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Politics : Sioux Nation
DJT 14.01-3.5%Jan 26 3:59 PM EST
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To: SiouxPal who wrote (184506)1/10/2010 5:03:59 PM
From: koan4 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) of 362625
 
Boy that was good:

What I'm saying is nothing new. These are simply a few obvious hypocrisies that have become the foundation of political discourse in this country. It's a corruption of language we would all be ashamed to use with a ten month old. It would be child abuse.

The worst for me though, the language that haunts me, is Obama's portentous philosophical declaration that we shouldn't seek accountability for the crimes of the Bush administration because we need to go into the future with our "core values" intact. Any school kid should know that a core value of democracy is accountability. You can't pretend to live by the rule of law if only some people are held accountable, and the biggest crimes are too big to prosecute because they implicate the entire corrupt system.

Such a pronouncement makes me very sad. Sad for Obama that he presents such absurd cant as wisdom. Sad for a culture that accepts it. Because, besides what it means in terms of castrating democracy, it means that memory is cleansed of the truth. It means that teachers can't teach that Bush and Cheney, Powell and Rice, Rumsfeld and Tenet and the rest of that pathetic gang committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. It means that the truth is a matter of opinion, a partisan either/or, one half of the fair & balanced equation. Which is which is never identified.
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