yeahwho
10-02-2009, 12:01 AM
This past week I noticed something about the Right Wing spokes folks, Rush Limbaugh (http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/today.guest.html), Glenn Beck (http://www.glennbeck.com/) and Bill O' Reilly (http://www.foxnews.com/oreilly/) failed to recognize our current administration not only prevented a possible 9/11 scenario but also arrested, documented and protected us, our families and children without holding a trumped up bloated self congratulatory news conference proclaiming fear and less civil liberties for the American populace.
The United States did it's job. You would never know if you decided to listen to one of the above three hugely popular proclaimed Republican pundits. You would not of known if you were waiting for anyone in the Republican party to announce congratulations on this excellent news. Because that would be the civil thing to do as a representative of the United States of America.
Thomas Friedman makes an altogether different but equal point in his Op/Ed piece in the NYTimes titled, Where Did ‘We’ Go (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/opinion/30friedman.html?_r=1&em)?
What kind of madness is it that someone would create a poll on Facebook asking respondents, “Should Obama be killed?” The choices were: “No, Maybe, Yes, and Yes if he cuts my health care.” The Secret Service is now investigating. I hope they put the jerk in jail and throw away the key because this is exactly what was being done to Rabin.
Even if you are not worried that someone might draw from these vitriolic attacks a license to try to hurt the president, you have to be worried about what is happening to American politics more broadly.
Our leaders, even the president, can no longer utter the word “we” with a straight face. There is no more “we” in American politics at a time when “we” have these huge problems — the deficit, the recession, health care, climate change and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — that “we” can only manage, let alone fix, if there is a collective “we” at work.
When will this insanity stop? Isn't it obvious the collective Republican wish of a POTUS to fail in the name of it's own failing party a national embarrassment? When will a good man stand up to these pundits and extreme right wing nuts and come out to say he is here to help America?
Is it too late as Friedman points out?
The United States did it's job. You would never know if you decided to listen to one of the above three hugely popular proclaimed Republican pundits. You would not of known if you were waiting for anyone in the Republican party to announce congratulations on this excellent news. Because that would be the civil thing to do as a representative of the United States of America.
Thomas Friedman makes an altogether different but equal point in his Op/Ed piece in the NYTimes titled, Where Did ‘We’ Go (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/opinion/30friedman.html?_r=1&em)?
What kind of madness is it that someone would create a poll on Facebook asking respondents, “Should Obama be killed?” The choices were: “No, Maybe, Yes, and Yes if he cuts my health care.” The Secret Service is now investigating. I hope they put the jerk in jail and throw away the key because this is exactly what was being done to Rabin.
Even if you are not worried that someone might draw from these vitriolic attacks a license to try to hurt the president, you have to be worried about what is happening to American politics more broadly.
Our leaders, even the president, can no longer utter the word “we” with a straight face. There is no more “we” in American politics at a time when “we” have these huge problems — the deficit, the recession, health care, climate change and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — that “we” can only manage, let alone fix, if there is a collective “we” at work.
When will this insanity stop? Isn't it obvious the collective Republican wish of a POTUS to fail in the name of it's own failing party a national embarrassment? When will a good man stand up to these pundits and extreme right wing nuts and come out to say he is here to help America?
Is it too late as Friedman points out?