Let me say this plainly: a man who grew up basted in communism; spent his formative academic years studying socialism, black liberation theology, critical race theory, and Orientalism; sat in the pews of a church whose pastor preached anti-Americanism, racial separatism, and anti-Semitism; then entered the academy as faculty to rub shoulders with the radical chic lefties of all stripes, the majority of whom self-select based in part on their opposition to Israel — is of course going to put people like Chuck Hagel and Samantha Power into positions of power and influence.
He isn’t a good man and he never was. Ever. And by saying so, some on our side set themselves up to look, in retrospect, like willfully blind dupes overly concerned with their own sense of decorum. Which I find to be selfish and misguided.
That so many Republicans allow this kind of promotion to occur without making an enormous stink over it — and here I’m certain we’ll be hearing from that very pragmatic centrist Republican, two-time Obama voter Colin Powell, who will likely vouch for the anti-Semitic wife of self-hating Nudge promotor, liberal fascist Cass Sunstein (the audacity of paternalism!) — simply drives home the very obvious fact that our system is broken, and that the left is running roughshod over us because we lack true representatives to make the case of the base, and insist that these appointments and nominees be publicly vetted.
I think Colin Powell is a perfect example of the result of “conservatives” playing the identity politics game. “He’s a black guy, but he’s our black guy.”
As it turns out, this was not true at all, and in any case, it was pandering bullshit.
The one thing that W Bush did that made me look at everything else he did with a jaundiced eye, was tell us in January 2009, while officially handing over the office, “he’s a good man”. It struck me hard, not only as you described it, but as giving approval for his shady associates AND self proclaimed goal of “transforming America”. Like Obama was a good man to continue the work Bush began.
It was the first time I ever felt W ever knowingly lied to me, and it cast suspicion on everything I thought I knew about the man.
Maybe it’s not fair of me to think it, but when a guy is bestest friends with Ayres and takes his kids to Wrights church, calling him a good man seems beyond willful blindness.
oops, too many evers…
I think Bush wanted to believe that. It was more for himself than anything else.
Around the world those who aren’t laughing at us are shaking their heads in disgust.
Actions have consequences.
America in November 2012 cast its vote, and sealed its fate.
The Grand Old Pussies don’t even want to risk keeping up appearances. They are useless cringing old rubber stamps for exactly what they were elected to oppose. They sold us out for a rusted old nickel with shit on it.
On the plus side — an unrepentant anti-Semite should get along really well with most of the UN. In that regard, it’s a pretty shrewd appointment!
“I think Bush wanted to believe that. It was more for himself than anything else”
I think he really does believe it cranky. Obama kept every policy Bush had, and ramped them up even higher. I can’t help but think the guy that gave us the expansion of Medicare, upon seeing Obamacare, said to his self “good man!”. The Bushes have become the symbol of the entire scam the GOP perpetrated on the base of the party.
Like I said, it might be unfair, but I can’t help but think it.
Lee,
What did you expect Bush to say?
That Obama was an SOB and should burn in hell?
Not likely.
Bush just wanted to get back home to Texas and get a decent nights sleep.
I didn’t expect him to say squat. He could have NOT lied though.
I doubt he lied. I’m pretty sure he was going by his definition of a good man at the time he said it. or as I alluded to earlier he was just being polite on the way out the door.
Well, I knew who he was at the time, and I knew at the time he wasn’t a good man. For the reasons I said above.
Seems to me W either lied when he said Obama was a good man, or he’s painfully stupid, which I reject out of hand.
And further, there was a lot of people on the right who said he was a good man at the time, and they weren’t stupid either. Mostly they were cowards scared of being called racists. so they lied.
Assholes.
I’ll not sit idly by and let you disparage the Benevolent Public Servants of the LA District Attorney’s Office in that manner. Good day, SIR!
Guess that makes Bush not a good man.
Sure he has been called worse.
Well BT, if someone called Stalin a good man, would it affect the way you think of them?
Is the thing I’m raising.
I’m just admitting, the revelation colored the way I view Bush, who I thought very highly of til then.
Do you think that’s unfair? I ask sincerely.
Yeah. Hard to see judging a mans character by a one off remark.
Bush isn’t your enemy because he called your enemy a good man, he might be your enemy because of caving and allowing DHS to be formed, or that Medicare Prescription Benefit or a lot of other good reasons, but for a one off remark about his successor? nah.
You moved on from judging his character from one remark, to describing a pattern. The one off remark revealed what he considered “good”, that I previously excused as just politically expedience or something.
In other words, it wasn’t that I judged him on the remark in a vacuum, but that the remark was like turning a light on what previously I had trouble seeing. Why would a self described conservative draft an expansion of federal control on education with the ultra progg Kennedy I asked myself, wanting to give the benefit of doubt. Suddenly I knew. Despite all I thought I knew of the man, he believed the expansion of federal control on education was “good”, and he knew Obama would do further “good”. The self described compassionate conservative is suddenly revealed as a big government ruling class elitist, something we here all understand about the GOP now, but it was still a shock to me then.
GWB in my mind was always what i would call a Rockefeller Republican. Centrist all the way. His position on immigration didn’t surprise me, his expansion of Medicare did not surprise me, his intentions were good with NCLB, just remember the states were to administer that.
The thing about GWB was i trusted him to do his best.
I don’t trust Obama, period.
Let me be more precise about Obama. I don’t trust the people pulling the strings behind Obama. I don’t think he is really on top of things. He is just a traveling salesman, selling the smoke and mirrors.
BT, #COTD.
Anyone who thinks “conservative” needs an adjective isn’t going to be a conservative. (I almost wrote “actual conservative,” which would have undermined my point…)