The Democratic Left Becomes George Bush
By Larry Johnson on September 1, 2008 at 12:55 PM in Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Sarah Palin
I have fought the policies, lies, corruption and hypocrisy of George W. Bush. He is the worst President in my lifetime and certainly ranks as one of the worse since Warren G. Harding. I regret nothing. I was looking forward to voting for a Democrat who would repudiate the policies and practices of the Bush regime. Until Barack Obama took center stage.
My thinking on this was triggered by the maelstrom surrounding the smear from Obama supporters claiming that Sarah Palin was not pregnant and did not give birth to the five month old boy with Down’s Syndrome. The left’s depravity knows no bounds (as laid out in detail by Divine Democrat here) as many, most notably that turd of a human being Andrew Sullivan, claimed it was the secret love child of Palin’s then 16 year old daughter.
Do these nuts not understand the concept of photos? The Daily Kos crowd who claim that no one knew that Palin was pregnant apparently must have been talking to Alaska’s version of Stevie Wonder. Blindness is the only excuse for this kind of stupid comment.
So why do I write that the Democratic Left has become W?
Remember back when George W. was running against McCain in 2000? Let’s take a walk down memory lane with the NY Times’ Peter Baker:
The crucible came in South Carolina, where the tone took a decidedly low turn. Bush stood by as a surrogate at a campaign event accused McCain of forgetting fellow veterans when he returned after five and a half years of captivity in North Vietnam. At McCain headquarters, reports kept pouring in about flyers and phone calls insinuating all manner of scurrilous things about the senator — he had fathered a black child out of wedlock, he beat his wife, he was mentally unstable, he had a secret Vietnamese family, he was a Manchurian candidate, he was gay, his wife was a drug addict and so forth. Bush denied any involvement in the whisper campaign, but for his own part took umbrage at a McCain ad saying the Texas governor “twists the truth like Clinton.”
“Stuff happened in South Carolina that none of us liked,” Mark Salter, McCain’s alter ego, told me over a beer in a hotel bar during a campaign swing in New England last month. “But you never knew how much” was orchestrated by Bush or his people. McCain’s campaign was crushed in South Carolina, and McCain did little to hide his anger, calling Bush “a combination of the Cowardly Lion, the Tin Man and the Scarecrow” — in other words, a man with no courage, no heart and no brain. Cindy McCain stewed over the attacks, particularly the “illegitimate black child” allegation, a vicious reference to their adopted daughter Bridget, a baby she brought home from an orphanage in Bangladesh run by Mother Teresa. The night of the primary, Cindy cried in the candidate’s hotel suite.
Talk about Deja Vu.
I still have good friends on the so-called progressive side of the ledger (but I’m beginning to wonder what it really means to be “progressive”) who insist the allegation against Palin and her 5 month old son is the equivalent of claiming that Barack Obama has a close relationship with unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers, attended a muslim school in Indonesia, used a different name (Barry Soetoro) when he was in Indonesia, and profited from his relationship with the corrupt Tony Rezko. This is truly mind boggling.
The claim that Palin pretended to be pregnant is demonstrably false. In fact, it is a goddamn lie. But Barack Obama’s ties to Ayers, Indonesia, and Rezko are not confabulations. They are true and Barack is covering up important facts. What is truly stunning is that it appears that some in the media are willing to equate bald face lies about Palin as being of the same order as demonstrable (but unexplored) facts about Obama.
The media helped fuck America with George Bush. The likes of Judith Miller, Tim Russert, and the Washington Post played along as Bush started an unnecessary war in Iraq. They refused to ask tough questions or challenge demonstrably false assertions. And they are doing it once again with Barack Obama. He continues to receive the kid glove treatment as the media–legs a tingling–fawn over the new Messiah. And lapping along with them, lips firmly planted on the “holy” one’s derriere, is the so-called Democratic left.
I made the mistake once in supporting George Bush and ignoring my reservations about his lack of experience and questionable character. I will not make that same mistake with Barack Obama, who with each passing day reflects the viciousness and insecurity of W. America cannot afford another politician like Bush.
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