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Feb. 8th, 2008 12:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ineffabelle'elllllloooo clinton!
-by Kung Fu Monkey
The great part of this is the Extrapolated Everyday Bullshit Comparison:
"We take the idea under discussion OUT of politics, put it INTO an everyday situation, and see if it holds up."
example:
"Say, oh, your child develops cancer. And he dies, agonizingly. And you find out that your oncologist, Dr. Rumsfeld, really didn't plan out the treatment very well, and also didn't care that your child, your only, sweet, sweet child, was treated with second rate equipment.
And when you confront Dr. Rumsfeld, he shrugs his shoulders and says "You fight cancer with the medicines you have, not the medicines you want."
You'd spend an hour kneeling on his chest, screaming, breaking every bone you could before the orderlies pulled you off."
-by Kung Fu Monkey
The great part of this is the Extrapolated Everyday Bullshit Comparison:
"We take the idea under discussion OUT of politics, put it INTO an everyday situation, and see if it holds up."
example:
"Say, oh, your child develops cancer. And he dies, agonizingly. And you find out that your oncologist, Dr. Rumsfeld, really didn't plan out the treatment very well, and also didn't care that your child, your only, sweet, sweet child, was treated with second rate equipment.
And when you confront Dr. Rumsfeld, he shrugs his shoulders and says "You fight cancer with the medicines you have, not the medicines you want."
You'd spend an hour kneeling on his chest, screaming, breaking every bone you could before the orderlies pulled you off."
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Date: 2008-02-08 09:38 pm (UTC)That's absolutely right on, as far as it goes.
I disagree with Kung Fu Monkey's "never mind the past" argument, though, because if one doesn't address the systemic assumptions that allow this sort of behavior (instead of simply saying that "Bush is EEEVUL!" - no matter how true that may be), then we're gonna be in for a huge disappointment when people continue to die in undeclared and unnecessary wars under a Democrat administration.
Bush has perhaps centralized and abused executive power to a greater degree than any of his predecessors, but the past presidents before him (certainly back to FDR) created the precedents that made it so easy for the Chimp to do it.
Will Hillary or Obama demand the repeal of the Patriot Act and wiretapping laws? Will they denounce "signing statements" and pledge never to use them? Will their Justice Dept. prosecute former officials who were involved in illegal torture? The fact that they don't even feel any pressure to answer those questions is itself an answer to the questions.