A flip-flop by any other name

September 9, 2006

Guest Post by Morbo

I was amused by The Washington Post’s “analysis” of President George W. Bush’s admission that secret prisons do exist and his decision to put terrorism suspects on trial.

According to The Post, Bush made a series of “forceful speeches on terrorism” and unleashed a “dramatic announcement that he has sent top-tier terrorism suspects” to Guantanamo. What this means, according to The Post, is that Bush is “challenging Congress to immediately give the administration authority to try notorious al-Qaeda figures such as Khalid Sheik Mohammed by military commissions.” Thus, he has “shifted the argument with Democratic critics of national security policies and competence.”

Let’s recap in case anyone is confused. When President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore or Sen. John F. Kerry adopt an altered or different position, they are flip-flopping vacillators who can’t make up their minds, men obviously not to be trusted with the reins of government because they are not decisive and lack backbones.

When Bush does it, he is “forceful.” He “challenges” his critics and his change is merely a “shift.”

Everyone got that? Good.

God, I love the liberal media.

IOKIYAR. no flip-flopping there, no sirree Bob, he’s just ‘forceful’ and ‘challenges his critics’ and shifty. oopsy, i meant his change is only a ‘shift.’

assholes.

  • It’s the old demonization game. When your opponent does it, it’s bad. When you do the same thing, it’s good:

    Women are ‘Hags”. Men are “Ruggedly Handsome”
    Women are “Bitchy.” Men are “Forceful”
    Gays are “Sex-crazed” Straights are “Studs”
    Liberals “Impose PC Behavior”. Conservatives “Uphold traditional values”
    Democrats are “weak flip-floppers”. Republicans are “Deciders”

    Makes me hurl.

  • Republicans, and their adoring fans in what used to be called “the fourth estate”, are truly laughable (when they’re not simply dangerous or pathetic). If Americans had a lick of sense there would only be enough of them (the obscenely rich) to form a small town. The rest of them are simply suckers.

  • Ed Stephan: If Americans had a lick of sense…

    oh please! there’d be no foxnews. there’d be President Gore or President Kerry. there’d be all these informative documentaries on TV every night and not shite like Amer. Idol and the like. i could go on but it pains me muchly to once again, think along those lines.

    BTW, isn’t it funny how all the conspiracy theories about which we were accused, e.g., voter fraud, have turned out to be true?

  • It looked like Bush skipped over the admitting the secret prisons exist part and went right to the putting them in Gitmo part. The fact of the secret prisons existing should have been the story itself. And a huge story. But no, the press looks at it as if it were a clever ploy. Once again they miss the story and focus on their insider gambits.

  • Dale: Once again they miss the story and focus on their insider gambits.

    one would almost think that they did it on purpose…or were desperately trying to protect themselves from what the NSA dug up on them.

  • I don’t care if there are secret prisons where these guys are skinned alive. When are you gonna learn if given no quarter give no quarter you bleeding heart assholes. By the way B.J. Clinton was degrading the oval office while Bin Laden was planning.

  • I don’t care if there are secret prisons where these guys are skinned alive. When are you gonna learn if given no quarter give no quarter you bleeding heart assholes. By the way B.J. Clinton was degrading the oval office while Bin Laden was planning.

    I’ll assume the “assholes” part is a blanket write-off of all that we believe in and hold dear. The “bleeding heart” part, I will proudly take ownership of. My heart bleeds for the poor, the sick, the families and friends of those killed on 9/11, the families of friends of those killed in Iraq, the families and friends of those killed and tortured by Saddam Hussein; my heart bleeds for the death of the values for which this great nation once stood, my heart bleeds over the victory that has been given to Osama Bin Laden and his ilk by our own people by allowing themselves to be manipulated by fear and lied to over and over and over again. My heart bleeds for you; one who doesn’t understand the principles of compassion and meekness emobodied in the message of Jesus Christ; you know not what you do. My heart bleeds over the loss of our innocence and the assumption of power by a wealthy and powerful few who, whether complicit or not in the actual planning and execution of the tragic events over which we mourn this day, have benefitted from it greatly. Congratulations, Mr. Bully. You’ve brought your kingdom, once limited to the playgrounds on which you taunted and teased the meek “bleeding hearts” into the realm of adults. You may take joy in our suffering but you will suffer too at the hands of the evil to which you bow.

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