No Alarms & No Surprises
I can't imagine anyone will be surprised or enlightened about this story's confirmation of the Bush administration's continual duplicity, but I'm glad someone is crunching the numbers, even if the effort comes several years too late to be really useful to the nearly 4000 American soldiers and untold numbers of Iraqis who have been killed as a result of George W. Bush's ideologically motivated lies to the American people:
WASHINGTON - A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.
The study concluded that the statements "were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses."
In other non-surprising but still horrific news, Mitt Romney, the Republican Mormon milkshake-loving presidential candidate, has encountered black people on the campaign trail. And what do you imagine he might do in the face of this unencountered species? Romney goes with what he knows: spouting racial stereotypes about "bling" to children and limply reciting outdated hip-hop lyrics. Far from being an amusing anecdote of Romney's travels (though I have no doubt his campaign staff will spin it as such), this story emphasizes Romney's inherent, if ignorant, racism toward people who were referred to in his religious texts for 130 years as "cursed". (Though, in this regard, the members of Romney's faith are, historically speaking, little different from most other U.S. religions.) Welcome to America, dawg!
Now that at least two of the leading Republican candidates have demonstrated that they value their religious teachings above and beyond comparatively recent documents like the U.S. Constitution, and have no qualms about imposing their non-scientific mythologies on everyone else, isn't it time somebody called bullshit? Here we have yet another disgraceful legacy of the Bush administration: our presidential candidates (or at least only the Republican candidates--so far) must now bear the seal of approval from Christendom, even if this seal has only been received in the candidate's imagination. Gods help us, if not them.
WASHINGTON - A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.
The study concluded that the statements "were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses."
In other non-surprising but still horrific news, Mitt Romney, the Republican Mormon milkshake-loving presidential candidate, has encountered black people on the campaign trail. And what do you imagine he might do in the face of this unencountered species? Romney goes with what he knows: spouting racial stereotypes about "bling" to children and limply reciting outdated hip-hop lyrics. Far from being an amusing anecdote of Romney's travels (though I have no doubt his campaign staff will spin it as such), this story emphasizes Romney's inherent, if ignorant, racism toward people who were referred to in his religious texts for 130 years as "cursed". (Though, in this regard, the members of Romney's faith are, historically speaking, little different from most other U.S. religions.) Welcome to America, dawg!
Now that at least two of the leading Republican candidates have demonstrated that they value their religious teachings above and beyond comparatively recent documents like the U.S. Constitution, and have no qualms about imposing their non-scientific mythologies on everyone else, isn't it time somebody called bullshit? Here we have yet another disgraceful legacy of the Bush administration: our presidential candidates (or at least only the Republican candidates--so far) must now bear the seal of approval from Christendom, even if this seal has only been received in the candidate's imagination. Gods help us, if not them.
posted by Chazzbot at 9:54 AM
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Who are you supporting in the primaries?
I think I'm coming around to Obama. If Billary becomes the Democratic nominee and McBane becomes the Republican nominee, I might go for McBane.
My left-wing choices, Richardson and Kucinich, have both dropped out, and Obama has just about won me over with his oratory.
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