The Loneliness Of The Bush Supporting Op-Ed Writer

A sad and teensy flower bloomed this morning in America's op-ed pages that wanted nothing to do with the riotous bouquet celebrating the Obama win, nor with the dour garden of regret for John McCain and the Future Of The Republican Party. And on that lonely little flower was written an editorial by Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, who wants you to know that there's one person who has been terribly mistreated since 2004: George W. Bush. FOR SHAME AMERICA. Drag your bloated corpses out of the New Orleans floodwaters and apologize!

Here's Shapiro's opening paragraph:

Earlier this year, 12,000 people in San Francisco signed a petition in support of a proposition on a local ballot to rename an Oceanside sewage plant after George W. Bush. The proposition is only one example of the classless disrespect many Americans have shown the president.

I know! Such classless disrespect for the man whose brilliant plan of combining post-9/11 shopping sprees with wars against countries that didn't attack us has yielded precisely the sort of atmosphere of overall appeasement for which our enemies could have only hoped. Why could we not have been been respectful in our classlessness, or more classy in our disrespect.

And remember! Bush really, really, really, really, really wanted to work with Democrats!

This is the price Mr. Bush is paying for trying to work with both Democrats and Republicans. During his 2004 victory speech, the president reached out to voters who supported his opponent, John Kerry, and said, "Today, I want to speak to every person who voted for my opponent. To make this nation stronger and better, I will need your support, and I will work to earn it. I will do all I can do to deserve your trust."

Surely President Bush deserves better from Democrats, after a solid record of providing three whole sentences of lipservice to the cause of bipartisan comity! And look: Bush's approval ratings didn't tank just because Bush did a bunch of things that were largely noticeable failures. They dropped because of a nation of millions, determined to hold him back! Or as Shapiro puts it:

It seems that no matter what Mr. Bush does, he is blamed for everything. He remains despised by the left while continuously disappointing the right.

I KNOW. It's as if the person who's in charge of the country should take responsibility for his actions or something, when really, three hundred million individuals should consider whether they are the ones who are wrong!

Oh, but Shapiro waits until the end to lower the big ol' terrifying boom on all of us.

Our failure to stand by the one person who continued to stand by us has not gone unnoticed by our enemies.

Well. Fingers crossed, anyway!

Comments

[MarieFara]

Bush stood by us??? He stood by us?????

[rpr]

If you're an oil, military-industrial or bank chief he did. There must be thousands of people he stood by!

[KarlaElisa]

If somebody sees this guy, grab him. He needs to be institutionalized.

[WhiteHat]

Thank George Bush?

Iraq: up to one million innocent people dead, 2 million displaced. Trillions blown on no-bid contracts to Cheney and Bush associates. Thousands of soldiers and an unknown number of other US citizens killed. Tens of thousands of US citizens maimed. The US military run to ruin.

The economy: As the world teeters on the verge of the Second Great Depression, the government faces possible bankruptcy thanks to years of the highest spending deficits in history.

Health care, education, social services, national infrastructure, global warming, food and drug safety, emergency response capability: a fraction of our needs, little more than a gesture in most cases.

Big Brother unleashed: NSA spy systems turned on US citizens, data shared with local law enforcement. National Security Letters, warrantless searches, no-fly lists. A worldwide program of kidnapping and torture.

Due process: Suspended. No warrants, no just cause, no habeus corpus, no trial, no assumption of innocence.

Thank George Bush?

[CIH8U2]

Start packing your bags W. Time to go back to the ranch on Lonely Street!!!! ;-P

Lonely, Mister Lonely...........



WTF is up with these damm sodahead ads on huffpost...............Really. What kind of $ h!t is that????
Take 'em down.

[j0em0mma]

get Firefox plus Adblock addon and never look back

[PacificOcean]

really ... what ads?
get with the 21st century technology , folks.

[Saxton]

Bush was the pawn to the neocon's agenda to spread military dominance and secure and control the oil wells in the Middle East -- all that went to profit only a minority of people and were not in the best interest of this country. Also he played the religious right for fools by pretending to care about their issues and trying to portray himself as this "born again" political leader who found religion. Bush is a morally, ethically and spirtually corrupt human being who never was in charge of this country but was a front for Chenny and his cronnies.

