Well I'm watching Face the Nation this morning, and Disgrace the Nation would be a much more fitting description.
Four historians are the guests, and each is doing his best to describe our nation in terms that make the President look terrible without using one sentence that charges him with a single tangible fact.
Second terms have nearly always turned out disasterous, implying that the Bush second term is a total disaster. One historian declared that race relations were in a shambles. The compartisons of Iraq to Vietnam were numerous, each presented in a terribly negative light.
Each contributing guest is making pronouncements as if from on high, and there have been no objections from any guest to the negative comments of another. It's a pile-on fest that is presented in a manner only an elitist press outlet could.
One jerk pronounced that 09/11 was an event that wouldn't rank in the first tier of attacks from his perspective, if compared to the Revolutionary War, the Civil War or World War II.
I can't imagine a much more disgraceful presentation, lopsided against not only the President, but our nation.
You have my admiration for having the stomach to sit and listen to revisionists write history that has not happened.
As the VP amongst others frequently states in his speeches more Americans were killed on 09/11 than at Pearl Harbour. I think that makes it a first tier attack IMHO.
I've never seen it so bad... it's like watching a stupid 'reality-show'... produced by Joe Goebbels.
"One jerk pronounced that 09/11 was an event that wouldn't rank in the first tier of attacks from his perspective, if compared to the Revolutionary War, the Civil War or World War II."
I heard that and just about tossed a brick at the TV. He even included the Great Depression as a greater threat than 1/11. This guy, some author who wrote a book about George Washington, impressed me as being so full of himself--to the point of hubris. He posed his 9/11 remark as a question, including a remark about how all of Europe thinks the US "overreacted" to 9/11. I wish there had been enough time to hear others on the panel answer, for I can't believe that even most liberal rats would have agreed with him.
Remember, for those on the left, its not the nature of the evidence which counts most, its the seriousness of the charge. And this mornings MTP was another all out effort by Timmy Russert's merry band of doom and gloom journalists to paint a picture of a failed Presidency and a lost war in Iraq.
Also, John Warner needs to retire. Outside of his closing jab at Biden's presidential trial balloon, Warner's performance on MTP today was an embarassment. Where were the voices of reason from the Bush administration? Nowhere to be heard. While the President is doing a remarkable job prosecuting the WOT in Iraq, Bush&Company are still doing a lousy job of confronting their enemies here at home. What are they waiting for? Bush has the Bully Pulpit, don't let up!
What amazes me is that these "historians" see nothing "historic" in what has happened in Iraq. Free elections, a constitution, a multi-ethnic and multi-religious state . . . in the Middle East . . . nothing historic about that. Nope.
Four historians are the guests, and each is doing his best to describe our nation in terms that make the President look terrible without using one sentence that charges him with a single tangible fact.
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I heard this dialogue on the radio. What a circle you-know-what of second guessers! All they do is reinforce their own prejudices. Historians. bah!
Isn't Joseph Ellis the "distinguished" historian who told his students for almost 3 decades that he was a Vietnam veteran?