The Arrogance of Liberals

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<span style='font-family:comic sans ms'><span style='color:green'>George Will

January 23, 2003

The arrogance of liberals

WASHINGTON--After braving subfreezing temperatures here to urge the president to heed John Lennon (``Give peace a chance'' ) , the 30,000 or 500,000--estimates differed; and how--at last Saturday's antiwar demonstrations returned to their suburban homes or their hotels, where they could watch HBO's live telecast of a concert by the Rolling Stones, three of whom are older than the president. Mick Jagger once said he could not imagine being 45 and still singing ``Satisfaction.'' He will soon turn 60, and so, it sometimes seems, will the unsatisfactory rhetoric of today's left.

There were some new rhetorical wrinkles in the antiwar demonstrations, such as: ``Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer, Ein News Channel--Fox News.'' (Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather and Peter Jennings have a combined audience of about 31.5 million each night. Brit Hume's ``Special Report'' on Fox has about 1.2 million.) But some chants were variations of oldies but goodies: ``Hey, Bush, kiss my a$$/We won't fight for the price of gas.'' (Today's U.S. average price of a gallon of regular is $1.45. The 1953 price, adjusted for inflation, was $1.95.) A Washington Post photograph of one of last Saturday's demonstrators showed an Illinois woman with ``No Nukes'' written on a face contorted by the rigors of struggling to prevent a war aimed at preventing Iraq from acquiring ...

George Will (http://www.townhall.com/columnists/georgewill/)</span></span>

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As liberals whine that we are neglecting the “War of Terror” people have been arrested in Spain, England and Italy in the last few days.

This morning when Germany’s motives were questioned someone raised the possibility that Germany knows how many weapons boxes with “Made in Germany” are laying around Iraq.

It seems to me that the people who attacked the WTC are little better than some of our own liberal Congressmen. While they imply that Bush knew that the attack was coming and did nothing, there is no question that many dem leaders and followers know what is at stake for the planet and are working to let it happen. I will never the smile of Daschle’s face when he held up a chart showing that the economy was in trouble. I thought that he might bust out laughing when he got to the job loss chart.

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Thank you George Will!

This is an excellent take on the vanishing credibility, myopia and nostalgia addiction that the Left is strangling itself with.

Failing to understand that times have changed dooms these poor dinosaurs to wallow and bellow in the tar pits as they slowly, indignantly, and self-righteously sink to their doom amid marches, chants and bumper-sticker cliches.

And good riddance.