The Crucial Alliance--Why I stopped hating George W. Bush

TCS ^ | 10/27/2003 | MICHAEL J. TOTTEN

[Republic]

And there were people right AFTER 9/11 who tried to drive a wedge in that unification this wonderful, if imperfect, nation had.

We were one, we were in shock together, we finally understood a new and horrific reality together and we all got behind the drive to defeat this enemy where he lives.

This was an unbearable event-this oneness, this family that is our nation bound by geography and belief in freedom, bound by foundations that to this day resound a clarity of dignity and independence, to certain people who understand that the only way to win is to divide and couquer.

hillary klinton, only days after 9/11 held a headline from a newspaper up on the floor of our very senate that proclaimed "BUSH KNEW". (And she spoke to this headline, saying our President knew that horrific 9/11 attack was going to happen, insinuating that he LET it happen. Just disgusting. Imagine anyone doing that. But especially a senator. And especially THAT senator-whose own husband had neglected the threat of terror with saxophonic glee.)

In this one extremely hurtful and insidious act...she helped energize and mobilize those who fight to keep us divided along every line possible, knowing that to destroy trust in our leader would help those, who like herself, put party above their nation's security and welfare.

I will never forget hillary's actions that day. Ever. And I hope I have the opportunity someday, to tell her this to her face.

I know, fat chance.

[Republic]

I hope Howard Dean pays bigtime for calling GW the enemy.I do too. And I believe he will. (And we'll help that happen, hey? :^)

[blackie]

GWB ~ Bump!

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...Republic = CLARITY

...What the Enemy Within HILLARY CLINTON did in blaming our Commander-in-Chief for the Attacks of Sept. 11th right after the Attacks and YESTERDAY thru her Anti-U.S. Minion Gen. WESLEY CLARKE...

...is precisely what HILLARY Diane RODHAM and WILLIAM Jefferson CLINTON were doing to our Commander-in-Chief during the Vietnam War.


As I keep saying here...

the Enemy is now Within...
and always has been...
working on behalf of...
our Terrorist Enemies...
against US...
and those we hold dear.

[Wphile]

And we'll help that happen, hey? :^)

You bet! I've got a Bush Campaign meeting this evening in fact!

Oh, and a minor correction...Hillary held that paper up all right but I don't think it was days after 9/11. I think it was the following Spring when she did that. Either way, the point is the same.

[swarthyguy]

Somehow I don't think we will be informed of just how close some of the islamofascists came to pulling off more attacks in America.

No kidding! Or even the scale of attacks on that day itself.

[Republic]

ooops! I should have known, she treads in shadow, but only, like her husband, when the path has been cracked open a bit. Caution is her name, corruption is her game.

[MissAmericanPie]

"What we need is an implicit understanding that despite our disagreements we are on the same side. Because we are on the same side. Murderous fanatics are trying to kill us. Save the talk of "enemies" and "evil" for them."

This guy has no clue does he. Obviously he is incapable of seeing the implacable evil that he associates himself with. They let the entire world see what they are made of at the Wellstone funeral, and in the 2000 election, I guess this guy didn't get it.

We are not on the same side any longer, we are at the threshold of civil war against the enemy within. To equate the moral stance that Tom DeLay took against the war in the Balkins, a man that had the moral insight to know we had entered this war on the wrong side, with radical muslims and against our allies to appease France, with the obstructionism and treason that demoncrats are committing against, not only Bush, but the citizens of the United States as they make everything a partisan traitorous issue, means that this man's moral equivalency has finally gotten the best of him. He is not capable of discerning between good and evil, right and wrong.

It is all a game to them, one they must win even to the point of risking the destruction of the nation. They cannot even grasp the idea that DeLay took that action because of a real moral stand and was not playing politics. I despise them, we cannot survive with them in our midsts.

[MeekOneGOP]

[Zack Nguyen]

Your points are excellent. It sounds like leftists would prefer a smooth-talking, gabby, glib liar to a man who may fumble his diction occasionally but is a real leader. Oh wait...that's exactly what they did.

Liberals are humanists. They admire the qualities that are on the surface and make one into a celebrity. Character, work, honesty, trust - these things are too hard for them so for the most part they don't bother.

[SJackson]

This guy has no clue does he. Obviously he is incapable of seeing the implacable evil that he associates himself with. They let the entire world see what they are made of at the Wellstone funeral, and in the 2000 election, I guess this guy didn't get it.

He's coming around. I've heard it's a slow process.

[Valin]

It's a Democratic party cliché now that America needs allies in the Terror War. Of course this is true. We really do need the help of our friends, especially our allies in NATO.

Translation: France, Germany, Belgium aren't on Board.

[Valin]

United we stand,divided we fall.

Howard Dean said "we need to remember that the enemy here is George Bush."
How do you unite with people who say(and really believe) things like this? This is not your fathers democrat party, and it saddens me to say that. I'm trying to think of any one in the leadership of the democrat party that I'd trust in power for more that 8 sec.

[SJackson]

It's a Democratic party cliché now that America needs allies in the Terror War. Of course this is true....Translation: France, Germany, Belgium aren't on Board

Isn't there a saying about leaving the dance with the one you brought? Forget France and Belgium, wait till Germany changes regiemes. They're not friends, and they're not going to support us under any reasonable circumstances.

[SJackson]

we need to remember that the enemy here is George Bush...How do you unite with people who say(and really believe) things like this? This is not your fathers democrat party, and it saddens me to say that. I'm trying to think of any one in the leadership of the democrat party that I'd trust in power for more that 8 sec.

Confront it. I don't think America believes that and it can be used for political advantage. But the time to do it is now, when GWB can paint the dem9 with it, not next summer when it's last years (and maybe the wrong candidates) news. I'm not sure the "people" are disunited at all. You're reacting to the unity of the far left faction of the dems.

[Bob J]

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[HitmanLV]

Oh, I noticed it. The fact that he has 'stopped hating' Bush is good, but it doesn't undo the fact that he prefers the mindset he speaks of.

Indeed, I don't think the article suggests that he stopped feeling those things. Rather, it suggests that as a legacy of the 9-11 and war on terror, he 'stopped hating' the president.

It's still clear to me anyway what he really thinks.

[Valin]

Forget France and Belgium, wait till Germany changes regiemes. They're not friends, and they're not going to support us under any reasonable circumstances.

I had another F-word in mind. and it's not foie-gras.

[Sabertooth]

Dissent is the responsibility of the opposition. But this responsibility must be wielded responsibly. Those who argued that regime-change in Iraq would make us more vulnerable to terrorism were misguided, in my view, but were sincerely trying to help. The same goes for those who say we need to send in more troops. Some responsible critics supported the war, while others did not. What unites them is the hope that we'll win. That's the sort of opposition we need.

This is true of both inter and intra-party conflict.

[The Shrew]

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