“In August the lawmaker from Minnesota called on opponents of 'socialised healthcare' to 'pray to God' for Mr Obama to fail. Last year Ms Bachmann, a Christian conservative, provoked memories of the witch hunt days of Joe McCarthy when she called on the media to investigate 'un-American' sentiments in Congress.” --Financial Times (Online)
This paragraph from FT is a capsule of all the different accusations and misinformation that the left is guilty of, going all the way back to W.
Anyone calling to kill the nationalising of healthcare, or for Obama's socialist policy agenda to fail, is considered a racist (see Jimmy Carter) or a Nazi (see Nancy Pelosi).
And this fight over what is American or un-American clearly still sits in the craw of liberal Democrats--as if they have something to be guilty about to be so defensive.
Remember then Senator Hillary Clinton railing against her and the Dem party's critics over us calling said party "un-American" for their disrespectful and insensitive treatment of the U.S. Armed Forces in Iraq? She yelled back that it was very much American to be able to publicly oppose with a Presidential Administration.
First of all, the irony of that statement in today's political climate--when conservatives are being called (you guessed it) "un-American" by Pelosi and Steny Hoyer (see USA Today column) is so heavy one would think it is the premise to an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
But remember, the Democrat Party was blatantly undercutting the mission in Iraq and affecting the morale of American troops serving in that country in the pursuit of scoring political points with their radical left supporters in the blogosphere. In any decade, this behavior would be seen as un-American! The United States has always cherished its military heroes and any exploitation or criticism of these heroes for political gain has bordered on accusations of sacrilege.
Whenever liberals are afraid of conservatives they invoke the spectre of Joseph McCarthy. As overzealous as the he was, it's amusing to think just how some of these present-day Democrats would fare if Senator McCarthy was a contemporary. And even more amusing the thought of how President Obama do under the deceased Senator's accusations of Communism.
Yes, Senator McCarthy I think would not need to create any false cases against this Congress or Administration for un-American activity as they trample the Constitution in its pursuit of nationalising everything from health care to the banking industry, and all the while getting in bed with dangerous, anti-American foreign enemies as this Administration and Congress is blatantly doing.
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