Fisk the Liberal
Allah The Merciful is having a "Fisk the Liberal" party, and the guest of honor has just arrived. Play nice, partygoers.
For posterity, my own response (with one slight alteration) is reprinted here:
Rick: George Bush negotiated an end to the civil war in Sudan
me: I take it from your style of writing that this is meant to be humorous, right? I'm not sure I get the joke, though.
Rick: George W. Bush is a nice guy
me: Gosh, I hope he's not too nice. Being nice during wartime can make people on both sides dead in an awful hurry. Hit hard, hit fast, hit deep, come home.
Rick: He's very compassionate
me: I always hated that spiel. You don't believe it for a minute, so why try? My Daddy used to say, "Actions speak louder than words." And for conservatives, that means proving that the money we give to charity can be spent more happily and more productively than getting taxed by the Great Hog on the Potomac. Fork it into the collection plate, baby, and shut your mouth.
Rick: ...when you ask whether a nice guy would invade a country at the cost of untold innocent lives on the shakiest of pretenses?
me: I'm tempted to say, "So lost, he is..." and drop it there, but I'll ask this: Which did you think was the more "shaky pretense", that Saddam killed 300,000 of his own people, or that he enjoyed it every single time?
Do you really think GW sits in the Oval Office and giggles his way through casualty reports? Are you that depraved that you assume someone is like that, justifying it only with the pathetic "evidence" you cite about how he treats his daughters? (And as a matter of fact, I'll tell my kid he's a pig and he should clean his room right here on the Internet in front of a billion people - so call me evil, too.)
Oh, what's the use... you're never going to get over this, so why should I try? I'm not going to fisk the whole thing. I'll answer you flat out:
Is George W. Bush deserving of my love and adoration, as some Messiah?
Hell, no. He caters way too much to his opposition in the forlorn hope they'll like him for it somehow. He should stand up for Reaganism and screw the naysayers.
Has he been perfect in the War on Terror?
No, and he trusts some advisors too much (like Powell, God love him because "I've lost that loving feeling"), who give him crappy advice that he has to play nice.
Is he doing the right thing overall, and a lot better than the pathetic excuse for leadership we see too much of nowadays?
Damn straight.
