When you're accused of being a 'Bush hater'

[Sugarcoated]

how do you all respond? I find when I hear this, there's so much I don't know where to start. What is a good response to put it all in a nutshell?

[TheFriedPiper]

1. You'd have to be an idiot NOT to hate Bush

That's how I respond.

[BobRossi]

2. Simply.

"I hate anyone that trys to destroy America"

[liberal N proud]

3. Yes, I am a bu$h hater, He is the only person that I have ever hated

Then I will lay into them that the reason I hate the SOB, is because of what he has done to America and the world.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. Yes, I am a bush hater.

[Imagevision]

5. Considering Bush's record? - It's patriotic to hate Bush...

[BOSSHOG]

6. I hate bush but you are in an abusive relationship

I'm a veteran, he deserted
I invest in the stock market, he profited from insider trading
He lied
Our kids are dying because of his low self esteem, he just had to be a war president

My hate is rational and yet you love the man who cares not about you and abuses your faith on a daily basis. I usually include profanity and a loud voice, because those motherfuckers piss me off.

[yurbud]

26. yep. If our country is a family, Bush is alcoholic dad who beats kids

rapes them, and uses their lunch money to buy more booze. We're the kid that's willing to say it's wrong, they are the kid that thinks they have a "special relationship" with dad and rationalize everything he does.

[BOSSHOG]

30. I harken back to

an episode in the Clinton household when Bill defended his mother from his alcoholic step father. You make an excellent point. No doubt, bush would have been daddy's little boy.

[Warpy]

45. Bushbots are more like the long suffering, abused wife

who keeps taking him back no matter what he's done to her and the kids because she just KNOWS if she sticks it out, he's gonna have some sort of divine revelation and reform his behavior.

Bullshit.


What this gang has done is stealing my vote in 2004, and I'm taking that very personally.

So yes, I'm a Bush hater. I extend my disgust to the whole lot of his cronies and enablers. I want them all in prison where they belong.

[InkAddict]

47. One could once receive assistance

to flee the "family" situation. Those programs are now going out of business or are vastly underfunded.

Just how does one flee the macro-abusive relationship. Our Constitution cites Impeachment, but Congress refuses to act responsibly, and I guess that would also require them to seek out "enforcers" to secure the defendent(s).

What can be done for those that are stalked by their government. A court-ordered "stay" often doesn't work in cases of domestic abuse, so how much faith can there be when Congress won't press charges and the SCUSA on down won't even issue a cease and desist for fear of "unappointment" in their vocation or a more permanent unappointment to draw breath on earth at the hands of the abuser(s).

Where are those that would make the tough choice to actually defend and/or protect our Constitution?

[yurbud]

49. Bushbots are wife who doesn't even think she is being abused.

[Liberal_Dog]

7. It's Not About Hating Bush...

it's about hating what Bush has done and is doing.

The damage that Bush has caused will take decades to fix.

[EFerrari]

8. I don't know. I only talk to other Bush haters. lol

:P

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. "You bet I am" "Look what he's doing to you and me and America"

What's to be ashamed of?

[acmavm]

10. There's very little to like in liars, traitors, killers, or thugs.

[Virginia Dare]

11. Guilty as charged...n/t

[Richard Steele]

12. I hate ANYONE who kills our troops just to make his buddies richer.

[no_hypocrisy]

13. My response is, "And your point is . . . . ?" n/t

[Jade Fox]

14. "I don't know Bush....

I hate him for what he's done." This is all I say.

What's ironic is, yet again, the Right has stolen something from us Liberals who they claim to hate: We (correctly) identifies those on a vendetta against Clinton with being Clinton-haters. Now, Bush-supporters are unable to imagine we hate Bush for some very valid reasons, and accuse us of doing what they did to Clinton.

[Pathwalker]

15. "You wish. He's just the head of your party.

It's your viscious me first, screw everyone else POLICIES currently destroying this nation that I hate.
Get over it."

Works for me. :evilgrin:

[theanarch]

16. of course i do...

...doesn't everyone?

[annabanana]

17. "Tell me what there is to Like?"

He has so completely destroyed everything he's touched that anything they tout as a "plus" is surely a lie and a miserable failure too.

[guinivere]

18. It's not so much an accusation, it's a statement of fact.

I AM a bush hater. Personally he's a spoiled little worm and as president he's a breathtaking failure. He's made a monstrous mess that will take years to get out of. Yeah, I hate election stealing morons.

[Cosmocat]

19. Why aren't you ???

Cause the fact that you don't hate him says a WHOLE lot more about me than the fact I hate him says about me ...

[dogday]

20. It is not the man I hate, it is his policies, his lies, his

deception, his manipulation into an unjust war.... It is his breaking our laws and then writing statements he does not have to obey our laws.... That is what I hate....

[yurbud]

21. Most of the criticism is about POLICY. If he was a tard but effective or

at least benign, no one would care.

That's the exact opposite of the "Clinton Haters" who focused primarily on his personal life (although the effect of the non-stop scandal-mongering was to slow or prevent policy action by Clinton).

