Rep. Wilson: Any Criticism Of ‘American Policy’ Is Unpatriotic
Rep. Wilson: Any Criticism Of ‘American Policy’ Is Unpatriotic
Today on CBS’s Face the Nation, Rep. Heather Wilson (R-NM) defended Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R-AK) new comments that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is “someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country.” When host Bob Schieffer asked Wilson if she was therefore implying that Obama is “unpatriotic,” Wilson refused to disagree, noting that Obama has criticized “American policy”:
WILSON: Well, he has talked down about America. You know, we’ve always had this history of saying, “Well, you know, politics ends at the water’s edge.” It didn’t for Barack Obama. He’s been critical not only of the President but of American policy and hence has kind of a negative view of America in the world. That’s not unusual frankly among liberals in kind of post-Vietnam America, to say that America is the problem.
Watch it:
The Bush administration has been setting American policy for the past eight years. Therefore, any criticism of the Bush administration, according to Wilson, is unpatriotic. This category doesn’t just include Obama and other “post-Vietnam America” liberals, but also military officers, former Bush administration officials, the Supreme Court, and the majority of the American public who disapprove of Bush and his policies. Even Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has tried to criticize Bush’s policies, in an effort to separate himself from the current administration.
Criticizing the Bush administration’s policies doesn’t mean that a person doesn’t believe America can be a “force for good,” as Wilson alleges. Instead, it recognizes that destructive policies over the past eight years have diminished America’s “exceptional” status. Countries around the world once held a predominantly positive view of the United States. Under Bush’s destructive policies, however, those views have plummeted.
Transcript:
SCHIEFFER: That sounds like you’re saying he’s somehow unpatriotic, which seemed to be the underlying theme of what she said yesterday, Congresswoman.
WILSON: Well, he has talked down about America. You know, we’ve always had this history of saying, “Well, you know, politics ends at the water’s edge.” It didn’t for Barack Obama. He’s been critical not only of the President but of American policy and hence has kind of a negative view of America in the world.
That’s not unusual frankly among liberals in kind of post-Vietnam America, to say that America is the problem. I think Sarah Palin believes that America is part of the solution. We are an exceptional country. We are a force for good. And we need to talk about the good things we do.
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Another brain-dead Rethuglican mouthpiece. Isn't there one of these twits who can think for themselves? What a revolting spectacle they are. Rove has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams in brainwashing this whole tribe of nobodies.
October 5th, 2008 at 12:33 pmWILSON: He’s been critical not only of the President but of American policy and hence has kind of a negative view of America in the world.
Heather is a "good little German".
October 5th, 2008 at 12:36 pmHopefully this idiot loses her seat soon.
TP: "and the majority of the American public who disapprove of Bush and his policies."
And Bob Schieffer (against whom I have no particular complaint as I would against say Hanity or Doocy or Matthews or Stepahnopolous) doesn't have the wits to point that out to Wilson.
Imagine, if he actually had a grasp for polls and logic, if he asked Wilson: "So as the majority of the American public disagree with Bush's policies , according to all the latest polls, you are saying that the American public is also largely unpatriotic? How do you think that will play amongst your constituents in the election and for Republicans in general?"
October 5th, 2008 at 12:39 pmThis isnt unusual for the REALLY ignorant rightwingnuts. Being unable to distinguish between what we do and who we are. Thomas Jefferson said that dissent was the highest form of patriotism. Heather of course like much of the wingnut set is also a bone ignorant hypocrite. I seem to remember a whole lot of criticism coming from the rightwing toward CLINTON so I guess criticising is only unpatriotic when its a CONSERVATIVE president being criticised. She is telling us we have an obligation to be sheeple. To just shut up and go along with whatever our BETTERS decide for us. THAT isnt America in fact that kind of talk is the MOST un-American and unpatriotic bilge I have ever heard. Heather is STUPID, unpatriotic and a disgusting psychophantic conformity junkie I agree with Teddy Roosevelt who said to say there must be no criticism of the president, that we must support him right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile but morally treasonable to the American public. That is Heather Wilson, unpatriotic, servile and morally treasonable to the American public she serves. She can bite my massive hairy nutsack.