[oafishcad]

Bush is not apawn to the Neocons. Bush IS a Neocon.

[DHC]

Thanks for the clarification and it is true, Bush was not used by the Neocons, he is a Neocon. People have always excused Bush. He's smarter than most people think and meaner than most people can believe. Just watch his behavior for the next 2 months.

[Colmore]

Respect must be earned. It is not a given. Bush has had EVERYTHING in his life handed to him, including the presidency. He has destroyed every job he has been given. He was never qualified for the job of president, and unfortunately we had 8 years to recognize that fact. He has "stood by us"? Yes, as the ship of state hit one iceberg after another. Poor Georgie, this job is "hard work, it's hard" He has not earned any respect from me.

[V4Vigilance]

"The [sewage plant] proposition is only one example of the classless disrespect many Americans have shown the president."

As the saying goes, "What goes around, comes around."

[KarelS]

And sewage water always seeks the lowest point.

--Joe The Plumber

[UncleSamb]

In retrospect I think that we all owe a great deal of gratitude to President Bush. Yes, it was a difficult 8 years, and we still have a long way to go to get out of the mess we are in, however Bush's epic failures laid the groundwork for Obama being elected. I'm not sure that America would have elected its first African-American President in 2008 had it not been for Bush. And, if Obama is as good a President as we hope that he will be, and if electing him helps heal the wounds of racism in this country, then 8 years of Bush may have been a worthy investment.

[Indubio]

While I'm happy Obama will shortly be sitting in the Oval Office, I'd just as soon not have two wars, a huge budget deficit, a near-wasted city, a dysfunctional government, and a wrecked economy. I seriously doubt anyone living through the Great Depression would view their discomfort a worthy investment so the nation could experience post war growth in a well regulated environment. I'm sorry, but we've got over 4000 dead Americans and tens of thousands wounded and nearly entire entire major city in ruins... 8 years of Bush will never be worth that sacrifice... at least not in my opinion.

[Briarcircle]

Would you believe "not guilty due to insanity" or "not guilty due to diminished capacity" ???
wah! wah! wah!

[Chapmanp2]

I actually feel rather sad for old Bushy boy...
Being one of the most hated people in the world can't be easy & he was a puppett.
I really do think he should have resigned a couple years back if he had actually cared about the Country. Instead they just ran a 2 year election campaign as a diversion...

[Gib]

Don't feel sorry for him, he has God on his side.

[mnkors]

Don't feel sorry for Bush; he loved his job of "enjoying himself".

Jeffrey Scott Shapiro missed military hospitals filled with young and brave whose bodies are disfigured and whose lives are shattered for the WRONG CAUSE, because the deserter wanted to be a war president.

[correctnotright]

Let's see - the President who started an unecessary war, killed more than 4 thousadn trropps, wounded more than 30K, psychologically scarred amny more, killed upwards of 500K Iraqis and caused many more to flee their own country, who created the largest budget deficit in history, who ruined the Justice dept., the FDA, the EPA, FEMA (and let New Orleans rot), cuased the worst economy since Hoover, the most corruption in history, the most stonewalling in history and has been the most partisan and least competent president in history is not respected?

Wow - what were over 75% of the American people thinking?

[MsYellowDog]

He should have remembered to thank Shrub for making of the US, "as best he could," a Banana Republic.

[davism97]

"The Prosecution of George W. Bush For Murder" by Vincent Bugliosi

[Icantbelieveher]

This is the price Mr. Bush is paying for trying to work with both Democrats and Republicans. During his 2004 victory speech, the president reached out to voters who supported his opponent, John Kerry, and said, "Today, I want to speak to every person who voted for my opponent. To make this nation stronger and better, I will need your support, and I will work to earn it. I will do all I can do to deserve your trust."

I'm sorry, Mr. Bush, but when did you do anything that helped me? And you have done nothing to deserve my trust or admiration. You have destroyed this country and I won't apologize for holding you responsible!!

[Dhammi]

From the bestselling book Three Cups of Tea - speaking is Brigadier General Bashir Baz

"Your President Bush has done a wonderful job of uniting one billion Muslims against America for the nest two hundres years."

Not exactly a legacy to be proud of I wouldn't think!