[quote=“Toe Tag”]Just for the record, this is some bullshit spin, like when they try to pin the cluster-f*ck in Iraq on congress, when in fact it was, is, and remains, a Republican war. Just check the record.
Speaking of the record, the OP tried to stir this up by quoting a post about the left hating Bush, but its quite plain that there are hundreds if not thousands of posts where the conservative wingnuts here rant on and on and on and on every month foaming at the mouth about Che Guevara, Noam Chomsky, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, the red menace, or some other bogeyman that gets them into a lather.
Move along people, nothing to see here.[/quote]
In your cretinous eagerness to bash those who are critical of Guevara and his ilk, you unwittingly suggest a good point: the far right’s hypocritical hype about the left hating Bush, as given in the first post in this thread, is equally as silly as the far left’s whinging about the right hating Communists and their fellow travellers. There is strawman argumentation and empty-headed partisanship on both sides of the coin here.
And furthermore, it is not just the left who loathe Bush, and it is not just the right who loathe despots such as Guevara. Centrists and nonpartisan, intellectually honest people have voiced and are voicing their disapproval of both Bush and your “bogeymen.” I know it is difficult for politically narrowminded people like yourself to grok, but sometimes people you don’t like are right. Just because Ann Coulter or Michael Moore says something doesn’t make it fatuous, though it’s mighty tempting to think otherwise (and granted, in Coulter’s case 99% of what she spews is rubbish).
It goes like this: “you lefties are irrational in your hatred of Bush” is just as moronic as “you righties are irrational in your hatred of Che.” I think the words of Robert Conquest, someone who had the temerity to challenge the political left with the inevitable outcome of Marxism-Leninism in terms of body counts, and who you undoubtedly despise for doing the very same, are somewhat apropos here (save for the first two aspects of the quote, in your case): “not even high intelligence and a sensitive spirit are of any help once the facts of a situation are deduced from a political theory, rather than vice versa.”