October 5th, 2008 at 12:40 pmHave you ever heard 'her' speak ??
I'm convinced that 'she' is a man...and a robot.
¶ AIO
October 5th, 2008 at 12:40 pmRep. Wilson: Any Criticism Of ‘American Policy’ Is Unpatriotic
- - Then Republicans were unpatriotic from 1993- 2001. See how this works, Heather?
October 5th, 2008 at 12:41 pmWilson has already lost her seat--she and congressman Steve Pearce ran against one another in the primary for the Republican nomination for senate. Wilson lost. Pearce is about to lose to congressman Tom Udall. Their replacements could all be Democrats. Good riddance.
October 5th, 2008 at 12:42 pmAmerica isn't buying that BS anymore. Well, the rapid 25% does but they are dying out.
October 5th, 2008 at 12:45 pmThese idiots are living in a time warp, using the same tactics of 2002/2004. The American people aren't buying it, as evidence in the viewer's reaction to Palin's "white flag of surrender" remark at the debate. Glenn Greenwald details this in a post from 10/3
October 5th, 2008 at 12:45 pmEugeneDebs Says:
She can bite my massive hairy nutsack.
I would think that 'she' would prefer a pink taco. LOL
¶ AIO
October 5th, 2008 at 12:46 pmOh, we cannot criticize the genocidal Bush wars of aggression against the people of Afghanistan and Iraq? Excuse me, but the Republican fascists are the ones who are unpatriotic. No dissent allowed? Sounds like a right-wing Republican dictatorship to me. Screw that crap.
October 5th, 2008 at 12:46 pmI also heard her complaining about these new things called "motor cars" that travel at such high speeds on roads, dirtying up her bonnets and one piece underwear hanging out on the clotheslines.
October 5th, 2008 at 12:47 pmRep. Heather: "We need to talk about the good things we do." Oh, do you mean like giving millions of cluster bombs to the Zionist Israeli imperialists, who then dropped them on the Lebanonese people?
October 5th, 2008 at 12:50 pmWho is this idiot?
October 5th, 2008 at 12:52 pm"we need to talk about the good things, we do"
yes, only the "good" things.....
what an idiot! i can't believe people like this get elected
October 5th, 2008 at 12:53 pmDid he ask her if she has a job lined up for January yet?
October 5th, 2008 at 12:54 pmThat's not a woman, that's a MAN, baby...
October 5th, 2008 at 12:54 pmThe thing that no one wants to talk about: Todd Palin and the Alaska Independence Party
October 5th, 2008 at 12:55 pmIt continues to amaze how the KoolAide gets distributed so quickly each day for these Rove-Robots...
It looks like she will get sent back to obscurity/oblivion by the voters in NM soon so she will say anything Schmidt and his fellow Rove-Robots want..clearly..
Then she gets to do what the terminator asked 'talk to the hand'...you're done.
October 5th, 2008 at 12:56 pmbronzbootz Says:
as evidence in the viewer’s reaction to Palin’s “whiteflag of surrender” remark at the debate.
That was one of at least two talking points that Sean Hannity gave her.
The other one was that Obama hangs around with terrorists.
¶ AIO
October 5th, 2008 at 12:56 pmWilson vacated her seat to run for Domenici's spot in the Senate, but she lost in the primary to a far right nut who has no chance. Wilson is somehow seen as a centrist in NM and would have had a much better shot at winning the Senate race. But the GOP is down to far right nuts now, so she lost, and the Dems will likely win her seat and the Senate spot. Another example of the GOP's forward thinking.
So back to whether she has a job yet. Was this an audition?
October 5th, 2008 at 12:58 pmShe doesn't seem to get the changing political demographics.
This is her fear talking - a reptile-in-the-tar-pit response.
October 5th, 2008 at 1:05 pmLaszlo Panaflex Says:
So back to whether she has a job yet. Was this an audition?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Maybe she wants to be a sub for Rush the Oxymoron and be a mouthpiece for the Limborg
October 5th, 2008 at 1:06 pm"He’s been critical not only of the President but of American policy and hence has kind of a negative view of America in the world."
