Jeanne Kirkpatrick used to say that the San Francisco Democrats (who seem to have proliferated around the country, all the way into the White House) blame America first. Victor Davis Hanson says that if the president was going to throw stones, this should have been his first one:
“Today we witness a global financial meltdown — a result of a dangerous nexus between lax politicians and unethical high finance. I know this well, and wish to apologize for taking thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the now-bankrupt AIG financial firm, which sought to escape proper regulation by offering campaign contributions to politicians like myself, who unilaterally renounced the three-decade tradition of public campaign finance.”
“Smoking is a great plague on the world, killing millions each year and giving great profits to modern merchants of death. I, President Obama, as a long smoker, know that temptation well and the global health problems entailed with tobacco addiction. We all also most avoid the perils of drug usage, a plague on all our nations. I can attest that as a youth I used cocaine, not only endangering my health, but doing my small part to send profits back to drug cartels abroad that cause so much death and destruction.”
“Racism is an insidious pathology that reaches even into the pulpit; it is a human sin that no one race has a monopoly on. I am well aware of the havoc it causes the innocent — after failing to say “No! Stop!” to my own Rev. Wright as he caricatured in my church whites, Jews, Italians, and almost anyone else who does not look like himself and our congregation. Likewise, class prejudice and stereotyping are often at the heart of much of the world’s problems; I too have engaged in such hurtful condemnations when just recently I labeled, in blanket fashion, the working class of rural Pennsylvania as xenophobes, fundamentalists, and nativists.”
Unfortunately, the time to hand out opprobrium is the only time it’s not about him.
A general feature of a left wing “apology” is that the person delivering it feels in no way responsible for the offending act.
It’s a kind of hypocrisy. “I apologize for something I didn’t do and wouldn’t have done but in apologizing, I am applying a passive scolding to people I don’t agree with. Isn’t that introspective and honest of me?”
There’s no way lefty will ever apologize over an act for which he holds actual responsibility.
Ah didn’t Billy Clinton apologize?…… For being caught.
As I recall the full apology was that Clinton didn’t do it, he wouldn’t do it again, and he was sorry he got caught.
Oh seriously, you can’t expect him to renounce himself anymore than he renounced his white grandmother.
Stick to the transterrestrial musings. Like no Bushoid should be apologizing? Blah!
Clinton“I’m sorry Ken Starr is such a puritanical monster that he’s trying to get me in trouble for what any red-blooded American male would have done if they had every halfway-decent-looking (and a few not-even-halfway-decent-looking) woman throwing their thong panties at him. Am I right, fellas? Am I right?”
Stick to the transterrestrial musings. Like no Bushoid should be apologizing? Blah!
Surely you meant to write something more intelligent than that?
Surely you meant to write something more intelligent than that?
I’m sure he — she? it? — did. But let us all, in the spirit of North Korea’s missile falling into the sea (again), reflect on the gap, sometimes immense, between intent and capability.