2 posts tagged “bush”

The New York Times Takes a Leak There's a memo that Rummy wrote to the Prez, available now online. The New York Times reported it, thus cementing its role as the conservatives' bogeyman of record.

The memo basically says this: we have to rejigger our operation in Iraq, because it's not working.

In fact, a lot of what Rummy says in the memo is highly reminiscent of what the Dems have been demanding.

I already know what the conservatives are going to say about this come Monday morning.

1) The NYTimes is a bastion of liberals and democrats.
2) Liberals hate America.
3) America hates liberals.
4) The NYTimes is committing treason for publishing a story about a classified memo.

The conservative echo chamber is wrong. Duh.

My theory: the memo was purposefully leaked by the Bush administration.

Why I'm right:

1) Rummy saves face, at the lowest point of any public or historical popularity he ever had. He is shown to be agreeing with the people who hated him most, and that he can modify his opinions and plans based upon evidence (however late it might be)

2) The Bush administration can change its policy in Iraq without the public perception that they gave in to their political enemies (or, dare I say it, flip-flopped).

See! I'm smart!

Well, I can't wait until Wednesday, and all of this election crap will be over.

I don't care what Republicrats say to each other, I'm voting Libertarian. Across the goddamn board.

You say it's throwing my vote away?

It's not. I'm not voting for somebody I don't like in order to keep somebody else I don't like from taking office. Do you think I should abandon my core principles just because the people who do represent my opinions will never win? That's insulting and stupid. If that's the case, then why bother voting at all? Why bother even pretending that you have a mind of your own?

I'm not voting for a Democrat just because I'm pro-choice and they are, too. Will Democrats ever actually try to legalize full civil union rights for homosexual couples? Will they ever actually try to pass a constitutional amendment protecting a woman's right to abortion? Of course not. Those are wedge issues. By pretending that a massive tide of anti-this or anti-that voters are poised to take those freedoms away, they create a need and an enemy - perfect ways to keep the votes rolling in and the campaign donations growing.

Take this crap about John Kerry, for instance.

He wasn't insulting the troops, dipshits. Do you really think he would commit complete career suicide? Do you think that he, speaking in favor of a Democrat running for an important office in an important election cycle, would actually say something so patently false and infuriating?

Of course he wouldn't.

He said that if you don't get an education, you could be "stuck in Iraq." This comment took place directly after a series of Bush bashings (saying that Bush is in a "state of denial and a state of deception"). The constant mantra from Democrats is that Bush is now "stuck in Iraq."

So, what's more likely? That Kerry, who already lost major points among veterans in the years following his own military service, and more recently got hammered by the Swift Boat smear campaign, would completely switch gears in the middle of a speech and start throwing insults at the very group of people that he himself once belonged to?

Or is it more likely that he was still insulting Bush for being "stuck in Iraq," citing the oft-repeated meme that Bush is stupid?

It doesn't make any goddamn sense for Kerry to be mocking the troops.

If a Democrat even suggests an ounce of ill will toward American soldiers, the conservatives make all kinds of noise about how much the evil liberals hate America.

It goes the same way with Republicans, too. For instance, any time a conservative even mentions race, he's labeled by the liberals as a racist.

So put down your outrage, force your knee to stop jerking, and think things through a little.

Kerry was making fun of Bush.