More reaction to the earthquake

[mqbush]

Limbaugh's fit to be tied. That dratted Obama is so lucky to be handed this catastrophe in Haiti! It just plays right into his hands, Limbaugh says. It's an undeserved chance for Obama to come off as cuddly and caring. Of course Bush never got such a piece of good fortune handed to him!

No, you can't count Katrina. The inept response there was part of the Conservative effort to make government look incompetent so that people will turn away from government and depend on for-profit providers. "The best govt employee is the worst govt employee." (Conservative mantra)

Of course, what's bizarre about this is: Destroying all govt except for the military (to protect corporate interests), police (to protect the wealthy from the rabble), courts (to enforce contracts),-and having everything else privatized, is that this hugely benefits the wealthy only, while redistributing any wealth from the bottom 95% to the top 5%,-and that today the ranks of Conservative supporters are largely filled by people already struggling financially as a direct result of the ascendancy of such policies since Reagan. Now THAT's some snow job.

Hand it to Limbaugh and company: What would be marginalized as crackpot behavior gets reinforced across the country on monolithic Clear Channel, and communities can't do anything about it, can't keep such dirt out of their airwaves, because the dollar has more power than community standards,-and Limbaugh knows this and gets fat on the profit from this, the good old American way.

Then of course there's Pat Robertson. He said Haitians must have made a pact with the devil, to be punished so by the earthquake. Now, his comments typically sound like the gibberish of "speaking in tongues," so I can't be sure what he meant here. But, extrapolating from his record, I'd say the "deal with the devil" was Haitians' revolt against their earlier enslavement, a heretical defiance of natural law. (You know,-white supremacy.)

It has to be a deal with the devil. Because if a white president didn't take on as his burden the saving of former slaves in New Orleans, then surely a black president can't be allowed to help former slaves in Haiti. No way. And if Obama does help, he'd be aiding the devil, see?

That's what passes for logic in today's opinion-makers.

[timeforpeace]

1. Is this your original writing or a cut and paste?

[mqbush]

3. Original. I often post on the very minor message board at rnntv.com

[redwitch]

2. Nice.

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