASNT STOPPED ! ....

And THEY didnt deserve it ......

Al From can keep his LIPS LOCKED FIRMLY ON THE SPHINCTER OF GEORGE W. BUSH for as long as he likes ....

But he wont be kissing MY ass with that mouth afterwards ....

[proud patriot]

18. I call bush bashing " Patriotic"

:evilgrin:

[Iverson]

19. my two cents

Gratuitous insult would be "bashing." Disagreement with policy would not, even passionate and vigorous disagreement.

My impression, rightly or wrongly, is that the DLC conflates the two for purposes of tihs argument.

[ComerPerro]

20. Bashing him with a rock

That, although fun, would be wrong.

I see no problem with "Bush bashing", however.
Shit, I still get anti-Clinton, "sex-pervert", "dumb hillbilly" emails. And you still hear people bash Clinton in conversation and, yes, even in the "liberal" media.

To hell with Bush. I will show him only the respect he deserves.

By the way, how much respect does a man who has failed at everything he has ever done, was (and maybe still is) a raging alcoholic, is most likely guilty of insider trading, and is at the very least guilty of criminal incompetence in the worst disaster in our nation's history deserve, anyway?

[drool_n_yank]

21. repukes vote Bush ,Cheney , Rumsfeld and the DLC 2004

thats all