"I'm With the Taliban Against America" is not likely to be a winning slogan. (Eugene Robinson)

[kpete]

Obama's High Bar

By Eugene Robinson
Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Somebody explain this to me: The president of the United States wins the Nobel Peace Prize and Rush Limbaugh joins with the Taliban in bitterly denouncing the award? Glenn Beck has a conniption fit and demands that the president not accept what may be the world's most prestigious honor? The Republican National Committee issues a statement sarcastically mocking our nation's leader -- elected, you will recall, by a healthy majority -- as unworthy of such recognition?

Why, oh why, do conservatives hate America so?

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The problem for the addlebrained Obama-rejectionists is that the president, as far as they are concerned, couldn't possibly do anything right, and thus is unworthy of any conceivable recognition. If Obama ended world hunger, they'd accuse him of promoting obesity. If he solved global warming, they'd complain it was getting chilly. If he got Mahmoud Abbas and Binyamin Netanyahu to join him around the campfire in a chorus of "Kumbaya," the rejectionists would claim that his singing was out of tune.

Let the rejectionists fulminate and sputter until they wear their vocal cords out. Politically, they're only bashing themselves. As Republican leaders -- except RNC Chairman Michael Steele -- are beginning to realize, "I'm With the Taliban Against America" is not likely to be a winning slogan.

more:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/12/AR2009101202391.html

[spanone]

1. why oh why is m$nbc the 'ru$h limbaugh' channel?

[SpiralHawk]

2. Why do republicons pretend they are 'conservatives'?

And why do Republicons HATE America?

[ananda]

3. Isn't the American rightwing largely "talebanized" anyway?

I think so.

[madrchsod]

4. why, oh why, do they hate america?.....

wait a minute i know---we had the audacity to elect a BLACK BOY to the presidency!

we are so sorry rush,beck,mickie house boy steele,and the rest of the racist pieces of shit in this country..we won`t let it happen again.

[mikelgb]

5. The 'conservatives' hate America because she is a N***** lover.

It is as blunt as that. May conservative Jesus bless their little hearts.

[peacetalksforall]

6. Republicans are the most organized entity going. Limbaugh and other mouths

are just part of the vast right wing who perfected orchestrated agendas. Their sturcture is still in place. There are no splinters, no missing bolts. Their structure is perfect and being imporved. Started under Reagan. Continually perfected. Knock down Clinton. Promote Cheney and Bush. Knock down Obama and supporters. They are a lie, distortion, racist, bigoted super steel organization. From Hatch to the caller. From Norquist to the teabagger protestor and their sign. They have all seven of the tv networks. They have hundreds of radio shows. They have the reverends. They have the Federal Society. They have the think tanks. From the little old ladies to the judges to the barons.

We are under attack by our own. Hang in and keep fighting. Wake up, wake others, stay awake to their tricks. Observe the perfection of their orchestration. Keep pointing out the ridiculnous of their words.

We are in the Rovian era of filth and fear. Reasonable Republicans are silenced.

[kentuck]

7. K & R .

Go ahead Democrats. Make the ad.