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Why?
Sandra
Hartle
11/26/2003
Festering
hatred seems to be the tone of today's society. It is very
difficult for me to understand why anyone would waste a minute of
their time hating someone else. It has even become
acceptable behavior in politics it appears. I tune into
Crossfire on CNN daily, and cannot believe the vile accusations
that comes flying out of the mouths of James Carville, and Paul Begala.
Now maybe it is my age, but I can remember a time when this was not
considered acceptable behavior, and certainly not the kind of behavior
you would expect from a News Commentator, or Analyst on International
Television programming.
There
was a time in my life when I felt sorry for myself, but one day I woke
up and said that as long as I felt contempt for the behavior of
others, I would not do anything with my own life. I suddenly
realized that the person or person's I held in contempt, actually had
more control over me while I was away from them, than when they
actually had control over my life. So I said no more, and
they stopped living in my head rent free.
I
spend about an hour a day reading websites that are on the
internet. I can't take much more than that because if what I am
reading is and indicator of how people in this country really feel and
act toward each other then we are in more trouble as a nation than I
previously thought.
Some
statements made by Paul Begala for instance are so filled with venom
it is impossible to take him seriously.
From the CNN Transcripts:
PAUL BEGALA, CO-HOST: It is always great when our commander in
chief visits our troops. Tragically, though, yet another American
was killed in Iraq not long after the president left. The question
is, when will the Bush team give us a strategy for victory on the
ground, rather than just P.R. victories on the airwaves?
But, first, the best political briefing in television, our CROSSFIRE
"Political Alert."
President Bush's surprise trip to Baghdad was, even in my eyes,
wonderful. And so my hat is off to him. Congratulations, Mr.
President. Mr. Bush spent only about 2 1/2 hours on the ground in
Baghdad, but he had time to meet with Ahmad Chalabi, a member of
the Iraqi Governing Council and a former Iraqi exile who was
reported to be especially close to the Bush-Cheney team.
And Chalabi had told "The New York Times" that a handover
of power is planned for not next year, driven not by America's
national security interests, but by Mr. Bush's reelection campaign
-- quote -- "The whole thing was set" up, Chalabi said,
"so President Bush could come to the airport in October for a
ceremony to congratulate the new Iraqi government. When you work
backwards from that, you understand the dates the Americans were
insisting on."
Of course everything
Mr. Begala has stated here flies in the face of what President
Bush said in his speech, but let us not be confused with facts, let us
instead run on raw hatred. And this hatred spreads around like
the flu. Every single website that has a liberal editor is
running on about how hated President Bush is by most of the American
public, which of course has absolutely no validity, but I suppose if
said often enough someone just might start believing it.
Yesterday on Townhall.com,
Charles Krauthammer published an
article called Bush
Derangement Syndrome,
which pretty much sums up
the problem we are going to face in the 2004 election.
I
have run across two different websites and several message boards that
are calling for a tanking of the economy with a what the poster is
calling a black out on making purchases. They hate Bush so
much they would see our economy
fail, and their fellow citizens continue to be without jobs, a
similar post from the same individual was posted on the official DNC
blog. It is becoming a serious problem for those of the left.
Last
week there were multiple articles written on several sites but
originating with an article on the Drudge Report, about the "Hate
Bush Gathering" in Hollywood.
But
it is even deeper than that. There are people online today
that are still angry over things that happened up to two years
ago. They open sites just to complain about other members of
different groups, especially if the members are
conservatives. It is a growing phenomena on the web,
and it seems that everything goes for these people. They
will do whatever they can to shut down conservative talk sites, and
complain constantly about their freedoms being taken by this
administration. Who is taking who's freedom's away?
Sandra Hartle
Email: sandrahartle@juntosociety.com
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