If you have been reading us for any length of time, you know that we used to make fun of “Dubya” nearly every day…parroting the same comedic bits we heard in our Democrat circles, where Bush is still, to this day, lampooned as a chimp, a bumbling idiot, and a poor, clumsy public speaker.
Oh, how we RAILED against Bush in 2000Â…and how we RAILED against the surge in support Bush received post-9/11 when he went to Ground Zero and stood there with his bullhorn in the ruins on that hideous day.
We were convinced that ANYONE who was president would have done what Bush did, and would have set that right tone of leadership in the wake of that disaster. President Gore, President Perot, President Nader, you name it. ANYONE, we assumed, would have filled that role perfectly.
Well, we told you before how much the current president, Dr. Utopia, made us realize just how wrong we were about Bush. We shudder to think what Dr. Utopia would have done post-9/11. He would have not gone there with a bullhorn and struck that right tone. More likely than not, he would have been his usual fey, apologetic self and waxed professorially about how evil America is and how justified Muslims are for attacking us, with a sidebar on how good the attacks were because they would humble us.
Honestly, we donÂ’t think President Gore would have been much better that day. The world needed George W. Bush, his bullhorn, and his indominable spirit that dayÂ…and we will forever be grateful to this man for that.
As we will always be grateful for what George and Laura Bush did this week, with no media attention, when they very quietly went to Ft. Hood and met personally with the families of the victims of this terrorist attack.
I read to the end, half expecting the worst. But no, the comments are worth the time. Sanity has reared its head, and the hope that we as Americans will come together and prevail against the current horror that presides in the White House and Congress is greatly strengthened. That blog post has made my day.
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wow. just wow. they get it
Posted by: Frank G ||
11/11/2009 16:07 Comments ||
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Yup now that they don't dare ridicule THEIR man it's all forgiven.
HELL NO IT'S NOT FORGIVEN you put down a man ten times Super Zero's caliber, and for that , you'll PAY.
Just look at the way the MSM is ignored today, that's the payback.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
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Redneck Jim, hillbuzz is the blog for Hillary Clinton supporters who were sufficiently pissed at the slimy tactics Obama used to win the nomination that they came out in support of McCain in the general election.
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I certainly didn't always agree w/W but I never questioned that deep down he was a genuine good dude. He didn't have to photo-op like the Boy Wonder does now. I remember him hugging that girl that lost her dad at 9/11, a sincere gesture, not some b.s. night show appearance like Pee-Wee does so often now.
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I miss him immensely. No one ever had to tell him to console or go to war. He did what he was supposed to ALL THE TIME. He never dissed queens or led democracies on the wrong path, and as a President, I did not have to expect anything unless he was not fiddeling with a war.
What I have now is the nanny fool wohm has never done any amount of human reasoning since stalin was in power and that was before his birthdate. It is a wall. An impenetrable wall of idiocy.
I have no respect for man, but the child that has been elected has less than anything.
My troops need help and choppers. An easy decision to make if you planned on becoming commander in chief. You no study, you no respect. Me Fu(& you long time commander in chief.
What right-wing, teabagger-loving neoracist traitor to the party wrote these "fishy" half-truths and distortions:
...this rigid, intrusive and grotesquely expensive bill is a nightmare. Holy Hygeia, why can't my fellow Democrats see that the creation of another huge, inefficient federal bureaucracy would slow and disrupt the delivery of basic healthcare and subject us all to a labyrinthine mass of incompetent, unaccountable petty dictators? Massively expanding the number of healthcare consumers without making due provision for the production of more healthcare providers means that we're hurtling toward a staggering logjam of de facto rationing. Steel yourself for the deafening screams from the careerist professional class of limousine liberals when they get stranded for hours in the jammed, jostling anterooms of doctors' offices. They'll probably try to hire Caribbean nannies as ringers to do the waiting for them.
A second issue souring me on this bill is its failure to include the most common-sense clause to increase competition and drive down prices: portability of health insurance across state lines. What covert business interests is the Democratic leadership protecting by stopping consumers from shopping for policies nationwide? Finally, no healthcare bill is worth the paper it's printed on when the authors ostentatiously exempt themselves from its rules. The solipsistic members of Congress want us peons to be ground up in the communal machine, while they themselves gambol on in the flowering meadow of their own lavish federal health plan. Hypocrites! Click through for the answer. It will shock you!
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Eh?
She knew they were into all that when she voted for 'em, she went ahead and put her brain cells on the shelf in the fridge and voted for them anyway.
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Steel yourself for the deafening screams from the careerist professional class of limousine liberals when they get stranded for hours in the jammed, jostling anterooms of doctors' offices.
