Excellent! I know I'm the only person in America that would DARE compare Laura Bush to Hillary Clinton, but this article at CNN immediately made me think of Hillary a few years ago.
You know, it's never the policy maker's fault. It's always someone else's fault. No matter that your husband just signed an order for a grudge/oil war that has killed a thousand of this country's young people. Don't even think for a second that it might be because the president likes to demonize Gay people when half of the country doesn't think it's the right thing to do. And it can't possibly be because of the outrage surrounding the way many African American votes were just thrown out and not counted in Florida when Bush was appointed president (not even to mention that Bush refused to speak at the NAACP after he became president). Oh, and don't mention the ties to big business either that call his handler's decisions into question. The problems with the country must be because of the media, since they won't shut up about it… Maybe we should strip that constitutional amendment too with an addition to the 'Patriot' Act.
I know, if it's politics and Good, you are supposed to take all the credit from everyone and if it's bad, you're supposed to blame everyone else.
Now if only we could get The Chief Monkey Puppet's wife to say "Vast Left Wing Conspiracy"…
One Comment
I'm sure it will eventually come to some bleating about a "vast left-wing conspiracy." Only, who are the members of the left wing these days? Al Franken can't be the only one. There are plenty of rotten apples to choose from the Right-Wing Media Tree…
It's easy to get angry about all the stuff that's going on in the news these days: 1,000 dead in Iraq (but how many have been wounded?), big business ties, etc., etc. But what about the stuff we should be angry about that doesn't make the nightly news?
About 2,700 people died in the 9/11 attack on the WTC. Very dramatic. Great footage. Ratings soared. But over 3,000 children die every year from malnutrition in this country (don't ask me to quote the source, but I think I read it on CNN). I guess watching a toddler slowly starve to death doesn't make for a sensational story.
The whole voting debacle is infuriating enough, too. But there's plenty of blame to go around. Yeah, a few thousand votes (hundred thousand?) got thrown out, miscounted, whatever. But how many people just didn't vote at all? Our voting turnout rate is appalling. If just 1% of those people voted, then the last four years may have been very different.