Damn Me! I have been led to believe for the last seventy-five years that the probability that some citizens would criticize the President and American Policy from time to time was to be expected and was to be resolved in Democratic elections in accordance with our Constitution. Now it seems that since the Constitution has been deemed to be nothing but a "God Damned piece of paper" by King George the Dumb we are no longer allowed to criticize tyranny. To resort to an old Navy saying, bushco and the rethuglican sycophants can "go pound sand" because, unpatriotic or not, I will do my best to vote the bastards out.
October 5th, 2008 at 1:06 pmthis narrow-mindedness in thinking is destroying the country. Of course, it is the idiots that elect these fools are the ones to blame
October 5th, 2008 at 1:09 pm“He’s been critical not only of the President but of American policy and hence has kind of a negative view of America in the world.”
So... McCain's unpatriotic?
McCain can be critical of Bush, and she doesn't raise a peep.
October 5th, 2008 at 1:12 pmShit at least if I had landed in moderation I could have changed b itching to complaining and I would be forced to keyboard this whole thing again....
Cool, now they can stop COMPLAINING about taxes, abortion, foreign aid, the bailout, social programs, and on and on....
October 5th, 2008 at 1:15 pmwould should be would not
October 5th, 2008 at 1:16 pmNo, you stupid cow. What all those "liberals" hate is what you and your corrupt party have done to this nation I was still proud of 8 short years ago.
October 5th, 2008 at 1:16 pmalphainfinityomega Says:
That was one of at least two talking points that Sean Hannity gave her.
The other one was that Obama hangs around with terrorists.
along with the "dissing our troops in afghanistan"
October 5th, 2008 at 1:17 pm#
bronzbootz Says:
alphainfinityomega Says:
That was one of at least two talking points that Sean Hannity gave her.
The other one was that Obama hangs around with terrorists.
along with the “dissing our troops in afghanistan”
That makes at least three, then.
¶ AIO
October 5th, 2008 at 1:23 pmSince when is criticizing an administration that has plundered the Constitution and The Bill of Rights -- unpatriotic?
October 5th, 2008 at 1:26 pmBut to the repugs and neocons, treason, war crimes, and crimes against humanity are patriotic.
Very different sets of values, huh.
October 5th, 2008 at 1:26 pmWhen you see your see country teetering toward full-fledged fascism -- even McBush said recently in Indiana he would like to be dictator.
We need to speak up. I just purchased, Naomi Wolf's --"Give Me Liberty : A Handbook for American Revolutionaries"
I'm ready for The American Revolution II.
October 5th, 2008 at 1:30 pmKay - all meaningful change has come from peaceful action where people organize and do simple things to force the hand of those in control.
This would be very easy to shut down if:
(1). We had an opposition party that stood for more than empty rhetoric.
(2). An organized boycott of the corpocracy that made this all possible became the rallying cry at the self-proclaimed "progressive blogs.
The former demands that we have a free and open dialog when dems sell us out (as we have seen twice in the past 2 1/2 months). The latter is required because as individuals, walmart, staples, applebee's, and home depot don't give a damn if we choose not to shop there.
But if there was a public boycott so that it was clear why sales were being impacted, the corpocracy would have to make changes in the way they create the agenda and manipulate politics.
It isn't really about bush, cheney, mccain, palin - there are plenty of people ready to take their place in front of the cameras.
October 5th, 2008 at 1:38 pmI think Sarah Palin believes that America is part of the solution. We are an exceptional country. We are a force for good. And we need to talk about the good things we do.
This kind of thinking is not unusual frankly among ignorant conservatives in kind of a reality challenged America, to say that American policy is never ever the problem and someone else is always to blame
October 5th, 2008 at 1:59 pmActually representative, it is the opposite. Until your generation of fascists, everyone in this country was encouraged to question policy made by the government. It is called "patriotism" You may not understand it, but that is how you craft "policy".
