Posted on 12/02/2003 12:11:07 AM PST by nickcarraway
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:17:35 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
IT might be best for President Bush's opponents to drop the subject of his Thanksgiving trip to Baghdad. The more they talk about it, the longer it will remain in the public eye - which will only benefit Bush. But some on the increasingly loony Left just can't help themselves, because their compulsion to rant and rave and spew conspiracy theories overwhelms any practical political common sense they may once have possessed. On the Web site Counterpunch, edited by the veteran leftist journalist Alexander Cockburn, a man named Wayne Madsen announced on Saturday in a piece called "Wag the Turkey" that the whole trip was a fraud because he had figured out the president actually landed in Baghdad at 5:30 a.m. on Thursday. "Our military men and women," Madsen complained, "were downing turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie and non-alcoholic beer at a time when most people would be eating eggs, bacon, grits, home fries and toast."
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Yes, when they fail to convince the moderate and independent voters than Bush sprouts horns and a barbed tail when they peel the makeup off. They are relying, or a$$uming an exact repeat of Vietnam. What they forget (and they of all people should be the last to forget this) is that with Vietnam, it took hundreds of casualties per week, plus various scandals, assasinations, and the fact that Nixon already was withdrawing ground troops before the majority of Americans agreed with Cronkite that 'the war is not winable' and supported a ceasefire and negotiations. Fat chance this time, Dumbocrats!
You know, he really is the right one to lead us in this War on Terror. After all, he wore a REAL uniform and suffered REAL wounds. Plus, he is the ONLY one who's got hands-on practical experience with foreign policy and international security. His Clarkness Speaks
The proverbial nail in the coffin will be August's GOP convention in NYC. The Mumia/Village Voice/Michael Moore/nose-ring crowd are ALREADY plotting their massive hate carnival as we speak.
It will be a complete leftist/communist freak show, with all liberal soccer moms and dads far, far away; and the whole mess will be covered non-stop for the world by a slobbering media desperate for theater and drama.
The amount of votes this will gain for Bush will be incalculable.
Not to mention perjury before a grand jury by the Chief US Law Enforcement Officer, subornation of perjury, obstruction of justice, and the use of thugs like Lenzner or Palladino for enforcement. In my mind, these actions that led to impeachment, possible removal from office, and a promised (but not consummated) congressional censure does not equate to inserting 16 words into a State of the Union speech that suggested Saddam had sought to buy yellowcake uranium on a particular occasion from Niger.
The intelligence may have been dubious, which is the nature of the beast, but Saddam had previously made such purchases from other African nations. Many of Democrat charges against Bush spring from this episode. Ironically, the sloppiest "intelligence" of all was performed by Joe Wilson as recounted in his NY Times op ed piece.
The often insightful John Podhoretz has had this problem before: He seems to need to construct some sort of moral equivalence. For instance, on July 23 this year he wrote that "Honest conservatives and Republicans will admit that they felt a certain disappointment that the economy did not cave in after Bill Clinton raised taxes in 1993."
I disputed this revisionist attempt at equivalence at the time since most of us with investments cheered the rising markets that followed (and put our money where are mouths were) to such an extent that the Fed chairman warned of "irrational exuberance" as the Dow pushed past 6,000 in December 1995. At the time, the rise was attributed (more properly in my view) to the public's perception that a Republican-controlled Congress would exercise greater fiscal restraint than did previous Democrat Congresses.
Unlike the anti-Bush crowd, the anti-Clinton folks have not resorted to factual fantasies to describe a president's behavior, in part because the liberal "mainstream" press would not have allowed them to get away with it. Podhoretz needs to take a deep breath and contemplate what he has asserted.
The question is, how could Madsen have spun so demented a tale, WITH IMPUNITY?
There's definitely a different kind of hatred going on here. I hated Clinton. 'Still do, but it mainly is born of seeing that his liberalness was going to perpetuate victimhood, poverty, and political enslavement, in other words, I disagreed with his ideology.
Clinton's tenure only served to prove what I had believed, he never let me down, much less embarrass me or threaten the very essence of what I believed in. Hatred of Bush is more visceral for the very reason that the Left's most sacrosanct tenets have been exposed as not only wrong but dangerous in the extreme.
Almost everything that has happened in Bush's short tenure has been a very public repudiation of leftist dogma, their hatred then, is born of fear of extinction and therefore much more virulent than ours was.
Look for this hatred to increase.
Slightly off-topic, but I'm sick to death of the story that he was impeached because of his private sex life.
He was impeached because he tried to infringe on the rights of a fellow American, seeking justice in a sexual harrassement suit, by lying under oath before a Federal Judge.
I personally don't care if he was screwing monkeys, although I would certainly have preferred it if he had not done so in the Oval Office.
'Zackly.
The hatred of W is just their need for power and taking our rights from us. There are no concrete arguments from the left only accusation of lying and deceipt which cannot be verified. The lies of the clintons were verified over and over and over. To them politics is their reason for being, where we believe a smaller govt brings a better life.
Pray for W and the Truth
"Well stated" BUMP!!!
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