A hollow, crazed little man who finally earned something on his own.

[Cyrano]

George W. Bush has earned the hatred of the world -- not an easy accomplishment. (Especially for a man who has never before earned anything on his own in his lifetime. Looks like he finally found something he's good at.)

Yeah, he had Rove, Cheney, Rummy and others to help him, but he was the raw material they needed to attain their own ends.

How many people in history have ever been able to claim to be the "Most Hated Person in the World?" No need to ask who held that position in the 20th century. Further, I'll go out on a limb here and say that Bush is more universally hated today than even Osama Bin Laden -- quite an accomplishment.

Hatred is among the most undesirable of human traits. Many of us dislike, scorn, begrudge, look down upon, rage at, and/or are unforgiving of others. But hatred with a capital "H" is a far different thing. You can hate Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, and others from centuries past. But how many people do you really hate in your personal life? Your boss? Your mother-in-law? The guy who dented your fender? I don't believe these things to be hatred in the sense in which I'm talking about here.

Kool-aid drinkers "hate" Bill Clinton for reasons that it would be impossible for them to articulate. But I can sure as hell articulate why I hate Bush. What I hate most about him is that I expend far too much passion hating him, (that's my fault), the fact that his acts of intentional cruelty are the most despicable I've ever seen in my lifetime, and the evil that seems to so obviously reside in this otherwise empty man.

Agree, disagree, or flame away, but I'd like to hear your opinions.

[shadowknows69]

1. Spot on, no flames here

n/t

[BOSSHOG]

2. You are right about him never having earned anything

- He didn't earn the insider trading profit at harken

- He didn't earn his "honorable discharge"

- He didn't earn two presidential elections

But he has earned being hated and did so by being himself. george and barbara should be so proud.

[corkhead]

3. It could be argued that * is the most hated person in all of human history

he is hated by billions, that was not previously possible in the days before mass communication and a smaller world population.

[ShortnFiery]

4. Yes, well put.

Now his rubber-stamp republican congress will legalize TORTURE and WARRANT-LESS WIRETAPPING this week. :grr:

Please don't forget that EVERYTHING Hitler did was deemed "legal" too. :scared:

[Homer Wells]

5. I don't like the feeling of Hatred myself

but I can't seem to find anything wrong with what you have to say. * was looking for a legacy, and to be placed up with the likes of Pol Pot and Hitler is where he needs to be.
In future times, he will be the considered the Worst President, and a reminder to all of what to avoid in searching for a good candidate.

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. He is indeed in a class of his own - we can't look at him, listen to him,

just the thought of him twists the stomach and makes the head hurt. He is such an insult on so many, many levels - intellect, reason, truth, fairness, the future, the world. It is as if he is the perfect storm of all that is wrong these days.

Quite an accomplishment indeed!

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. When I think about it, compared to my HATRED of George, I don't

really hate anyone else. There were a few people I thought I "hated", my ex for one, but I realize now that I don't actually hate them. If that makes any sense at all. :shrug:

[The Deacon]

8. I Will Say, First Of All,

I am a pacifist. I have spent the last six years of my life working long hours for a humanitarian organization which prides itself on helping EVERYONE, regardless of any distinction, affected by disaster. I consider myself a Christian, one who tries to practice the religion OF Christ rather than a religion ABOUT Christ. All of these things mean that I try to avoid judging a person (judging his actions in public is something else) the idea being that, regardless of a person's actions, he/she still has an intrinsic worth as a human being.

George Bush has made me question this fundation of my belief system.

[Cyrano]

18. Don't throw away your beliefs, Deacon. Bush is the exception, not

the norm.

You know the old story of putting a countless number of monkeys at typewriters and one of them will come up with "Hamlet?" Well, I guess the same applies to what's befallen us today. A soulless being somehow, someway came to power and is mindlessly working at destroying civilization.

