Maureen Dowd: W "ran jihad in America," won by dividing

[DeepModem Mom]

OP-ED COLUMNIST
The Red Zone
By MAUREEN DOWD

Published: November 4, 2004

....Democrat: Heal thyself.

W. doesn't see division as a danger. He sees it as a wingman.

The president got re-elected by dividing the country along fault lines of fear, intolerance, ignorance and religious rule. He doesn't want to heal rifts; he wants to bring any riffraff who disagree to heel.

W. ran a jihad in America so he can fight one in Iraq - drawing a devoted flock of evangelicals, or "values voters," as they call themselves, to the polls by opposing abortion, suffocating stem cell research and supporting a constitutional amendment against gay marriage....

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He's creating the sort of "democracy" he likes. One party controls all power in the country. One network serves as state TV. One nation dominates the world as a hyperpower. One firm controls contracts in Iraq....

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...with this crowd, it's hard to imagine what would constitute overreaching.

Invading France?

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/04/opinion/04dowd.html?hp

[graywarrior]

1. This is the platform dems didn't know they were fighting

http://www.harpers.org/JesusPlusNothing.html

[Francesca]

8. read it and was disturbed

have to say growing up in a born again household am not entirely shocked...

[LynzM]

10. Yeah...

That one is scary stuff... :scared:

[greenman3610]

2. but whores like Dowd

make out no matter what happens.
She's one of the cynical whores who
helped bring this down on us.

[clydefrand]

3. I always enjoy reading her columns, but I'm wondering if she

has body guards and body armor. She knows how to tell it like it is and some of the time, she isn't kind to our party.

[Jivenwail]

4. Like I said in another post

I am very, very afraid.

[Loki]

5. Well Mo should know

she helped create and promote this monster, now she needs to help take him down.

[SoCalDem]

6. Gee Maureen.. how "brave" of you..

:puke:

Merchants of misery.. all of the "media types"

[Claire Beth]

7. The radical religious right has taken control....

of the republican party. We are going through some scary times....I fear for the changes they want to make upon all of us. Even those who do NOT want to be part of it.

[Julien Sorel]

9. She's so happy now.

She has someone in the White House for four more years to whom she can feel intellectually superior. She can sit on her face lifted ass for 1200+ days tossing off her "sharp witted" barbs about Bush, waiting for the next Democratic challenger to come along so she can trash him, too.

This bitch needs a savage backhand and a forced retirement from tormenting people with her worthless, vacuous columns.

[leftchick]

11. Reminds me of someone fromthe 1930's....

"Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? . . . it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship… All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."

— Hermann Goering (Hitler’s deputy, convicted of war crimes at Nuremberg)

[RawMaterials]

12. So we are living in interesting times (old Chinese curse)

It really scares me when you have these people that want Arm@gedd0n to happen because they then will have heaven on earth. they want it so much there trying to provoke.

[RawMaterials]

13. Scarry stuff

"Coe listed other men who had changed the world through the strength of the covenants they had forged with their “brothers”: “Look at Hitler,” he said. “Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, Bin Laden.” The Family, of course, possessed a weapon those leaders lacked: the “total Jesus” of a brotherhood in Christ."