To Hate-Mailers:
In Bush’s Defense in Five Words or Less
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.