George W. Bush Is Dead To Me, By Mark Morford, a good read btw

[madokie]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2006/07/07/notes070706.DTL&nl=fix

Nation cringes as the worst president ever continues long, painful slog to the end
- By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Friday, July 7, 2006


It is like some sort of virus. It is like some sort of weird and painful rash on your face that makes you embarrassed to walk out the door and so you sit there day after day, waiting for it to go away, slathering on ointment and Bactine and scotch. And yet still it lingers.

Some days the pain is so searing and hot you want to cut off your own head with a nail file. Other days it is numb and pain-free and seemingly OK, to the point where you think it might finally be all gone and you allow yourself a hint of a whisper of a positive feeling, right up until you look in the mirror, and scream.


George W. Bush is just like that.

Everyone I know has had enough. Everyone I know is just about done. There is this threshold of happy deadened disgust, this point where the body simply resigns itself to the pain, a point where the disease, the poison has seeped so deeply into the bones that you just have to laugh and shrug it all off and go for a drink. Or 10.

[panader0]

1. This article explains why I have been drinking more

[POAS]

5. I've been dry for 20 years....BUT..........

[MsKandice01]

19. I'm right there with you....

[diddlysquat]

2. Thanks for posting.

I always enjoy reading Mark Morford.

[jedicord]

3. You should have warned me.

All the atrocious things that * has done all rolled into one. While a lot of them, any way - the article also reminded me of more: illegal immigration, Hurricane Katrina, gay marriage, rights for women's health...

Pass the scotch.

[Johnny Noshoes]

34. "Pass the scotch"

The horror will end someday and I swear if we take back the White House in '08 I'm going to go out and buy a $200 bottle of Johnny Walker Blue and celebrate. Especially if by some miracle its President- elect Feingold

[rubberducky]

4. Great way to start my day!!!!!

:bounce:

[marmar]

6. Sums up my feelings pretty well...

K&R!

[mikelewis]

7. Here's a link to the Gore article in Rolling Stone - great read...

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/10688399/al_gore_30/3
Al Gore 3.0
The man who won the presidency in 2000 is looser and more outspoken than ever. Is his global-warming movie a warm-up for a third run at the White House? (From the July 13-27, 2006 issue of ROLLING STONE) BY WILL DANA

[madokie]

14. Yes it is, thanks for the link

[ProudDad]

33. I had to send this to the White House after reading this interview

eMail to shrub...sent this evening...


Subject: Thanks for trying to kill my grandchild

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In case you haven't seen it yet (from Rolling Stone interview with the actual President, Al Gore):

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*What did you think during the 2000 campaign on the day that Bush announced he would limit CO2 emissions if he were elected? Did you think, "That's bullshit"?*
I thought it was fraudulent. I actually did not anticipate that he would directly and brazenly break that pledge, and go 180 degrees in the opposite direction at full speed, but I thought that he would slow-walk it and make it meaningless. They were trying to drain the moral energy out of an issue that they felt could hurt them if the public perceived a clear contrast on the issue.

*Did it seem like a smart move, strategically, at that point?*
Well, if you define the word "smart" in an antiseptic and clinical way that excludes any ethical dimension, then, yeah, I guess it was smart. Smart, if you're willing to say things that you know are not true. But that's what Karl Rove is known for. Bush's whole pose as a compassionate conservative was fraudulent. His /budget/ was fraudulent. Even the idea that he would be staunchly opposed to nation building was fraudulent. I don't mean that he actually knew at the time of the campaign that he was going to invade Iraq -- because I don't think Cheney had told him yet . But the statement on global warming, and the specific pledge to reduce CO2 emissions with the force of law, was part of a larger pattern. He was completely fraudulent from head to toe.


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Way to go, moron...

[durrrty libby]

8. Thanks for the article

Mark perfectly describes my long suffering agony.

[Triana]

9. I love Mark Morford...

..wish I had a clone of him. ;)

[madokie]

10. I subscribed to his column after reading the first one I read

a couple years ago and haven't been disappointed yet. The man definitely has a way with words. This article is one of the best yet.

[Triana]

17. Same here - been a Morford fan for a couple years...

read one and was hooked! Never ever disappointed.

[Swamp Rat]

11. Mark Morford speaks for me

:kick:

[madokie]

13. You speak for me, you capture the essence of the moment better than anyone

hope you don't mind me saving this for future use.
peace
:hi:

[Swamp Rat]

15. Feel free to download it and post it anywhere you wish

:)

[Laurab]

12. K & R for a great article - thanks! n/t

[Hugin]

16. Oh, yeah... I'm "Comfortably Numb".

Thanks for the post... And thanks to "Pink Floyd" for the
song it caused to run through my mind.

