White House, lefty blogs going ape over
righty rejoicing at Obama’s failure
by Rick Moran
American Thinker
October 3, 2009
If you did not support the president’s trip to Denmark to lobby for the Olympics coming to Chicago, you are an unpatriotic moron.
If you opposed bringing the games here, you hate America.
Those are the deep thoughts brought to us by the netnuts in blogdom and even the White House, who equated RNC Chair Michael Steele’s opposition to Obama’s trip (that 43% of Americans opposed also) with not “rooting” for America.
Now some might think it hypocritical for the left to point to anyone and say they hate America or wish America to fail. Given the incredible crap George Bush had to put up for 8 years from this crew, it might behoove our lefty friends to recall their own cheering on the insurgency in Iraq, gloating over American casualties, and generally acting as if losing the war would be a good thing.
And when they protest a bit too much that it’s simply not true, remind them of what Gary Kamiya wrote in Salon Magazine as our troops were rolling to victory over Saddam’s army: (Via Ace )
I have a confession: I have at times, as the war has unfolded, secretly wished for things to go wrong. Wished for the Iraqis to be more nationalistic, to resist longer. Wished for the Arab world to rise up in rage. Wished for all the things we feared would happen. I’m not alone: A number of serious, intelligent, morally sensitive people who oppose the war have told me they have had identical feelings…
The article continues at American Thinker.
