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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
I'm not at all referring to mainstream democrats. I'm just referring to some of the extremists in the democratic party. They are a very small minority. As you said, there are plenty of extremists on the other side that are pretty bad too.
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Yeah, the ones that bomb abortion clinics, wave "God hates fags" signs at soldiers' funerals, who threatened the hero soldier who 'fessed up about the illegal torture going on at Abu Girab. How many of them are Democrats, do you think? Oh, right...
I'm sorry; Rupert; I'm deliberately trying to get you riled, because, like Irishtrekker, I too am sick of the "liberals hate America" and "you're a terrorist" crap that gets waved in my face virtually every time I point out that Bush is a terrible President. See? It's really annoying to get lumped in with a bunch of lunatics, isn't it? And I know you very kindly and genuinely clarified and said, "I don't mean all Democrats" and I know you didn't. But come on; when do you look at the extremism in your own party and say, "Also not acceptable, people!"? With the exception of eco-terrorists (jerks, you make environmentalists look bad, so knock it off!), you don't see many liberal issues that drive people to actual physical violence, but there sure seem to be a lot of conservative-minded folk willing to threaten and attack to get their views across. And yet it's the liberals that are crazy radicals?
What makes me just sick in the midst of all this awful religous extremism and the violence that goes hand-in-hand with it, is that Bush's hubris on Iraq successfully destablized the one secular Arab nation in that area and has basically handed it over to Iran.
Yeah, yeah, I know, Hussein and torture and innocent Iraqis and all that. And he was a monster, no question. But, looking at it from a purely selfish point of view, Iraq didn't attack us on 9/11 and Hussein's reign kept Iran focused on him. And now they don't need to worry about him and look how busy Iran has gotten!
To go back to the original point of pgardn's, though, yes, Anderson Cooper managed to turn one on-air rant about Katrina into a vehicle to news stardom, but I don't think he's any more trustworthy than the next news guy. Which is to say, not very trustworthy. Blech.
And religious extremism is bad! Bad, bad, bad!
And Irish, I hope you're doing okay-- I imagine it's been very, very stressful there the past two days. Good on the Brits for unravelling the plot.