The moment that Obama topped Bush in the God-mentioning sweepstakes, cyber-liberals have been attacking the Christian Right like never before. Or, at least, like before. Actually, it's kind of hard to top before, when it comes to faith-bashing.
Why are they doing this? Substitution. They can't bear coming down too hard on Obama, so they go back to their traditional target. Which is stupid, because we Dems hold the power now, and what's going to be the effect of our demonizing any portion of the not-in-power right? Isn't this one of those measures destined to backfire? The kind of measures preferred by my side, it sometimes seems.
Every day, we Dems strive to live up to our "How do we screw things up today?" image.
Anyway, there isn't much to say about this trend, being that it's nothing more than a faith-bad/democracy-good game that rivals the men-bad/women-good movement of the Nineties for sheer brainlessness. Too many on the left seem incapable of facing up to any of our own faults, especially any on Obama's part. Maybe, during our eight years in exile, we got to thinking too much like victims. And a victim, in the language of pop culture, is someone who can do no wrong, by definition.
So, when faced with evidence that we can do, and do do, plenty of wrong, we're forced to scapegoat the usual suspects. Anymore, we have a single usual suspect called the Religious Right. The more we dump on our foes, the angrier they'll get. Something to ponder, I think.
Anyway, Obama's religious. Live with it. He'd be so even if he didn't feel compelled to dispel the not-born-in-America, is-a-Muslim rumors. (In fact, one of Google's standard search lines is "Obama is a Muslim terrorist"! Far out.)
Lee says, let's face up to our faults and get on with the business of worshiping celebrities and snoring loudly while the health insurance lobby owns Congress (step aside, NRA). My personal favorite form of liberal disconnect consists of praising the very same "liberal" media that worked so hard against Gore and Kerry and which now bitches loudly about the aftermath of eight years of Bush. Choose your own form of denial. Personalized denial is the best kind.
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Funny how bashing Bush is still the rage.
The financial fiasco (love that word, Fiasco) was partially the responsibility of Barney Frank and the "loosen the lending practice" Democrats, yet it gets laid at the feet of the guy (Pres. Bush) who tried to warn them it was becoming a major problem two years before the crash.
"My personal favorite form of liberal disconnect consists of praising the very same "liberal" media that worked so hard against Gore and Kerry"
LOL, you have got to be kidding, Lee.
I don't recall the media working against Gore in 2000. In fact, they called Florida for him before the polls had even closed in the western part of the state. Can you give us some credible and multi-sourced examples of the media conspiring against him?
As for the idiot who ran in 2004, Newsweek Editor Evan Thomas admitted in June of that year that his colleagues in the media would totally go in the tank for the guy, and also said that their doing so would give him 10 to 15 points in the polling.
And let's not forget the double standard that year when it came to military service-the Associated Press sued the White House to force Bush to release all of his military records, yet when his opponent refused to release all of his military records to the public, he got a total pass from the media.
BTW, Florida wasn't the real reason Gore lost in 2000-it's because he was rejected by the voters of his own home state. Had he won Tennessee, he would never have needed to win Florida's electoral votes.
It's nothing personal, so please don't take it that way, but I don't care much for Republican manipulation points.
Re Gore, the press relentlessly harped on his presumed faults, up to and including pushing the lie that he'd claimed to invent the Internet. They took it comparatively easy on Bush (they could have really gone after his AWOL episode, for instance) while portraying Gore as a stuffed shirt, a not-so-regular guy, a know-it-all, etc. That's not pro-Gore coverage by a long shot. On line, I heard some audio from the Gore/Bush campaign, and I was stunned by it--Bush was praised as the all-American, honest candidate and Gore as a hypocrite. And this wasn't FOX audio, either.
And I'm not referring to Bush bashing--Bush is about as religious as my left toe. He's not part of the Christian anything in my opinion. He used the Pat Robertson crowd for votes, just (admittedly) as Obama is playing the faith card, too, though were he not being attacked as a Muslim terrorist and such, maybe he wouldn't have to.
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