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By Dr. Marcus Goldman | Bio
I have been getting a lot of political hate mail lately. My support of the President is apparently worthy of attack. That is not to say that the hate-mailers do not have solid, albeit multiple, disconnected points. According to the hate gospel, I am both a religious zealot and Godless heathen, a gay-lover and a homophobe, a racist, a fascist, an extremist, an imperialist, an apologist, a hate-maker...everything short of a candlestick maker. I am apparently both sheepishly politically and foolishly grammatically incorrect. I am a Lincoln apologist and a hater of freedom. I over-intellectualize but epitomize stupidity and simplicity. Hate-mailers find me paranoid and conspiratorial but also neurotic and naive. In perhaps the most stinging of indictments, I was most recently accused of never having read Aesop’s fables. It is not true, but gosh it still hurts. Sometimes menacing, often laced with profanity and religious epithets, political hate mail seeks not to challenge or inform, but to defame, intimidate and dampen first amendment rights. While my wish is to respond to each and every hateful letter individually, sadly, the time commitment I have made to the international brotherhood of conspiratorial Jewish cabalists simply will not permit it. What to do? What if I answer the long-winded rambling hateful message with five, or less, simple, easy to understand words?
1)
“The President is stupid”: Not Nietzsche but a Truman 2)
“The war in Iraq was about lining the pockets of the President and his
henchmen”: They do not need money 3)
“The President is a religious fanatic who has betrayed those of other
religions”: Not one forced conversion 4)
“John Kerry is superior to the President in every way”: Privileged Senator
without leadership skills 5)
“The President’s obsession with the power grab goes way back”: Spent life
without presidential aspirations 6)
“Bush has turned the country into a police state”: Where are all the police?
7)
“Bush’s Patriot Act is a shameful example of fascism”: Court order
mandated for surveillance 8)
“Bush’s religious zealotry has empowered Evangelical Christians to
proselytize”: First amendment is for everyone 9)
“The President has violated constitutionally mandated separation of church and
state”: Appears nowhere in the constitution 10)
“The war in Iraq was about oil”: Cheaper to buy from Russia 11)
“The President stole the Florida election”: Multiple recounts determined
Bush winner 12)
“The radical justices on the Supreme court were in Bush’s back pocket in the
2000 election”: 7-2 to reverse Florida Supremes 13)
“There are no weapons of mass destruction”: Few are being reported on 14) “Bush compares favorably to Hitler”: Hitler slaughtered 13 million people 15)
“Michael Moore is not a propagandist”: Moore’s Fahrenheit rivals
Riefenstahl’s “Triumph.” 16)
“Bush stifles dissent and free speech”: Hollywood’s elites seem strangely
unaffected 17)
“The President has alienated us from the rest of the civilized world”: We
are the civilized world 18)
“The United Nations should be more involved in our affairs”: Syria should
oversee our country 19)
“The President purposefully lied about Iraq‘s weapons of mass
destruction”: ...And risk reelection? 20)
“Abu Ghraib ‘horrors’ stained our national reputation and were the worst
sort of terrorism imaginable”: Nick Berg’s head sawed off 21)
“Bush is in the back pocket of the National Rifle Association and torpedoes
gun control”: Will sign assault weapons ban. 22)
The President has driven this economy into the ground”: Economy has survived
three wars 23)
“The Bush administration is corrupt”: Democrats don’t demand special
prosecutor 24)
“Bush conspired to let Bin Ladens leave the country after 9/11”: Approved by
Bush’s enemy, Clarke 25)
“Bush has betrayed the Palestinian cause and crushed their hopes for their own
country:” Yet another failed Arab state? 26)
“Bush ignores Israel’s weapons of mass destruction while condemning North
Korea”: Israel never threatens their use 27)
“Bush is a egotistical war monger who looks for any excuse to wage war”:
Iran and Syria are next 28)
“Bush hates gays”: Clinton opposed gay marriage too 29) “Why can’t we just listen to France? They are so reasonable.”: Sharon urges French Jewish Exodus 30)
“Bush’s war on terror is nothing more than fear mongering”: Paul
Johnson’s head sawed off 31)
“Bush is no friend of the Jews”: Stands between us and terror 32)
“The threat to our liberty is George Bush, not radical Islam”: They are
coming for us Marcus J. Goldman, MD is a psychiatrist and author of "The Joy of Fatherhood". His work has appeared in The Washington Times, Tech Central Station and The Boston Herald. Dr. Goldman is a Guest Writer for The Daily Cannon, OpinionEditorials.com, PoliticalUSA, NewsWithViews.com and WebCommentary.
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