Once again Keith Olbermann has delivered a tongue lashing to the President for his use of the phrase "It is unacceptable to think" in last weeks rose garden press conference.
I admire Olbermann's stamina. At this point, after 5 and 1/2 years, I find myself suffering from outrage fatigue. Nothing that this President or his administration says or does shocks me anymore. The fact that the President of the United States is actively lobbying Congress to edit the Geneva Conventions, with the purpose of exhonorating and expiditing torture, is pretty freakin' outrageous, but all I can manage is... I don't know; bemusement? Mild embarassment? I just feel like I've been beaten down by the endless dishonesty, greed, brutality and smug, arrogant condescention of Bush, Cheney and their cronies.
This administration just doesn't care what 2/3rds of this country's citizens or the rest of the world thinks of them (and by extention, of us). They don't care that nearly 3000 servicemen and women have died in order to line the pockets of the Defense Industry's CEOs. They don't care that 100,000 or so Iraqies have been killed in their illicit war. They don't care that they have utterly destroyed our reputation abroad. They don't care whether the rest of the world is "shocked and awed" at our military strength (i.e. our ability to kill people and destroy property) or shocked and apalled at our willingness to detain prisoners indefinitely without charge or trial, and to torture them while we're at it...
Well, maybe I have a little outrage left after all. Man, I hope we can get a Congressional and/or Senate majority in November. If not, we going to continue to get the government we deserve, and deserve the government we get.
I admire Olbermann's stamina. At this point, after 5 and 1/2 years, I find myself suffering from outrage fatigue. Nothing that this President or his administration says or does shocks me anymore. The fact that the President of the United States is actively lobbying Congress to edit the Geneva Conventions, with the purpose of exhonorating and expiditing torture, is pretty freakin' outrageous, but all I can manage is... I don't know; bemusement? Mild embarassment? I just feel like I've been beaten down by the endless dishonesty, greed, brutality and smug, arrogant condescention of Bush, Cheney and their cronies.
ReplyDeleteThis administration just doesn't care what 2/3rds of this country's citizens or the rest of the world thinks of them (and by extention, of us). They don't care that nearly 3000 servicemen and women have died in order to line the pockets of the Defense Industry's CEOs. They don't care that 100,000 or so Iraqies have been killed in their illicit war. They don't care that they have utterly destroyed our reputation abroad. They don't care whether the rest of the world is "shocked and awed" at our military strength (i.e. our ability to kill people and destroy property) or shocked and apalled at our willingness to detain prisoners indefinitely without charge or trial, and to torture them while we're at it...
Well, maybe I have a little outrage left after all. Man, I hope we can get a Congressional and/or Senate majority in November. If not, we going to continue to get the government we deserve, and deserve the government we get.
Well said LWJ. I am going to front page this.
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