[Grovenet] Hate in the USA [Was}: Kids' Health Bill

[David Morelli]

On Sep 27, 2007, at 8:05 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:

> ...
> "No, no" Trump replied. "The most hated man in America today is  
> President Bush."
>
> Ron D'Eau Claire

I suppose that Americans do form Love or Hate opinions about people  
who they have never met, and who have never actually harmed them.   
O.J. for instance.  I am angry about the appearance of injustice in  
his criminal trial, because I feel that it displays a shortcoming in  
our legal system, that money buys legal horsepower that poverty  
cannot purchase, so there is one standard of justice for the rich and  
a second one for the rest of us.  Beyond that, there are lots of  
other feelings, but not hate.  O.J. didn't kill any of my friends,  
nor did he threaten anyone I know.

On the other hand, Bush and his administration have shortchanged  
military medical services for personal friends who served and were  
injured in the Middle East.  In a conversation this week, I learned  
that a friend's child was rotating home from Iraq, and that their  
soldier was not injured when a roadside bomb destroyed their Humvee.   
Fortunately, it was properly armored, unlike the equipment that was  
originally supplied to our service personnel.  Other parent's  
children are rotating into Iraq, or are stationed there today.  They  
are in harm's way because of the way the President created this war,  
and the way that the Administration has prosecuted the war.  Does  
that deserve hate? Should the hate be directed at the person, or  
should it be directed at the behavior?

David