October 5th, 2008 at 2:07 pmI guess the citizens of your state have figured out that you aren't qualified for the job. The felonies probably just add to the problem. The ignorance of the constitution and the law seem to contribute to both of your problems.
wilson and the rest of the repugs have proven why they're the idiots of the US.
Come on now missy ann the repugs' policies has caused death, destruction and mayhem throughout the world. wilson is blind if she chooses to pass off the repugs' "bad judgement" calls to people who actually care about the US, the progessives\liberals.
I don't know where this rich thing has been, but there's a recession going on. What? I hate the US if I call it as I see it?
And these fools wonder why their numbers are tanking.
OOT -- Out Of Touch
Another thing these repug/msm does is call Sen. Obama negative or call his ads negative when he's tells the truth about the repugs f0uck-ups. The repugs/msm have compared Sen. Obama ads with mcchimpy and plain's lies and nastiness as if two are similar.
This annoys the hell out of me.
October 5th, 2008 at 2:27 pmYou're either with us -- or with Bush and the terrorists.
October 5th, 2008 at 2:29 pmHealth Wilson hates Thomas Jefferson....
"The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exclusions and incapacitations are removed." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Religion, 1776. Papers 1:548
"As revolutionary instruments (when nothing but revolution will cure the evils of the State) [secret societies] are necessary and indispensable, and the right to use them is inalienable by the people." --Thomas Jefferson to William Duane, 1803. FE 8:256
October 5th, 2008 at 2:37 pmHe’s been critical not only of the President but of American policy and hence has kind of a negative view of America in the world.
Well, since the President sets the "american policy", that means that Obama is critical of Bush and his policies. It does not mean that he is critical of America and Americans.
So, these people would have you repeat failed policies so as not to "criticize" America for its failed policies implemented by George Bush and his cabal.
October 5th, 2008 at 2:46 pmI for one criticized the Bush administration from day 1.
October 5th, 2008 at 2:55 pmThis is the first time in our history that a losing contender in an election was appointed by the supreme-court.
From the first day he took OUR country on fast down hill spiral.
Yes, I am a patriotic American and very much hoping that in 107 days we will have a sane administration.
Obama/Biden 2008
I would feel a bit less contempt for today's GOP if any prominent voice would say, "we screwed up, we're sorry, we won't do it again" on any subject.
Alas, they stick to the story that it's not their fault that they screwed up or, simply deny there's a problem and blame those who recognize it as "unpatriotic".
October 5th, 2008 at 2:58 pmBut it's patriotic for Alaska to secede from the United States...
Sarah Palin supports Alaskan move to secede from Union
October 5th, 2008 at 3:03 pmSo I take that once Obama is president, she will line up behind him and support all his foreign policy decisions. One wonders if she backed Clinton on Bosnia? Or does she think that only Democrats should keep their views to themselves? Probably the later. If Schieffer had any integrity, he would have pursued that line of argument with her.
October 5th, 2008 at 3:07 pmHeather Wilson is the poster child of why we should rid ourselves of every accomplice who was there the past eight years nodding yes to all the destruction caused by Dubya and Cheney. This tool is not worthy of the office she has been entrusted. What she implies is disgustingly unpartiotic.
October 5th, 2008 at 3:20 pmAnyone who challenges the pimps and madams of our Corporwhorehouses on the Washington Mall gets called UnAmerican:
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/pacs.php?cycle=Career&cid=N00006546
Investment professionals are grateful for the handout:
http://www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081005/REG/810039928
Heather Wilson voted for the latest round of Corporafornication:
http://www.nmfbihop.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1832
No wonder she wants to change the topic!
October 5th, 2008 at 3:32 pmTime to learn American History. This is for Americans who either forgot or didn't know this includes our Law Makers and Media.
