In my previous post I made a factual error about the number of votes cast for Mr. Obama. The actual total was close to 70 million, not 50 million as I wrote. I have since corrected the copy within the blog.
My bad.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
When Losers Weep
I have tried to stay away from political comment on this blog. But a story in today’s New York Times about Bush loyalists carping about Mr. Obama’s inaugural address got to me.
“There were a few sharp elbows that really rankled and I felt were not as magnanimous as the occasion called for,” the Times quoted Bush loyalist Karen Hughes as saying about the inaugural address. Was she expecting laurels for the man who steered the ship of state into dry dock?
“Taking shots,” accused Marc A. Thiessen, a former White house speech writer. And Karl Rove wrote that Bush critics “in a last angry frenzy…distorted his record, maligned his character and repeated untruths about his years in office.” Rove complaining about distortions and untruths? Give us a break!
What part of the word “change” do GOP partisans not understand? Did Mr. Obama not win the presidency on a campaign of change?
Why then are they surprised that, with the world as his audience, Mr. Obama outlined the changes he had in mind?
Almost 70 million American voters got it. Why can't the GOP guys and gals? How about trying to work with the new guy instead of crying that their guy got dissed?
It’s probably not possible for professional distorters and frenzies like Hannity and Limbaugh to CHANGE. After all, misinformation and hate is their bread and butter. Some people will always swallow the swill that feeds their own prejudices. Better they should choke on it.
As for the rest of us, let’s just keep our cool and work through the problems.
“There were a few sharp elbows that really rankled and I felt were not as magnanimous as the occasion called for,” the Times quoted Bush loyalist Karen Hughes as saying about the inaugural address. Was she expecting laurels for the man who steered the ship of state into dry dock?
“Taking shots,” accused Marc A. Thiessen, a former White house speech writer. And Karl Rove wrote that Bush critics “in a last angry frenzy…distorted his record, maligned his character and repeated untruths about his years in office.” Rove complaining about distortions and untruths? Give us a break!
What part of the word “change” do GOP partisans not understand? Did Mr. Obama not win the presidency on a campaign of change?
Why then are they surprised that, with the world as his audience, Mr. Obama outlined the changes he had in mind?
Almost 70 million American voters got it. Why can't the GOP guys and gals? How about trying to work with the new guy instead of crying that their guy got dissed?
It’s probably not possible for professional distorters and frenzies like Hannity and Limbaugh to CHANGE. After all, misinformation and hate is their bread and butter. Some people will always swallow the swill that feeds their own prejudices. Better they should choke on it.
As for the rest of us, let’s just keep our cool and work through the problems.
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