Michael Leon blogs at http://malcontends.blogspot.com. Michael is a writer living in Madison, Wisconsin. His writing has appeared nationally in The Progressive, In These Times, OpEdNews.com, and CounterPunch.
Russ Feingold's Opponents Ought to be 'Apologetic'
Posted January 7th, 2008 by mal contends
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In Jonathan Weisman's page one, well-disguised hit piece on Barack Obama in today's Washington Post (GOP Doubts, Fears 'Post-Partisan' Obama), Weisman makes numerous references to Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold.
Writes Weisman: " ... In contrast, the American Conservative Union ranked (Obama) at 8 percent, the same figure awarded to Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Russell Feingold (D-Wis.), two unapologetic liberals. (italics mine)"
Why the suggestion that Feingold (and Boxer) have something for which they need be apologetic?
Was it Feingold's vote against the Iraq War? The discredited Patriot Act? The Bush tax cuts for the super-rich? Feingold's authorship of ethics reform? Feingold's fight for the Fourth Amendment?
Of the eight Republican rightwingers quoted in the piece, none of the names are accompanied by "unapologetic" adjectives, though an objective observer would conclude that in domestic and foreign policy, rightwing politics have been disastrous to the United States and the world.
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Did you notice we are winning the Iraq war?
Yes, Feingold should apologize for his vote against the Iraq war.
So -
You're saying Russ should apologize for being right when nobody else was?
Steve Hanson
Cruiskeen Consulting LLC
Uppity Wisconsin
Russ should apologize to the people of Iraq
What's "right" about leaving Saddam in power?
The question here is
Are the Iraqi people better off now? An awful lot of them don't think they are. And are we going to occupy Iraq forever?
Steve Hanson
Cruiskeen Consulting LLC
Uppity Wisconsin
the last true believer
Our friend Mr. Forward, a regular commenter (or should I say troll?) on this site, somehow believes we have accomplished something in Iraq. I have no idea what it could be, since it requires something like 150,000 US troops just to try to keep the peace, and not very successfully. Meanwhile, we've displaced millions and hundreds of thousands have died. Apologize for opposing the war? Apologize my ass.
Amen.
Amen.
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