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Joseph A. Palermo

Joseph A. Palermo

Posted: September 21, 2007 10:39 AM

Bush Smears "Democrat Party"


The current President of the United States has so much contempt for the opposition party that he refuses to refer to it by its rightful name.

In 2000 he talked up being a "uniter" and "reaching across the aisle" and "working with Democrats" as he claimed to have done in Texas. But as with everything else we've had to endure from the Decider, it was all a pack of lies thrown our way for partisan advantage.

A real president represents all Americans, not just those from his party, or those who might have been duped into voting for him. A real president understands that he must be able to speak to those Americans who do not agree with him.

He has never been the "president" of the United States, but the "president" of the Republican Party. I cannot believe this sorry specimen, this paramecium, serves in the same office as did Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He isn't worthy of cleaning FDR's bidet. Yet he sneers at the party of Roosevelt, calling it the "Democrat Party," a demeaning, disrespectful twist on the party's name cooked up by the Frank Luntz/Karl Rove smear machine.

George Walker Bush has stolen two elections, lied us into a disastrous war, turned our former allies against us, and tarnished our standing in the eyes of the world. He consciously uses smear tactics that were thought to have died with Joseph McCarthy.

Moveon.org's "General Betray Us" newspaper advertisement did not say anything derogatory about the U.S. military; on the contrary, it wished to sound the alarm to its fellow citizens that this president is abusing the military. The ad pointed out the truth that General David Patraeus was doing the bidding of the current resident of the White House to perpetuate the war, not presenting an unbiased report from the field.

Once again, Bush has shown his utter contempt for the office he holds. He is not our president but the president of the right wing of the Republican Party. Advocates of impeachment have known all along that unless and until Bush is removed from office the nation is in peril.

 
 
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Joseph A. Palermo
Author/Historian
11:29 AM on 09/24/2007
The issue with calling the Democratic Party the "Democrat" party has nothing to do with the current crop of Democratic leaders -- when Bush uses that smear he is smearing the party that goes back to Andrew Jackson, through Woodrow Wilson, to FDR and JFK and LBJ and even Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton -- in other words, it's a smear against a major American political institution showing he has no respect for American institutions. Democrats should just call the Rebublican Party the "Republic" party and see them yell and scream about it.
01:27 PM on 09/25/2007
As a proud member of the Republic Party, I heartily concur.
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realitytrumpsbull
two 'alves of coconut!
11:43 PM on 09/21/2007
I think that, sometimes, it's better to use fewer words to get your point across. Example:
"I think that impeachment of Bush and the rest of this administration is a wise choice, and I recommend it." Short, sweet, simple, to the point, easy to understand. Going off on a tangent, blar blar de blar, newspaper ad, blar blar blar, something or other blar blar, kind of just confuses the basic statement of the piece.

You can pick your reason for supporting impeachment, there are several, but if'n you really mean it, and stuff, sign on to ye olde
impeachmente websyte, there....

www.impeachbush.org

Or, go drink beer and hope it all works out...
04:56 PM on 09/21/2007
Earth to Progressives!!!!!!!!!!

Helloo-o-o!

Anybody inside your collective empty skull!?

So, after tanking in poll after poll for two years, losing Congress mid-term, and you think Bush & the Constitutional Wrecking Krewe don't KNOW that the vast majority of Americans (what is it now, 70%?) don't agree with them on Iraq and are fast becoming disillusioned with the rest of their agenda?

You think voters signing up for a newsletter in droves, or even signing up for the Democratic Party in droves matters to them?

You think criticism , no, castigation from virtually every distinguished academic and scientific organization means anything to them?

You think being abandoned by all our former world allies embarrasses them and gives them pause?

You don't think they KNOW at least 51% of Americans IF they were religious, would probably think he has the 666 birthmark under his hair?

They know it!

And they couldn't care less!

Who was it so succinctly revealed the nekkid emperor on live TV saying, " George Bush doesn't care about black people"?

Get a clue, y'all! He doesn't care about white people,either!

He DOESN'T CARE ABOUT AMERICANS! HE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT AMERICA!

He doesn't care one whit what you or I or even the Republican Party thinks, and he'll do everything he can possibly do, and even stuff he legally can't do, to push his self-serving mass-delusional religio-fascist ideals until the last second he leaves office.

He's just not into all that. He's above it all, doing God's will, which is basically whatever his corporate cronies tell him to do.

Want to send a message this crowd gets?

Support a Buy Nothing day. Or, maybe a Buy Nothing Week. Hit them in the pocketbook. It's the only thing they respect.

It sure the hell worked in the 1960's for civil rights. Lots of bigots might not have agreed that blacks needed rights, but they sure did need their business. Boycotts bought instant respect and instant policy change, like nothing else.
03:27 PM on 09/21/2007
Why is it that every time 'progressives', and I use the term very loosely, make lists as WayBeyondBlue above, the top of the list is the ignorance of the American public?

