Good article here regarding Michelle Obama’s “for the first time in my adult life I am really proud of my country" comment. Author does a good job of breaking things down the middle and we really liked her analogy of a hypothetical adult conservative circa 1980 saying something similar when after nearly two decades of receding influence of American institutions, social upheaval, the Vietnam War, Watergate, Jimmy Carter and of course, hippies… Ronald Reagan was elected President.
A friend of ours emailed yesterday and in referencing this incident called her an “Anti-American, ‘blame America first’ socialist, limousine liberal.” We responded by saying, "...at worst, she is who you say she is and at best it was a very poor choice of words for which she should clarify/apologize for in person and not through her flaks". Apparently, she has.
Though our red meat-eating brethren are really worked up about this, we can’t find the energy to get too excited about it. We chalk up this particular malaise to what we will coin the “Jane Fonda syndrome”
In years previous, we would get these forwarded emails that would detail Jane Fonda’s visit to a POW camp in North Vietnam and how during this visit she ratted out the American prisoners there who tried to pass her messages so that family back in the States would know they were still alive. We don’t know if those stories were true and we didn’t care because, frankly, it didn’t matter. Jane Fonda was/is(?) a traitor and a despicable human being for the things we know to be true. No amount of uncorroborated emails is going to make us think any less of her.
We know Obama has secured a deathgrip on the ranking as the most left-leaning/liberal Senator on the Hill based upon his public legislative record. This is fact. No amount of platitudes from him or verbal gaffes from his wife is going to make us think any different.
A friend of ours emailed yesterday and in referencing this incident called her an “Anti-American, ‘blame America first’ socialist, limousine liberal.” We responded by saying, "...at worst, she is who you say she is and at best it was a very poor choice of words for which she should clarify/apologize for in person and not through her flaks". Apparently, she has.
Though our red meat-eating brethren are really worked up about this, we can’t find the energy to get too excited about it. We chalk up this particular malaise to what we will coin the “Jane Fonda syndrome”
In years previous, we would get these forwarded emails that would detail Jane Fonda’s visit to a POW camp in North Vietnam and how during this visit she ratted out the American prisoners there who tried to pass her messages so that family back in the States would know they were still alive. We don’t know if those stories were true and we didn’t care because, frankly, it didn’t matter. Jane Fonda was/is(?) a traitor and a despicable human being for the things we know to be true. No amount of uncorroborated emails is going to make us think any less of her.
We know Obama has secured a deathgrip on the ranking as the most left-leaning/liberal Senator on the Hill based upon his public legislative record. This is fact. No amount of platitudes from him or verbal gaffes from his wife is going to make us think any different.
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Because what we’re concerned with is how the Senator intends for this country to pay for his Global Poverty Act?
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And what we really want to know is why is he sending on his behalf that personification of a foreign policy grease fire, Zbigniew Brzezinski, to Syria for talks with Assad?
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And for all his talk about compassion for the less fortunate, how does he square that with the fact that as an Illinois state senator he actively campaigned against and voted against a law that would’ve protected the survivors of unsuccessful abortions (aka infants)?
These are the facts and these are the issues. So let the woman alone so we can deal with her old man who has a few things to answer for himself.
These are the facts and these are the issues. So let the woman alone so we can deal with her old man who has a few things to answer for himself.
H/T: Instapundit
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MC, that would be your opinion. Again, lets just stick to the facts.
She can keep her booty and just licious it herself.
Just part of the crowd that gets sidetracked on the peripheral issues.
We get concerned with relatively minor, irrelevant, or superficial aspects of the subject in question, but spectating and commenting on these issues tends to be half the fun of politics.
I can't have an intelligent debate with a contentious liberal, (Mr. Lloyd excluded) but can make a comment on Michele's "Mary Tyler Moore" hairdo. (C'mon,...That's funny)
You don't think that Americans vote like it's the prom queen popularity contest? Have you seen reports on how many Americans get their news from Late Night and Comedy Central?
The serious argument CAN'T be won except at the ballot box.
BwD's persective on this is similar to the Marines vs Code Pink as I see it. I had more fun sending the link to that BwD blog for every time I receive an email from people whose blood pressure is raised over the issue. (My God, it's Code Pink vs the US Marines,... not entirely a fair fight)
Some people aren't interested in winning in the arena of ideas, so we still have fun with the "peripheree" :-)
Anyway, BwD, your blog is sometimes a fun way of having fun with it, and we appreciate the opportunity. The "bootylicious" comment was agreement with you about how we get offtrack, and comment by way of hyperbole.
Hey, is "peripheree" a word? Been hangin with the 'Dawg too much, tending to get verbose.
MC Nasty Freak Cubis
MC, Of course my response to the bootylicious comment was made with as much of a straight face I could muster.
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