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To: bentway who wrote (518522)	10/5/2009 10:39:19 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1584579

>> The AMA has been staunchly (R) until this try at universal health care. That's why they are onboard with the insane "climate change" nonsense being spewed by the Left.

To: bentway who wrote (518522)	10/5/2009 10:46:26 PM
From: jlallen	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584579

Who Is Rooting Against America? By Peter Wehner on Contentions Democrats — increasingly desperate as their political troubles mount and in need of finding a political enemy — have decided to go after Republicans and conservatives who were delighted that President Obama's appeal to the IOC on behalf of Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid failed. "Some of these people are starting to put politics first and country second," said Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "The American people are starting to wonder if they are rooting against America," he added. The New York Times's Paul Krugman and Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos have added their calm, elegant, and reasoned voices to the discussion as well ("So when did wingnuts start cheering against America?" Moulitsas wrote. "Their unbridled joy at losing out to Brazil is a bit unseemly, isn't it? 'America , f— yeah!' has become 'F— America, Yeah!' "). Now that is rich, isn't it? The head of the Democratic party, Barack Obama, has engaged in an unprecedented apology tour for America since he was sworn into office. He has slammed our nation in Europe, in Cairo, before the UN, and in several others places. Has it dawned on Democrats that the IOC might have turned down Chicago because of the portrait of the country painted by Barack Obama? If you took Obama's word for it, this is in many respects a very unpleasant nation guilty of multiple serious sins, both from long ago and just prior to noon on January 20, 2009. In addition — and the Politico story alludes to this topic — Democrats opposed the surge in Iraq, which was an understandable if terribly unwise thing to do. But they also intentionally downplayed its success even when its evidence became indisputable (I documented this here and here). Any disinterested analysis of the debate will show, I think, that many Democrats misrepresented the facts in order to force an American withdrawal from Iraq, a war they had grown to hate, waged by a president they had come to loathe. The results of their efforts would have been a historic American defeat. It was among the most dispiriting developments I have ever witnessed in American politics. So Democrats should be very careful when throwing out the "rooting against America" charge. The Olympics is not a terribly important event in the life of this nation; losing a war, however, is.