[sorry, I realize I posted this reply to you on the "wrong" thread.]
Bruce,
Good work tying together all the consistency in this president's approach. The Left and their followers, blinded by their contempt for Bush and infuriated by their own impotence to gain any political power at the Republicans' expense, will never see this, just as they never could "get" Ronald Reagan, even as his 5 day state funeral mesmerized the nation.
Your statement, "IMHO all of the rhetoric ties together well; and is sincere," intrigued me. Sincerity is the one thing the Left can never grant to the Right, it is always the bleeding hearts, politically correct left of center group who have hegemony over sincerity, at least in their eyes. All right of center activities have to be tainted and stained with corporate corruption and political villainy, etc.
Ward Churchill is an interesting study. What did America think when they started funding specialized non-academic departments and fields of study in our universities. Starting with African American Studies (say what? what exactly is that, and how is it not simply a part of, say, American history, literature and sociology?) and now expanded to departments of "ethnology" so that all the "victims" of The Man can be brought together to gurgle forth nonsense about their victimhood. These are departments of propaganda, and their curricula and publications would be right in place in Pyongyang, Havana and the world HQ of Al Qaeda. Ward Churchill, tenured professor in the Department of Victimology (which really means the department of hate, for that is what these victims really want to do, vent their hatred and expose the unfairness of it all), spews forth a popular if ill-written stream of "I Hate America" and people are surprised?
For the record, I support Ward Churchill in his freedom of speech. I think he should keep his job; he has done nothing wrong, he has done nothing but exercise his freedom of thought and freedom of expression. People think freedom of speech means that we will have enlightened speech, great ideas, noble thoughts. In fact, real freedom of speech is the freedom to say a tremendous amount of stupid, hateful things. Freedom of thought is freedom to not think too deeply or too well, and sometimes not at all. This is true, just as democracy (freedom of self rule) is the freedom to govern ourselves badly, to get it wrong for a long time before we get it right. |
