tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post3438473881924008544..comments2023-10-16T07:13:12.123-05:00Comments on A plain blog about politics: Kenyan, Greek, WhateverJonathan Bernsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15931039630306253241noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-81093595104777848262011-11-23T11:07:43.617-06:002011-11-23T11:07:43.617-06:00For one thing, anonymous, its different because De...For one thing, anonymous, its different because Democrats actually don't say Republicans hate Obama because he's black. Stuff that happens is different from stuff that doesn't happen.Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-11575405824196819092011-11-22T14:27:52.428-06:002011-11-22T14:27:52.428-06:00How is this any different from Democrats saying th...How is this any different from Democrats saying the Republicans hate Obama because he's black, when it's actually because he's a Democrat? It's not like Republicans were embracing Clinton, Carter, etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-91178121548316865762011-11-22T13:27:50.595-06:002011-11-22T13:27:50.595-06:00It's really the Democrats' fault, for nomi...It's really the Democrats' fault, for nominating all these anti-American candidates... Bill Clinton, you'll remember, took a very shady trip to the Soviet Union as a student then participated in an anti-American demonstration in London... John Kerry threw his medals away and spoke out against the American war effort... Dukakis refused to let anyone in Massachusetts say the Pledge of Allegiance.... Obama of course had the temerity to be born in Kenya, then slavishly followed a virulently anti-American preacher.<br /><br />I don't see how you can blame the GOP for any of this.TNhttp://www.debris-slide.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-4654465275352953862011-11-22T13:01:10.957-06:002011-11-22T13:01:10.957-06:00Bush was a milquetoast in this as in other matters...Bush was a milquetoast in this as in other matters. While you're re-reading stuff, check out Jeanne Kirkpatrick's truly loathsome "San Francisco Democrats" speech from the '84 Republican convention. It contrasts the great, stalwart Democrats of Kirkpatrick's youth, like Harry Truman (who, of course, Kirkpatrick's real role model, Joe McCarthy, was smearing in similar ways at the time) against Dems like Carter and Mondale who are "afraid to be resolute [and] ashamed to speak of America as a great nation." She also has a long litany of charges against an unnamed "They" who allegedly blame America instead of terrorists for terrorist attacks and the like. This speech may really be the template for that rhetoric in its contemporary version.<br /><br />But then, as Ron E. says, even the Founders spent a lot of time accusing each other of being traitors, closet monarchists, French revolutionary operatives and the like. The <i>Founders.</i> Who as we know from today's Tea Partiers were infallible, so apparently all those charges were actually true.Jeffnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-10506601297105867002011-11-22T12:27:46.709-06:002011-11-22T12:27:46.709-06:00yes, but anticolonialists of a feather flock toget...yes, but anticolonialists of a feather flock together....Democrats all share the same flaws of character and outlook.Andrew Sprunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17601269968798865106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-61097164920895461882011-11-22T12:10:22.879-06:002011-11-22T12:10:22.879-06:00"Isn't it more significant that, in 1988,..."Isn't it more significant that, in 1988, the Republican nominee acknowledged that poverty exists, and that it is a problem?"<br /><br />Hear, hear.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-39298487137093711172011-11-22T11:30:56.021-06:002011-11-22T11:30:56.021-06:00I have a hunch the "My opponent doesn't l...I have a hunch the "My opponent doesn't love America as much as I do" line was first used 200 years before George HW Bush was nominated.Ron E.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-55024955468725515142011-11-22T11:29:59.787-06:002011-11-22T11:29:59.787-06:00Isn't it more significant that, in 1988, the R...Isn't it more significant that, in 1988, the Republican nominee acknowledged that poverty exists, and that it is a problem?Gordon Danningnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-64517715616833259632011-11-22T11:18:05.189-06:002011-11-22T11:18:05.189-06:00I suspect you have way too much time on your hands...I suspect you have way too much time on your hands...you're re-reading GHWB's acceptance speech?Don Coffinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07198988872512792834noreply@blogger.com