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Bush Confounded by the 'Unacceptable'
President Wields Word More Freely as His Frustration Rises and His Influence Ebbs

By R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 13, 2006; Page A10

President Bush finds the world around him increasingly "unacceptable."

In speeches, statements and news conferences this year, the president has repeatedly declared a range of problems "unacceptable," including rising health costs, immigrants who live outside the law, North Korea's claimed nuclear test, genocide in Sudan and Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Bush's decision to lay down blunt new markers about the things he deems intolerable comes at an odd time, a phase of his presidency in which all manner of circumstances are not bending to his will: national security setbacks in North Korea and Iraq, a Congress that has shrugged its shoulders at his top domestic initiatives, a favorability rating mired below 40 percent.

But a survey of transcripts from Bush's public remarks over the past seven years shows the president's worsening political predicament has actually stoked, rather than diminished, his desire to proclaim what he cannot abide. Some presidential scholars and psychologists describe the trend as a signpost of Bush's rising frustration with his declining influence.

Truly, it takes the arrogance of a Liberal to come to a conclusion such as the one to which this world reknown intellectual "heavy-weight" Jeffrey Smith has. It proves just how lacking of a moral compass most Liberals are. The very idea that President Bush could stick to his belief of the rights and wrongs in this world in the face of declining poll numbers seems to completely escape Mr. Smith...and Liberals.

Hey Jeff, it called character. It's honed by standing fast in the face of adversity...something you would know little about. The great American William Penn once wrote,

"Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it."

The sad but all too true fact is that Liberals, like Mr. Smith, rarely find anything "unacceptable" except patriotism, free markets, and free people. For most American, there are moral absolutes. For most Americans there are the "good" (that which is to be embraced), the "tolerable" (that which is not necessarily desirable, but which nonetheless must be permitted), and the "bad" (that which is "unacceptable"). Americans "get it" even it the "esteemed" members of the Paleo-media and our self-proclaimed intellectual illuminati fail to do so.

Terrorism is "unacceptable." Having a totalitarian, anti-social, enemy regieme in possession of nuclear weapons, is "unacceptable." Having a nation like North Korea, in which the very citizens are being starved and in which any dissidents are placed into concentration camps, is "unacceptable." The massive incursion of illegal immigrants and the resultant negative impact on our economy, is "unacceptable." The rise in medical costs, mainly as a result of ill-conceived government incurrsions into the world of socialized medicine, is "unacceptable."

I too find myself finding many things occurring within and outside of our nation "unacceptable." Most Americans do. It is only those who hate our society and freedom who find these things acceptable.

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