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The predictability of liberal responses to terrorist threats — fearing conservative political reaction more than terrorism itself — is further demonstrated by Roy Edroso of the Village Voice:
Rightbloggers, for obvious reasons, are less interested in calming fears than in exacerbating them, and proclaim, as is their wont, that the Obama Presidency has failed and that America will only be safe when it has come to an end.
Note how conservative criticism of the Obama administration is automatically presumed to be illegitimate; because there can be no rational reason for criticizing liberals, conservatives are either cynically playing politics or just plain crazy.
The presumed illegitimacy of conservatism creates a closed feedback loop that exempts liberal policy from meaningful criticism. Any liberal who grants legitimacy to conservative criticism will be demonized and ostracized as a heretic. Just ask Joe Lieberman, who made the mistake of repeating an administration official’s strategic insight about Yemen:
Yemen now becomes one of the centers of that fight. I was in Yemen in August. And we have a growing presence there, and we have to, of Special Operations, Green Berets, intelligence. We’re working well with the government of President Saleh there.
I leave you with this thought that somebody in our government said to me in Sana’a, the capital of Yemen. Iraq was yesterday’s war. Afghanistan is today’s war. If we don’t act preemptively, Yemen will be tomorrow’s war. That’s the danger we face. (Emphasis added.)
It was this remark on “Fox News Sunday” that caused liberal blogger Spencer Ackerman to erupt:
What the f—- does Joe Lieberman know about Yemen? What does anyone in the Washington policy community know about Yemen? F—-ing nothing . .
Ackerman portrays Lieberman as an irresponsible warmonger, but Ann Althouse calls attention to a New York Times article outlining U.S. anti-terror efforts in Yemen — the exact sort of preemptive action that Lieberman was advocating.
Evidently, the Obama administration is itself concerned about Yemen becoming a terrorist haven, but you can’t say that on Fox News, especially if you’re Lieberman, who has been known to consort with conservatives. The transparent double standard causes Dan Riehl to remark:
It seems that before he went off to collect his peace prize, Obama had already ramped up a covert war within Yemen. It isn’t that I disagree with him on that, it’s the awkward inconsistency between his rhetoric and his actions that raise concerns.
For many on the Left, Darleen Click observes, Obama is like a “mood ring” — inerrantly exposing the bad faith of conservatives — and the presumed irrationality of his critics is exemplified by the declaration by MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that grassroots opposition to the administration reflects “angry populism which is not fact-based.”
To Mitchell and her ilk, there can be no facts — not even an al-Qaeda-trained terrorist on a flight to Detroit — that justify criticism by conservatives. We are liberalism’s real enemy, and must be defeated by any means necessary.
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Franklin| 12.28.09 @ 3:27PM
Liberals that can't think for themselves spew the same talking points (usually lies) over and over. The Right sometimes does the same thing, but usually those talking points are correct and based on truth and logic.
What about people that believe lies? A lie is the truth mixed with just enough lie that it is easily believed. The more they believe, the more truth can be eliminated and it just becomes a lie. But the people don't see it that way; they see it still as truth.
Deep down they may know that it’s a lie, but they have already chosen that over the truth. God knows what they have chosen; he gave them that choice (free will). Once they have chosen, God allows them their full delusion, he won’t intervene.
Romans 1:28 Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind; to do what ought not to be done.
2 Thessalonians 2:10b … They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
The only thing we can do for them is to pray that God gives them another chance and allows them to see the Truth. What they do then is still up to them, but we must be diligent to pray. We do not know when God will work a miracle, but I know he does.
As much as I hate what they are doing to this country, I pray for our leaders to see the Truth.
brucet| 12.28.09 @ 3:43PM
Obambi Administration = Lawyers at war.
We're guaranteed to lose with that approach.
Obambi Adminstration = Academics with zero real life business experience.
No economic recovery in the near or mid-range future.
Obambi Adminstration = t-minus 3 years and counting....until goodbye.
Magic Eight Ball| 12.28.09 @ 3:57PM
As the great Reagan used to say: It isn't just what they believe; it's what they believe that just isn't true.
Trying to reason with a Liberal is as unproductive as feeding cherries to a pig.
Brooke| 12.28.09 @ 4:41PM
Andrew Mitchell? The old libtard certainly looks like an 'Andrew'.
Yosemeti Sam| 12.29.09 @ 12:42AM
" ... For many on the Left, Darleen Click observes, Obama is like a "mood ring" -- inerrantly exposing the bad faith of conservatives -- and the presumed irrationality of his critics is exemplified by the declaration by MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell that grassroots opposition to the administration reflects "angry populism which is not fact-based...."
Declaration by the she thing of putative objective
journalism? LOL. What deep thought next? LOL.
Gots to be Reagan envy of a hangover mind.
Annoyance that his legacy inspires conservatives' attachment to a winning clinical philosophy - as in, say, clobbering the USSR; without nukes!
Illustrative primer for true conservatives, in calling out collectivists who would 'collectively' have America descend to the collectivist paradises exhibited in, say, well - you fill in the blanks.
Poor BHO - no matter how the swampland LMSM props up/slobbers over this wouldbe titan of liberalism/Wrightism - he simply cannot
shine Reagans' shoes for achievements; inimitable that they were; nor parenthetically Lincolns' ; Nor MLKs'. Nor ....
Poor Democrat party tool - he will go DOWN in history via the fact-based realities unfolding.
Sam| 12.29.09 @ 12:44AM
Note how the article says we're WORKING WITH THE YEMENI PRESIDENT! I trust our special operations forces and green berets who are currently working in the country. That should be the extent of our activity-helping the Yemeni government gain the capacity to help themselves.
Since true conservatives are rightly opposed to a nannny state that steps in and bails out, I'm sure you will agree with me.
martin j smith| 12.29.09 @ 7:53AM
Keep posting and exposing all the Democrat-Obama skrew ups. The public must be informed and in the loop. Get a violinist for those don't like it --play some appropriate tune to console the LEFT.
Its as if we are on our won as citizens. I HAVE NO CONFIDENCE IN OBAMA,THE DEMOCRATS OR THE MEDIA THAT SUPPORTS THEM.
It is imperative for me to read blogs et al that give me the reality and force it on the MSM --like it or not.
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