Blogging Against the Right: An Unfortunate Necessity

This just about sums it up:

This is what I hate about blogging. The premise that the troops hate Obama is so stupid that it is laughable, but you have to push back. Yet, the moment you push back, you are now engaging the idiots like Red State and Uncle Jimbo as if they have something legitimate to say. Really, the only response is to just mock these morons.

Not that I “hate” doing it; I think it’s amusing to read about how the loony wingers think.  But yes, their point of view is so detached from reality that to give it any sort of public platform is a disservice to anyone who reads it with the intent of learning something.

Anti-Obama Paranoia Already in Full Swing

This is just too ridiculous not to post:

Who can stop the Obama agenda? Only an unprecedented idea-based Resistance from freedom-loving citizens can prevent the full implementation of Obama’s march to the Left. That’s why Grassfire.org is seeking to identify and mobilize grassroots citizens who will join “The Resistance”- an alliance of patriotic, resilient and determined conservatives who will not forsake their principles. Our goal? One million citizens joining together by Inauguration Day, January 20, 2009.

The whole website is just a joke.  The bold red menacing letters at the top say “Obama’s Nation Has Begun”…okay he hasn’t even taken office yet.  Join the resistance – are you serious?  As if these people can be equated with the French revolutionaries?  Right…  An idea-based Resistance?  Read the entire page – not a single alternative idea is proposed.  Just more “You’re gonna steal my guns and make me abort my baby” paranoia from the right.

Obama won the election in a landslide.  It was a real mandate, unlike the one Bush claimed to carry after 2004 when he won by a whopping 3%, less than half of Obama’s margin of victory.  So these fanatics on the right need to get used to the next eight years, and stop trying to demonize a man who, to the chagrin of every other Limbaugh out there, isn’t a Communist boogey man.  In the words of a certain California senator, “elections have consequences,” so deal with it.

Bush: I Don’t Care What History Thinks

Some more disconcerting news from our outgoing president:

For a man on a bon voyage tour, Bush has tried to sound unconcerned about how history will judge him.

“I’ll be frank with you. I don’t spend a lot of time really worrying about short-term history,” he told Gibson. “I guess I don’t worry about long-term history, either, since I’m not going to be around to read it.”

The line is an echo of his famous response to Bob Woodward’s question about how history would judge the Iraq war. Then, as now, Bush replied: “History. We don’t know. We’ll all be dead.”

Coming from someone with a Bachelor’s degree in History, this sounds a little strange.  But really, this kind of approach towards governance – to be unafraid of how your administration will go down in the history books, is a telling sign of just how dangerous this president is.  The cynical truth is that Bush may very well be gone before he can personally witness the effects of his Iraq policy on that country and the Middle East as a whole, but did he pursue the invasion of Iraq as a part of some personal short-term agenda, or as part of a bigger mission involving the security of the country over which he presides?  We’ve been told to believe the latter, but these comments by Bush seem to imply otherwise.  This selfish, insensitive, and cold manner of approaching his responsibilities as leader of the free world are not becoming of the office of the President and only remind us of just how asleep at the wheel Bush has been over the last eight years.  While approval ratings, polling, and PR can bestow upon a politician a sense that he or she is doing right by his/her country, the true test, as I see it, belongs in the hands of the people who get to witness firsthand how certain policies play out generations later.  Without this sort of deterrent of history, without the worry of how history will evaluate your presidency, the expectations are set pretty low, and, to quote a soon-to-be former president, if that’s not false bigotry, then I don’t know what is.

A Special Holiday Message from the White House

Take a look at President Bush’s wish list this Christmas:

Bush Still Trying to Tie 9/11 to Iraq

Why has public support for the war in Iraq waned? According to Dubya, it must be the American people’s fault.  That’s right, the same people he’s claiming to protect!  They just don’t see the same connection between 9/11 and Iraq that he sees.  Why don’t you educate us, o wise one?

President Bush lamented this week that the farther the nation gets from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the harder it is “for people to see the connection between Al Qaeda in Iraq and their own security.”

“One of the real difficulties of the presidency has been to keep in people’s mind the notion that we are in a war,” Bush said in an interview with RealClearPolitics released Friday. “The farther we got away from September the 11th … the harder it was for people to see the connection between Al Qaeda in Iraq and their own security.”

So let me get this straight – we need to be vigilant about Al Qaeda in Iraq so that we can prevent another 9/11-like lapse in national security?  But wasn’t Al Qaeda in Iraq nonexistent before we invaded that country?  What it boils down to is that we’re fighting in a war to protect ourselves from…ourselves?  How’s that for a national security strategy in a post-9/11 world?

It’s lamentable that after being regarded as possibly the most unpopular president in American history, this president still won’t own up to the biggest foreign policy failure of our time – to invade and occupy a country whose existence mattered naught to our national security.  What’s worse is that he’s STILL trying to forge a relationship between Iraq and 9/11, when only two weeks ago he was denying that any such link exists.  And in 2003 he stated, “We’ve had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th.”  The 9/11 commission investigating the attack also definitively established that no link between the Iraqi government and the events of 9/11 exists.  It’s no longer a matter of opinion or PR spin; it’s an agreed upon fact.  What we’re seeing here is a desperate attempt on the part of Bush to grab onto anything that may help create a positive legacy for himself, but to his chagrin, in the words of another former president, facts sure are stubborn things.