My father sends anti-Obama emails periodically.
This one was a link to a post by that great repository of all things stupid, M. Malkin. The post in entitled:Educating the ignorant Kumbaya candidate.
As if the worse-than-ignorant Malkin could educate her own cat to piss in a litter box, but I digress.
In it she quotes a passage from the New Yorker article from an op-ed that Obama apparently wrote in a local Chicago paper right after 9-11.
I actually agree with the Obama's premise of the passage which basically states that poverty, oppression and helplessness are great breeding grounds for extremism. In the long term, this makes perfect sense.
But I want to write a rebuttal to this email (which was sent to my entire extended family)
- Does anyone have a link to the entire op-ed? Knowing Malkin she has pulled that one quote and doesn't look at the entire op-ed. I'd like to put it in context of his whole op-ed but can't find it.
- The Malkin piece itself is idiotic. She takes a perfectly reasonable statement and exaggerates it to a caricature of what it says and then attacks the caricature. Typical Malkin idiocy. Any ideas?
- I'm going to link to this post by Sadly! No that points out that Bush's man Gates basically JUST said the same thing: http://www.sadlyno.com/...
- I'll probably end with something like "Of course there was the avenue of foreign policy action to go to a completely useless war, killing thousands, spending trillions of dollars and ruining our reputation and power in the world and then putting together economic policies that have lead to a deepening recession, dramatically rising costs of food, gas and health insurance, housing crash, failing banks and more. Oh, I forgot, that's the avenue we took. That's worked out great hasn't it. Vote McCain.. third verse, same as the first!"
Thoughts, ideas, data?