Fearmonger

If there is one word that Liberals like to toss around when talking about whatever persuasion Republicans wield on the voting public, it's that they "play on our fears."  It usually goes something like this: Republicans exaggerate the negative impact of some action, a policy or a law, in order to rally an opposition.   Democrats never do that.  Let me give an example:

Democrats are holding rilly rilly rilly bad people at Guantanamo, and Republicans are getting all riled up because holding wartime prisoners indefinitely and making them eat poulet à la greque with wild rice pilaf and haricots amandine until all the terrorists everywhere lay down their arms and decide, among other things, not to saw people's heads off for (a) not being Muslim, and (b) not being male, straight, etc.,  will do irreparable harm to the rights of law abiding Americans and, oh yeah, that usually rilly rilly rilly inconvenient document, the Constitution.

I'm sorry: I got that mixed up. I think.

So Barry thinks Bush and his henchmen acted out of fear but not foresight...

[Aside: I am so sick of the alliterative device that he uses EVERY EFFING TIME "baubles but not beads, that all too often blah blah blah" with the "blah blah blah" being some terribly convenient and often phony jab at the way things were done in the past.  Doesn't have to be truthful, just has to sound good.  Like the President. End aside.]

Fear doesn't preclude foresight.  And, if a group is organized to kill people, if they have the means and the motive, and they've already done it, any normal person would suddenly get a dose of foresight: those goat diddlers are going to do it again (I'm quoting here.)

But let's cut to the chase.  Gregory Craigory hasn't come up with a process the detainees because this is a rilly rilly hard decision, but only for people who are arrogant ideologues who lack the foresight to assess the consequences because they've been caught up in their own rhetoric for so long that they forgot they live in a democracy.  Still.  In spite of all their best efforts.

Not to worry: Gregory Craigory, in the interest of protecting all of our inalienable rights, is looking at the possibility of "preventive detention" on U.S. soil [also here, h/t Hot Air].  But that wouldn't have any implications for our rights...

[thanks to John Podhoretz for getting me going on the whole fear thing.]

Comments

[aelfheld]

All too often, Obama opens his mouth and our stock (in both corporations and in the world) goes down.

[OregonGuy]

He is so boring.

Or am I the only one who sees that?
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