[EvilAL]

18. ya

the Pink Floyd tune would show how you are fading numbly into not giving s shit about what he's doing.
Can't do that though, nobody fights a dead enemy.

[madokie]

23. Please my Canadain friends take to heart what is happening here in the

used to be good old USA. Stop it before you get to where we find ourselves today.
Welcome to the big tent called DU btw. Its the only thing standing between so many of us and insanity.

[sybylla]

20. Very well written and very well said

It certainly does feel more and more like a shameful disease with no quick cure in sight.

K & R

[Fiendish Thingy]

21. I'm occasionally "uncomfortably numb" but otherwise...

I'm mostly outraged and in mourning at the crumbling of our democracy before our eyes in the last six short years;
I don't really think about George Bush as the source of all this anymore, so in a sense, he is "dead" to me too. I tend to fixate on the evil cabal that put Bush into power, and to which he serves as figurehead. I focus, not on the incompetent fool in the White House, but on the death, destruction and deficits his administration has wreaked on our nation and the rest of the world.
I can still distract myself and have a good time with friends and family, but, when not distracted with work or pleasure, thoughts of our shredded constitution, the media's complicity, and many American's apathy return to the forefront of my mind...

[madokie]

22. in only six short years we have totally lost our way

its like so many think it can't happen here, even though the evidence is all around them/us. The price of most everything we buy has increased and what didn't is because it is being imported having been built with what I consider to be sub human wages. Its not right that our press is complacent in all this, its not right that our representatives don't stand up for us. Sometimes I just want to throw my hands up and say to heck with it but I can't do that my conscience won't allow it. I owe it to my kids, all the kids and all the future grandkids to take a stand today and do something about it, but whats a person to do. I am just at a loss for the right path to take. do we ever get to kick back and relax ever, I guess not in this bushworld*. sorry

[Fiendish Thingy]

24. I agree with much of your post- I have chosen my path...

unless the Dems take back at least one house, and initiate a vigorous enforcement of checks and balances, investigations, confrontations, etc. If this doesn't happen come November (OK, I'll give them a few months to get their footing and start the investigations), then I will begin the process of emigrating to Canada. The Dems don't even have to talk about impeachment (at least not at first ;-) ), I'd be satisfied if they just aggressively work to preserve protect and defend the Constitution and put a stop to this "unitary executive" crap once and for all!

Despite poodle-in-waiting Stephen Harper, Canada may be the only place I can find peace of mind for myself and my family, where for the first time in a long time, I may become "comfortably numb".
Not that I would be checking out- I couldn't walk away from DU!
But knowing that my tax dollars wouldn't be spent on torture or an illegal war is quite enticing...

[truedelphi]

30. Oooh, the media's complicity

Walter Cronkite once harped on the fact that he could almost forgive the German people's acceptance of Hitler, since they had no free press there in which to offer an opposing view (and remember under Hitler, BEFORE THE WAR, the lot of the average German went UP - two week vacations for the lower working clases, increased prosperity, affordable autos to drive, the end of a class regime (no more rising to your feet when you were at the local cafe just because a professor enetered the cafe)**

But Cronkite said he could not forgive them for not demanding a free press...


**Of course these good times did not apply if you were a union leader, dissident, social critic, or Jewish

[LuckyLib]

25. This is key: "if the Dems could somehow

produce a decent moderate candidate with a brain, he'd have zero problem switching allegiances and voting for him. Or her." That decent moderate candidate with a brain had better be front and center come the run-up to the 08 elections. There are plenty of disgusted folks out there of all stripes who are ready for change.

[Insider]

26. GREAT read

thanks for posting madokie

[timontheleft]

27. Good article

thanks for posting.

:dem:

[DFW]

28. Hey, Swamp Rat!

My friend at The Freedom Toast loved your Bush-Lie poster and asked if you
would be okay with their using it in their ads?

[Disturbed]

29. Unfortunately, Busholini, Darth Cheney and the

Criminal Cabal are still alive screwing over America and killing people.

[1620rock]

31. I give up...18 months to retirement, then Canada here I come.

[MODemocrat]

32. This is an excellent article

Thanks for posting it. The columnist surely did describe my feelings. I'm exhausted from all the Bush Boy lawbreaking and lying. :spank: :spank: :cry: :cry: :cry: What a sad state of affairs for our great country; if only we can stand another 2+ years of this bumbling administration.........