23 January 2009

Bullshit They Can Believe In

I'll confess to gleeful curiosity when I saw the headline -- "Bush loyalists seethe over Obama's address" -- in yesteday's International Herald Tribune. While watching the speech, I was trying to imagine how Bush and his entourage must have felt being on the receiving end of that oh-so eloquent smackdown. The article confirmed what I suspected: Bush couldn't really be bothered, but his mates were not too pleased.

I was ready to dismiss much of the article as the blah, blah, blah I was expecting, but then I read the quote from Marc Thiessen that had appeared in Washington Post.

As the new president receives his intelligence briefings, certain facts must now be apparent: Al-Qaeda is actively working to attack our country again. And the policies and institutions that George W. Bush put in place to stop this are succeeding. During the campaign, Obama pledged to dismantle many of these policies. He follows through on those pledges at America's peril -- and his own. If Obama weakens any of the defenses Bush put in place and terrorists strike our country again, Americans will hold Obama responsible -- and the Democratic Party could find itself unelectable for a generation. (Italics are mine.)

Oh really?

The assertion that Bush's legacy is that he kept the US safe from terror in the wake of September 11, while true, nevertheless seems to ignore the fact that the events of September 11 happened on Bush's watch. Period. So how is it that such a catastrophic failure gets reworked into a legacy that the former Bush administration is proud to own?

Seriously, I wonder if they really believe their own bullshit.
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  1. Marty9:57 PM, January 25, 2009

    Yes they do believe there own Bullshit i cannot question or know them to be sure. But in my opinion yes they believe in there bullshit for there own motive.

    This still comes down to motive.
    over 8 years i have seen what the war on terror has done to this country to profit the few.

    If the problem is going to continue. Definitely likely. Its whether you use that info to find Bin Laden and stop terrorism or spy on the general public to benefit you buddies.

    The difference is President Obama is a man of integrity. He has promised to operate in the open. Americans know when there being lied to and the motive isn't true.
    You cannot sacrifice freedom for security in the end you gain neither B Franklin said something like that and he was right. More so now than ever. We have to operate in the open. Our new President said that up front. There in lies the Difference of motive.

    There still remains, you cannot trust politicians. Let wait and see. He may just be the guy that proves that theory wrong.

    marty

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