WELL IT’S ABOUT TIME
This article was featured yesterday in the New York Metro:
New York Metro: When Good News Feels Bad
It’s a very good article written by a New York liberal which I highly recommend you read. Basically the gist of it is captured in the following excerpt:
Three months after failing to defeat Bush in our election, plenty of New Yorkers privately, half-consciously hoped for his comeuppance in Iraq’s. You know who you are . . . If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones saying or doing it, we become mere political short-sellers, hoping for bad news because it’s good for our ideological investment.
Good Lord, it’s taken them this long to figure that out? Have they never noticed that the very things Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden say sound eerily like Michael Moore? (Hey Mike, calling the terrorists in Iraq “minutemen” and predicting their victory doesn’t endear you to much more than 10% of Americans).
It seems that liberals so far have soothed their consciences by saying that they “support the troops, but not the war.” This writer is right in that there are only two sides here. You are either pulling for America or for the terrorists and thankfully, for the first time since Afghanistan, liberals seem increasingly aware of this. It’s one thing to have political disagreements, but to be pulling against your own country because you despise the President something in a completely different category.
-MPAW