I have to say that unlike my right leaning brethren I have never been fully on board with the Hillbuzz crowd. I understand their frustration and frankly I think Clinton would have been a much better President than Obama (or even McCain frankly) but I don’t respect people more based on their dissatisfaction with a group they refuse to leave.
They have remained classy to Republicans in many cases and for that I do respect them. However this recent piece about George W. And Laura Bush makes me respect them even more:
If you have been reading us for any length of time, you know that we used to make fun of “Dubya†nearly every day…parroting the same comedic bits we heard in our Democrat circles, where Bush is still, to this day, lampooned as a chimp, a bumbling idiot, and a poor, clumsy public speaker.
Oh, how we RAILED against Bush in 2000…and how we RAILED against the surge in support Bush received post-9/11 when he went to Ground Zero and stood there with his bullhorn in the ruins on that hideous day.
We were convinced that ANYONE who was president would have done what Bush did, and would have set that right tone of leadership in the wake of that disaster. President Gore, President Perot, President Nader, you name it. ANYONE, we assumed, would have filled that role perfectly.
Well, we told you before how much the current president, Dr. Utopia, made us realize just how wrong we were about Bush. We shudder to think what Dr. Utopia would have done post-9/11. He would have not gone there with a bullhorn and struck that right tone. More likely than not, he would have been his usual fey, apologetic self and waxed professorially about how evil America is and how justified Muslims are for attacking us, with a sidebar on how good the attacks were because they would humble us.
Honestly, we don’t think President Gore would have been much better that day. The world needed George W. Bush, his bullhorn, and his indominable spirit that day…and we will forever be grateful to this man for that.
As we will always be grateful for what George and Laura Bush did this week, with no media attention, when they very quietly went to Ft. Hood and met personally with the families of the victims of this terrorist attack.
FOR HOURS.
The Bushes went and met privately with these families for HOURS, hugging them, holding them, comforting them.
If there are any of you out there with any connection at all to the Bushes, we implore you to give them our thanks…you tell them that a bunch of gay Hillary guys in Boystown, Chicago were wrong about the Bushes…and are deeply, deeply sorry for any jokes we told about them in the past, any bad thoughts we had about these good, good people.
Read the rest. It’s stirring and makes the points about the George W. Bush that we Republicans should have been making all along.
I know so many gay men and women who just fawn over the Clintons–the very same President who did more damage to the gay community than I can even outline. They still defend these two. I guess I just don’t, for the life of me, understand the mindset. They would absolutely crucify any Republican President who signed the things that Clinton did and yet he gets a pass! I mentioned this same article on my own blog and mentioned the fact that if Hillary had been elected instead of Obama with this same Leftist Congress behind her she would be pushing many of the same radical things. Who doesn’t doubt that because Hillary failed on health-care with Bill in the 90’s that she wouldn’t revive socialized medicine just to be vindicated–if for no other reason than that!
I just don’t deal with illogical people very well I guess.
All true. I don’t remember who said it but I remember a gay guy saying something like “There are two parties in this country that hate gays, and one will keep my taxes low” and except for the fact Republicans don’t hate gays I think he was spot on. The Democrats will never give gays enough to make it possible for them to leave the plantation so gay marriage is off the table.
As bad as Clinton would have been though it’s tough to see McCain as being so much better. You just never know with him. I know he’d fight the war better, but when Cap-and-Trade or Health care needed to be signed…I just don’t really know what’d he’d do. I wish Thompson was President.
Christopher, I agree that Hillary’s agenda would likely be just as radical as Obama’s. However, I think that if she was in Obama’s place right now, she wouldn’t have the political capital to push through health care reform. The failure of HillaryCare in the 90s would be too much of a handicap.
I was a daily reader of HillBuzz during the 2008 election season and even donated to them, but after a while I got sick of the way they whitewash the Clintons and their legacy. Bill Clinton was like an abusive husband, smacking around the gay community and then saying, “C’mon baby, I swear it won’t happen again. I’ll make it up to you.” Not so different from Obama, really.