What impeccable timing. A rant about the Pledge ruling.

[tjwash]

What? There are no missing blond women this week out there to take the heat off of shrubs ever withering approval ratings? Michael Jackson decided to behave himself for a little while?

Hello wedge issue 2006. Manna from heaven! The mother of all distractions! I can hear the right wing knees jerking throughout the land on this one. Here we go, 7 by 24 hour coverage coming up as right wing shit heads like Delay and Scaife try to defend a document created not by the US's founders but by an American socialist around 1900.

Never mind the abject hypocrisy, of those defending loyalty oaths in the first place, which are supposed to be unconstitutional. Loyalty oaths, like “freedom marches” that glorify war and government oppression, are the type of thing we are supposed to see in Communist China, or the old Soviet Union, not in what is supposed to be the freest country in the world.

Do I think the ruling was right? I should tell you all that I’m old. I had some bad experiences growing up in our public school system. When I was in sixth grade in Tennessee, I was beaten black and blue by a teacher with a wooden paddle for refusing to pray with the class before lunch. My personal opinion was that the judge made the right decision. This is not the point. The timing was absolutely horrible. I am a little angry at Newdow and Judge Karlton. We as a country are facing the worst problems we have had in decades. We we're finally getting the focus of a significant majority pointed in our direction. People were finally opening their eyes to the very real issues of administrative incompetence, corruptness, cronyism, emotional disconnect, and the dissolving of our rights through war and fear mongering. All of a sudden they throw the gift of a distraction of this magnitude to the righties over this issue? From a tactical standpoint, This could not have been worse.

I hope I’m wrong. I hope that maybe the people are starting to see that emperor shrub has no clothes. I am hoping that tomorrow, I will not turn on my TV and see the usual nut-jobs bussed in by KKKarl Rove from the Religious Right screaming "These liberal atheists are destroying America! Violence! Crime! Suffering! All their fault! Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go back toworshipingg this statue of a man being tortured to death."

Hey one can always dream…

[leftupnorth]

1. you'll get

no argument from me, nice post

[stopbush]

2. I'm sorry, but to quote *, life goes on.

We rant when the RW tries to silence us from criticizing bushco because "it's not the right time." Well, I'm sorry, but with bushco operating in "nary a clue, chaos is SOP' there will NEVER be an optimum time to bring such issues as "under god" in the Pledge forward. The truth is that there are MORE disasters waiting just around the corner, MAJOR disasters that could make Katrina look like last year's news in short order. And when those disasters hit and the press (hopefully) starts piling on bush again, we'll hear the "not the time to bring it up" argument from both sides I'm sure.

Katrina and bush's disaster are a big story that's not going away. Moreover, the Pledge is an OLD story that has been beaten to death by the RW. Who knows? If the RW chooses to beat it to death again, it could make them look even WORSE on other matters ("who cares about the Pledge issue when people are dying?"). Better yet, let them try to make an issue out of this. We have plenty of REAL, on-the-ground examples of what the RW philosophy is doing to America.

The words "under god" and even the Pledge itself - even the FLAG, fer Chis sake - had no power to protect this country against disasters, natural or man made. Worrying about such an "issue" is akin to shuffling the seats on the Titanic.

Final point: if bush hovering at 38% approval is not the time to bring this up, when was? When he was at 90%?

[TallahasseeGrannie]

3. I'm embarrassed to say

I never considered it bad timing, but you have sure talked me into it. It is a HUGE red herring.

[sysoprock]

4. You can't say anything bad about the pledge ruling.

Your post count will be scrutinized and you'll be accused of being a Freeper.

P.S. I agree 100%