Thursday, April 16, 2009

The antiwar movement has largely collapsed in the face of Obama’s victory

"The big truth is that the antiwar movement has largely collapsed in the face of Barack Obama’s victory: the massive antiwar marches that were a feature of the Bush years are a thing of the past.

(Let me rant. I used to help to organize antiwar protests in the early 90's. This dishonest faction of the antiwar movement of today that protested Bush but will not protest Obama are full of spineless, gutless, jellyfish hypocrites. Please quote me on that. They don't hate war. People are still dying and they stay home. They don't care. They just hated Bush and that is all. They are happy their guy Obama is running the wars and Bush is not. Hey you gutless Bush haters, ESPECIALLY MOVEON.ORG! Your hypocrisy is sickening.)

"Those ostensibly antiwar organizations that did so much to agitate against the Iraq War have now fallen into line behind their commander in chief and are simply awaiting orders. Take, for example, Moveon.org (Hypocrisy Supremacists), the online activist group that ran antiwar ads during the election — but only against Republicans — in coalition with a group of labor unions and Americans Against Escalation in Iraq. Behind AAEI stood three of Obama’s top political operatives, Steve Hildebrand, Paul Tewes, and Brad Woodhouse. Woodhouse is now the Democratic National Committee’s director of communications and research. He controls the massive e-mail list culled by the Obama campaign during the primaries and subsequently, as well as a list of all those who gave money to the presumed peace candidate. These donors are no doubt wondering what Obama is doing escalating the war in Afghanistan and venturing into Pakistan..."