The Constitution of the United States of America
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Listening to the Media and McCain/Palin makes it clear how Bush/Cheney got in twice and why our country is in the mess. We have some of the Best educated mines in the World both with men and woman yet we seem to choose the dumpest of the group. Sarah's resume is only Miss Congeniality winner and McCain has lost his memory and the hug he gave Bush along with his total support he can't remember now. We listen to Govenors who know our history and current events. Law Makers who know the same yet we cheer for the dumbest of the group. At lease the World knows we aren't smart enough to pick the best we choose the worse. The Nations have moved on after listening to the VP Debate.
October 5th, 2008 at 3:37 pmi didn't know jane hathaway from the beverly hillbillies is now a member of the house of representatives representing new mexico. cool!
October 5th, 2008 at 3:37 pmUnfortunately, Miss Jane is DEAD of cancer (for many years), and when she DID run for office, being a lesbian and all,
Buddy "Uncle Jed" Ebsen ran commercials against her as "too liberal", and this is probably some time in the Nixon era...
As far as Wilson goes, SHE supports the TREASON of Bush, Cheney and the continuation in Palin/McCain.
And as Bill Maher said: "I don't let TRAITORS (like Wilson, etc.) question MY patriotism".
To which I concur, and say that Bush and Cheney need to be held accountable for their TREASON against the USA.
Biden said he would, and I expect him to do just that.
October 5th, 2008 at 3:42 pmAnd Heather Wilson should be under investigation for attempting to influence a US Attorney's investigation for political purposes.
October 5th, 2008 at 3:47 pmGood video on Obama for our Jewish friends.
Requires copy and paste.
http://tinyurl.com/ObamaIsrael
October 5th, 2008 at 4:09 pmHeather feels it's patriotic to use politics to influence the Department of Justice.
GOTV New Mexico
October 5th, 2008 at 4:12 pmThe expression "Politics stops at the water's edge" does not refer to any criticism whatsoever of American foriegn policy, it refers to not doing it while outside the country. So this was an ignorant application of that talking point.
As I understand it, one of John McCain's alleged heroes was Teddy Roosevelt, who famously said that not criticizing your government when it was wrong was unpatriotic. Are we to understand then that the McCain Campaign is no longer speaking for John McCain? Do either of them speak for the other?
October 5th, 2008 at 4:16 pmIf one criticizes repug "geniuses" (mcchimpy's whole damn campaign) then one is sexist or geriphobic.
It's not really the case and they know. While they flutter around rallying up idiots who believe their lies it just reinforces we have way better chance with Sens. Obama and Biden.
It's not even hard to understand, repugs will never understand.
Blogs, links, Olbermann and Maddow, so I know there is sanity on earth.
October 5th, 2008 at 4:37 pm.
Dear Ms. Wilson,
What then, is dissent from the "POPULAR" view?
So I'm being Patriotic when I agree with YOU?
.
October 5th, 2008 at 4:54 pm-- Teddy Roosevelt
October 5th, 2008 at 5:00 pmThank you, kirkaracha.
October 5th, 2008 at 5:02 pmThank you, June Cleaver.
October 5th, 2008 at 5:11 pmIsn't it time for Rep. Wilson to take her second RNC prescribed dose of lead filled cod-liver oil? Or is it unpatriotic of me to imply that she's as dumb as a moth burning in a flame?!
October 5th, 2008 at 5:12 pmThe most infuriating element about the Republican meme is that a criticism of them is a criticism of America. Well, I am part of America, and Republicans have been doing a good job of destroying what I hold dear in this country for some time now. Not only has their political philosophy been retrograde in almost every way imaginable, but they have been disasterously incompetent. It is time and more than time, they accept that they are only part of the whole, and the part that has really screwed up for the last eight years.
October 5th, 2008 at 5:48 pmCitizenE Says:
The most infuriating element about the Republican meme is that a criticism of them is a criticism of America.
___________
I notice they had no problem trashing Clinton endlessly...
October 5th, 2008 at 5:57 pmMcCain's brother says N. Virginia. 'Communist country'
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081005/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_brother_s_joke;_ylt=Ar5RUqI6mi_b6n5ODAdvHP9h24cA
October 5th, 2008 at 6:06 pm“Rep. Wilson: Any Criticism Of ‘American Policy’ Is Unpatriotic”
Excuse me, but was this attitude what did so much harm to the USA in the case of the 9/11. Hidding the head in the sand was the primary cause of the shock of many americans who asked themselves "Why are they attacking us?", and then went easily lied to the Iraq war. If there had existed a public discussion of the policies of the USA in place, many, MANY of the harm done could have been averted.
