We're All Very Bad People...

[babylonsister]

:wow:

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_05/017992.php


WE'RE ALL VERY BAD PEOPLE.... The National Review's Jay Nordlinger offers some insights on one measurement to evaluate a person's character. (thanks to reader D.D. for the heads-up)

In my experience -- and I'm just generalizing here -- the better the person, the more positive he is about George W. Bush. Certainly the less snarky and narrow. Most of the people I admire most, admire the 43rd president. (Please note that I said "most of the people," not "all of the people.") This is particularly true of those who know something about tyranny, and the need to resist it: e.g., the Dalai Lama.

I was under the false impression that most conservatives had moved away from this kind of Bush cheerleading, and outside of the former president's top aides, the right saw little value in Bush worship. Indeed, I'd assumed the opposite was true -- as the Bush/Cheney presidency became indefensible, the right discovered that Bush wasn't really one of them after all (he spent too much, failed to rein in the size of government, bailed out the financial industry, added bureaucracy, etc.). The idea was to distance themselves from a failed and unpopular president, in order to protect the integrity of the ideology and the party.

Apparently, however, the admiration remains strong in at least some corners.

—Steve Benen

[niyad]

1. you have to love der chimpenfuhrer in order for this nutbar to consider you good?

jay, you are clearly out of your mind. why don't you go put on that special "I love me" jacket and retire to your padded room?

[Echo In Light]

2. Of course "admiration remains strong;" the Bushies took steps to close the open society

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Well, guess what! I'd rather be bad!

:P

[hfojvt]

4. I am just guessing

that his other definition of "better" involves "making more money than other people". Because many of those people are a) well dressed, b) polite and well mannered, c) give lots of money to charity (because they have lots of disposable income), and d) are always publicly admired by the other members of the establishment.

However, is the Dalai Lama really positive about George Bush?

[Flying Dream Blues]

5. And I'm just generalizing here, too, but in my experience it's just the opposite.

Advantage, me.

[Arugula Latte]

6. Oh, this is rich. I guess the Let's-Revise-History propaganda push is starting already. nt

[gkhouston]

7. Interesting that they would feel a need to float this bullshit just now. Looks

like a laughable effort to repress any tale-telling about what went on during the Bush years.

[kestrel91316]

8. Is he saying the Dalai Lama admires Bush? Because the Dalai Lama

would probably beg to differ, in private. Publically he would just smile if asked, I think.

[H2O Man]

9. Jay is a silly one,

not to be taken seriously.