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A new low in Bush-hatred
--by Jeff Jacoby
Monday, September 11, 2006
"Six years into the Bush administration, are there any new depths to which the Bush-haters can sink? ...On Air America Radio, talk show host Randi Rhodes recommended doing to Bush what Michael Corleone, in "The Godfather, Part II," does to his brother. "Like Fredo," she said, "somebody ought to take him out fishing and phuw!" -- then she imitated the sound of a gunshot. In the Guardian, a leading British daily, columnist Charlie Brooker issued a plea: "John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr. -- where are you now that we need you?" "
"As with other kinds of porn, even the most graphic expressions of Bush-hatred tend to jade those who gorge on it, so that they crave ever more explicit material to achieve the same effect."
"This is Bush-hatred as a snuff film. The fantasies it feeds are grotesque and obscene; to pander to such fantasies is to rip at boundary-markers that are indispensable to civilized society. That such a movie could not only be made but lionized at an international film festival is a mark not of sophistication, but of a sickness in modern life that should alarm conservatives and liberals alike."
PERSONAL NOTE: As was stated to me rather matter-of-factly a couple weeks ago, presidents do not get special deferment of criticism simply because they are presidents; for decades comedians have poked fun at the president, but where do we as a nation draw the line? It's one thing to poke fun at the president, it's quite another to fantasize about assassinating him. It's one thing to call him a liar, a chimp, a terrorist, a war criminal, but it's quite another to applaud a film that depicts the assassination of a living, sitting president. Based on democratic outrage over ABC's 'The Path to 9/11', and their overt and shameless efforts to censor criticism of a previous democratic administration, how would democrats prosecute their opposition to a film depicting the assassination of a democratic president... Say, President William Jefferson Clinton? Anyone with even a modicum of intellectual honestly knows the answer.
The simple fact is, hatred of George W. Bush has hamstrung the Left's credibility. My previous post speaks to the consequences of that hatred... Hypocrisy... Cowardice. And G-d help us all if democrats take over in the fall. You think it's bad now, just wait till Speaker Nancy Pelosi is sworn in. You think the ideological divide is bad now, just wait till democrats destroy all comity in Washington... And across the blighted plain.
If there was ever a good reason to vote republican, the hypocrisy, cowardice, and moral bankruptcy of the Left is certainly it.
from the mind of... Eric | 10:03 AM
21 Comments:
You say that as if there isn't hypocrisy, cowardice, and moral bankruptcy on the Right.
The facts are, I think, that there is an increasing number of citizens who think that the sins of the Right are worse than the sins of the Dems (I hesitate to call them "Left," because they're fairly centrist). The Dems have loads of problems, without a doubt.
I think we'll find this fall that a majority of us think the Republicans are worse (widespread election fraud, notwithstanding).
And a few months after that, Dan, a large number of those centrists will rue the day they trusted a modern Democrat!
Sorry, Dan... "The Second Rule of Politics: All races tighten."
One Last Thing | Congress races look less certain for Democrats
Things aren't looking so rosy for Dems.
Ted Kennedy is not a centrist. Neither is Kerry. Neither is Pelosi. Neither is Reid. Durbin. Yada, yada, yada. Especially Dean! Neither is the lunatic fringe on the Democratic left-- That's who's really running things now in the democratic party...
I had an absolute screaming fit last night when I saw a segment about some movie that depicts the assassination of the president -- not a fictional president, but Dubya. The producers, who I don't think are American, should have their passports pulled.
Hey, I hate the policies of this president. I do not hate the man. Fact is, only on the extreme Left do people who are used to hating actually hate the man.
Sorta like on the extreme Right are the only people who approve of torture, secretly and not so secretly want to see us nuke Iran, and would rather have a feckless president defend his own version and interpretation of the country rather than actually live up to his oath of office and protect and defend the Constitution.
What is the real reason the left hates the right? The right stands for the Sanctity of Life and of Marriage and for the Christian values this country was founded on. That's why the left hates the right. The left stands for the murder of unborn children, men marrying men, condoms in grade school, and a purge of all that is Christian in this country
Don't forget that this is a spiritual war.
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." Ephesians 6:12
"The left stands for the murder of unborn children, men marrying men, condoms in grade school, and a purge of all that is Christian in this country"
Holy cow! You've uncovered our secret plot. But at least you didn't know about us wanting to eat all the puppies and kicking grannies...
I can feel the horns growing on my head now.
LOL. Sorry. I actually did laugh out loud at Ms. Green's comment. What a hoot.
She reduces spiritual warfare to American politics, the likes of which will be the first to burn off when we're all ultimately refined. I'd be ashamed.
I am compelled, utterly *compelled,* to add my own non-substantive, glib and self-indulgent observation. "John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr. -- where are you now that we need you?" Yes, the names of characters who attacked great or revered presidents. Guiteau and Czolgosz they do not cite. Ergo, Bush is a great and/or revered president. Quod erat demonstratum.
