Posted on 12/30/2004 1:08:15 PM PST by bamahead
The aftermath befitted the morrow of a civil war. Tens of thousands of Americans visited the website of the Canadian immigration service to learn how they could take themselves into exile. A Florida psychotherapist reported treating more than a dozen people for sudden depression. “Hard times, brutish times, lie ahead,” intoned the New Republic.
The New York Times turned its op-ed page into a kind of wailing wall, where a procession of mourners poured forth their laments and imprecations. Garry Wills: “We now resemble [Europe] less than we do our putative enemies . . . al Qaeda [and] Saddam Hussein’s Sunni loyalists.” Thomas Friedman: The Bush people “have used . . . religious energy to promote divisions and intolerance at home and abroad.” Maureen Dowd: “jihad in America. . . . One party controls all power. . . . One nation dominates the world.”
The proverbial visitor from afar might have been astonished to learn that all of this rhetorical tearing of hair and rending of garments was occasioned by nothing more than the results of a presidential election, and not even the wailers themselves could have doubted that this election would be followed by another four years hence. Clearly something else was going on....
(Excerpt) Read more at commentarymagazine.com ...
Not really a vanity post...sorry -
still learning rules here.
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I think the problem is that Democrats are not loosing enough.
The MSM still reports them as the democratIC party (both parties are democratIC)
The Democrat Party should be obliterating. It should be HUMILIATING for ANYONE to publicly admit they are a democrat party member. The "D" after a politicians name should be a sign of embarasment and discredit.
The public should be FLEEING from the Democrat Party as the unsanitary refuse of a diseased festering pile of medical waste.
Other than that they should have a nice day.
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