[ComerPerro]

9. The incredibly ironic thing about this

is that it is Bush's arrogance, his stupidity, and his general asshole demeanor that earned my hatred.

But most of all, its his laziness.


Who would have thought that his refusal to do anything even resembling work would earn him anything at all?

[twilight_sailing]

10. Well written

"Kool-aid drinkers 'hate' Bill Clinton for reasons that it would be impossible for them to articulate."

I'd go a bit further and say that the reasons that the right hates Hillary are just off the map. Ask them to explain that!

Good going, Cyrano. And don't worry, I have a big nose too. ;)

[Cyrano]

16. Hi twilight-sailing and welcome to DU.

And about the nose thing, It ain't easy to arrive someplace 1/4 of an hour after my nose gets there. (With apologies to Edmund Rostand.)

[twilight_sailing]

19. I love my nose.

What a strange sentence that is!

But I do.

The smart people in my family seem to be the ones whose noses are the biggest. It all goes back to my Grand-Dad. He ran a small town newspaper and nursed birds and the local pets back the life. All the kids in the neighborhood brought their problems to him. I couldn't do better if I lived 300 times.

[KoKo]

11. He's pitiful...and doesn't even deserve hate...it only makes him feel

stronger to know he's hated. He's really a disturbed man whose own demons he can't control so he unleased them on the world.

I agree with your rant...it's not worth hating him though. Pity would upset him more if one wanted to "channel thoughts" to him.

The rest of his crime family are just plain crooks and should be locked up if ever we can get any decent investigations.

[LeftishBrit]

12. Mostly, Brits don't feel strongly about American presidents, but

most people here really dislike and despise Bush. Total contrast to the reactions to Clinton - people sometimes joked about Monica, etc. but (if they were interested in world politics at all) respected him.

Personally, I despise Bush, but the one who inspires my real intense emotional hatred is Cheney.

[Hidden Stillness]

13. Wow, What a Wonderful Essay!

I think this really hits the nail right on the head; this is what it is. My own opinion about Bush for a few years now, is that Bush is like a pathologically selfish person who goes through life with a mirror held up to the world, saying, "It really is all me!" Also reminds me of a very witty comment I heard called in to C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" several months ago, on the Iraq war. A male caller said that if people had just known how all this (Iraq disaster) was going to turn out, they could have just given Bush, Jr. a medal saying (paraphrase from memory), like, Bush is the Greatest and Most Wonderful, and Popular, Warrior and Leader, and is Much Greater and Better Than his Father--so Bush would have been satisfied--we could've avoided the whole thing. Just give Bush an award--you really are better and greater than everyone else, blah, blah--and we might not have had all this totally neurotic warmongering for the sake of Bush's twisted psyche.

[madokie]

14. you got that right. hell I never felt the feelings of hate until the POS

came along. And I'll tell you right now I don't like this feeling either but I can't fucking help it. Just thinking about him pisses me off to no end.

[filer]

15. In my early twenties, I hated Nixon.

I hated him for continuing the needless slaughter in Vietnam. My ex and I went out for dinner to celebrate the day he resigned.

Older and hopefully wiser now, it's not any individual, not Dubya, Cheney, Rove & DeLay (I could go on and on) whom I personally despise. Rather, it's the Republican Party and its sorry supporters, the whole damned bunch of them, who have corrupted our principles and hijacked our country. We're seen as a rogue nation by the rest of the world, while at home we're neglectful to the needs of our own people.

This isn't the America I believe in. This isn't the country I love. I'm ashamed, and I hate them for it. IT'S TIME TO TAKE IT BACK!

[Cyrano]

17. I hear you, filer. "Taking our country back" is a much discussed

issue here on DU. But no matter what the post, the question still remains, "How?"

Were fair elections ever again to be held, the Republicans would be as extinct as dinasaurs. How to once again get a fair election? ... Please, please, please, let me know when someone figures it out. Right now, they're on the verge of stealing the fourth election in a row. (If we win, they're finished.)