January, 2009
By Ari Kaufman (08/10/06)
If you've looked around lately, it would be hard not to notice and shake your head in amusement at the cars, t-shirts, websites and bookstores that are emblazoning themselves with countdowns to "Bush's last day, January, 2009" or the actual amount of days, weeks and years until the hard left can finally rid the country of their worst enemy. (No, that would not be Bin Laden or Hussein, naturally.)
At some point, a conscientious Democrat really must separate him or herself from the radical, fringe left.
It's one thing to vote for John Kerry, disagree with the Bush Administration's policies, programs and efforts, but at some point, as an American, it really is necessary to avoid equating our president, our soldiers and our conservative politicians with the likes of Islamo-fascists who truly want to do our country irreparable harm.
You'll rarely if ever hear a coherent Republican depict Cynthia McKinney, Cindy Sheehan or Noam Chomsky with Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez or Kim Jong-il, even though those comparisons, based simply on policy stances, would have more credibility.
Bernard Goldberg, in his 2005 book "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America," discusses how, at most Hollywood parties, the only password you need to shout in order to prove you belong is "Bush is Hitler." Not only does that convince me to rarely, if ever, attend movies and give these overpaid, hypocrites the little money I have, but it shows the mistaken mindset of such angry people. That our youth glorifies and lionizes them and their views is more than troubling for our future. Ben Stein thankfully made sense of the lack of heroism in Hollywood and how ignorant such folks are of true heroes in his "Missed Tributes" column written just after the Oscars.
And when that gray January day comes when a new president (Republican or Democrat) takes office, will there truly be celebrations in the street, ala the end of World War II when Hitler was dead and the Nazis no more? I should hope not, and I truly doubt it.
Granted, some people simply despise authority. This is shown in the protest marches by public employee unions and "peace" organizations like ANSWER who claim the only authority they'd subscribe to is Communist rule by the likes of Castro, Mao and Stalin. Sure they would, and so would Jack Nicholson, Steven Spielberg, Jimmy Carter, Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte, who have all raved about the "paradise" that Castro keeps down there 85 miles south of Key West.
Andy Garcia, who's actually lived in (and fled from) Cuba cleared up that for all of us in May's remarkable and necessary film, "The Lost City." Not that Hollywood noticed as their love affair with Che, Fidel and Communism rolls along, especially Che Guevara hagiographist, Robert Redford.
Pusillanimous actor, Johnny Depp, who emigrated to France to avoid American patriotism has since returned after seeing his beloved, "simple" France torched by Muslim rioters thanks to such European "multi-culturalism."
In the end, most Americans understand history and, knowing that changing presidents during wartime is imprudent, Bush was re-elected in grand fashion, "disenfranchised voters" or not. However, thanks to term limits, we have no choice but to put a new leader in charge two years from now. Whomever it is will have great shoes to fill, and the Islamo-fascists will be clamoring in their burkas to find out his (or her) mental toughness as it pertains to rooting out terrorism here and abroad.
At this juncture, it's always been my humble belief that we (leftists particularly) will see how President Bush's imperfect but effective leadership was good for America. After all, the left has been on the wrong side of history throughout America's past, so there is no reason to believe this time will be any different.
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