Apres moi le deluge
What is it with the Left and Valerie Plame?
George Voinovich writes: Actually, it's more a plea for moderation -- which Columbus Guy also seemed to disdain in his review of the French election: "Hurrah for a real choice between true left and true right," -- paraphrase.
Good God, yes. Give me an honest Communist any day of the week over a "moderate," which has no meaning except, "I'm a nice person and everyone around me is a child-hating idiot." At least the communist has thought about things and adopted a position. What has the moderate done, except try to mix private property with no property?
posted by ColumbusGuy @ 3:50 AM
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The left? How about the law -abiding, the conscientious and the competent. You don't have to be a fellow traveler to be appalled by the rapacious mendacity and thorough-going mediocrity of Scooter and his crew. If these guys hadn't flubbed so badly, no one would know Joe Wilson's name today.
Like Judge Al is learning, dealing with petty political disputes in a high (ham)- handed manner doesn't work
My original question still stands -- how would the people who can parse every strand of the Plame affair to determine confidently that nothing wrong ever happened have reacted if a CIA agent was accidentally or intentionally outed by the Clinton administration? Far from being a pointless exercise in "black is white, and white is orange," it is an exercise in empathy -- which is the basis for any reasonable discourse (but which has been largely outlawed lately as a sign of weak-mindedness). The right had Clinton murdering people in the Arkansas woods; a serial rapist; and bombing Osama bin Laden's camp in Afghanistan solely to divert attention from Monica-gate. I'd venture that they did this on far less evidence, circumstantial or otherwise, than exists in the Plame affair. If people engaged more often in the simple exercise of looking through another's eyes, I think our discourse would be more productive.
Obviously, this can apply to the left as well as the right. Actually, it's more a plea for moderation -- which Columbus Guy also seemed to disdain in his review of the French election: "Hurrah for a real choice between true left and true right," -- paraphrase.)
And, I guess, you also prefer "You're guy is a serial rapist and murderer and mine has never made a mistake or done anything wrong in his life."
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