J
For those unfamiliar with Jack's reference... Charles Julius Guiteau was President Garfields assassin, and Leon Frank Czolgosz was President McKinley's assassin.
Thanks for that, Jack, but tell me [cause I don't have time right now to search] what party affiliation did Garfield and McKinley have?
"The right stands for the Sanctity of Life and of Marriage and for the Christian values this country was founded on." Ms. Green
You can laugh, mock, smirk all you fanct to, boys, but the fact remains--and CANNOT be disputed--the right DOES stand for those things!
And the left mocks that stand!
Look around you, ER and Dan, and see who's standing next to you! Look at the tactics they use--the words they spout.
Proud to be counted among them?
I'll say I'm very proud to stand alongside my fellow conservative bloggers and self-propelled (don't you love that?)activists who understand the threat we face not only from islamofascism, but from a moonbat Democratic-controlled government!
YIKES!
The Rebel Battle-flag may once again fly on the battlefields of America, after all!
YeeeeEEEEEHAW!
sigh...I'll hate myself for doing this but:
D, I stand for Sanctity of Life, for Marriage, for most of the values on which our nation was founded (not slavery, of course, nor wealthy white men only having the vote, but generally). As do ALL my friends which you call "left." To a person.
We go to church. Marry. Bear children and raise them in Godly ways. We go to Sunday School and study the Bible. We pray.
We ask God for forgiveness, get saved and are baptized, as do our children. We dress modestly and, for the most part, are all tea-totallers and non-smokers. We clean up after ourselves and seldom use off-color language.
Clean in mind, body and spirit.
Demonization of the other side does not help matters.
The Right stands for the sanctity of life -- ONLY if it's "unborn." Manage to get born and you're ON YOUR OWN.
The Right stands for the sanctity of marriage, if it's done exactly as they, in their Godlike wisdom, define it, touting the Bible and their blind adherence to it, which requires NO THOUGHT and NO HEART. The Right stands, likewise, for divorce, judging by the numbers from my beloved Southland itself.
The Right stands for Old Testament Judaism, ignoring the example and the words of the Savior they pretend to worship.
Pshaw. The Right. Stands. For. Itself. And pretends to bow at Jesus's feet when they have him locked up, bound and gagged and tied to a chair in a back room of a thousand whited sepulchers.
It's easy to mock such stands. They invite it. They deserve it.
Nuke a baby Palestinian in Jesus's name!
Torture a prisoner is Jesus's name!
Rend the Constitution in Bush's name!
War against the world in Jesus's name!
I hold my nose and stand with whom I stand on the Left, which has its extremes. What I'm PROUD of is that I don't stand with the Right, which has extremes that are far, far worse.
Dan---and all the while you stand with those whose hatred is gushing from their very pores!
ER, it's a fantasy world you live in. Your accusations towards conservatives are baseless and you know it. History has shown, continues to show, and will always show that conservatives are for people bettering themselves with the encouragement and help from others. It (history) likewise shows the division, immorality, and poverty that leftist views promise and deliver!
Wake up and smell the dandelions, dude!
You misread the Left because you have not eyes to see. I misread the Right for the same reason.
Either we both admit there is good, and bad, on both ends of the spectrum, and that we choose the way we choose because we prayerfully and honestly believe it is the way to go -- or just shut up. I'm tired of being attacked, and then being attacked again when I defend myself. I am wide awake. You are, too. You just want to HATE -- and you do a damn good job of it.
El?
"You just want to HATE -- and you do a damn good job of it."
You are stuck on yourself, ER. I've been saying it for months.
I avoid responding to you because all I can do is draw attention to the fact that you think so much of your misguided self.
Sanctimonious? You bet!
Anyone with even half a brain can read the two of us and see who is the hater of the pair.
Your attitude towards those of us on the right is condescending and hateful--that is undeniable when measured against the truth of your words and your tone.
You can call me a hater all you want. It doesn't take away from your own words which prove to anyone who reads them that you are a hateful, concieted, mixed-up tare (not among the wheat--but among other tares)!
If I had to describe you in one word, it would be: IMMATURE!
In two? IMMATURE and SANCTIMONIOUS!
And your own words back me up!
(Okay, little guy, you are now free to spout your hatred towards me and lie about me as you've done so many times in the past)
I've avoided (for the most part) responding to your piousness, recently. No more! I will meet your high opinion of yourself with revelation of your insignificance every time I encounter you!
ER, Kiss my Grits!
Re, "I will meet your high opinion of yourself with revelation of your insignificance every time I encounter you!"
LOL. Just take yer meds and summer down, paw-paw.
Shoot, we're not ironclads passin' in the night. We're robots. I'm Rock 'em and yer Sock 'em.
And you know what you can kiss: Me, right square on my left cheek. I'll be glad to turn the other one.
EL, you should probably get rid of all these comments, too, since they contradict one another and some verge on being unnice. Pbht.
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