A hypocrisy black hole
If hypocrisy had physical mass, right now George W. Bush would be at the center of a huge black hole: The audacity of the man, the sheer mendacity of his use of his Sept. 11 commemorative campaign speech, broadcast live on national television, to urge Americans to put aside their differences and join hands together would create a mass weight of hypocrisy so great as to cause time/space to collapse in on itself around him.
(AP) Bush: Set aside differences on terrorism
Five years after the worst attack on U.S. soil, President Bush said Monday night the war against terrorism is “the calling of our generation” and urged Americans to put aside differences and fight to victory.
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Our nation has endured trials, and we face a difficult road ahead,” the president said. “Winning this war will require the determined efforts of a unified country. So we must put aside our differences and work together to meet the test that history has given us.”
The problem with all this, of course — the place where the hypocrisy hangs as thick as the fog on a New England morning, is the fact we already had the national unity regarding 9-11 Bush claims to crave: During the months immediately following the attacks, Americans stood united to a degree not seen in decades. Democrats held their fire. Almost everyone rallied around the president — looking to him for leadership. It was Bush and his minions who flushed this unity down the toilet.
They did it through two unspeakable crimes: First, by politicizing Sept. 11 for partisan gain (which continues today), going so far as to question the patriotism of anyone who refused to march in lockstep with the Administration’s agenda; and, second, by misusing the public’s trust placed in him as a result of the terrorist attacks to sell a disastrous war in Iraq based upon a pile of lies.
And it would appear, Bush’s words notwithstanding, nothing has changed even today, given the disclosure of a huge Republican investment in negative advertising, featuring personal attacks against Democratic candidates, for this year’s congressional elections. Yeah, George, that’s a hell of a way to bring us together.
Bottom line: For Bush to now complain about divisiveness and a lack of national unity is sort of like the schoolyard bully who cries foul when one of his victims starts punching back.
It’s just one more in the already ponderously tall stack of lies.
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As I bring this to a close, I see that Keith Olbermann has once again said it better than I ever could. Check it out, if you haven’t already.
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September 13th, 2006 at 12:22 am
Keith Olberman, God Bless his soul, is a prince among men. I am surprised he is allowed to continue his program. He does what so very few journalists do these days: Speak the Truth. ABC can spin and lie all it wants and Disney can go to 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, but George W. Bush and Condoleeza Rice dropped the ball and 9/11 was the result. Now Dubya whines about how we all need to support HIS war for oil and profiteering. He had his moment to bring us together, we were together, and he dropped the ball AGAIN. Some idiot from LaLa Land simpered in the Indy Star:”Wouldn’t it be wonderful how much we could accomplish if everyone supported the President?” First of all, I dont support anyone who lies to me. I dont support anyone who CONSTANTLY attempts to manipulate me. I dont support anyone who is responsible for the deaths of thousands and the destruction of a third world, impoverished nation. I dont support anyone who has made international terrorism worse. I have the right to criticize such a person, and although the Far-Right would like to take away my freedom of speech, the Constitution of the United States still affords me that freedom.
George W. Bush and the Supreme Court stole the 2000 election. The Republican Party of Ohio stole the 2004 election. As far as I am concerned, George W. Bush is not the legally elected President of this country. I’ll be damned if I will support a Commander-in-Thief. His actions, his lies, his arrogance, his avarice have brought about the divisions in our society. I am sick to death of some pusillanimous polecat telling me that we have to come together and support a dictator. As that famous troop commander said in WWII, when the Germans demanded he surrender: “Nuts!”
September 13th, 2006 at 6:37 am
Already a friend made mention of some fact that I knew was totally at odds with reality. When I mentioned that, he said that he must be right as he had just the previous night seen it on TV. Realizing he had watched the ABC movie I explained that it was full of made up stuff, he regarded that position as controversial, after all “everybody” is spinning stuff , but this was a coherent whole and it now constituted most of what he knows about the events around 9/11.
I explained that the entire story was invented from lies and half truths as a Dominionist subversion aimed at destroying democracy and freedom. He looked at me like I had grown another head. He had never heard of Dominionists, and if any such folk existed, who would vote for them. I tried to explain what the Dominionist were, Nihilists posing and using religion to put forth an agenda to turn the world into a theocracy. “Sounds like the Catholic Church.”.
“Well yes” I sigh “but more like the Taliban, only with Christian scripture, and secret,.. Subversive…” I try to explain that they are the ones trying to put granite copies of the Ten Commandments in all the courthouses…. “Well they should just run the country using those..
There are too many laws, too confusing… Just only have the ten and be done with it”
I try to explain that the first three are theocratic and quite totalitarian if enforced that way…”Well yeah God is not a liberal, it is sort of his way or you go to hell.” “God is very harsh, destroyed whole civilizations at a whim, because they did not follow his theocratic wishes”
“Yes” I sigh again, trying to get back to him understanding why someone would invent all that stuff about 9/11… “The Dominionists have this avenging Jesus…” “You can’t do that!” My Friend breaks in “Jesus wasn’t about that sort of thing”
My friend does not do Church but was born and raised in the South, I discover a core solidity that the church of his youth, is an immobile base, unaccessed and uninvolved in everyday, but the idea that it could be deliberately twisted into something at odds with that doesn’t seem possible to him, like saying that trees grow with their leaves deep underground.
I try to agree that yes Jesus’ Golden Rule is anathema to Dominionists because it implies the diversity that was the Roman Empire of his time, and flies in the face of the first few Commandments. He has some trouble with this concept. But eventually decides that the Golden Rule is for people to people not people to God or God to people.. I have some trouble understanding his concept. His conclusion; While Jesus was absolutely a Democrat, his Daddy was a Republican, and his Daddy probably trumps, but all that is not to be heavily thought about in every day use beyond being honest and honorable.
And “path to 9/11″ is still the frame around which his understanding still percolates..Sigh
September 13th, 2006 at 9:45 am
FreeDem
Sorry, FreeDem, but your friend reminds me of something
“Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do.” – Bertrand Russell