Kathleen Parker: American cynicism becomes terrorist tool

Her commentary should actually be titled:
Kathleen Parker is a tool for the RNC (Repuke National Conspiracy)

Here's a few choice tidbits that I nibbled on with my morning coffee (and when I got home I wrote the LTTE which follows):

American cynicism becomes terrorist tool

by Kathleen Parker

---tidbit---
Bush, it seems, is in the quintessential parental predicament of "damned if you do, damned if you don't." What if there were a terrorist threat and Bush said or did nothing? Damn him, as critics damned him for not connecting the dots before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. What if Bush issued a terrorist warning and nothing happened? Damn him again for instilling fear and, as some are insisting even now, manipulating emotion for political gain.

What, one wonders, is the alternative? Where does such cynicism lead? To a John Kerry and John Edwards victory in November? Then what? Do we trust terror warnings under a new administration? Do we cease to have terror threats because Al Qaeda will have succeeded in its mission of derailing Bush? Are we safer then?

Reality gets lost amid such cynicism and paranoia. We believe nothing if it comes from a Bush White House but believe everything if it comes from a Michael Moore dreamscape. Yet Moore, whose film has become the video generation's Declaration of Disbelief, is demonstrably dishonest in his documentary.

---tidbit---
What is nearly as frightening as any terrorist chatter is a degree of cynicism that makes fact out of fiction, heroes of villains and Bush-hatred more compelling than appropriate distrust of and caution toward our enemies.

Read more, if you can stomach it:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/oped/chi-0408040218aug04,1,7855247,print.story?coll=chi-newsopinioncommentary-hed

Read my LTTE (disclaimer: I was not "fooled"):

Kathleen Parker misses the point in her August 4 commentary (American cynicism becomes terrorist tool). She's right when she says that Bush is politically "damned if you do, damned if you don't" when issuing terror warnings, but she is wrong to blame this cynicism on Democrats and Michael Moore. President Bush enjoyed 90% approval and trust in the wake of 9/11, but his demonstrably false statements misleading our nation into the debacle of Iraq and the Orwellian doublespeak on almost every issue has destroyed his credibility and broken that trust. It pains me to always assume the worst from the president, but as Bush himself once said: "fool me once -- won't get fooled again."

Because, as yet, they haven't lied to us, insulted us, put us in greater danger, used terrorism as a political weapon, politicized fear, driven us into a budget deficit black hole, denied any wrong doing or mistaken judgement in any of this and, lastly, haven't tried through any means to destroy the USA that our Founding Fathers gave us.

Hell yes, we'll trust terror warnings under Kerry/Edwards.

Moranic Bitch

She gives honest prostitutes a bad name.

She ought to look in the mirror and see America's equivalent to a RW Islamic religious wacko.

if the American people are cynical about terror alerts, then the Bushies have no one to blame but themselves. They politiciaized the war in a way Osama could not have. They used it to justify an inavsion of Iraq to which it was, in fact, irrelevant. They have rainsed the alert level on cue everytime the junta needed a distraction from bad news.

If the American people have grown cynical, it is because Bush and his aides have been so cynical.

If we can't trust out leaders to be honest with us about public safety, then it is imperative that we find leaders whom we can trust. Kerry deserves a chance; Bush has blown his.

snake oil to raise the perception of her Terror Fighting Hero,GWB.She is the embodiment of the Republican women--unquestioning,obedient,unintelligent and ultimately destructive of the person they seek to ennoble.

In short,she is a dumbass.

:nuke: