Paul Waldman’s article published on Nov. 11 in The American Prospect is a great case study in BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome). He’s euphoric that President Bush is about to leave the White House because it is apparent that he has a deep hatred and irrational emotions toward this man…
Goodbye, we can say at last, to the most powerful man in the world being such a ridiculous buffoon, incapable of stringing together two coherent sentences. Goodbye to cringing with dread every time our president steps onto the world stage, sure he’ll say or do something to embarrass us all. Goodbye to being represented by a man who embodies everything our enemies want the people of the world to believe about America — that we are ignorant, cruel, and only care about foreign countries when we decide to stomp on them. Goodbye to his giggle, and his shoulder shake, and his nicknames. Goodbye to a president who talks to us like we’re a nation of fourth-graders.
BDS patients’ #1 complaint about our president? He’s dumb, “a ridiculous buffoon,” and incoherent. Be reminded that in any argument when a party starts calling names, it’s more than likely that he has ran out of intelligent things to say (or he isn’t very smart at all). Mr. Waldman goes further in insulting President Bush’s body language and gestures. Hmmm, this may be a severe case of BDS.
And I beg to differ about America’s reputation among foreign countries. So maybe Russia, France, and China think we are ignorant and cruel, but they are not the world. We are loved in the former Soviet bloc because these nations understand tyranny as they overthrew communism. We are loved in Israel because that’s the only nation in the world surrounded by enemies and America helps defend the Jewish state. We are loved by the Japanese because we helped defend them, rebuild their economy, and buy their products. We are loved by many all over the world. Otherwise, how do you explain the millions of legal and illegal immigrants?
Goodbye, indeed, to the entire band of liars and crooks and thieves who have so sullied the federal government that belongs to us all. We can even say goodbye to those who have already gone, to Rummy and Scooter, to Fredo and Rove, tornados of misery left in their wake.
Liars, crooks, and thieves. President-elect Obama, with his past and present associations with radicals like Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers, and criminals like Tony Rezko, probably wouldn’t be granted security clearance had he not been elected. I do like Waldman’s use of “tornados of misery” though — quite a penmanship.
Goodbye to the Bush Doctrine of preemptive war. Goodbye to the lust for sending off other people’s sons and daughters to fight and kill and die just to show your daddy you’re a real man. Goodbye to playing dress-up in flight suits, goodbye to strutting and posing and desperate sexual insecurity as a driver of American foreign policy. Goodbye to the neocons, so sinister and deluded they beg us all to become fevered conspiracy theorists. Goodbye to Guantanamo and its kangaroo courts. Goodbye to the use of torture as official U.S. government policy, and goodbye to the immoral ghouls who think you can rename it “enhanced interrogation techniques” and render it any less monstrous.
Just one question to ask Mr. Waldman: Have you been safe, going about your business, in the seven years since Sept. 11, 2001? You are able to write an opinion piece criticizing the president and his administration because of the Bush Doctrine, brave American troops, and the information extracted from torturing terrorists. Please don’t be an unappreciative child.
Goodbye to James Dobson and a host of radical clerics picking up the phone and hearing someone in the White House on the other end. Goodbye to the most consequential decisions being made on the basis of one man’s “gut,” a gut that proved so wrong so often. Goodbye to the contempt for evidence, to the scorn for intellect and book learnin’, to the relentless war on science itself as a means of understanding the world.
Mr. Waldman ran out of bad things to say about President Bush, so he’ll badmouth James Dobson and “radical clerics.” Speaking of radical clerics, what’s happening with Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Father Pfleger, Barack Obama’s religious buddies?
So that concludes the case study of a BDS sufferer. Can it be cured? Why, yes we can! Come January there will be a prescription for higher taxes, nationalized health care, social programs, and more to cure BDS.
