ClydeR
03-24-2009, 02:49 PM
"Long live Alsace," declared Joseph Joffre, the General-in-Chief of the French Armies, after France's triumphant march into Alsace in 1914. Joffre famous phrase accompanied his 1914 declaration of victory in World War I. France, of course, was forced to flee Alsace before the end of the war. Fortunately for France, the United States won the war and allowed Alsace to be returned to the undoubtedly embarrassed French as part of the peace treaty.
Liberals, invigorated by Democrat victories last November, are repeating Joffre's mistake today.
SOMEDAY we’ll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug. 9, his first prime-time address to the nation. The subject — which Bush hyped as “one of the most profound of our time” — was stem cells. For a presidency in thrall to a thriving religious right (and a presidency incapable of multi-tasking), nothing, not even terrorism, could be more urgent.
When Barack Obama ended the Bush stem-cell policy last week, there were no such overheated theatrics. No oversold prime-time address. No hysteria from politicians, the news media or the public. The family-values dinosaurs that once stalked the earth — Falwell, Robertson, Dobson and Reed — are now either dead, retired or disgraced. Their less-famous successors pumped out their pro forma e-mail blasts, but to little avail. The Republican National Committee said nothing whatsoever about Obama’s reversal of Bush stem-cell policy. That’s quite a contrast to 2006, when the party’s wild and crazy (and perhaps transitory) new chairman, Michael Steele, likened embryonic stem-cell research to Nazi medical experiments during his failed Senate campaign.
More... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/opinion/15rich.html)
That's Frank Rich writing an opinion column in the New York Times. Well I have news for Mr. Rich. The culture war is not over. Not by a long shot.
Most of us are muzzling ourselves as much as possible during the new President's first 100 days in office. (You have to be extra nice during the first 100 days.) But after that, things will be back to normal.
This article is from last week, but I was at Christian Spring Break and didn't get a chance to write about it until today.
Liberals, invigorated by Democrat victories last November, are repeating Joffre's mistake today.
SOMEDAY we’ll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug. 9, his first prime-time address to the nation. The subject — which Bush hyped as “one of the most profound of our time” — was stem cells. For a presidency in thrall to a thriving religious right (and a presidency incapable of multi-tasking), nothing, not even terrorism, could be more urgent.
When Barack Obama ended the Bush stem-cell policy last week, there were no such overheated theatrics. No oversold prime-time address. No hysteria from politicians, the news media or the public. The family-values dinosaurs that once stalked the earth — Falwell, Robertson, Dobson and Reed — are now either dead, retired or disgraced. Their less-famous successors pumped out their pro forma e-mail blasts, but to little avail. The Republican National Committee said nothing whatsoever about Obama’s reversal of Bush stem-cell policy. That’s quite a contrast to 2006, when the party’s wild and crazy (and perhaps transitory) new chairman, Michael Steele, likened embryonic stem-cell research to Nazi medical experiments during his failed Senate campaign.
More... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/opinion/15rich.html)
That's Frank Rich writing an opinion column in the New York Times. Well I have news for Mr. Rich. The culture war is not over. Not by a long shot.
Most of us are muzzling ourselves as much as possible during the new President's first 100 days in office. (You have to be extra nice during the first 100 days.) But after that, things will be back to normal.
This article is from last week, but I was at Christian Spring Break and didn't get a chance to write about it until today.