Lefties hold a rally hoping for President Bush’s continued success. (via Theodore’s World)
Boy oh boy did Rush Limbaugh cause a kerfuffle when he said he wanted Obama to fail if meant an increase in liberal programs in the US and socialized medicine. People were downright indignant that he would dare wish ill on the President. Let’s forget that for the past 8 years, we’ve had nothing but a howling bunch of lunatics on the left doing everything from calling for the President’s head on a platter to burning him in effigy; I’m sure that means they wanted great success for him.
In 2003, Nicholas De Genova, a professor at Columbia University in New York City wished success upon President Bush. He was very straightforward in his desire for the war in Iraq to succeed, and made no bones about his desire to see the war end with a victory parade. Here’s an article from Salon explaining De Genova’s high hopes for American success:
Then last week, someone actually came out and said it. Columbia University professor Nicholas De Genova hoped at an “antiwar teach-in,” hosted by left-wing writer and historian Eric Foner, that there would be “a million Mogadishus” in this war. To translate: This guy wants to see a million young American troops subjected to war crimes, shot and mutilated, and paraded through the streets. No one in the crowd objected. “The only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military,” he elaborated. And to loud cheers from an Ivy League college audience, he thundered, “If we really [believe] that this war is criminal … then we have to believe in the victory of the Iraqi people and the defeat of the U.S. war machine.”
Notice how de Genova parroted Saddam’s propaganda that the dictator and the “Iraqi people” are indistinguishable. But notice something far more obvious. If de Genova’s comments aren’t an expression of a fifth columnist, someone actively supporting the victory of a vicious dictator over the troops of his own countrymen, then what, please tell me, is? And please, don’t give me the old McCarthyite “J’accuse.” De Genova has every right in the world to say what he believes; and I would defend his right to say it anywhere, free from any governmental interference. By the same token, I am allowed to say that his views are morally repugnant.
Wow. He really did want success for President Bush, didn’t he? I mean, he expressed it somewhat awkwardly, but we all know what he meant. Saddam celebrating and our soldiers murdered and tortured would be a rousing success for this country, wouldn’t it? I tend to think so. Then the left-wing media could get those soldiers’ coffin photos they so cherish and run them all night long as we watch weeping widows cry, children get consoled, and some pompous douche in an awful tie telling us how tragic it all was as they exploit every second of it on an Alphabet network or cable news outlet.
Of course, Genova’s wish for success is no different than the one shared by 51% of Democrats polled in 2006 about President Bush’s success and their desire for it following the mid-term elections. When asked very plainly “Regardless of how you voted in the presidential election, would you say you want President Bush to succeed or not?”
There’s no room for ambiguity in that question. Luckily, Democrats provided no ambiguity in answering it. Keep in mind this question was asked in 2006 while our soldiers were fighting two wars.
via Patterico
Now on its own, I don’t give a damn what Democrats or Republicans have to say. Frankly, the outrage-o-meter gets cranked whenever the other side opens their mouth and we have to hear demands for apologies, resignations, and firings for days on end. My question to the outraged Democrats is very simple, however. For eight years, you begged publicly for President Bush to fail. During the election, in fact, you called his Presidency a failure and hoped for someone else to take the reins and do their thing. You actively campaigned against the President, sided with a corrupt UN and various dictators in undermining a war you thought was criminal to the point where you were calling for the President of the United States to be brought up on war crimes charges in the Hage.
With all that being said, can any Democrat who’s now so offended by the words of one radio host really say they weren’t wishing for the failure of the President, the very same thing outraging them now, a mere few years ago?
The one thing about glass houses is that it makes it very easy to see what’s inside, and in this case it’s a steaming pile of hypocrisy.