You could also remind them that elected officials are public SERVANTS not rock stars or kings. We have a right to critique their job performance.

[yurbud]

22. OR back-handed insult: "If he was a good president, I wouldn't care that

he is an illiterate, retarded, coke-head, gay-hating closet gay, sadistic frat boy who only got where he is through family connections and servants following behind him cleaning up his messes.

[treestar]

23. I dislike his policies, that is not the same thing as hating him personall

personally, and I sometimes go on to ask them if they can separate personalities from issues. Can they disagree with Bush on one thing and not another? Why does it have to be either/or?

[Sparkly]

24. I say, "I hate what he's done to my country." nt

[Dinger]

25. I Have To Be Honest And Proudly Say . . .

Yup!

[booley]

27. I hate the Sin , not the Sinner

and then let them chew on that for a while.

[nuxvomica]

28. The key is how they accuse you of that

They usually say "You just hate Bush" as though all my political opinions were based on some personal animus towards him. It's the Bushista's way of avoiding debate. My response, and it is admittedly rare because the issue comes up less and less these days, is usually that I hate what he has done to our country and we can tell he's damaged it mightily cuz the only defense his supporters can muster is to attack his critics personally.

[Sugarcoated]

29. It's also how divisive his politics are

And Rove. Being treated like 'the enemy', compared to 'nazi appeasers' just for questioning . . . might have something to do with it.

[proud patriot]

31. I charge my accuser with Hate of the Constitution

The Rule of Law and the disdain for
our soldiers .

[yorkiemommie1]

32. ' You make that sound like a bad thing!'

:rofl:

[Extend a Hand]

33. of course I do. I am a sentient being.

[ozone620]

34. respond

act as if your a former rep.,fed up with the current knucleheads in power,site:debt,war,g.w. being a draft dodger,gas prices,lost civil rights,katrina-"these knuckleheads cant even tote a bag of ice down the road"the list gos on and on.....

[kentuck]

35. I try not to hate anyone...

George Bush gathers much of his support and strength from this hate, I sometimes think.

[catzies]

36. Remind them that in the 90s Clinton-hating was an industry, what with

the books and radio shows devoted to it. It's childish, but "they started it!"

[Mark E. Smith]

37. How can a true American patriot not hate George W. Bush?

Look at all the damage he has done to this great country!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

38. "Why do you LOVE Bush?"

I'll tell them why I hate him after they tell me THAT. Especially as I can counter whatever they say with the negative side, i.e. the truth.

[Bonhomme Richard]

39. And if you were a patriot you would be too. n/t

[orwell]

40. Thanks for the compliment! n/t

[sweetheart]

41. 'hate?' no, incompetence

,foolhardy wars in asia and fiscal ineptitude are cold policy by
serious opponents, not some emotional fluff i get pissed off about
on tuesdays. These bush mutherfuckers have been the enemies of
good people for a long century, and you don't want to know what
their corruption is like... its really gross, degenerate, male ignorance
glorified as knowledge... 'hate' just doesn't capture the awesome proportions
of how criminal our leadership has been in this war making.

Hate? My god man, where do you get to accusing people of works like that,
i love decent folks man, and i want this war to end in the name of decency,
in the name of the whoos in whooville, dammit. And this grinch, for all the
sick irony, hasn't grown a heart, and has ruled poorly, badly, ineptly,
incompetently, incalculably in error, squandering the opportunity of a thousand
million incarnations to return us to the pre-ww1 period of competing empires,
syllogistically resurrected as corporate entities, the plantations of olde have,
designed a new religion of slave corporatocracy, and we are born in to it, all
of us.

All of us live with the drugs war and its stupid consequences, the real things
that f uckup our lives over and over, because stupid wankers in governmetn are
really clueless as to how to lay off the sauce.

No, sir, i am a conservative, a real libertarian conservative, and bush just ain't
one of us, no sirreee. Ain't nothing i can do about that; don't really hate the man,
just don't give him the time of day, 'e ain't worth it.

[sarge43]

42. My answer has been

hate implies some respect - they're worthy of my steel. I don't hate Bush; I loathe him and what he and his ilk have done to my country and to the world.

[PresidentWar]

43. Response: "And your point is.....?"

[Mythsaje]

44. Not really a nutshell, but...

"Yes, we hate YOUR President... live with it"

For eight years we watched vicious attacks on a first family that had done nothing but try to serve the American people and bring justice to the world. Sure, they weren't perfect, but who is?

But now, while we watch what is arguably the WORST President in the history of our country shit all over our Constitution, the Geneva Convention, and everything it means to be an American, the only thing you have to say is to call us Bush haters.

Well, no shit. We've been "misled" into war, participated in the slaughter of countless civilians, sent 2500 hundred of our soldiers to the Great Beyond, practically crippled our armed forces, discovered that our President considers himself above any act of Congress, and are now being spied upon IN OUR OWN FUCKING COUNTRY while all too many people shrug and say "so what?."

What's to hate?

