"Be warned - - Obama has started!!!!" screams the e-mail.The boundary between hyperbole and hysteria may be blurry and undefined, but those who make a career of ferrying the lost souls across that murky river are calm, cool and professional and know just what they are doing: delivering us all to hell.
The smallest and most obscure incident will be elevated to a breathless diatribe against the pandaemon of targets in the Republican shooting gallery and so when, after a series of accidents, one fatal, involving Fort Campbell soldiers owning private firearms and living off-base, approximately 110 out of 29,000 of them were asked by a company commander for information about what kind of weapons they owned, with the objective of providing proper training in their use. The letter was rescinded almost immediately.
With blinding speed the letter was scanned and embedded in a bogus and highly irate letter about how "the most anti-firearm president in history" was trying to disarm our own military.
"The big hush, hush is not only to take away our missile defenses, but Obama is going to disarm the public as well. He is starting with the military and then the public. The country will then be totally defenseless."How quickly we move from memo to madness. It goes on and on about Liberty and a "Free people" and how "something really nasty is blowing in the wind here." Indeed it is, or at least in the electronic wind and it smells Republican.
"It just seems a little coincidental to me that within 90 days: the most anti-firearm President in history is inaugurated, some of the nastiest anti-firearm laws are put on the table in Washington"Do I need to point out that to be a coincidence, two events have to be true?
I could almost hear the thud of it arriving in my in-box -- or perhaps the thud was the sonic boom caused by the Commander of Charlie Company transmogrifying into maniacal Barak Obama.
Obama, formerly "the most far-left Liberal" in the Senate is now confounding the Liberal wing of his party with his decidedly not far-left Liberal views on many things, but no matter. Even if he proves not to put further gun control legislation on the table, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Rahm Immanuel are waiting, like cartridges in a magazine and any one of them can be the next "most ____ in history." Like Leggo Blocks, they're interchangeable.
Now I wonder with what blinding speed some troll will decide that I am very angry and therefore demented and from that go on to point out that all Democrats are not only hate filled, but deranged hate mongers; perhaps the most deranged in history. I'm counting the seconds.
Now I wonder with what blinding speed some troll will decide that I am very angry and therefore demented and from that go on to point out that all Democrats are not only hate filled, but deranged hate mongers....You're very angry and therefore demented and all Democrats are hate mongers.
ReplyDeleteKidding. :)
The smallest and most obscure incident will be elevated to a breathless diatribe against the pandaemon of targets...I think this is something that always happens with the party out of power. I seem to remember this kind of crap circulating among liberals during the Bush years.
And need I get into the stuff that flowed during the Clinton years?
So I'm not going to comment one way or another, because this is just the usual. So keep smacking the crazies on the right. Then I don't have to.
"I seem to remember this kind of crap circulating among liberals during the Bush years."
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting that you call opposition to Bush "Liberal." Many of the more intelligent Republicans I know -- some of them lifelong party members, opposed Bush and his illegal actions. Opposition to contrived wars and war crimes and indeed to ignoring constitutional law is hardly Liberal -- it's definitively conservative.
Calling such matters as torture "Trivial" is their way of brushing aside crimes that have in the past been punishable by death and other things that have been described as treason, so all in all I think you're making a false equivalence here.
"And need I get into the stuff that flowed during the Clinton years?" Only if you want to, but prosecuting someone for perjury regarding testimony not related to any thing he was charged with seems pretty ridiculous and if telling someone "Don't tell my wife" is subornation of perjury sufficient to remove a president from office, then we might as well petition England to take us back as colonies.
Capt, you were talkling about harping on trivialities.
ReplyDeleteI was agreeing, pointing out that this was nothing new.
Somehow, you assume this means I'm talking about torture being trivial.
Thanks for making the leap I wasn't making. I was talking about things like the "Mission Accomplished" banner, which falls under the same category as dive bombing NYC with Air Force One (as well as the "hummer heard 'round the world" itself). Relatively trivial and not well-thought-through things that we'll have to hear about for years.
But don't let me stop you from finding a reason to get pointlessly self-righteous.
"Somehow, you assume this means I'm talking about torture being trivial."
ReplyDeleteI misunderstood you - sorry.