...as you can see my pledge to "drink & pray" instead of pontificating on the contentious issues of the day was short-lived. Ah well. But thank God for Britain's work in stopping today's terrorist plot. Scary. And while on the subject, I received this from Ann Coulter via email (sent to millions):
As some of us have been trying to tell you, Democrats don't oppose the war on terrorism because they hate Bush: They hate Bush because he is fighting the war on terrorism. They would hate him for fighting terrorists even if he had a "D" after his name. They would hate Bernie Sanders if he were fighting a war on terrorism. In the past three decades, there have been more legitimate sightings of Big Foot than of "Scoop Jackson Democrats."Color me skeptical. Most of the BMMIS ('Bush Made Me Insane Syndrome') victims seem to have been Bush-haters long before 9/11. No doubt W's first "mistake" was not winning the 2000 election by a wider margin. It's hard to underestimate the anger of the Left for Bush after what they considered a "stolen" election.
Personal Exhibits - admittedly anecdotal - but here you go. I received the following email - before the election - from a college student (October 2000):
Let me just say that I can't sleep at night b cause people like you live in this country. I shake in fear because I know that you are going to elect that pleasantly disposed Simpleton-George W. Bush- as President.In June of 2001 a co-worker sent me this Joe Conason piece:
Knocking the wind out of a self-righteous windbag is always healthy fun, especially when the windbag happens to be an authority figure like the president of the United States. Sometimes, however, the impulse to deflate also injures innocent bystanders such as Jenna and Barbara Bush -- whose moralizing pappy must be mortified by their recent booze busts. Unfortunately for the Bushes, their fellow citizens have a right to know that the first family will be held to the same rules imposed on the rest of us. The necessity for a single standard is greater still when those rules were imposed by the president himself. Yet conservative commentators, in a sudden display of tender concern for victims of tabloid journalism, are urging reporters to stop picking on the Bush twins.Can you feel the love? Two weeks after 9/11 another co-worker was already greatly disturbed at Bush's security measures:
If we're really at war (which I still find inherently debatable since we don't even really know who we're at war with yet), then why wouldn't we immediately revoke all student visas and work visas for all non-Americans (or maybe just those from the country/group that we're at war against)? Doesn't it seem odd that our government's first desire is to increase its ability to spy on its citizens (and visitors) ... e.g., more than it wants to get potential terrorists out of the country?In late September 2001, Mark Stehl in the UK Telegraph wrote this (which was obviously well before Iraq):
So, as bipartisan "unity" begins to fray and the peace vigils multiply, Bush will need the support of the uncomplicatedly patriotic types you find in towns such as Warren, New Hampshire...Which suggests the post 9/11 "honeymoon" that Bush experienced lasted about as long as most actual honeymoons - a week or two - and which also suggests that most had an animus against him long before Afghanistan and Iraq.
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