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Title: The Intellectually Gratifying Practice of Fluffing Bush
Source: Badeye After Five
URL Source: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/viewsto ... chive/200701/COM20070126a.html
Published: Jan 29, 2007
Author: Frank SAlvato
Post Date: 2007-01-29 10:16:43 by Badeye After Five
Keywords: None
Views: 343
Comments: 12

To put it bluntly, I have little use for Bush-bashers. Their song is old and tired. Their mordantly indignant tirades serve to degrade not only the office of the president, but the intellectual stature of Americans in the eyes of the world.

While there is always room for genuine, thoughtful, intellectual debate, debate that supposes solutions over rhetoric, Americans have grown tolerant to the small-minded practice of Bush-bashing. If there is anything that reduces the image of Americans around the globe, it is the stunted, acerbic, bullhorn mentality of America's Fifth Column and those who join in their caustic idiom.

For the record, while I agree with much of what the president has proposed and accomplished, I disagree with him on some issues as well. So, for those who dwell amongst the unwashed masses of the Progressive-Left, for those of you who routinely condemn and label those of my opinion "Bush-bots," I say "talk to the hand."

I believe that not only should border security and immigration reform be approached as separate issues, they need to be approached as separate issues, border security being the priority. Where in the past most came to the United States in search of the American dream, today some among these pilgrims masquerade as such while harboring an agenda of ill will and a lust for killing Americans of all political ideologies.

In this post-9/11 age, it is incomprehensible that one of the wealthiest countries in the world and certainly the one with the most to lose doesn't have a physical delineated border and state-of-the-art border surveillance system.

While the construction of a security fence on the Southern border has commenced, it wouldn't be out of line to say that it took damn near a revolution in this country to get to this point. It cannot be stressed strongly enough; only after the borders are secure can meaningful immigration reform be effective.

I also join in the frustration that so many feel regarding the degradation of American citizenship by a majority of our elected officials. It is unconscionable that they continue to dole out "rights" to those who have broken our laws to get here.

As taxpaying citizens bear the burden of their political generosity -- and opportunism -- it is undeniable that our nation is in need of meaningful immigration reform that reflects the realities of the 21st century while also protecting the status of citizen, no matter what.

To that end, I had suggested in a previous column that those who broke the law to get here be given only one path to citizenship, a path with real economic, legal and social penalties.

Illegals should be given one choice: a) pay back taxes for the time they illegally worked here, agree to accept a felony conviction (the penalty being an extended period of probation), agree to master the English language, assimilate and forfeit the right to vote in all elections, local, state and federal, or b) be detained and summarily deported. But I digress.

Even though I disagree with President Bush on several issues, including the fact that he -- in an act of reconciliation after the 2000 election -- allowed members of the Clinton administration to stay on in key governmental roles, I do not stoop to personal attacks. I refuse to break Reagan's Rule as others of my own political affiliations have done and continue to do.

I do not cry out that Bush has betrayed the country. I don't chant "Bush lied. People died." I don't excoriate him for not clamping down on the borders, and I don't eviscerate the man because he is not clairvoyant and therefore unable to accurately see into the future where the war against radical Islamist aggression is concerned.

I refrain from attacking George W. Bush, from calling him names, from attacking his intellect and from personally degrading the man because it is the honorable, civil and right thing to do. Instead, I engage in the intellectually superior exercise of civil debate and discourse, just as I did when President Clinton was in office. Stated plainly, it is correct to honor the office, if not the man.

Taking into account the incredible events that George W. Bush has had to contend with during his presidency -- not to mention the unimaginable amount of irrational and politically cultivated hatred that has been foisted upon him and a mainstream media that facilitates it -- I find it hard to believe that either Al Gore or John Kerry could have done any better given the exact set of circumstances.

In fact, in the shadow of Harry Reid's cowardly comment that he and his congressional colleagues don't have a responsibility to engage in crafting a battle plan for victory in Iraq -- or any other battlefield in the war against radical Islamist aggression -- I would advance the notion that few could have performed as well.

Great statesmen and good politicians are measured by their accomplishments. Their stature is garnered through the advancement of solutions over rhetoric, good government over politics, not in their political longevity or the health of their political parties.

Today, there are few statesmen left in Washington, and each year, that number dwindles. We have turned away from electing statesmen like Barry Goldwater, Adlai Stevenson, Zell Miller and Henry Hyde only to saddle ourselves with the jaded political opportunism of Harry Reid, Chuck Hagel, Nancy Pelsoi, Arlen Specter and Dick Durbin.

In the post-Cultural Revolution/Social Enlightenment Era in which we find ourselves, it would appear that many among us who are unwilling to read beyond the first paragraph believe that their opinion counts for something.

As our education system and progressive "it takes a village" culture invents self-esteem for those who haven't taken the time to earn it, we see a society that, increasingly, values the "free speech" of hollow, destructive rhetoric over any semblance of civility, respect, intellect or honor.

I refuse to abandon the dignity of civil discourse for the blathering of the manufactured outrage utilized by the Bush-bashers. In the end, I am adult enough to realize that he is doing what he believes is best for the country.

And while I may disagree with his course of action on several issues, he is my president, he is our president, and the office, if not the man, deserves respect.

