I guess this shouldn’t come as a shock to me, but I’m fairly certain that Dave has Bush Derangement Syndrome. He reminds me of all of those idiot conservatives who went on and on about moving to Canada if Clinton won re-election.
Anything out of the man’s mouth was greeted with invective and anger. It never really made sense to me. Now we’re seeing it to an even greater degree from the other side of the aisle with respect to President Bush. The difference in severity likely has it’s roots in the fact that Bush is a lot less centrist than Clinton was but I don’t think it’s any less silly or irrational. Take this run of Twitter updates from Dave.
9:47 :: Number of times I’ve said “fuck you” during the Bush press conference: 181.
9:50 :: 287
10:01 :: 1,297
10:04 :: 1,508
10:09 :: 4,743
10:21 :: I had to turn off the press conference. All the foul language was bumming me out.
The anger doesn’t shock me. After all, listening to someone you hate say things you disagree with and being powerless to respond can produce anger in anyone. What’s more disappointing, though, is that Dave was either a) so mad or b) so proud of his anger that he had to twitter how many times he hurled foul language at his television set.
I think we should have left screaming “fuck you” at people we didn’t like back in junior high school.