Hey Republifucks.... Obama wasn't apologizing for America.....

[scheming daemons]

...he was apologizing for George W. Bush.


Much in the way that Germany occassionally apologizes to the world for Hitler.



He was saying... "America is a good and great nation. From 2000 to 2008, we fucked up. We're sorry. We're back to how you remember us now. OK? Forgive?"

[Hellataz]

1. Republifucks! hahaha, Thanx for the laugh today.

[Cali_Democrat]

2. Rec'd

:thumbsup:

[firedupdem]

3. rec'd n/t

[JuniperLea]

4. That the Republifucks (GAWD I love that!)

Have no clue or refuse to admit to the fubar BushCo administration's hand in our current crisis is very telling.

This is a football game to them. They will lie in the gutter, choking on their last crust of dry, moldy bread, with no home, no job, no money, and they will STILL worship the rat bastard and his cowardly minions that put us here. Yay team.

Bush broke our country, and he broke the banks of the world. Someone needs to apologize for that. Thank Goddess for Obama! He's a man doing the right thing... oh, no wonder they can't understand this. It's a foreign concept to Bush Apologists. Much like diplomacy on the whole. They don't know what that is, so they fear it.

Oooga boooga! Boo!


Dumbasses.

[AtomicKitten]

5. K&R

:thumbsup:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. Republicans have such short memories

they don't remember bush

[Undercurrent]

7. Absolutly!

And

Republifucks

is a winner!

[Cha]

8. Right, President Obama was apologizing for

the one who had the shoes thrown at him by an Iraqi reporter.

Whose sentence is now down to "1 year". Yay!

[indepat]

9. If only the President will do everything possible to undo/mitigate absolutely

everything junior has done to fuck up this nation, and that includes Iraq, torture, illegal wiretapping, politicization of the entire Federal apparatus, especially the Department of Justice, the rule of law, the environment and ad infinitum.... :D

[Democrats_win]

10. Harper's Magazine article shows that Repubs often use "stabbed in the back" myth.

http://harpers.org/archive/2006/06/0081080

Stabbed in the back! The past and future of a right-wing myth
By Kevin Baker (June 2006)
(some quotes from the article follow and I've added emphasis to certain sections so you can get the important idea quickly.)

"Every state must have its enemies. Great powers must have especially monstrous foes. Above all, these foes must arise from within, for national pride does not admit that a great nation can be defeated by any outside force. That is why, though its origins are elsewhere, the stab in the back has become the sustaining myth of modern American nationalism."

"The stab in the back first gained currency in Germany, as a means of explaining the nation's stunning defeat in World War I."

The article describes how this syndrome began in America with the right, sensing an opportunity, claimed that FDR stabbed us in the back at Yalta where he supposedly gave away Eastern Europe. Of course in the end we got it back without any Vietnam-style casualties.

For the next 50 years, the right would continue this path from McCarthy to Nixon. From the W. Bush years to now. But the irony is at the end of the article which is simply incredible:

It is ironic that, even as support for his war was starting to unravel in May of 2005, George W. Bush was in the Latvian capital of Riga, describing the Yalta agreement as “one of the greatest wrongs of history.”The President placed it in the “unjust tradition” of the 1938 Munich Pact and the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which together paved the way for the start of World War II in 1939. Bush's words echoed his statements of three previous trips to Eastern Europe, dating back to 2001, during which he had pledged, “no more Munichs, no more Yaltas,” and called Yalta an “attempt to sacrifice freedom for the sake of stability,” a “bitter legacy,” and a “constant source of injustice and fear” that had “divided a living civilization.”

The ultimate irony of Bush's perpetuating this ageless right-wing shibboleth is that for once it wasn't intended for home consumption. The Yalta myth has finally lost its old magic, here in historically illiterate, contemporary America. Nor did Bush make any special attempt to let his countrymen know he was apportioning them equal blame with Stalin and Hitler for the greatest calamities of the twentieth century.

Bush's pandering was directed instead to the nations he was visiting, in a region that still battens on any number of conspiracy theories. Why he should have so denigrated his own country to a few small Eastern European nations might seem a mystery, until one considers that this is the “new Europe” that Bush has solicited for troops for his Iraqi adventure . . . and where he appears to have found either destinations or conduits for victims of “extraordinary rendition,” en route to where they could be safely tortured in secrecy.

An American president, wandering the halls of Eastern European palaces, denounces his own nation in order to appease his hosts into torturing secret prisoners. Our heroic age surely has come to an end.