Five Before Chaos

Well, not really, as I wasn’t having high expectations to begin with. It truly is neo-con world all over again. Sirota asks some decent questions about Obama’s pending Afghanidisaster:

- Would the Obamaphiles now telling us to “give President Obama a chance” with this decision and/or defending Obama’s escalation – would these same people be saying we should “give President McCain a chance” and/or defending President McCain’s escalation if he was the one in office making this decision?

We. Are. So. Fucked.  Any ideas? “Marching in the streets” and “voting for Nader” don’t count, as we’ve already been there and done that. Doesn’t do shit.

As the Rude One aptly points out, Obama is doing exactly what he said he would:

But this isn’t about Obama or even the Afghanistan war. It’s about us. As we see Obama capitulate, hedge, or hesitate on all the liberal things he promised, it’s just goddamned depressing to see him so readily follow through on the hawkish promises. And it also forces us to realize that all that protesting of the Iraq war was far, far too narrow in scope.

But that doesn’t make it right. And the apologists march on. And on.

Although I’m always all for anything that makes nutter heads explode (it doesn’t take much, today), I kind of agree with the Taliban on this one (can’t wait for someone to take that out of context and throw it up in my face years from now); Obama’s still bombing the shit out of Afghanistan, and we’re still in Iraq, hardly peaceful actions.

Ultimately, I don’t really care too much about the prize, other than the benefit of the schadenfreude I get for the loony right. Remember, the new rule of conservative patriotism goes like this: Good for America and good for Obama? BAD, Bad for Obama, bad for America? GOOD (see “Olympics, Clinton frees North Korean journalists, etc.”) And of course, it’s hysterical seeing the krazy kons give their opinions about what Obama should do, or even better when they once again reveal what miserable, racist pricks they really are:

“I did not know the Nobel Committee had affirmative action quotas they had to meet.”

That and they just can’t deal with the fact that we no longer have a president who is both as respected as and not as intelligent as dogshit.
Sigh. This is just too good. Just wait and see if we get that public option passed. What is the sound of a million empty craniums collapsing? We’ll know, then.