He botched a joke. He admitted it, and much to my dismay, apologized today, not to the Preznit and his loudmouth sycophants, but to the troops and their families who are the suffering props in yet another Bush political play.
Rush doesn't misspeak.
He is an uncompassionate, vicious, lying bully and he means exactly what he says. He doesn't apologize. And, i'm going to keep saying this until i'm blue in the face...he is the ugly face of the modern Republican party and its approach to politics. In fact, he's interviewing the Preznit today. The Preznit has nothing better than to do than talk to a fat drug addict bully who mocks seriously ill people.
Nice.
Also, I may be wishful thinking, but I don't think this will do a great amount of damage, considering that the bad news from iraq will again soon be dominating the discourse.
Did anyone see the headline in the Tribune today? Iraq Stands Up Against U.S.
That isn't going to play well with the electorate. The dems just need to hammer this issue: the Prime Minister of Iraq telling u.s. troops what to do. U.S. soldier abandoned to Al-Sadr's militia.
The U.S. military does not have a tradition of abandoning its own soldiers to foreign militias, or of taking orders from foreign governments. No commander-in-chief who actually walks the walk, rather than swaggering the swagger, would acquiesce to such a thing. The soldier appears to be of Iraqi descent who is married to an Iraqi woman. Who authorized abandoning him to the enemy? Who is really giving the orders to the U.S. military in Iraq? These are real questions about honor and sacrifice and a war that is now careening out of any control. They are not phony questions drummed up by a partisan media machine to appeal to emotions to maintain power.
And where, by the way, is McCain on this? Silent on Cheney's "no-brainer" on waterboarding. Silent recently on Iraq. But vocal - oh, how vocal - on Kerry. It tells you something about what has happened to him. And to America.
I must say that I preferred Kerry's initial refusal to apologize and focus the attention back on Iraq and exactly how this administration DOES NOT SUPPORT THE TROOPS. In fact, this administration is directly responsible for getting our troops killed. Dems should never apologize to Republicans because your apology is never good enough and it makes you look weak. Eeven after Kerry apologized for the joke tony snow still claims he hasn't apologized. Why bother? Apologizing also demoralizes your base. You are better off going right back at them.
If Kerry's botched joke is fair game, why aren't we talking about Bush's bad wmd joke at the White House Correspondent's dinner, where he pretended to look for wmd's?
Why aren't we talking about the 105 troops that died in Iraq in October, 30% of whom were on extended, second, or third tours of duty?
Why aren't we talking about an administration only seeks to change communication strategies in Iraq, instead of political and military strategies?
Why aren't we talking about the fact that bush has abandoned one of our troops to moqtada al-sadr, as the Prime Minister of Iraq told U.S. troops to back off?
Can you imagine if that happened under a Democratic administration?
Anyone with a brain could tell that Kerry was talking about Bush.
Anyone with a brain could tell that the bush right-wing noise machine would play politics with it and "the liberal media" would let them.
The Bush legacy: playing politics with people's lives. Iraq. Embryonic stem cell research. Katrina. Poverty. Tax Cuts. Global Warming. Health Care. It's all the same story.
How do we maintain power, hide our intentions, reward our friends, punish our enemies, the welfare of the American people be damned.
For this particular story, our troops are once again props for the Bush administration to spew their fake outrage. If the right wing noise machine wants to keep this going that should be part of the response, with the prime evidence being how this administration abandoned a U.S. serviceman to Moqtada Al-Sadr's militia.
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