Mr. Sherri Annis, aka Howie Kurtz has a piece up quoting Scott Rosenberg in Salon, deconstructing Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal. Here's the craptacular Mr. Henninger according to Rosenberg:
"Note that Henninger is not actually asserting here that President Bush is a man of integrity and that the Democrats are wrong. He's saying the president's integrity, or lack thereof, is not a fit subject for public debate because, well, you woudn't want to 'reduce the authority of the country's leadership' at a 'dangerous moment.' Here we have a preview of what is likely to be a fall-back strategy for the Republicans this summer, as the jobless economy, the Iraq mess and Bush's increasingly scandal-ridden record begin, finally, to catch up with him.
Nice job Mr. Rosenberg, could not have said it better myself. What's all this crap about not criticizing an incompetant monkey in the White House? After all if you can't criticize him, you might as well just vote for him and that's not gonna happen until long after hell has frozen over.
How sick is it when we are warned against open criticism? Well, bring it on little children; the empty suit can't stand the heat, we'll toss him out and right back to Crawford...where he'll wake up on a cold November morning later this year wondering if it's too late to make up those drills in the Texas Air National Guard. Schmuck.
posted by Jo Fish on 02.25.04 at 05:30 PM
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Shorter Henninger: Don't you *dare* say that the Emperor is buck nekkid.
It would be interesting to start reposting newspaper articles about Lincoln during the Civil War, Wilson during WWI, Roosevelt during WWII, etc.
Who the hell creates these myths: Americans don't critize sitting Presidents during wars. Get over it - Americans bitch about their Presidents, even those that fight legitimate wars in a semi-competent manner.
posted by: Bryan on 02.25.04 at 11:48 PM [permalink]
So does that mean that the Republicans were undermining national security and putting our country at risk while we had forces in the Balkans, while at home they were dragging us all through a $52 million investigation of Clinton's integrity or lack thereof?
The hypocrisy and double-standard spewed by conservatives continues to amaze and astound.
Here's what the 26th President had to say about this.
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
-- Theodore Roosevelt(Republican when the party still had honor)
posted by: Jim Price on 02.26.04 at 10:40 AM [permalink]
it's too late for indignation. this cabal of lunatics should have been stopped in 2000, and would have been if we had a real democracy.
posted by: tim on 02.26.04 at 12:22 PM [permalink]