Doesn't it dawn on you that by insulting the majority, as you put it, the effectiveness of your point is lost?

I'm sorry, I just have a problem taking anything a 'progressive' says seriously when the first thing he does is insult me and the second thing he does is want me to pay for his health care, education, housing, internet access, ..... the list is endless
02:52 PM on 09/21/2007
Back to the topic at hand, Bush and his
arch enemy, his 'bête noire' if you will,
the 'Democrat Party', there's this from
the New Yorker.

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/08/07/060807ta_talk_hertzberg

I remember Bob Dole using the phrase to annoy,
in a rural, down-home, irritating sort of way.
Hey, it seems to work.

As they say, 'Illigitimatus non carborundum est!'
02:36 PM on 09/21/2007
Listen up, whiners! You used to be the "Democratic Party", but through your constant obsequious, effete namby-pamby reactions to the Republicans during the last 7 years, you have denigrated yourselves to being the "Democrat Party".

Just like when General Patton (George Scott) got mad at his bull terrier William, he said "Your name isn't William, it's Willie!"
jhNY
Mercy.
01:42 PM on 09/21/2007
And you just figured that out? It's hard reading tales of innocent surprise written by grown-ups because it requires I believe you really are taken aback by the fact that a liar is lying and has been all along. Newsflash: he's going to lie again tomorrow.
01:04 PM on 09/21/2007
IT'S "PETRAEUS."
02:00 PM on 09/21/2007
potato potahto. he's a chess peice used by a person who hasnt mastered checkers.
12:10 PM on 09/21/2007
Don't forget that he failed on 9/11 and he failed in New Orleans.

He has cost the United States huge sums of money, respect and lives.
11:43 AM on 09/21/2007
You are right-the current occupant of the WH-will go down in history as one of the most ill-bred,ill-mannered,pigheaded in history. The mispununciations, the nicknames all point to a man who is stunted emotionally. I think GW fancies himself as the king bully of the schoolyard and cannot deal with reality.
11:33 AM on 09/21/2007
Wallowing in the political cesspool of fear and smear is all Bush has left. This should not surprise us; it has been obvious since about 2003 to most of us (before that for some of us) that Bush's "government" is a travesty, that even the illusion that was America is no longer being maintained. The guy is a carnie, plain and simple. President Carnie.

However. The fact that we knew this, that we watched as

1 - inflamatory propaganda ignited a well-meaning, but undereducated and underinformed "majority",

2 - evidence came out which supported the conclusion that Ohio was stolen in 2004, and furthermore that 2006 was tampered,

3 - Libby walked,

4 - subpoenas are ignored,

5 - Habeas Corpus was revoked,

6 - the Iraq debacle was proved to be All About Money

7 - bla bla bla bla bla bla bla

proves that Bush is in fact the President of all of us. He is the President of The Weak, the Stupid. The President of Fat Dumb and Happy.

So pipe it, pal, and pass me the fries.
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charlietuna11
11:25 AM on 09/21/2007
WHEN A PRESIDENT IS SWORN INTO OFFICE,THEY TAKE AN OATH TO UPHOLD OUR CONSTITUTION.IS THERE ANY ONE OUT THERE WHO FEELS THE DECIDER HAS HONORED THAT VOW?
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RickO
Musician, Atheist
11:24 AM on 09/21/2007
One of the best ways to show that we Dems (or our friends of any party who oppose this administration) cannot be shouted down, and will not be cowed by Conress' feckless condemnations, is simply to go out to MoveOn.org and sign up to get their politely unintrusive email updates. Sure, it comes from a position that is in stark contrast to the right wing, but the conventional wisdom wants to be that MoveOn made a fatal error. Wouldn't it be great if the impact of the attacks on MoveOn was to swell its membership? Even if you can't contribute a few busk, you can still be part of it, part of us, and make a difference. That's really how democracy works.
11:09 AM on 09/21/2007
the best way to teach bush a lesson is to go directly to moveon.org and open your wallet. if you have five bucks, give that.

lets send bush, the gop and the weaker democrats a message they wont soon forget.
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mommadona
I paint. I blog. Therefore, I am.
11:29 AM on 09/21/2007
The best way to teach Bush is to confront him like a very angry mother in righteous anger mode spouting facts and the truth.

Just like Cindy Sheehan did.
12:20 PM on 09/21/2007
ok that is better. but most of us will have to settle by voting with our wallets. thats the thing about the "free market" the fascists can be buried using their own tactics. five dollars here and there will start a stampeed. the ao-called blue dog democrats are terrifed of the goperverts' supporters. we need to show them something even scarier- a huge budget.
11:07 AM on 09/21/2007
How true Sir: You have perfectly described our current Liar-in-Chief.