"We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction."
- Aesop, legendary Greek fabulist, 6th century B.C., from "The Eagle and the Arrow"
Tolik, at Free Republic, has posted an article by Orson Scott Card, a Democrat and author of over 50 books, that is so close to how I feel about the Democratic campaign for president, I could have written it myself. It originally appeared in the Rhinoceros Times, a small newspaper published in Greensboro, N.C., where Card lives. The title of the essay is "The Campaign of Hate and Fear." You can read it here.
Card wonders why any Democrat would think the Democratic candidates' rants against President Bush will ever play positively with the general public, and predicts a debacle for the party in 2004. He is extremely critical of how his party's candidates use the war against terrorism as a part of their platform:
"And the most vile part of this campaign against Mr. Bush is that the terrorist war is being used as a tool to try to defeat him--which means that if Mr. Bush does not win, we will certainly lose the war. Indeed, the anti-Bush campaign threatens to undermine our war effort, give encouragement to our enemies, and cost American lives during the long year of campaigning that lies ahead of us."
Card gets his licks in about about the media too:
"...the media are trying as hard as they can to pound home the message that the Bush presidency is a failure--even though by every rational measure it is not."
He concludes by suggesting, as Senator Zell Miller (GA-D) has, that America profits most when parties nominate candidates who are interested in compromise, centrism, and good government. His desire is to see a candidate nominated for president who will offer an improvement over the Republican policies that don't work, and right now he doesn't see one.
4 comments:
This article by Orson Scott Card is one of the best that I have ever read! I'm with you, Ron. He has said everything I would say if I could write as well as he can. This article should be posted in every forum on the internet that is possible. Most of our news outlets are just as biased as he says, but the internet is a fantastic source to counter that. Busy as I am today, I am going to post this in my blog.
The basic flaw in Card's article is that he assumes that imposing our preferences in Iraq is simply a matter of choice by the United States. I've commented on this article on my AOL Journal:
http://journals.aol.com/bmiller224/OldHickorysWeblog/entries/435
His claim to be a Democrat just seems like a bit of clowning. - Bruce
Thanks Bruce. I'll be sure to read your post. Appreciate the comment.
Sure. Card is clowning, yeah. Because if you can convince yourself he's an "eeeeevil republican" you can dismiss him. Sorry, wrong! Card is what democrats should ASPIRE to be, people of reason who can place the good of the country before their own pettiness.
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