To: Tom Clarke who wrote (60748 ) 8/16/2004 8:13:37 AM From: Tom Clarke Respond to Hating Daddypowerlineblog.com It comes down to this: Bush-haters hate him because he is everything they have been taught to hate: he’s straight-laced, rich, white, middle-aged and proud of it (or at least he reveals no evidence that he yearns for his lost youth in the form of, say, sucking up to rock stars and other celebrities, which is the politician’s version of buying a sports car or acquiring a cute young mistress), “unintellectual” (he never references Hegel or goes into calculated reminiscences of his many college-era all-nighters at the coffee bar arguing over the relative merits of the latest French novel while atonal jazz played in the background), was a jock in college (and being on the college rugby team doesn’t give him enough “funny foreign sport” points), traditional (instead of responding to attacks on the nation with kewl new “international law” style tricks he just called out the guns – boring!), and so on. In other words, he is Fifties Dad™, that horror in blue serge that is every Baby Boomer’s nightmare. Why, I’ll bet if you tried to talk to him about rad new indie bands like Death Cab For Cutie he’d just come back with some sort of lame crack like “Where do they come up with names like that?” and then he’d put on the country music station, but not the cool one that plays Steve Earle but the dull one that plays Marty Robbins. Could you imagine Dubya playing sax on MTV? Or even conceiving of a desire to do so? No you could not. Bush is a square, man. He’s from Dullsville and if we don’t watch out he’ll turn us all into a nation of plain-dressed, plain-spoken, action-taking instead of talk-making, duty-performing, patriotic bores.twistedspinster.com
