Life Imitates Art (After The Election)
Title for Will Ferrell's HBO show about George W. Bush:
"You're Welcome, America"
Barack Obama's response to anti-tax protestors:
"You would think they'd be saying thank you."
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posted by LAGuy @ 12:24 AM
11 Comments:
The whole thing Obama said is surprisingly repulsive. People are unhappy about higher taxes and instead of answering them, he mocks them (and then raised their taxes). Bush may have made people mad with his war, but he didn't say the protestors, no matter how hateful, should go screw themselves.
I'm looking forward to the Obama farewell show.
The Iraq war wasn't "Bush's war" -- is was approved overwhelmingly by both the House and Senate:
http://freedomagenda.com/iraq/wmd_quotes.html
(Keep scrolling for the voting records and statements by prominent Democrats.)
It became "Bush's war" among Democrats only when public opinion shifted.
That connection rang bells for me, too. I was hoping a high-recognition blogger would make the same association and articulate it.
If Ferrell had any guts he'd engage in similar mockery of the current president - and while yes, he did a good impression of George Bush, and doesn't look a whit like Barack Obama, SNL in the early-on, with Chevy Chase doing Gerald Ford, proved you don't need a likeness to effectively mock a president.
'...It became "Bush's war" among Democrats only when public opinion shifted.'
1:57 PM, April 17, 2010
Slight disagreement...it became "Bush's war" when the Democrat Party (and a complicit media) decided it was in their political interest to attempt to move public opinion against the Iraq War to leverage it against the President and Republicans to gain political power. They were shamelessly successful.
It became "Bush's War" among Democrats when Bush's promised WMDs never appeared. Shamelessly or otherwise.
I'd like to see the quote where Bush promised there would be WMDs.
And no, a quote from Daily Kos doesn't count.
Exactly. What President Bush actually said was, paraphrasing, "some say we should wait until an attack is imminent, but by then it would be too late."
How many tons of quotes from Democrats from the 90s up till the Iraq War, and from Clinton on down, stating (probably correctly) that Saddam had WMD and we should do something about it do we need before we drop this silly claim that WMD was Bush's sole claim anyway.
Bush didn't say it, he had Colin Powell say it to the UN Security Council. Complete with charts.
Clinton and his administration absolutely also believed Saddam had WMDs in the 90s. And they may have been right. But that's not substantially more relevant than German mustard gas supplies in 1917 would be today. The facts at the time the decision was made to invade, and who made the decision, are what count. The buck stops at Bush for this one.
I don't think so. Clinton and many others in the 90s changed American policy to one of supporting regime change because of his WMD. The Dems in the Senate actually wrote a letter demanding Clinton do something about this threat.
Then, when Bush took office, the Dems continued making major statements about the threat of WMD. Bush, meanwhile, gave plenty of reasons to invade Iraq, WMD only being ohne--one that was emphasized in the UN because that was one of the ways Saddam was breaking UN resolutions (and make no mistake, he was breaking them--it was the UN that wasn't going to do anything no matter what, it wasn't American being mistaken about him defying the resolutions.)
Whether Saddam got rid of his weapons in time or didn't have major amounts, we'll never know, I guess. Bush wasn't willing to pursue it, and you can be sure Obama won't. Nevertheless, we did find major labs devoted to creating them, and the material needed to make them. We also know, even though he destroyed large amounts of documents, that Saddam had the intention to make them as long as he was alive, and the process only takes a few weeks, so the image that WMD didn't matter is one of those absurd lies that anti-war people keep repeating, not an embarrassment to Bush, much less a reason to hate him from the very side that was saying the same thing he was saying at the time.
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