Leftist leadership: A danger to America
Posted: July 7, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
This past week, liberals proved, again, that they are still unfit to lead this nation.
Our nation is at war. An Islamic terrorist network that wants to topple the governments of Western nations and impose a strict code of Islamic fundamentalism across the globe has repeatedly attacked our nation and our people.
But the left just doesn't get this. They are blinded by their own dark view of America: that our nation is the greatest threat to the world.
I've spent the past few weeks personally involved in a number of fronts where the "Blame America First" crowd has exposed their foolishness, and I cannot help but shake my head in disbelief at how absolutely misguided these folks have become.
Déjà vu
We've been here before, during the Cold War, when the left howled about the supposed evilness of America under the rule of that warmongering Republican, Ronald Reagan. The political left and many of their allies in the news media viewed Reagan as a reckless cowboy who was just dying to press the nuclear missile trigger. Of course, Reagan was right and the liberals were wrong, but that's not a lesson the left took with them.
Today, the editors of the New York Times and other liberal newspapers see President Bush as an even greater evil than Reagan was. Unable to persuade the American public to vote for the nominee from the "Blame America First" party (John Kerry), the Times has decided that they will do the work the American voters failed to do the first time – STOP THE REPUBLICANS.
Twice now, the Times has decided to report to America's enemies the nature of our anti-terrorist programs, complete with specific information about how the programs were operating and what weak links existed in the programs that might be exploited by those who wished to bring an end to their existence.
These actions are treasonous by any definition, but the New York Times is now acting with indignation that anyone should question or criticize them.
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote a July Fourth column attacking me for my calls for an investigation and prosecution of Times editor Bill Keller. That's liberal chutzpah for you: Defend the criminal and attack the eyewitness!
Mr. Keller and his defenders have offered a litany of lame excuses including the fact that al-Qaida already knew in a general sense what we were doing to monitor them, so reporting on the specifics wasn't too treasonous. It was just a little treasonous.
Fine, maybe then if any of the people at the New York Times are prosecuted and convicted of treason, they can receive just a little bit of the death penalty for betraying their nation.
Peace or pieces?
With the debate still raging about how little or how much the Times was guilty of treason, the Stalinist despot in North Korea, Kim Jong-Il, decided to provide Americans with a reminder of what happens when you let liberals lead – even just for a little while.
It was during the party days of the Clinton administration when disgraced former President Jimmy Carter brokered a deal that had the U.S. building nuclear reactors for North Korea and giving them hundreds of millions of dollars worth of oil and food in exchange for a promise from the North Koreans not to develop nuclear missiles and point them at us.
Once again, Jimmy Carter embodied the liberal view that America is the bad guy, and that the bad guys are just good guys who had evil bad-guy paint thrown on them by the mean Republicans. If we could only peel off the false disguise the right-wingers had applied to these tender souls we could see them for the loving, sensitive human beings they really are and feel their pain.
The North Korean government this week showed just how effective this foreign policy of appeasement is, by pointing missiles as us and shooting them.
When I recently launched the campaign to have members of Congress issue a resolution of censure against Jimmy Carter for his destructive actions since leaving office, I was immediately attacked by liberals who said Carter was a leader in the fight for peace.
This week, I was thinking that they got their spelling wrong – Jimmy Carter's efforts helped the North Koreans come one step closer to blowing an American city to pieces.
Confused
Just when I thought the left could not sink any lower this week, could not shame themselves any more than they already had – well, Cindy Sheehan had to go on TV again and open her mouth.
I have so many mixed feelings for Ms. Sheehan. I truly have empathy for her, especially since it is so obvious that her emotional trauma and suffering have rendered her into a state of confusion and disorientation.
However, I also have been an outspoken critic of her political posturing, and teamed up with Marine mom Deborah Johns to lead the "You Don't Speak for Me, Cindy" caravans and bus tours. I think nowadays most Americans have finally figured out that Cindy Sheehan doesn't speak for them, either.
Sheehan is currently engaged in a hunger strike with Al Sharpton, Danny Glover, Sean Penn and others. It's called "Troops Home Fast," and that is what they are doing, giving up food for eight-hour periods and then "rotating" the fast on to someone else to pick up. So you eat three times in a 24-hour day.
In the land of reality, we call that eating three meals a day. In the land of twisted liberal thinking, they call that a hunger strike. Sheehan says she will be going back to Crawford, Texas, in August and to the Capitol Mall again in September.
Might I suggest that Cindy Sheehan take her band of eight-hour fasters and set up permanent residence in Venezuela? This week on MSNBC's Hardball, Sheehan told guest host Norah O'Donnell that she would rather live under Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez than U.S. President George Bush.
Sheehan said, "Hugo Chavez is not a dictator like you introduced him. He's been democratically elected eight times. He is not anti-American; he has helped the poor people of America."
Yeah, uh huh, and North Korea's dictator is really a misunderstood sweet guy, and the terrorists already knew how we tracked them so it doesn't matter if we tell them all of our secrets and …
Well, it just goes on and on, folks. The American left is so far gone from reality that they are an actual danger to our nation. Liberals openly cheer on America's enemies while condemning their own nation and it's government. They leak classified secrets to the enemy. They repeatedly seek to undermine the morale of U.S. troops.
And in a few months, they'll be asking for the votes of the American people so they might take over the government. God help us, so that the public realizes these people cannot be trusted with political power.
Melanie Morgan is chairman of the conservative, pro-troop non-profit organization Move America Forward and is co-host of the "Lee Rodgers & Melanie Morgan Show" on KSFO 560 AM in San Francisco. Morgan is co-author of "American Mourning," which reveals shocking new revelations about anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan.
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