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Love it or Leave it, Girlie Man
It seems to me that the whole point of a political convention is to celebrate a party’s candidate. How pathetic that there’s so little that’s positive to say about the current Republican president/candidate that, in order to make him look appealing, it’s necessary to tear down the opponent by enlisting a turncoat Democrat and the vice president to present a series of outright lies, half truths and exaggerations.
What good can be said about a bumbling fool who can’t speak with intelligence about anything, who goes on vacation for a month while supposedly running a completely unjustified war, who gives huge tax breaks to his top supporters at the expense of the rest of the country, whose obvious contempt for those who aren’t his supporters drives every policy decision that “he” makes.
Not much.
So the Republicans resort to petty name-calling: “girlie man,” “disingenuous,” “liar,” “traitor,” “flip-flopper.” There’s something wrong when the level of discourse at a political convention drops to the level of a steroid-popping body builder calling his coke-snorting, failed CEO candidate’s critics “girlie men” and eliciting huge cheers.
Don’t see the president’s tax cuts as the panacea that we need? You’re a girlie man. Don’t agree with the war in Iraq? Traitor. Make a film critical of the regime, oops, administration? Disingenuous (never mind that the term may be more accurately applied to the film’s subject).
There is no room for dissent in George W. Bush’s Amerika. This is God’s Country, so you better love it or leave it, and you sure as hell better not question His leadership.
09/03/04 10:20AM Politics
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