tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102867.post110841605481009061..comments2023-11-05T04:38:52.557-06:00Comments on LeftWingCracker: I've always thought of Republicans as whores, but this is ridiculousSteve Steffenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08104688163653632284noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102867.post-1113510941818201962005-04-14T15:35:00.001-05:002005-04-14T15:35:00.001-05:00Robert Oppenheimer, as he watched the nuclear fire...Robert Oppenheimer, as he watched the nuclear fireball at the Trinity Test Sight on July 16, 1945, quoted the _Bhavagad Gita_: "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." What has always interested me, however, was not Oppenheimer's sense of the poetically destructive. The man standing next to him, upon hearing Oppenheimer, said "Now we're all sons of bitches." <BR/> For one group, as Reinhold Niebuhr might call them, Children of Light to claim "moral superiority" over another is not only arrogant, it easily descends into dangerous. That danger, so ominously evident in the machinations of the modern Republican apparatus, allows for any method, any means and a resort to any hypocrisy to obtain, consolidate and, in the case of Mr. Gannon/Guckert, maintain their power. These people use opposition to "gay marriage" as a tactic to gain re-election, but utilize a gay man as one of their "journalistic" mouthpieces to further their message. It's not too far removed to quote my late father in saying that "fundamentalism is the antiChrist." <BR/> I continue to believe that we progressives have awakened (just) in time to muster enough courage to fight back. I also believe that the Bush people overplayed their hand with the Terri Schiavo travesty. What remains problematic, however, is that progressives are relatively unorganized and conditioned toward "bi-partisanship" or, if one will, "being nice." If we don't continually remind ourselves that bipartisanship is only a code word for ruthless attainment of power, we will continue to lose. And more Guckert/Gannons will get to lob softball questions at Presidential Press Conferences. God help us--Richmondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08243225813780023020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102867.post-1113510941791990132005-04-14T15:35:00.000-05:002005-04-14T15:35:00.000-05:00Robert Oppenheimer, as he watched the nuclear fire...Robert Oppenheimer, as he watched the nuclear fireball at the Trinity Test Sight on July 16, 1945, quoted the _Bhavagad Gita_: "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." What has always interested me, however, was not Oppenheimer's sense of the poetically destructive. The man standing next to him, upon hearing Oppenheimer, said "Now we're all sons of bitches." <BR/> For one group, as Reinhold Niebuhr might call them, Children of Light to claim "moral superiority" over another is not only arrogant, it easily descends into dangerous. That danger, so ominously evident in the machinations of the modern Republican apparatus, allows for any method, any means and a resort to any hypocrisy to obtain, consolidate and, in the case of Mr. Gannon/Guckert, maintain their power. These people use opposition to "gay marriage" as a tactic to gain re-election, but utilize a gay man as one of their "journalistic" mouthpieces to further their message. It's not too far removed to quote my late father in saying that "fundamentalism is the antiChrist." <BR/> I continue to believe that we progressives have awakened (just) in time to muster enough courage to fight back. I also believe that the Bush people overplayed their hand with the Terri Schiavo travesty. What remains problematic, however, is that progressives are relatively unorganized and conditioned toward "bi-partisanship" or, if one will, "being nice." If we don't continually remind ourselves that bipartisanship is only a code word for ruthless attainment of power, we will continue to lose. And more Guckert/Gannons will get to lob softball questions at Presidential Press Conferences. God help us--Richmondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08243225813780023020noreply@blogger.com