But what if you honestly liked it?
Via the Bobatollah, Protein Wisdom’s Jeff G has a message for conservatives who liked – or, rather say they liked – President Obama’s speech in Tuscon:
Watching many on the right rush to congratulate the President for his supposedly compassionate speech, which included an ironic and hypocritical call for “civility” (NO LABELS, haters!) — after allowing his party and the media to spend five days suggesting that millions of Americans who happen to disagree with the Presidents policies were somehow co-conspirators to multiple murders, including that of a 9-year-old girl — it is clear to me why the GOP establishment and its supporters have consistently ceded ground to the progressives and to their agenda: they strive, above all else, to avoid being cast in a negative light by their political opponents. That is, they’re cowardly and cowed.
The rest of us don’t need to be.
I didn’t see the speech, so, y’know, no opinion, but I have defended Obama at least twice (here and here) from criticism elsewhere. Disclosure filled.
Here’s my question for Jeff: what if you really did like Obama’s speech? Should you still be critical of it, to avoid looking “cowardly and cowed?” And if you are critical of it in order to avoid looking “cowardly and cowed,” then aren’t you actually being “cowardly and cowed?”
UPDATE - In the comments, Protein Wisdom superstars Jeff G and Darlene make their case…that Obama’s speech was hypocritical, opportunistic, and intellectually dishonest.
And maybe it was. Like I said, I didn’t see it. My post today is about the standard Jeff seems to be setting for conservatives: you either agree with him about the speech, or you are “cowardly and cowed.”
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what if you really did like Obama’s speech?
In what context? They were nice words, said in a nice way. Isolated, it is a good SOUNDING speech.
However, O! said nothing for 5 days of blood libel against Palin, talk radio, TEA party members and any non-leftist that had dared use a metaphor or normative campaign imagery (ZOMG I used the word “campaign” which is war-talk!! I must denounce myself)…then he comes out with “can’t we ALL get along? Stop attacking EACH OTHER” as if there were some kind of equal blame here.
In the face of such intellectual dishonesty, how can you “like” the speech?
No. You likely either already are, or else you haven’t been paying attention to what’s gone on the last 5 days.
Yes. So be critical of it because it was cynical and opportunistic, and because the hypocrisy larded in the thing would choke a hippo.
Anything else?
Lance,
Context matters.
If our President did not have a track record of being cynical and opportunistic, then yes, give him a pass.
Also, the speech, as was rightly pointed out, happened after 5 days of some of the worst over the top rhetoric I’ve seen since President Bush was in office.
Again, in isolation, the speech looks great.
In context, the speech looks bad.
Still not the point I was making, Blake.