Our level of hate/disrespepct

[daddybear]

The very fact that there are such Boards with such hateful attitudes - added to the hour by hour discontent of this nation under Bush's regime - show the division that Bush alone has created for the U.S. and world citizenry. The genuine distaste (outright hate in many instances) that the world feels for Bush should awaken ALL to the knowledge that we either rid ourselves of him -- or we deserve the genuine disaster that WILL continue for 4 more years... then we as a nation will be so weak, we will do well to even catch a breath, let alone have sense enough to vote a REAL man (or woman)in.
Bush bred hate from the first day he sat down in a stolen oval office. And it grows daily.
May God have mercy. May satan be defeated again, but, this time, not be able to buy his way into office!

[Jack_Dawson]

1. Now write some letters

and call some people in the pink states. :toast:

[daddybear]

2. You're backing up....

hahaha... if you're waiting on me... I have BEEN doing that! You do it, too! Delete Bush from that stolen office!

[Bandit]

3. Bush* didn't create the hatred but he has increased it

I put a large portion of the blame on Rush Limbaugh and his ilk. The hatred has been brewing for over a decade. Reagan did away with the "Fairness doctrine" and that gave them unfettered access to the airwaves and we know the rest up to date. I fear it is only going to get worse. Hatred can not be preached daily without consequence.

[daddybear]

4. Perhaps...

but Bush was the one who was going to be the great healer of all this division. RIGHT! I repeat NEVER has this country (in 63 years I know of anyway) been so divided against a supposedly "leader". I say supposedly because, currently, the U.S. does not have one... just a resident commode.

[coalition_unwilling]

5. NEVER has this country (in 63 years I know of anyway)been so divided ???

I'm wondering how this compares to the Vietnam years, either early stages or latter stages. I was just a little boy then, so can't really remember. I would say that, right now, it feels like there's a low-grade civil war going on here; the Manichean rhetoric of "With us or with the terrorists (freedeom fighters)" may inevitably produce that type of result.

[daddybear]

6. It would seem....

that is where Bush wants to lead us. He did not serve, so he wants to look like a "war resident"l... so he starts his little war and kills thousands for the sport of it... and he comes ut smelling like a rose because of the Repub's wanting political power kept under them...no matter who (or in Bush's case, "what") is in the oval office chair.

[coalition_unwilling]

7. Does the current polarization seem worse to you than during Vietnam?

I was too young then to have any but the most fleeting memories of the climate. Didn't really start becoming politically aware until the Nixon\McGovern election of '72.

[daddybear]

9. Yes, it does...

there was a REASON for Vietnam war... there was NO reason for attacking Iraq... Saddam may be a trophy, but Osama was the culprit... we got hit by neighbor on the right, could not find him, so we slapped our neighbor on the left (metaphorically speaking)... makes NO real sense.

[KoKo]

10. It's much worse than Vietnam. I wasn't afraid then. America was a more

polite place, then. This is different. Not that there wasn't hate then and racial strife. But, now people don't even try to hide their feelings "just to keep peace." Also, friends and family out in America could talk about Vietnam and disagree. I never lost a friend over my being against Vietnam...but I've lost friends and family over Bush's stealing of an election, the hatred of Faux and the RW and now over the Invasion of Iraq.

We weren't hammerd with hate media 24/7 during Vietnam, either. And that's the biggest difference. It's the media spewing hate and agitating folks. We only had three networks and they tried to stay to the "middle" with ABC being the upstart which tended toward younger and more liberal, (believe it or not). Their news teams weren't in the business of selling hate. And the programming was geared to family or silly sitcoms and nature and kids shows.

[Qanisqineq]

11. did you hear Al Franken yesterday?

He was talking to an old friend of his/ Rush Limbaugh fan. He was getting pretty hot under the collar about the "poison" that Rush puts out over the air daily. I agree completely, it is poison coming from Rush and Savage (I've never listened to Hannity, but I imagine he's the same).

[Generator]

8. I've been thinking that if Bush was a head CEO

of a company, and this reviled, he would be asked to resign. How can you lead the world if the world doesn't respect you? I watched the Rose Garden appearance yesterday and it was literally laugh-out loud funny. I know how serious it is, but damn, that man tells the truth about nothing! " I tried diplomacy, diplomacy failed." "I know what's going on in Iraq because the Prime Minister tells me it's so"

Republicans you are all going to be losers either on election day or someday in the very near future when the true shame of this misadminstration and your desperate clinging to a man unfit for office comes to light.