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MoveOn.pimp's Hypocritical "Slam" on Bush
In his first public comments on the MoveOn.org controversy, President Bush on Thursday excoriated Democrats for not repudiating the activist liberal group, which ran a newspaper ad attacking a respected U.S. general. Responding to a question by The Examiner at a White House press conference, Bush ripped last week's MoveOn.org ad in the New York Times that mocked General David Petraeus, the top commander in Iraq, as "General Betray Us" and accused him of "cooking the books" on Iraq. "I thought that the ad was disgusting," a clearly agitated Bush said. "I felt like the ad was an attack, not only on General Petraeus, but on the U.S. military. And I was disappointed that not more leaders in the Democrat Party spoke out strongly against that kind of ad. That leads me to come to this conclusion: that most Democrats are afraid of irritating a left-wing group like MoveOn.org are more afraid of irritating them than they are of irritating the United States military. That was a sorry deal. It's one thing to attack me. It's another thing to attack somebody like General Petraeus." Word. Not one false statement or suggestion here. Nothing a sane person could use against him. Eli Pariser, Executive Director of MoveOn. Of course, he'd take anything as an invitation to accuse W of betrayal he's so blinded by hate. Or money. Or both. "What's disgusting is that the president has more interest in political attacks than developing an exit strategy to get our troops out of Iraq and end this awful war," Pariser said after the press conference. Jesus H. Christ. Look who's talking. Tugging at every heartstring and throwing out every buzzword he can in a desperate bid to seem valid. Where do I begin? Since MoveOn fired the first shot, I would say that they were the ones who are interested in political (and personal!) attacks to achieve their goal-for-the-ignorant. W would not have issued any attacks had it not been for this "ad", which more than called for W's understated response. "The president has no credibility on Iraq: he lied repeatedly to the American people to get us into the war. Most Americans oppose the war and want us to get out. Right now, there are about 168,000 American soldiers in Iraq, caught in the crossfire of that country's unwinnable civil war, and the president has betrayed their trust and the trust of the American people." Stuck on stoopid. You obviously are looking at old statistics, and no statistics regarding congress's approval rating, which is about 1/3 of W's. You'd best go do a little reading before you slither out from under your rock to say something. I hate it when adults act like children. My kids don't think I see right through what they say, either. Or do they think their audience is stupid enough to believe it? Maybe they don't care about the ones who don't. Just about anything they say depends on people's ignorance. For beginners, what passed as a "civil war" to liberals because it was a handy excuse for their arguments is now a thing of the past. If W lied then so did the intelligence agencies of every other country out there. So if lying counts as betrayal, then it isn't W who is the traitor here, it's MoveOn.pimp. The ad has not been denounced by most leading Democrats, including the top-tier contenders for their party's presidential nomination Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards. I'd sure like to know what is going through their heads other than "Don't pi$$ off my pimp." Even their supporters would probably like them to say something in a timely fashion that could have gone like "I don't like the ad but it still doesn't change my position on the war". At least it would suggest they weren't the whores that they are. Posted by: gorb 2007-09-21 |
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