GOP Atwitter Over Obama
Ten months and trillions of dollars after taking office, Barack Obama has finally found a way to make Republicans happy: Go to Europe, do a Bush impersonation, order Freedom Fries and tell those pusillanimous peace-mongers they would be toast if Americans weren’t always ready to come over there and kill bad people.
Dick Cheney hasn’t weighed in yet, but Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich are thrilled with the President’s Nobel speech.
“I liked what he said,” says she about Obama’s proposal for terrorist death panels. “Of course, war is the last thing I believe any American wants to engage in, but it’s necessary.”
A ‘very historic speech,” says the author of the Contract with America, “having a liberal president who goes to Oslo on behalf of a peace prize and reminds the committee that they would not be free, they wouldn’t be able to have a peace prize, without force.”
In the Age of Twitter, it may be that Palin and Gingrich never got to the second half of the President’s oration, the part where he said that “no Holy War can ever be a just war…”
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It was a great speech, and I am also surprised by the response of the right. A few right wing writers picking at the edges, but otherwise praise (although mostly muted).
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Is there some point in mischaracterizing Palin and Gingrich offering a positive assessment of part of an address by Obama? Where is the evidence that they were “thrilled” by his remarks?. Is that, along with some snarky cheap shots aimed at Republicans, the best the “village elders” can do to recognize a moment of concurrence among national leaders?
Interesting because nobody ever liked what Bush said. Even if they could understand what he said.
Bush could never sell me a used car, but O could; he's a better salesman.
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“[Is this ...] the best the 'village elders' can do[?]“
Close, but too kindly euphemistic. Hint: Bush