You people make me sick. Every one of you Bush apologists is a hypocritical gasbag of monumental proportions. If a Democratic government did 1/10 of these things, you'd be up in arms. Hell, you'd be calling for mass assassinations.

All we want is his impeachment. Clinton lied about sexual indiscretions. Bush lies about EVERYTHING. Yet you seem to consider him above reproach.

What's wrong with you people cannot be fixed. Therapy would be like a bandaid placed over a knife-wound to the belly. We used to think you were simply deluded. Maybe a bit confused.

No, I think now that you're clinically insane. Too crazy to be allowed to vote. You'd vote for a rabid pitbull if he could be taught to speak like a human being. As long as he mouthed the right catch-phrases.

Sure, maybe Bush wouldn't be a bad guy to sit down and have a beer with. But YOU would be picking up the tab. Or maybe you could just defer it to your children and grandchildren. That's the gist of his economic policy, after all. Play now, pay later.

You call us traitors because we don't like Bush?

Fuck you. Look in the goddam mirror. EVERY principle on which this country was founded is but a hurdle for this asshole to jump. He has about as much respect for America as he did for the population of New Orleans when Katrina was bearing down on them. Which is is to say... NOT THE SLIGHTEST BIT.

"America...Love it or leave it." Remember when that was thrown in the faces of those who dared to stand up to oppressive government in the past? We do. You know what? We know who REALLY hates America and all she stands for. YOU PEOPLE. Every last one of you who still think Bush walks on water and turns water into wine. Why don't YOU just get the hell on a boat and get the fuck out of our country?

We don't want you. We don't need you. And we're sick and tired of listening to your stupid excuses.

We don't care where you go. Just go somewhere where you can't fuck up our country anymore. And take your dumbass President with you. We'll even throw you a going-away party.

Bon Voyage, you stupid bastards. Write when you find work.

[Protagoras]

46. I'm a proud Bush Loather

I think Loathing encompasses something more complex than hate. Hate is shallow and reflexive and based on anger.

Loathing is distaste and revulsion for something that is clearly warped and disgusting.

Maybe that distinction is too subtle for freepers but it's one I'm comfortable with.

I do hate what he's done to our nation though.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

48. Say: "Of Course. I Don't Think Highly Of Hitler Either"

[Hamlette]

50. I say: "you just say that so you can dismiss my

complaints against what Bush has done by saying I don't matter because I'm just a Bush hater. I don't hate the guy any more than you hated Clinton. Republicans really need to stop calling people names like 'Bush hater' and start making convincing arguments about what Bush has done because, honestly, I read eveything he has said about Iraq and he has changed his mind so many times I really do not know why we went to war in Iraq. If Iraq really is necessary to keep American's safe, why did Rumsfeld send only 130K troops when ALL of his generals told him they needed at least 330,000. Instead of calling me names, tell me why Bush did not fight this war to win?"

I get called Bush hater a lot where I live. I've had time to practice. This shuts them up and they seem alittle ashamed when they walk away and the NEVER had done it to me again. Not one of them.

[Raine]

51. Damned right

I'm a Bush Hater, I've have to be stupid and crazy not to be.

[ComerPerro]

52. how about "you're damn right I am"

He is an asshole, a moron, and he is arrogant

[distantearlywarning]

53. "Yes, that's true. I loathe the man."

What's wrong with the simple truth?

[datasuspect]

54. what's not to hate

color me an evildoer

[RebelOne]

55. Why would I deny that I am a Bush hater?

I hate the SOB's guts.

[and-justice-for-all]

56. I dont HATE Bush/GOP..I just dont like'em very much.

[USA_1]

57. my reply: you're an America hater!

then I go into Bush666's record and show how that basturd is out to destroy America

[Anita Garcia]

58. I tell them I'm angry and I'm not the only one

<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2039900&mesg_id=2039900>

[Hubert Flottz]

59. I've always disliked cowardly liars and conmen.

[B Calm]

60. I tell them I hate all republicans, including Bush!!!

[Brian Stevens]

61. Here is how I respond,

simply a nice Baseball bat to the accuser's skull

[Justice Is Comin]

62. Yah I tried to resist but 200 million Americans can't be wrong.

[Raksha]

63. When I'm accused of being a Bush hater, I PROUDLY admit it!

If any explanation is necessary, I say I wasn't born hating Bush. Nor did I hate him when he was first sElected; I just thought he was an idiot. I only started hating him when it became clear he was pushing the country into an elective war, an imperialistic war based on trumped-up charges in order to get control of Iraq's oil. Since then, I've found many other reasons to hate him, but that one is still the biggie.

[ikojo]

64. Ask that person what they felt about

President Clinton from 1993 to 2000? Bush is definitely not deserving of any more respect than the rigbt wing whack jobs gave Clinton. Heck Clinton wasn't in office a month and he was attacked by the likes of Rush and Falwell. Let us not forget that Falwell used his allegedly religious show to hawk tapes alleging that Clinton was a murderer.

Just returning the respect the right showed the office holder from 1993 to 2000, is what I'd say.

[donheld]

65. What's more I'm a Cheney, Runny, Condi, etc hater too.

And for good reason too.