No they won't. The top 15% will do what they always do [to include the congresscritters and their families], hop a plane/junket to an off shore location and get quality medical care. It's just screwing the other 70% below them with in even less care and access all in the name of the bottom 15% that makes their little ugly pseudo moralistic hearts feel good.
Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan demonstrated many things when he allegedly committed treason in the war on terror. For starters, he showed -- gratuitously alas -- that evil is still thriving.
He demonstrated that being a trained psychiatrist provides no immunity to ancient hatreds and religious fanaticism, nor does psychiatric training provide much acuity in spotting such things in others. For example, the London Telegraph reports that, in what was supposed to be a medical lecture, Hassan instead gave an hourlong briefing on the Koran, explaining to colleagues at Walter Reed Army Medical Center that nonbelievers should be beheaded, have boiling oil poured down their throats and set on fire.
His fellow psychiatrists completely missed this "red flag" -- a suddenly popular euphemism for incandescently obvious evidence this man had no place in the U.S. Army.
He proved how lacking our domestic security system is. According to ABC News, intelligence agencies were aware for months that Hasan had tried to contact Al Qaeda. His colleagues reportedly knew he sympathized with suicide bombings and attacks on U.S. troops abroad, and one colleague said Hasan was pleased by an attack on an Army recruiting office and suggested more of the same might be desirable. That's treason, even if you're a Muslim.
Which raises the most troubling revelation: For a very large number of people, the idea that he is a Muslim fanatic, motivated by other Muslim fanatics, was -- at least initially -- too terrible to contemplate. How else to explain the reflexive insistence after the attack that the real culprit was "post-traumatic stress disorder"? The fact that PTSD is usually diagnosed in people who've been through trauma (hence the word "post"), and that Hasan had never in fact seen combat, didn't seem to matter much.
Apparently the "P" in PTSD can now stand for "pre."
A few months ago, an anti-Semitic old nut named James von Brunn allegedly took a gun to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to get payback against "the Jews" and killed a black security guard in the process.
In response to this horrific crime, the leading lights of American liberalism knew who was to blame: Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and the GOP. One writer for the Huffington Post put it succinctly: "Thank you very much Karl Rove and your minions."
The fact that Von Brunn was a 9/11 "truther" who railed against capitalism, neocons and the Bush administration didn't matter. Nor did the glaring lack of evidence that Rove
et al ever showed antipathy for the museum. It was simply obvious that Von Brunn was the offspring of the "right-wing extremism [that] is being systematically fed by the conservative media and political establishment," wrote columnist Paul Krugman.
If only Hasan was a fan of Glenn Beck!
President Obama was right when he said, in the early hours after the shooting, that people shouldn't "jump to conclusions" (a lesson he might have learned when he jumped to the wrong conclusion about a white cop who arrested Henry Louis Gates, a black Harvard professor). But just as we should not jump to conclusions, we shouldn't jump away from them.
Despite reports that Hasan had shouted "Allahu Akbar" as he opened fire, MSNBC's Chris Matthews insisted that "we may never know if religion was a factor at Ft. Hood." Thursday night, NBC and CBS refrained from even reporting the man's name. Meanwhile, ABC's Martha Raddatz's reporting on the subject reflected a yearning for denial: "As for the suspect, Nadal Hasan, as one officer's wife told me, 'I wish his name was Smith.' "
We have a real problem when much of the political and journalistic establishment is eager to jump to the conclusion that peaceful political opponents are in league with violent extremists, but is terrified to consider the possibility that violent extremists really are violent extremists if doing so means calling attention to the fact that they are Muslims.
I am more sympathetic toward this reluctance to state the truth of the matter than some of my colleagues on the right. There is a powerful case to be made that Islamic extremism is not some fringe phenomena but part of the mainstream of Islamic life around the world. And yet, to work from that assumption might make the assumption all the more self-fulfilling. If we act as if "Islam is the problem," as some say, we will guarantee that Islam will become the problem. But outright denial, like we are seeing today, is surely not the beginning of wisdom either.
I have no remedy for the challenge we face. But I do take some solace in George Orwell's observation that "to see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."
Posted by: Fred ||
11/11/2009 00:00 ||
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A collective refusal to face reality made 9/11 possible, and those attitudes persist. Jihad and the whole 'death to infidels' idea complex ARE parts of Islam, whether or not any given Muslim subscribes or not.
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No too soon for me - Iowahawk is brilliant...he's not trivializing the deaths of our soldiers, he's totally lambasting & irreverently mocking the craven parrots in the MSM who choose to avoid the elephant in the room...
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thx Broadhead - I hoped the point wouldn't get buried. I'm an insensitive cynical A-hole by nature (but with a golden heart, I swear)...so I can never judge if others are ready for my sh*t...
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Wait a minute, was young part of Crosby stills and nash?
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