But the "ugly american" attitude has prevailed, and has created a new generation of USA haters. But, of course, Republicans don't want to aknowledge the failures of their policies.
October 5th, 2008 at 6:08 pmYou know, we’ve always had this history of saying, “Well, you know, politics ends at the water’s edge.”
Heather, are you asking me to leave my brains and common sense at the water's edge too?
I take my brains with me on a car with a bumper sticker for Obama that has been there since January. We have taken our brains with us since the 1950s, since that is what our fathers' fought for in WW I and WW II. I took my brains with me to the People's March on Washington, anti-Vietnam protests in the 1960's, and 40 yrs later since 2001.
Shame on you for your bullying! Family members found they cannot bully us and call us names, and neither can you!
You'll find less need to be so brittle and angry and your blood pressure will go down, after Jan 21st.
October 5th, 2008 at 6:24 pmHeather Wilson is just another lying, criminal sack of Republican s**t.
October 5th, 2008 at 6:28 pmAllowed to say:
"The Iranian leaders are twits."
"The Chinese leaders are twits."
"The French leaders are twits."
.
.
.
Not Allowed to say:
"The Israeli leaders are twits."
October 5th, 2008 at 6:35 pm"The American leaders are twits."
more unpatrioticness... unpatrioticacy:
He Told Us to Go Shopping. Now the Bill Is Due.
By Andrew J. Bacevich
Sunday, October 5, 2008; Page B03
It's widely thought that the biggest gamble President Bush ever took was deciding to invade Iraq in 2003. It wasn't. His riskiest move was actually one made right after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks when he chose not to mobilize the country or summon his fellow citizens to any wartime economic sacrifice. Bush tried to remake the world on the cheap, and as the bill grew larger, he still refused to ask Americans to pay up. During this past week, that gamble collapsed, leaving the rest of us to sort through the wreckage.
[...]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/03/AR2008100301977.html
October 5th, 2008 at 6:59 pmkaty Says:
Thanks for finding that katy. Andrew Bacevich is one conservative that I find has some intelect.
October 5th, 2008 at 7:32 pmPeople of New Mexico.
October 5th, 2008 at 7:41 pmPlease send this lying sack of shit back to wherever she came from. give her the opportunity to spend more time with her family.
PPPPPLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEE!
...and staging terrorist attacks, misleading a nation into a lavish criminal war, wasting trillions, bringing the economy to ruin as our civil liberties and our privacy are violated ...IS YET EVEN MORE UNPATRIOTIC!
Right now the idiot and his cronies stand between noble hardworking middle class americans and their dreams!
October 5th, 2008 at 8:17 pmDidn't plain do that "tsk, tsk, wave-a-pointed-finger" at Sen. Biden and retorted Sen. Biden was going backward instead of forward when he brought up the name bush? Wasn't her closing screech speech about ronnie "raygun?" Isn't that going back further than the present administration she supports now?
Then people especially women, like wilson, will come on their msm and look even stupider defending nonsense. It's amazing how stupid some people are.
How repugs attempt to compare Sen. Obama's presidential presence to mcchimpy three stooges act is unbelievable.
October 5th, 2008 at 11:11 pmhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/brandon-friedman/mccains-non-support-for-t_b_131046.html No. THIS crap is unpatriotic! McCain is a liar and a farce...a ridiculous excuse of a man.Please read and pass along...especially to those that still think that this POW has their backs! He's discussing.
October 5th, 2008 at 11:50 pmBTW -- Why is plain playing the victim role at every speech?
She will say "[T]he msm can play it which ever way," then go right into telling another out right lie about her opponents.
