The lefties heard from Obama what they wanted to hear, the so-called ‘conservative elite’ (RINO editorial writers) heard what they wanted to hear and the welfare mentality heard what they wanted to hear, etc. etc., during the campaign. Obama is pretty amazing that he can speak so well out of both sides of his mouth and trick not only liberals, but those pesky, highly educated snobs. It is truly remarkable.

I remember the “peace” movement back in the 60′s and 70′s. What we have today is a ramped up version of that. It’s always been political, but now it’s calculated, yet the hypocrisy you write of is certainly true.

They are anti-American. It is actually even worse than this. They are anti Western culture. They are against the very foundations of what this country was built on. I don’t care about questioning their patriotism. What does it mean to be patriot to a country that is moving in a direction opposed to what you believe? The country they want to live in and the country I want to live in are two different places.

Hell hath no fury like a non-combatant.

“I mean, like, you know…he’s like, black and everything. And he’s a socialist. We can’t look like we’re hating on him for expanding the war and keeping us there longer than even Bush intended. IT’S…SO…HARD! *SOB* It’s almost as bad as having to get a job, or take a bath!”

The “Peace Vigil” in Hudson, NY (NY-20) has disappeared also. For the last several years a sad-looking but persistent little group stood in a park on Saturdays with anti-war signs etc.

Of course it wasn’t anti-war, it was just anti-Bush and anti-America.

Hypocrites.

Distraction of the day to implement the next block of socialism while we’re not looking ………..with the help of some republicans.

What are we trying to achieve in Afghanistan?

Following the September 11 attacks, we definitely needed to deliver a punch in the nose to the country and regime that served as the home to the locus of the terrorist planning. Done. Check.

Obama’s assessment of the importance of the wars in Iraq vs Afghanistan has been all wrong. What is the strategic importance of Afghanistan? Iraq has the resources and sufficiently educated populace to be a beacon to ambitious young Arabs seeking opportunity. Afghanistan offers a rough terrain and populous with no where near a sufficient aggregate education to function as a modern economy.

And let’s say, unlike the Russian effort, the US is successful. If you were a terrorist, what would you do? I’m thinking, move somewhere else.

Provided Obama doesn’t undermine our success in Iraq, the replacement of Saddam with a more-or-less market economy will provide a self-sustaing stream of dividends for years to come. Not necessarily close cooperation with the US–Iraq will surely follow its own interests–but by offering Arabs actual prosperity as an alternative to frustration distractions (symbolic terror acts on the other side of the globe), George Bush has altered the course of history for much the better.

Is “Dope and Chains”….

Does this mean that Code Pink want be attending Committee Hearings in our State Capitol like they have for the last eight years. That is so sad! I enjoyed seeing the Clowns. Don’t get to go to the Circus anymore, to busy watching C-Span. Well I guess the Democrat Chairman of these important Committees, that had become Ring Masters, will be joining the ranks of all of the Americans that their Liiberal Polices have put out of work. Maybe now the Chairmans can get a Teleprompter instead of reading from the Code Pink Signs.

I remember when, after the US pulled out of South Vietnam with the agreement that we’d be there to help if the North invaded, the “peace” movement had not one word to say when, a few months later, the North violated the peace agreement and invaded the South once more. They also had not one word to say when Vietnam invaded Laos and, IIRC, Cambodia.

And not one word in the media about how war was, apparently, only immoral when waged by Americans.

At least back then, they were willing to protest the war even when a Democrat was in the White House.

This should give you some insight to their reasoning

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Why we burned the flag.
Re: Amherst Forum (Admin)
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 15:39:02 GMT
From: burningissue

We are a group of people from the local community who are responsible for the flag-burning protest at the Assembly for Patriotism at Amherst College on Thursday, October 18, 2001. We don’t have one identity. We represent no institution. We each come from different struggles, and we all bring different ideas to the table. We are writing to respond to the heated dialogue surrounding last Thursday’s events to explain our motivations behind this action.

The American flag represents freedom, democracy, and unity to some, but to others it symbolizes the opposite. The United States of America is built upon a history of violence and repression. This began with the genocide of Native Americans who inhabited this land before the arrival of European colonizers and it continued as Black people were brought here as slaves to provide the labor necessary for the country’s development. Still today, Mexicans living in the West are regarded as “illegal aliens” in a land that was their home long before it was conquered by the U.S. in 1848, and immigrants continue to arrive every day to this country sold on the “American dream”, only to be forced into menial work deemed unfit for “real Americans.” The construction and maintenance of America depends on the marginalization and exploitation of those excluded.

This nation was shaped not only by founding fathers, politicians, generals and businessmen, but also by the popular struggles that resisted them, from slave revolts and “Indian wars” to the Civil Rights Movement and urban uprisings. While many struggled for liberation, the U.S. military fought wars of conquest for global supremacy and economic domination in the name of freedom. Freedom means different things to different people. Freedoms of property ownership and upward mobility are granted to some Americans at the expense of freedoms of survival and self-determination for much of the rest of the world. At this time, the American flag is being invoked to celebrate one particular vision of freedom, without regard to contradictions within and resistance to that vision.

And it rambles on for much the same…….

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I don’t see any reason why they should stop protesting, all their reasons are still there…