Author Archives: John Wallenfeldt

Why the Right Wants to Erase Bush : Dumping Dubya

This is exactly what I needed to read this morning.

I have noticed a lot of Bush apologists writing articles trying to explain away all the bad their idiot king did. You know, like half-heartedly signing onto the Iraq Surge makes up for starting the war in the first place. Even though, it was only one of a few things to help matters. And oh! we’re still at war there.

Also the bit about the stimulus plan and how that makes up for all the deregulation and purposeful non-regulating that helped caused the financial crash.

“Gee, I’m sorry I knocked up your daughter and ran away from my responsibilities as a father, but if I sent you a check for $50 would that cover the damages?” Yeah, it’s stupid bad like that.

So, I needed this kind of read.

(T)hat’s kinda weird given the former adoration directed toward the Caligula Kid. Isn’t that kind of intellectually dishonest? Can it be that the right in America is actually disingenuous? I mean, everyone knows they are destructive, selfish, hypocritical, racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic, imperialistic, nasty, brutish and short. But who would have thought they were dishonest too?

Titus’ star rising as Ensign struggles – Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009 | 2 a.m. – Las Vegas Sun

Here’s hoping this is a trend that will continue.

Ensign has to go. He won’t, but it is nice to see his influence diminished.

Titus needs to gain more clout. Harry Reid is spineless. Shelley Berkley’s anti-Obama speil during the primaries last year really turned me off to anything she has to say anymore. Honestly that goes for the whole damn crowd who went beyond being for Hillary and into character assassination just for laughs.

This means nothing for you outside of Nevada, but just liked the article.

Obama’s Big Gamble – Working with the world, not against it. | Fareed Zakaria | Newsweek.com

I like this article. It points out how far we have left to go to be a proper member of the world, and how we finally got the right guy in charge to help us get there.

World leaders don’t get us. In his speech to the Congressional Black Caucus, the President tells of some unnamed foreign leader who told him:

‘We don’t understand it. You’re trying to make sure everybody has health care and they’re putting a Hitler mustache on you. That doesn’t make sense to me.”

We’ve got a guy trying to do the right thing, and the conservatives are demonizing him for it. It is awful, but I suppose if you need a thermometer to see if you are actually doing good works (instead of just posturing that God is behind your: bombing brown people, raping nature, condoning child sex abuse and/or marital infidelity, stealing from the poor and taking lobbyist money for it, etc.) is how pissed the Republicans are at you. If they are chanting in the streets and packing assault rifles, you’re probably on the side of the angels.