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2006-09-14 Home Front: Politix
Bush’s Useful Idiots
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Posted by ryuge 2006-09-14 00:30|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Crude commentary. Liberalism collapsed because: the conservative economic program - against which the Clintons were powerless - is delivering, and Liberals are on the wrong side in the 230 year old "balancing" doctrine between security and liberty.

I have made numerous crime complaints to Homeland Security (and MI 5) in the past 5 years. I suspect that liberals have been making their complaints against security measures, to their local liberal rag.
Posted by Snease Shaiting3550 2006-09-14 01:11||   2006-09-14 01:11|| Front Page Top

#2 It also doesn't help to argue that LIBERTARIANISM = REGULATION/-CRATISM; LEGALISM = ANARCHISM, HONESTY/TRUTH = WAFFLE-ISM, UTOPIA = UNIVERSAL GOVERNMENTISM, and TIPTOEING THRU THE TULIPS + WAVY GRAVY = TAKING SOMEONE ELSE'S MONEY-PROPERTIES WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT. Liberalism collapsed becuz it became the evry -isms it proclaimed to hate or stand against.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-09-14 01:19||   2006-09-14 01:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Liberalism collapsed becuz it became the evry -isms it proclaimed to hate or stand against.

Pretty good, Joe. That is something I can understand.
Posted by twobyfour 2006-09-14 02:46||   2006-09-14 02:46|| Front Page Top

#4 What universe does this guy inhabit?

Essentially everything he says in the article is the polar opposite of reality.

His "liberalism" is dying a well deserved death after 230 years not because of selling out or "self censorship" but because it is and always will be an inferior meme set to others that exist.

It is the left (in their opposition to the struggle), not the right, that uses this struggle - one they logically should join, for the Islamicists would target the left first should they come to dominate - who have shamelessly politicized the WoT into a mere tool to get back into domestic power.

Orianna Fallaci is not "embarrassingly Islamophobic", it is guys like this author are embarrassingly, even dangerously, obstinate about pursuing the failed doctrine of multiculturalism in a suicidal fashion because they are so terrified to admit that they were ever wrong, even once, about anything. I get the impression that when the Islamicists take over the continent that this author will not join the struggle and have the moment of revelation that Chamberlain had in Septmeber of 1939, so dedicate is he to his multiculti religion.

The list goes on and on.....someone should get the guy who wrote this article, and those who are his ideological fellow travellers, a rubber room and straightjacket. He's literally insane.
Posted by no mo uro 2006-09-14 05:42||   2006-09-14 05:42|| Front Page Top

#5 They (the Dems) are... the canaries in the sulphurous mineshaft of modern democracy.

In his "I'm proud to be a lemming" article he has one good quote.
Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan  2006-09-14 08:19||   2006-09-14 08:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Orianna Fallaci is not "embarrassingly Islamophobic", it is guys like this author are embarrassingly, even dangerously, obstinate about pursuing the failed doctrine of multiculturalism

He is in fact a racist who agrees on dark skinned people living in heel in order for whities like him being able to show how open-minded they are.

Posted by JFM">JFM  2006-09-14 08:30||   2006-09-14 08:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Should have read "living in hell".
Posted by JFM">JFM  2006-09-14 08:31||   2006-09-14 08:31|| Front Page Top

#8 Look at the bright side - he is admitting that the liberals are abandoning ship.
Posted by Flavitle Omart7450 2006-09-14 11:47||   2006-09-14 11:47|| Front Page Top

#9 I don't know when Liberalism died but I can tell you when I realized it. Sometime during Gore/Lieberman when they had no new ideas. This was confirmed during Kerry/Edwards "I'm Rubber you're glue" campaign.
Posted by rjschwarz 2006-09-14 12:20||   2006-09-14 12:20|| Front Page Top

#10 Liberalism died? Coulda fooled me. It saturates nearly every TV show, Newspaper, media outlet, news organization you can find. Half the Country, give or take a few percentile, consistenly votes for liberals. Just yesterday, Rosie O'Fat said that 'radical' Christians were more of a threat than 'radical islam, and the audience ROARED with applause.

It's the creature that will not die. We can't kill it, but only supress it, because it's proponents do not respond to logic. The enemy is real, and it never sleeps.
Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-09-14 14:27||   2006-09-14 14:27|| Front Page Top

#11 I just love it when the liberals complain about ex-liberals and how they are vilified. I also like the anti-Israel arc that really filled out the article. I give it 7.5 or a strong C. If he used the word hegemony, imperialistic, or Capitalists running dog I might have bumped it up to a C+/B-.
Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-09-14 15:25||   2006-09-14 15:25|| Front Page Top

#12 The contradictions to which this can lead are striking. There is, for example, a blatant discrepancy between Bush’s proclaimed desire to bring democracy to the Muslim world and his refusal to intervene when the only working instances of fragile democracy in action in the whole Muslim world – in Palestine and Lebanon – were systematically ignored and then shattered by America’s Israeli ally.

This facile argument neatly ignores how the democratic process was perverted by being used to elect terrorists to office. Dressing a pig in a wedding gown doesn't make it any more appealing. Mantling Hamas or Hezbollah with the trappings of democracy does not alter one whit the repugnance their genocidal ideology. To ignore the fundamentally flawed philosophical base of terrorism in order to falsely establish some basis for Bush's putative contradictions is morally bankrupt. Straw men win no battles.
Posted by Zenster 2006-09-14 17:52||   2006-09-14 17:52|| Front Page Top

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