Tuesday, March 25, 2008

W - The President

I'm in the library right now doing some work and I'm wearing one of my, "W - The President" baseball caps. The one I'm wearing now is the less "obnoxious" one; it's black and says, "W" on the front and, "The President" on the back. I bought it during the 2004 election, when I was helping with the Bush campaign.

My other "W" hat says, "W - STILL the President," on it. I bought that one after Bush won. It was a, "Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah, we won!" hat. I wore it for Purim that first year and got maybe one look in shul.

Right now, I'm getting tons of them. Every person who walks by is eying me like I'm a child of the devil.

I know I'm one of the last remaining few who still likes Dubya. Especially here in Democrat-blue-country California. I haven't looked at his popularity ratings in a while, but I know they're in the dregs.

They are better than Olmert's, though that's not saying much. I picked up a copy of, "The Jewish Journal," today, a truly awful excuse for a newspaper here in LA put out by the Jewish Federation, and on the cover it announced, "OLMERT'S APPROVAL RATING GOES UP -- TO 3%"

But Olmert truly deserves his ratings. He's a terrible Prime Minister. Bush, however... If I were to say this aloud I'd likely be stoned with rotten vegetables, but he really hasn't done such a bad job as President. That's just a fact.

But people don't care about facts when it comes to Bush. They just plain hate him. "He's dumb and evil!" they declare. "Bush is today's Hitler!" liberals scream.

How is it that everyone has forgotten Saddam Hussein? How he gassed and tortured his own people? Does that sound familiar to anyone else?

And then everyone whines and cries about Bush going into Iraq. Forget the fact that he went in with Congressional approval so every member of Congress who voted to go to war is just as liable as him; how can any Jewish person in the world not rejoice in the downfall of Saddam Hussein, the mini-Hitler of our time?

Or, since Purim just passed, the true Haman of our time. Didn't anyone else see the picture of Jewish U.S. troops celebrating Purim in the palace of Saddam Hussein, of cursed memory?

Jewish philosophy teaches that it's our job to take the sparks of negative energy into the world and turn them into sparks of positive, G-dly energy. If celebrating Purim in Saddam Hussein's palace isn't flipping the evil sparks of Saddam's reign onto their collective backs, throwing them into G-dliness, I don't know what is.

How can a Jew still hate Bush, seeing this? Seriously; I know I have readers who dislike Bush -- explain it to me!

5 comments:

  1. The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles is an independent newspaper and Web site and has no relationship with the Federation.

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  2. The Jewish Journal is an independent, community-funded, non-profit organization unaffiliated with the Jewish Federation or any other group. The paper is distributed free on newsstands around LA and free on the Internets @ JewishJournal.com

    Have a nice day.

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  3. Thanks for the correction, Anonymous & JewishJournal.com. Has it always been an independent paper? I could have sworn that it used to be supported by the Jewish Federation...

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  4. Oh, yes.

    There was a time when a certain % of your Federation contribution went to The Journal but those days are long gone.

    We are an independent community-supported paper now; we distribute free copies all around L.A. at shuls, stores, schools, libraries, etc. and we're free online.

    We also sell mail subscriptions for out of town and overseas and you can pay to have a new issue delivered to your door locally.

    Shabbat Shalom!

    Dennis Wilen,
    Web Director
    JewishJournal.com

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  5. um on dubya....he lied to the country about the reasons for going to war...he lied about virtually every aspect of selling the war....he continues to ally himself with dictators on par with saddam...he entered with a budget surplus and will leave next january with the country on the brink if not already in a recession....he continues to fund a losing war on drugs...he hasnt finished off afganistan yet...etc etc.

    with love

    remb

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