Putin Exposes the Secrets of American Liberalism
By JAMES PIERESON on 9.13.13 @ 6:11AM
Liberals just hate it when someone uses their own arguments against them.
Members of the Washington establishment were quick to denounce Vladimir Putin’s op ed article in Thursday’s New York Times questioning the legitimacy and legality of a U.S. attack on Syria. The White House quickly dismissed his column as “irrelevant” and a sideshow to the real issues at stake. The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said that Putin’s column made him want to “vomit.” Several other members of Congress, including Sen. McCain and Rep. Boehner, have denounced the column. Pundits have also weighed in against Mr. Putin’s intervention into the American debate over Syria. Many tweeters and “texters” have criticized the Times for daring to publish a column by the Russian President that is critical of President Obama and U.S. policy abroad.
There is an unspoken sub-text at play here: what President Putin said in his column is pretty much what American liberals and leftists have been saying about the United States since the 1960s. "...
I wonder when our elected officials, i.e. Boner and McLame, will realize that THEY make US want to vomit. Putin got it mostly right. I can't believe I'm agreeing with a former KGB thug. What Putin didn't get right was questioning American exceptionalism. But then again, I have a feeling most lefties would agree with him on that one single point. Uggh...
Im baaaack wrote: I wonder when our elected officials, i.e. Boner and McLame, will realize that THEY make US want to vomit. Putin got it mostly right. I can't believe I'm agreeing with a former KGB thug. What Putin didn't get right was questioning American exceptionalism. But then again, I have a feeling most lefties would agree with him on that one single point. Uggh...
Certainly Obama made that point clear in the Cairo speech, then flipped on it somewhat.
The left is angry because they are now being judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