(Frank Salvato is managing editor of The New Media Journal.us.)

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#1. To: Badeye After Five (#0)

And while I may disagree with his course of action on several issues, he is my president, he is our president, and the office, if not the man, deserves respect.

Bullshit. Gerald Ford was an accomplished statesman. Ronald Reagan was a governor with a gift for oratory. Jimmy Carter was at least smart and accomplished before fumbling in the White House. Clinton was brilliant, if morally bankrupt...

In short, every president since WWII has had something, some form of accomplishment or skill to bring to the office, even if it failed in its promise or even if that president betrayed the trust of the people. Bush brought nothing to the office but a sense of entitlement. He is an intellectual lightweight, a failed businessman, an incurious scholar without a single notable acheivement behind him.

There was nothing in his life to boast of before he was honored with the office he did not deserve. He was prepackaged and sold to the American people with all of the Madison Avenue ruthlessness of a pack of cigarettes, and was more dangerous.

There is nothing about him or his acheivements to respect. And the fact that he occupies an office of high power is not something to respect, but to fear.

the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal bread.

bluedogtxn  posted on  2007-01-29   10:35:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Badeye After Five, Frank Salvato (#0)

Their mordantly indignant tirades serve to degrade not only the office of the president, but the intellectual stature of Americans in the eyes of the world.

what a goober. your boy bush has no responsibility for that, hmmm?

christine  posted on  2007-01-29   10:40:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: bluedogtxn (#1)

There is nothing about him or his acheivements to respect. And the fact that he occupies an office of high power is not something to respect, but to fear.

well said

christine  posted on  2007-01-29   10:41:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Badeye After Five (#0)

Wow, you've really outdone yourself with this one. I'm impressed.

I'll bet your jaw is really sore by the end of the week with all that suckin' going on.

Yeah, I'm the bluebird of happiness. What the f**k is it to you?

Esso  posted on  2007-01-29   10:45:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: christine (#3)

The guy who wrote this couldn't be serious, could he? It's got to be satire, right?

Yeah, I'm the bluebird of happiness. What the f**k is it to you?

Esso  posted on  2007-01-29   10:51:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Badeye After Five (#0)

Their mordantly indignant tirades serve to degrade not only the office of the president, but the intellectual stature of Americans in the eyes of the world.

Bush and the wingnuts have done a pretty damn good job of that all on their own without any help from the left.

Richard W.

Arete  posted on  2007-01-29   10:55:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Badeye After Five (#0)

I refuse to abandon the dignity of civil discourse for the blathering of the manufactured outrage utilized by the Bush-bashers. In the end, I am adult enough to realize that he is doing what he believes is best for the country.

What a complete moron. Even his solution for the border is one that locks us all in, rather than punishing the employers of illegals and allowing the Border Patrol to do their job by rounding up illegals.

The author is a paid shill. No doubt he had plenty to say about Clinton when he was in office.

The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people. ~Ron Paul

robin  posted on  2007-01-29   11:12:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: bluedogtxn (#1)

Yes- that is what we need- more "Respect" for Bush. Because of partisan system is just out of control crazy cutthroat- with our two whole political parties and 98 percent incumbent re-election rates - with the worst ratio of rep to population of any "democracy" in the world. Yes- if there is one thing this country needs- it is to tone down the level of partisanship. I think there were only 15 standing ovations for this President with a 28 percent approval rating at his State of Union SPeech last week. Such hatred!

Our Dear Leader needs to be afforded the due respect of an Emporer- lest our enemies- the whole world- think we are not united behind him like automatons.

So yes- we can be like John Kerry and criticize the President on the foreign policy front by saying we are hated because he isn't doing enough on AIDS and he didn't sign the Kyoto treaty. But let's recognize the limits of criticizing him of his policies as that might upset the apple cart of the parasites in the Beltway.

Great beltway rim jobbing Mr. Salvato. Hope you didn't get to many ass hairs in your teeth while writing that.

Burkeman1  posted on  2007-01-29   12:19:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Badeye After Five (#0)

I do not stoop to personal attacks

Frank Salvato: GFY

"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma K. Gandhi

angle  posted on  2007-01-29   12:42:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Badeye After Five (#0)

the office, if not the man, deserves respect.

This is funny. When Clinton was being bashed, there was very little of this rhetoric floating around.

Sweetie pie, he's not a king. If someone wants to call him a knownothing ignorant putz who's relied on family connections to achieve power and sold the country out to his friends, well, he'd be telling the truth.

Salvato sounds like a brownnosing asskisser extraordinaire.

Jeff Gannon could use a guy like him. Or Rove. Or is it Bush who's a fudgepacker?

swarthyguy  posted on  2007-01-29   14:06:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Badeye After Five (#0)

nobody's a better Bush-fluffer than you Badeye. and that takes skill, courage and persistence.

I admire that in you. (Can I ride in your hummer?)

Galatians 3:29 And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Red Jones  posted on  2007-01-29   23:04:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Badeye After Five (#0)

I don't eviscerate the man because he is not clairvoyant

God talks directly to him, or so I've heard. eviscerate him for that blasphemy.

kiki  posted on  2007-01-30   0:39:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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