Liberals refuse to admit Obama's policies look a lot like Bush's | by Jack Hunter »
Posted By tadair919 2 weeks, 1 day ago in Political OpinionToday, everyone is denouncing big government. Since Obama's election, tea party protests have sprung up across the country and conservatives are now rallying loud and clear against Washington's spending. But liberal politicians and pundits who are calling conservative activists "crazy" -- or to borrow MSNBC host Chris Matthew's phrase, "wing nuts" -- have it exactly backwards. It was crazy that anyone who might claim the label "conservative" would also claim to be a part of George W. Bush's GOP. Today's conservatives haven't lost their sanity -- they've regained it.
In the meantime, the Left has gone completely nuts. Worshipping a president who promised "change," liberals continue to ignore the fact that little has. On foreign policy -- the Left's primary gripe against Bush -- Obama's war mentality is remarkably similar to his predecessor. In drawing down in Iraq, Obama has simply transferred the massive U.S. presence from Iraq to Afghanistan. Meanwhile, controversial war on terror-era measures like the Patriot Act, extraordinary rendition, and warrantless wiretapping remain intact. Notes observant liberal Noam Chomsky, "As Obama came into office, [former Secretary of State] Condoleezza Rice predicted he would follow the policies of Bush's second term, and that is pretty much what happened, apart from a different rhetorical style."
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Klarissa2 weeks, 1 day ago
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But on the one-year anniversary of the last election, Obama Democrats have proven themselves no less hypocritical than Bush Republicans, particularly on the issue that most defined the Left during the last administration: foreign policy.
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Though few will admit it, liberals who voted for a "change" from Bush have not gotten it. And like the Republicans before them, the Democrats' faith in their president will likely continue to blind them to the fact that they may never get it. -
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tadair9192 weeks, 1 day ago
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You know. The word "neocon" has been described in several ways by many different people. Chomsky has his definition. Historians have theirs, and so on and so forth.
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Aside from the group that openly calls themselves the neocons (kristol, cheney, wolfowitz, perle) and those working through think tanks such as PNAC; the most recent definition seems to be as follows:
"Anybody who forfeits their conservative values to support the status-quo."
In the past, these RINO's have done nothing good for the party. The only reason they've won their elections is by attaching a phoney -R to the end of their names. In the end, they succeed only in doing precisely the opposite of what they campaigned on.
Unfortunately, this time was different. The tyrannical years of bush/cheney was more than just an inconvenience. It was a travesty to the GOP. The neocon administration succeeded in not only destroying the image, but disenfranchising genuine conservatives, and alienating the youth who usually do not know any better except to loyally toe the party line.
Yesterday, I scoffed out loud under the news that Code Pink was no longer a staunch anti-war group, and that they were "reassessing" their stance on the war in Afghanistan, to "support women."
What this means, is that we don't just have a problem with the so-called right. The same exact fallacy that allowed Republicans to loyally defend their tribal leaders, bush and cheney, is precisely the same fallacy that is currently allowing Democrats to faithfully defend today's policies.
After a year, it is clear that we have birthed a new group similar to the neocons. I'll call them "neolibs."
Those that will completely forfeit the liberal values, in order to support the status-quo.
This has become glaringly obvious by the recent revelations of the Code Pink leaders and other apathetics in the so-called anti-war left. (Not to mention opponents of spying, torture, indefinite detention, military spending, et al.)
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tadair9192 weeks, 1 day ago
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Best speech about neocons ever given by a member of Congress:
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mesodude2 weeks, 1 day ago
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LMAO...Cons? You DO realize that the premise of this story--that Obama's Presidency is no different from Bush's--only FURTHER confirms that you've all been acting like mentally unbalanced, lying hypocrites (because none of the teabaggery you're now engaging occurred under Bush)? LOL
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CRYMTYPHON2 weeks, 1 day ago
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It is not that we libs refuse to admit
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that Obama is keeping all the bush policies
We just can't multi-task the damned argument.
Obviously we spend most of our time on propeller
arguing with the palin/bachman/avoth/prejean crowd
that Obama is not using the census to organize
acorn marchers to seize the nation's guns while the
dollar and the constitution are canceled.
How the heck can we deal with that reality,
- and then switch over to the 'Obama is just bush'?
Why can't you people just decide on one damned lie and go with that?
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truthiness2 weeks, 1 day ago
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controversial war on terror-era measures like the Patriot Act, extraordinary rendition, and warrantless wiretapping remain intact
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this is the only sentence in the article which is true. and he has taken heat from the left on these issues.
as far as continuing the war in afghanistan goes, this is what he promised during the campaign. so why would we be surprised?
those few of us who actually pacifists and non-interventionists, do oppose this war as well under both presidents.
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