angry

[jaina]

You all know that I almost never talk politics on this journal. But today I'm making a special exception. From the AP:

Speaking in a ballroom just a few miles north of ground zero, Karl Rove said the Democratic party did not understand the consequences of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

"Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers," Rove said Wednesday night. "Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war."

Okay, in the first place, that's blatantly false. Blatantly. In the second place, that is a fucking disgusting thing to say, on SO many levels. It's crude. It's divisive. It smacks of opportunism. And did I mention the part where it's COMPLETELY UNTRUE!?

So, so angry right now. The whole mess about cutting public broadcasting funding isn't helping my mood, either.

Comments

[blusurfer.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, Karl Rove is important. He is one of the president's closest long-time advisors and the garbage that spews from his mouth every day influences the so-called leader of the free world.

Nothing will change in this country or its current goverment if we pretend that it doesn't exist.

[spccadet.livejournal.com]

The only thing I see is the so-called leader of the free world driving the country into the ground so that other countries (such as China) become larger world powers than the US even sooner...

[tirianmal.livejournal.com]

I don't want to ignore his influence, ... I want to get to a point where he has no influence.

But sadly such is probably unrealistic to hope for.