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January 30, 2005
Iraq vote "not legitimate"; Berlin Wall "torn down by a few lawless vandals."
There are many on the left who have never had a positive word to say about anything that's happened in Iraq. I take their silence on this day, as noted by Michelle Malkin, as a very positive sign.
My joy is only tempered slightly by my horror at how close this guy came to sitting in the Oval Office:
And this classic snatching-defeat-from-the-jaws-of-victory quote:
If the current crop of embittered nihilists had been running the news media when the Berlin Wall fell, what a chorus we would have been treated to:
Michael Dukakis: "Let's not overstate the importance of what was, after all, only a purely symbolic stack of bricks and mortar."
Christiane Amanpour, CNN: "Critics charge the Wall's collapse was caused by a Soviet Union whose finances were stretched so thin by Reagan's arms race that they could no longer afford even to maintain the structural integrity and safety of a simple wall."
BBC: "Thousands streamed through the hole, greeting their West German relatives with joy and celebrating late into the night. But some question whether a wall's destruction by a few thousand determined vandals can ever be representative of the will of the East German people as a whole -- an East German people who, as seen in this clip of an East German child flying a kite, were by all accounts very happy under Soviet rule."
Robert Fisk: "While the stammering scarecrow who stole the election from Dukakis perches upon his purloined throne, the people of East Berlin are watching their dreams of unity shattered along with the wall. I stopped a bleeding woman in the street as she ran, sobbing, from the border and back to the East. "The people," she wept, "The people of East Berlin were united in a collective desire for the Worker's Revolution! Then these, these West Berliners — they tore down our beautiful wall, and with it tore down the hopes for a fair and equal society where the capitalist pig cannot peddle his empty consumerist ethos to the downtrodden!" The horror-stricken look in her face still haunts me. In a just world, it would haunt Ronald Ray-Gun to his unmourned grave."
Update: Bill at INDC has a comprehensive, and vitriolic, roundup of nattering nabobs of negativism. PoliBlog continues the roundup of reactions good and bad.
Posted by EtherPundit at January 30, 2005 02:27 PM Category: Current Affairs , Mockery , Moonbats