Posted on 09/28/2014 2:34:42 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Big, busy Morning Jolt to close out the week — an appalling failure of immigration law enforcement, an indictment in that long-forgotten GSA conference scandal, another trip down memory lane for a beloved prematurely-canceled television show, and then this glaring change in our national politics:
Funeral Services for the Anti-War Movement Will Be Held Next Week
Howard Kurtz writes the obituary of the anti-war movement. Born in 2003, the movement experienced sudden difficulties in January 2009, struggled and limped along for the past few years, and finally collapsed in the street in front of the White House least week:
Medea Benjamin of Code Pink was asked why so few on the left oppose Obama. “‘He’s totally defanged us,’ she said, citing his party, his affability — and his race. ‘The black community is traditionally the most antiwar community in this country. He’s defanged that sentiment within the black community, or certainly voicing that sentiment.’”
Defanged. Wow, those are damning words.
Andrew Sullivan, a conservative who largely became an Obama booster, is equally incredulous:
“The way in which Obama supporters have lamely acquiesced to this reckless war fomented by a dangerous executive power-grab is more than a little depressing. It strikes me as uncomfortably close to pure partisanship. I can’t imagine them downplaying the folly of this if a Republican president were in charge.”
As Joe Weisenthal noted, Democrats largely abandoned the antiwar movement the moment Obama took office:
Commander Salamander, back in 2011: “There never was an anti-war movement. Deep down, I think – most of us knew that anyway. It was an anti-Bush movement. War had nothing to do with it – it was all about the Left finding a way to regain power.”
Right!
Always a bunch of communist front organizations the lure in well intentioned housewives and students.
They are decidedly PRO-Palestinian War today.
“Those are our planes now!”
CPUSA endorsed Barack Obama, they’re stuck with him!
That is how I saw it.
As someone who participated in many “Support the Troops” types of counter-demonstrations and rallies from about 2004 up until last year, I can tell you that the anti-war protests have fallen off the face of the earth, and it isn’t because Obama is half-black or half-white or whatever.
It is because he is a liberal democrat...period.
And that simple fact tells you all you need to know about both liberals and democrats.
I used to grit my teeth as I drove through Concord, MA (of all places) and had to look at the anti-war protesters marching in their stupid circles on a rotary.
Then, after 2009, they have largely disappeared. I think I have seen them ONCE since then.
Funny, that.
Remember there have always been Patriots mixed in with the Tories.
bump
"The issue is never the issue. The issue is the revolution."
--David Horowitz, quoting unnamed SDS leader.
The part that amazes me and always will, is that the Justice Department knew who the traitors were - the ones that traveled back and forth to Hanoi and Pyongyang and Moscow, the ones who were funding the “actions”, the people who ran communications networks, safehouses, couriers, and they above all knew who the bombers, the shooters, the killers were but they never did a thing about it. Nothing.
Jimmy Carter didn’t want to prosecute traitors or draft dodgers.
See Sheehan, Cindy.
And I hated that bast**rd from that moment on.
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