Leftist rage began while Bush was in office. That's how the Democrats won so many congressional seats in the off-term election and probably also part of the reason why Obama won the presidency. I doubt any Republican could have won, the rage against the Bush administration was so great.
The Republicans misread this rage. They believed the country was taking a turn to the left. I don't believe this. I think the haters were whipped up by a very well-orchestrated propaganda campaign that includes groups like moveon.org and even MSNBC. They went after and recruited teen-aged voters for support, for the same reasons crack dealers recognize this group as potential customers. Certainly Howard what's-his-name, who was Grand Dragon of the DNC promoted this strategy. You remember, the doctor who ran for something (presidential primary?) and made a fool of himself after he'd lost, pumping his fists and yelling in a maniacal fashion about how this wasn't the end by a long shot.
The thing is, I know Dick Cheney was an executive at Halliburton before he became vice president. As vice president, he was accused of contracting some military logistics operations to Halliburton to line his own pockets. I doubt this is true because when any person is elected or appointed to a high-level government job, their investments and all else go into some type of blind trust. It's managed for them, and they aren't allowed to know where their money is for obvious reasons.
So anyway, Dick Cheney was held up as some kind of "suspect" because of Halliburton. I don't know what else he's done that inspired such hatred.
Bush, of course, is responsible for many rather dodgy maneuvers, including locking up terrorists at Guantanamo Bay as POWs, rather than charging and trying them as criminals. Tangled inside this issue is the matter of habeus corpus, which must be invoked for criminals, but apparently can be suspended indefinitely for enemy hostiles. But the people at Guantanamo are considered foreign belligerents, or something to that effect, rather than simply having violated US law. And hey, they declared war on us. Remember?
'Course, Obama and the Democrats are changing that status now, and I suspect they're running into the same kind of problems that the Bush administration did: these people are much more than common criminals, unless you want to charge them with like, 3,000 murders and vandalism on a massive scale -- destruction of the World Trade Center. And conspiring to do much more.
So anyway, one day a liberal-leaning friend of mine made some really nasty comment about Dick Cheney. I was supposed to go, "Yeah. That's for sure." But I don't hate Dick Cheney and I'm not sure why the Democrats and liberals do. I mean I'm really not sure what he's done to warrant their vitriol.
So I asked, "What did he do, anyway?"
Shrugging at my blockheaded stupidity and walking away muttering.
I hardly ever join in with group things just because they're group things. It's caused a lot of problems for me socially, as you might suspect. I don't knee-jerk anything. And I still don't know what Dick Cheney did.
Apart from the shrug, I've been told by others: "Well, he was in [Reagan's/Bush #1's] administration, too."
I suppose that's the in-depth explanation.
Anyway, so now the Democrats are rifling through classified information left to them by the Bush administration. They seem to be going over it with a fine-tooth comb, like those Iranians who seized the US Embassy in Iran on 1979, and took years to paste together mountains of shredded documents in search of some fresh fuel for their hatred of the US, and in order to try to embarrass the US. That's what the Dems are doing now in Washington.
The Dems ran a campaign based on hatred and rage against the Bush Administration, and they've been unable to develop any other direction for their own administration. Seriously, it's amazing.
On the news the anchors will ask even some low-level Dem p.r. flak anything about what Obama's plans are, and the answer always comes down to, "We inherited this mess."
Hey, you know what? Every president inherits a mess. You're supposed to do something positive with it. That's why you were elected. Or that's why people are elected most of the time, anyway.
Even outside the US, the president seems just incapable of talking to foreign leaders about anything else except about how terrible the Bush administration was and how he's going to be all different now.
The Democrats ran on hatred. They were determined to get rid of Bush. Bush would've been gone anyway after his second term... But the Democrats don't seem to be able to get past that. They don't seem to realize that they're in charge now, they're accountable, it's up to them to do something. They don't have Bush to kick around anymore. (Sorry, couldn't help that last.) But they just keep on campaigning.
Economic policy -- Obama reaches back into the past to dredge up programs from Roosevelt's New Deal. You know, many of those were declared to be unconstitutional even while Roosevelt was in office, and the others failed. Obama's Budget Proposal apparently was something written up a couple years before the election and was what he ran his campaign on. He appears to be unwilling and/or unable to change or alter it to suit the new reality of economic devastation.
Advisors -- he re-hires Clinton's old staff, as well as beating the thickets of the radical left looking for people who are generally 1) totally unqualified; and 2) of dubious loyalty to the US. This is change we can hope for?
This administration seems to be still running on hatred for the Bush administration, and by extension, anything American. Jeannine Garofalo is a prime example of their frame of mind. And if I spelled her name wrong, gee, that's really tuff.
Well, you know what? Bush is gone. If the Dems want, they can try him for war crimes, but that would require a considerable waste of time and public treasure, and I don't believe it will yield many results. It might fan the flames of anti-American/anti-Bush hatred for a while, but that's about it.
And I really don't think the Democrats want to set a precedent for putting past presidents on trial for their policies. If Obama has any foresight, I really don't think he wants to do that.
This whole debacle over the CIA memos only reveals the complete moral and even pragmatic bankruptcy of the Democrats and the Obama administration. They don't have any new ideas. They don't have any real policies except "Throw some money at it and see if it sticks." Their only perceived "value" to date seems to be getting vicious and despicable tyrants around the world to love the US, and trying to get most Americans to hate it.
They're bankrupt all the way around, directionless, ultmately useless. They aren't pro-active, but re-active, and and apparently incapable of reacting in any other but a hateful anti-American way. Hey, you idiots in Washington you are the US government now! Think about it.
But anyway, the liberals really need to let go of the hatred. It's unhealthy for one thing, bad for the heart.
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