She should be concerned about defending plain 2006 and especially her 20007 tax returns. plain says she doesn't have to pay taxes on her $17K Christmas fund when in fact she actually has to. It was like 361 days at home where she did executive diaper changes.
What a job!
Her tax returns are an amusing insight into the greedy crooked plain family. (thx for the post)
They are really off their rockers.
plain hem line is too short she looks unrefined.
October 6th, 2008 at 12:09 amSo, once Obama becomes president Heather Wilson will become unpatriotic? Or will she stop smearing him and other Democrats "for the good of the country?"
October 6th, 2008 at 8:01 amFREEDOM OF SPEECH IS THE MOST PATRIOTIC ACT IN THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION AND I SHALL SCREAM FROM THE ROOFTOPS IF I WANT TO. IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT MOVE TO VIETNAM.
SO F U YOU HEATHER WILSON, YOU UGLY HO, AND DO US A FAVOR AND CRAWL BACK UNDER YOUR ROCK AND DIE
October 6th, 2008 at 8:05 amThe scary thing about Wilson is that she's intelligent but has surrendered that intelligence to the worst of the Republican Party. Yes, she was defeated in the primary, and it was a momentary pleasure to see her fall, as she was so smug and certain that she'd win. Steve Pearce, however, is even worse. Fortunately, Tom Udall has a lot of support, so if all continues to go well we'll be rid of both Wilson and Pearce.
October 6th, 2008 at 9:04 amThe party-in-power du jour will always have a vested interest in trying to conflate the two separate entities: America, and the current Administration.
America is a country, with a polity organized as a constitutional Republic, and it has a Constitution which defines the relationship of the latter to the former.
An Administration, consisting of whichever political Party succeeds in bamboozling the polity into allowing it to have access to the Great American Pork Sausage machinery for this spin of the wheel, formulates policies, which are carefully crafted, for the most part, to advantage said Party in the next election, and thus assure that the Party can keep on partying till the cows come home--by making sure to bring home the bacon (minus hefty slices for each of the many interested parties involved, who contribute the Party's various coffers/campaign warchests.)
Ms. Wilson's attempted conflation of America with the current Administration, while understandable (since her Party is currently in power), may thus be seen as the transparent non-sequitur</em which it is.
As for the "(partisan) politics stops at the water's edge" tradition, which we (i.e., America, the country) has "always had", see here.
October 6th, 2008 at 1:04 pmSigh.
You know, the better blogs out there offer this new-fangled thing called a Preview feature...
Just wishin'.
October 6th, 2008 at 1:09 pmGood to know that once Obama's president, Wilson and other conservatives won't have any criticisms whatsoever for anything he does. They wouldn't want to be unpatriotic after all...
October 6th, 2008 at 2:01 pmWhy did New Mexico elect a man in a dress?
October 6th, 2008 at 2:57 pmSorry Miss traitor but you can suck my red white and blue B*lls. It is patriotic to dissent, and I will plow people like you under our patriotic fields if given the opportunity to make our country great again. We don't need sheep like you in our country anymore to feed off their corporate handlers, you are a poison to our country. Fascism aka Corporatism needs to be flushed from our country like the turd that it is, there is no room in our melting pot for turds like this whore for big business.
October 6th, 2008 at 4:18 pmNow here's someone with an agenda, anyone, anyone figure it out? hmmm perhaps her vitriol and mindless hate for American's at large that don't agree with her adulation of one the worst president's in modern history, make us not worthy to occupy the country at large with her ilk.
October 7th, 2008 at 12:25 amNews for ya, you lame detritus for corporate America, without our money's you wouldn't be sh*t
Here's hoping that your constituents realize that they need to re-evaluate your priorities and slap a maxi pad over the slash that adorns your face.
Since when did it become unpatriot to critizize an Administration. Hell but her reasonin every Republican in Congress should have been tried for treason during the Clinton Administration.
It's the saddest thing to see people who refuse to acknowledge they were/are wrong. Wilson is an example of everything that is wrong with the Republican party. They don't face reality, and when it's shoved in their face they lie, obsfuscate, deny, and lie some more and blame the other guy.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:49 am