Hmmmmm....President Bush never, to my knowledge, blasted a news organization the way Obama has blasted Fox.
Fox "News" openly helps organize fascist mobs against the Obama administration, and is temporarily denied the opportunity to interview an Obama official. When, OTOH, the New York Times spilled the beans on Bush's criminal wiretapping scheme, the administration not only "blasted" the Times (even though the paper had done Bush the inexcusable favor of sitting on the story for a year in order to ensure Bush's reelection)--it threatened to actually prosecute the newspaper. Calls for such a move were quite loud in the pro-Bush press. The administration asserted, in writing, that it could suspend the 1st Amendment and other fundamental constitutional protections at will, and these weren't theoretical legal opinions--they were adopted as official policy. For years, you couldn't say anything critical about the Bush administration without having 10,000 pro-Bush slugs descend upn you and accuse you of being pro-terrorist (I was on the sustained receiving end of more of that than I care to remember, and all I did was write some blog posts). The administrations' apologists were like the inbred pro-Visitor mobs of V, attacking and persecuting scientists because they'd been portrayed as enemies. For that matter, the Bush administration also waged its own war on science for the whole of its reign.
The Visitors kidnapped huge numbers of people, tortured some of them, put many of them in cold storage for dinner later. Bush, though he had no dinner plans for his victims, employed the same methods. The administration ignored the law and the constitution at will, asserting, among so many other things, the power to kidnap, torture, ship to foreign soil to be tortured (like a mother-ship), or "detain" anyone it arbitrarily designated an enemy. Bush claimed the power to prosecute those so designated in secret trials with secret evidence and predetermined outcomes, to kill them in secret, and to just leave them in a deep, dark hole forever, no access to courts, lawyers, anything.
When it comes to resources, the Visitors were after our water and our meat, while Bush was after the oil. Everything the Visitors told the humans about their plans and intentions was completely false, a tapestry of lies designed to herd public opinion behind them long enough to put their real plans into effect--exactly what happened with Bush.
I could go on at some length, but I think the point is more than made, and as disappointing as Obama has been, no similar parallels with the Visitors and his administration even remotely exist.
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dpcole7
12 years ago
Now THAT is the sort of informed response that is rare on the internet. Even my responses, meant just to bring up opposing points of view for the same reason others posted their views in the first place, don't include that level of detail. But my goal is thinking of perspectives, regardless of what my true beliefs are.
And don't forget "free speech zones".
A lot of the Obama people certainly choose not to remember anything from last decade... but who said Obama eliminated such zones; I don't keep up with politics to that level of detail...
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