I admit to being very angry, livid, irate, enraged (one could use every adjective possible to describe my anger) about President Bush and his administration. This anger is not part of my normal range of emotions. I believe that I am generally peaceful and tolerant of others. Why am I so very angry at this president?
When Thomas Sowell raised the issue of why liberals tend to be angry, I seized the opportunity for some reflection.
I would have found humor in a president who has difficulty with the English language, but I doubt that it would cause me to become angry. Not would it anger me to know that the President does not read much, including newspapers, or analyze issues even if they were critically important to the world at large, e.g., global warming. Again, I most likely would tolerate these short-comings in our national leader IF he had selected competent people to do the reading, thinking, and analyzing require for competent decision-making.
My anger is attributed to the fact that he demonstrated all of the above AND selected such incompetent and biased people who impose their ideology INDEPENDENT of facts AND, in fact, everything is such a disaster in virtually every arena, i.e., I assume that if intervention is Iraq worked out as they expected, if tax cuts did not contribute significantly to our fiscal situation, if he worked successfully with Congress, I would have to reason to be angry.
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