Before
After
Where have all the protesters gone
Long time passing
Where have all the protesters gone
Long time ago
Where have all the protesters gone
Obama fans, every one
Oh, when will the media ever learn
Oh, when will the media learn
Remember the days of dubya? Remember all of those great anti-war protests? Remember the smashed windows, overturned cars, and multiple arrests? With the election and coronation of the messiah SPENDULUS MAXIMUS, something strange has occurred.
The Washington Post’s Friday and Saturday front-page reports by Karen DeYoung on President Obama’s escalation of war in Afghanistan are curiously missing one political element: objections from the strident anti-war groups on the left. Whatever happened to the protesters that treated Bush as a reckless warmonger?
Also, as reported here…
MoveOn.org, the most visible and controversial anti-war bugaboo to people on the right, declined to make any public statement about Obama’s Afghan policies in response to my queries. An official close to the group confirmed to me that MoveOn wouldn’t be saying anything in the near term. The group is expected to poll its members on Afghanistan, the official said, though it’s unclear when.
Nor will we hear anything from Americans United for Change, which ran $600,000 worth of TV ads against the Iraq War in the summer of 2007. “Americans United for Change doesn’t plan to comment on President Obama’s new strategy,” a spokesperson for the group, Lauren Weiner, just emailed.
Jon Soltz, the head of VoteVets, one of the most pugnacious anti-Iraq War groups, came out in support of Obama’s Afghan strategy in an Op Ed with The Huffington Post.
One group did blast the strategy today: Tom Andrews of Win Without War warned that it “will lead to quagmire” and “undermine our security.”
The relative silence on the left about Obama’s Afghan strategy is understandable. The politics of Afghanistan are murky because of September 11th. The argument against staying isn’t as clear cut as with Iraq. Liberal groups don’t want to distract from passing Obama’s enormous domestic agenda. Obama’s Afghan moves are part of a larger regional strategy that rests heavily on diplomacy – a major break from the past. And officials with some of these groups don’t want to lose inside influence with the White House.
Times do change.
Well yes times do change kind sir. Now, the last source does get apologetic by trying to make Afghanistan look a bit more complex, but let’s face it, they would be trashing streets if dubya tried to fight Hitler!
Also, note the references to not distracting from the messiah’s “enormous domestic agenda.” Can we assume that the agenda against capitalism is a higher priority than the war? Looks like the cat’s out of the bag on that!
Matt
I believe that future generations should have the same opportunities that myself, and those that came before me, had. My parents taught me that I could do anything I wanted to do. I don’t want to have to tell my daughter, “You can do whatever the government tells you to do.” We are at a crossroads in this country; are we going to be free, or are we going to be slaves to the nanny state. I choose freedom.
I have a poll for moveon.org:
Pt. 1: How many rounds of armored-piercing f@$k-all are in my magazine?
Pt. 2: How many magazines does it take to fix a moveon.org (criminal gathering/deviant socialist) protest?
Pt. 3: How many leisure items with high-velocity discharge can I keep ready at a moment’s notice?
Pt. 4: How many moveon.org members wanna try me?
You know, not to make your mood any worse(?), but I wouldn’t be surprised if the moveon or some other freaktarded org didn’t try some false flag crap at the tea parties. Most of the antiwar and anti capitalist protests are violent, none of the tea parties have. The minute they could make some violent act happen, then the Legion of Doom would cover it.
I’m new to this blog. Apologize for asking this though, but to OP…
Do you know if this can be true;
Thanks