If Right Wing Fanatics were as poetic as their counterparts on the Left, such as Bob Herbert a New York Times Op-ED Columnist. Then pigs, would be flying. But you know as I pigs don’t fly, and Right Wing Fanatics wouldn’t know the difference between Emily Dickinson and Patrick J. Buchanan.
But then Bob Herbert doesn’t know the difference between Fact and Myth (An exaggerated or idealized conception of a person; Widely held but false belief) person of point, President Bush. Herbert’s NY Times Op-ED of December 31, 2008 titled ‘Add Up the Damage.’ Refers to the Carnage President G. W. Bush has befell the American people, at least in the world Bob Herbert lives in. And if you have read Herbert, his is always an angry world, as the case with most Left Wing Loonies. After all, birds of a feather love to flock together. Misery loves company, and Herbert is at no loss for compañeros. Unfortunate and sad.
Bob Herbert begins with “Does anyone know where George W. Bush Is?” As to say, ‘Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?’ But this is only the beginning of Herbert’s poetic bash of President Bush. Are you ready? Hold on to your Emily Dickinson there’s more Herbert poetic isms. “I don’t think he (Bush) should be allowed to slip quietly out of town. There should be a great hue and cry — a loud, collective angry howl, demonstrations with signs and bullhorns and fiery speeches — over the damage he’s done to this country.” “This is the man who gave us the war in Iraq and Guantanamo and torture and rendition; who turned the Clinton economy and the budget surplus into fool’s gold; who dithered while New Orleans drowned; who trampled our civil liberties at home and ruined our reputation abroad…”
There’s much to disagree with when it comes to President Bush’s decision making and subsequent actions. But neither Herbert nor I were in the presence of information privy to the President of the United States. And in the big picture, tie goes to the runner (President Bush) of whom we should believe. It would, and should, be no different for a President Obama.
Herbert offers no facts. His writing, nothing but the same Leftist talking points I’d expect to read on the “Huffington Post or “Crooks and Liars’ Blogs. Then again, this is Bob Herbert of the New York Times. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead, blame Bush. A procrastinating Governor of Louisiana, Mayor of New Orleans, poorly maintained levees managed by the Army Corps of Engineers for Decades, and a Hurricane of immense proportion called Katrina, and all Herbert can say is, blame Bush.
Herbert is an expert jabberwocky, using his passion of hatred for a President, Bob Herbert has never accepted as wining in 2000. In Herbert’s Op-Ed ‘The Ugly Side of the Republicans’ of 9/25/07 he writes; “Republicans improperly threw black voters off the rolls in Florida in the contested presidential election of 2000, and sent Florida state troopers into the homes of black voters to intimidate them in 2004.” Then Herbert writes, “Enough is enough. Last week the Republicans showed once again just how antiblack their party really is.” Does Bob Herbert believe for a moment Barack Obama would have won the Presidential election without Republican and conservative votes? He’d be wrong.
Herbert writes in an earlier Op-ED 11/6/06 ‘Shouting Over the Din.‘ “We know that Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential election, and that of the people who went to the polls in Florida, more had intended to vote for Mr. Gore than for Mr. Bush. But Mr. Bush became president.” Once again in Herbert’s October 1, 2004 Op-ED ‘Sacrifice and Sabotage’ he writes “Disenfranchisement comes in many guises. Two professors at the University of Miami did an extensive analysis of so-called voter errors in Miami-Dade County that has not previously been reported on, and that gives us an even more troubling picture of the derailment of democracy in Florida in the 2000 presidential race. Have I made my point?
In the current Bob Herbert poetic, epic yarn, He writes. “The Bush administration specialized in deceit. How else could you get the public (and a feckless Congress) to go along with an invasion of Iraq as an absolutely essential response to the Sept. 11 attacks, when Iraq had had nothing to do with the Sept. 11 attacks?” Herbert conveniently left out the leaders of, most the free world, and those of not so free governments. Whom all believed the threat from Iraq, based on U.S., British, French, and German Intel. Herbert writes of Americans having our civil liberties trampled, so poetic. But a lie, is a lie, is a lie. We can argue the Constitution, but based on facts and reason our civil liberties always remained intact. That’s a fact. Wow I’m a poet and I didn’t know it….
I’ve linked the entire Bob Herbert Op-ED ‘Add Up the Damage’ for your reading delight. I’m tired and my wife is about to pop open the bubbly to bring in the New Year. See Yah Next year…And all the Best to you in 2009….
I am Dr. Quack with the harsh cry of reason…123108
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