I guess Republicans really don’t have a sense of humor, because I don’t find a damn thing amusing about this video that TalkLeft approvingly linked to and claimed was ‘very funny.’
Haha. Our President was selected, he is a terrorist, and he has lots of weapons of mass destruction. Very funny, indeed.
*** Update ***
My disdain for everything that ‘funny’ video represents is stated nicely for me in this piece by Austin Bay (via the Instapundit):
The leftish teeth-gnashers will never get it. The figment utopias they tout can’t be challenged by difficult facts. The green-cheese moons they detect orbit their own weightless imaginations, and the gravity of down-to-Earth decision, particularly when it comes to defending liberty, exerts little pull. Hence, the rhetorical hokum they spew that Bush is “more dangerous than bin Laden.”
David Perron
Why…you could eliminate measles, totally, for, like, a paltry $800 million or so. Provided you’re willing to invade every country in Africa and Southeast Asia to administer vaccinations. But that wouldn’t cost anything.
Kimmitt
You can tell that’s true, because it’s exactly what we had to do to eliminate smallpox!
David Perron
Right. And things were, thirty-five years ago, precisely as they are now.
Dean
I’m curious:
When was the last time the Left thought a FOREIGN leader was more dangerous than our own?
Reagan was the threat, not Brezhnev/Andropov/Chernenko?
Carter, by listening to Brzezinski, was more dangerous than Brezhnev, who invaded Afghanistan in the first place?
Truman was worse than Stalin (take a look at the likes of CND back in the 1950s)?
And, of course, there was always the idea that Mao, Castro, and even Kim Il-Sung weren’t so bad (look at stuff from the Left in the 1960s, and compare what they said about Kim Il-Sung to Park Chung Hee or Chun Doo Hwan).
The wrong side of history, indeed.
Kimmitt
Well, Reagan did sell ARMS to TERRORISTS to fund an ILLEGAL WAR despite the express orders of CONGRESS.
So there are, you know, issues.
And back in the 60s, the South (and parts of the industrial North) were so viciously racist that other countries would start to look attractive. Strange fruit and all that.
Dean
So, Kimmitt:
Reagan selling arms to Iran makes him more dangerous than the USSR deploying SS-20 IRBMs? Is that what you’re saying? Is that what the protests when he went to Europe were about? Is that what the million-person protest in Central Park was about?
And WTF are you talking about regarding the South? Are you suggesting that the United States in the 1960s were WORSE than the USSR or Mao’s China??
Please, display your ignorance more. This is truly breath-taking and most amusing.
How much cannibalism did the blacks in the South have to endure in order to survive Jim Crow? Care to compare that to the casualties from the Great Leap Forward?
Kimmitt
“Are you suggesting that the United States in the 1960s were WORSE than the USSR or Mao’s China?? ”
No, what I am suggesting is that some things were bad enough that people can be forgiven for at least looking hard at someone who at least purports to repudiate racism or being fooled by that person’s statements.
Of course, people should get over it and wake up. Which is what the vast, vast majority of them did. And then they fixed some of the problems that were here — the folks marching with Dr. King weren’t precisely heirs to the Conservative tradition.
Slartibartfast
There’s a book written by an ethnic Chinese living somewhere in Canada (I’ll cite it when I get home; it’s on my shelf) who decided she really wanted to go support the Cultural Revolution. It’s not exactly a historical document, but it makes for interesting reading. Let’s just say she was a changed person when she returned home.
Dean
Kimmitt:
What are you saying? I honestly cannot understand what your last post was getting at.
Are you saying that the Left was legitimate in making the United States appear to be worse than the USSR or Mao’s China in the 1960s, b/c there was racism and Jim Crowism?
I honestly have no idea what you’re trying to get at in your comment’s first paragraph.
As for your second, I could be snide and point out that Bull Connor and GOV Edwards were merely acting in the finest parts of the Democrat tradition, but that would be excessive, so I won’t.
Slartibartfast
Ah, here it is. Jan Wong, Red China Blues.
Not trying to deny past problems. Just don’t think it’s logically becoming to pin the blame for past problems on fully half of the people in the United States. And certainly it’s quite silly to think that our problems were even in the top six in the world, at any point in our history (save for the Civil War, of course).