this is my life and freedom's my profession ([info]halloween) wrote,
@ 2009-03-12 10:55:00
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Entry tags:bush, double standards, obama, politics, rush limbaugh

Time out, I say!


This is the official Democratic response to Rush Limbaugh's assertion that he wanted President Obama to fail. A billboard with some snarky comment on it.

But let me just make a quick point here.

I don't always rush (hahah) to Rush's defense...in fact, I cannot think of a single time I have ever done such a thing. But in this instance, I feel as though I should because I heard Limbaugh further explain his comment. And damned if it doesn't make sense.

Limbaugh explained at CPAC that what the President is doing is in every conceivable way fundamentally against every bit of ideology that the Republican Party stands for, and is his and a lot of other people's minds drives this country closer to socialism than we've been to since FDR.

So his counter was "Why would I want that to succeed?" And he has a point.

To make this more clear, let us look at the past eight years. How many of you more liberally minded folk wanted President Bush to crash and burn? To fail at everything he did to the point of shame and hoping for his non-reelection? It's okay, I was with you on that.

Why, then, is it all of a sudden a terrible thing if some conservative talk show host hopes the President fails at what he and many others consider a dangerous and destructive path for this country? That's all I'm asking.

Double standards are for suckas.


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[info]subweird
2009-03-12 06:34 pm UTC (link)
I never wished for Bush to fail, why would anyone do that?

I wish that I still had a 40 hour a week job. I wish that my someone could get a loan and buy my house that's been for sale for a year now. I wish my buddy was not in Iraq.

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[info]halloween
2009-03-12 07:01 pm UTC (link)
I'm glad you didn't.

But my girlfriend's father is a rabid liberal of sorts who cursed his existence and hoped he'd end up in jail all the time. Failure, of sorts.

I don't want a 40 hours a week, but a lot of my part time co workers can't get full time because of the down economy. I've a co-worker who just got shipped out. It's a bummer.

But I didn't want President Bush to succeed in any of his endeavors because I thought they were dangerous and bad for this country.

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[info]orgdotnews
2009-04-01 04:48 am UTC (link)
Ok, then, what, pray tell, does the Republican party stand for?

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[info]halloween
2009-04-01 04:58 am UTC (link)
Seriously?

gop.pdx.edu/because.html

I mean, that's the concept in a nutshell.

I can answer any other specific questions you might have.

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[info]freyis
2009-03-12 09:38 pm UTC (link)
You and me need to hang out and have fun political type talks sometime soon, it's been a long time. I'm out of the loop, I don't have my Xander politic news feed!

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[info]halloween
2009-03-12 09:58 pm UTC (link)
When are you free?

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[info]freyis
2009-03-12 10:09 pm UTC (link)
I'm free tomorrow, Saturday, Sunday, and a good portion of next week I think.

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[info]neosplinter
2009-03-13 02:17 am UTC (link)
I think Bush should be excised from any real comparison between Republicans and Democrats, simply because he was hands-down the worst President this country has ever seen. So, for example, when I see right-wingers on message boards decrying Obama's policies and then complaining that they have a right to do so because Democrats complained so much about Bush, well... Everyone had a right to want Bush out of office. He hemorrhaged billions into a bogus war, passed out cash and choice positions to his cronies, and shredded Americans' civil liberties. He wasn't just any old Republican that you dislike on the basis of his Republicanism. Does that make sense? I wasn't politically active when Bush Sr. was in office, but I doubt if I had been that I would have hungered for his impeachment like I did for Bush Jr.'s.

So, the difference to me boils down to Bush Jr. being the worst President in history. No matter how much Republicans want to deprecate Obama for his supposed socialism, he hasn't been in office long enough for anyone to declare him a monumental failure or for anyone to accurately predict the long-term consequences of his actions, such as his signing of the bailout bill, his healthcare plan, etc. Not to mention that the critique of Bush Jr. by liberals and conservatives alike tended to be accurate, while the critique of Obama as a socialist is akin to calling someone a commie. In other words, it's a pejorative term not for actual socialists, but for anyone who doesn't subscribe to right-wing values. And while I don't think a campaign against Rush is going to discourage any of his followers (rather the opposite: they'll rally around him more), perhaps it will convince people with more moderate values to recognize him for what he really is, which is to say a dangerous threat to intelligence and civil rights.

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