In an Op-Ed in today's New York Times entitled, Rove's Third Term, Paul Krugman does what he does best -- he completely gets it wrong on the issue of Gen Wesley Clark, Barack Obama and John McCain.
In true Klugman fashion he manages to see neither the forest, nor the trees, instead embarking on a fantasy cruise to Krugman Never-Never Land, where the Mainstream Media acts in coordination with Republican strategists to further the goals of the Right. If only Mr Krugman's Chimera bore some resemblance to fact.
Al Gore never claimed that he invented the Internet. Howard Dean didn’t scream. Hillary Clinton didn’t say she was staying in the race because Barack Obama might be assassinated. And Wesley Clark didn’t impugn John McCain’s military service.
The American people did not, in fact, see these Democrat luminaries spout these words on their television sets. The American people, confronted with the evidence of their own eyes and ears, were merely duped by a Rovian conspiracy.
What's more, Mr Krugman, Sen Kerry never accused the US Military of committing war crime atrocities, Rep Murtha never accused the US Marines of cold blooded murder, and Barack Obama had no idea that his pastor of 20 years had ever uttered a single word in condemnation of the very nation he seeks to lead. And the American people did not see the evidence with their own eyes.
In your world of fantasy, it is Neo-Con idealogues like Karl Rove who lie and steal elections; the George Bush's of this world who deliberately lead this country into "illegal" wars of aggression in search of American Hegemony over the Middle East; and the Dick Cheney's of this world who diabolically pull the puppet strings behind the scenes. It is too bad that "Illuminati Bankers" can't find their way into your delusions, but that would be just too much self-loathing for even you.
In the world of Paul Krugman, as in much of the far lunatic left, their own candidates, and their out-of-touch-with-America ideas are simply misunderstood by the public; dishonestly portrayed by a press eager to mimic the Conservative message. Is it possible to be more wrong? I think not.
What General Clark actually said was that Mr. McCain’s war service, though heroic, didn’t necessarily constitute a qualification for the presidency. It was a blunt but truthful remark, and not at all outrageous — especially given the fact that General Clark is himself a bona fide war hero.
Yet the Clark affair did reveal something important — not about General Clark, but about Mr. McCain. Now we know what a McCain administration would represent: namely, a third term for Karl Rove.
Yes indeed, we honor the exemplary service of Gen Wesley Clark to his country, and while we mourn the tragic deaths of those Chinese Civil Servants in their Embassy in Belgrade, it in no way takes away from Gen Clark's remarkable record.
Gen Clark has distinguished himself as a paragon of truth, and while he has not been designated as an official Barack Obama spokesperson, it is well known that he has been assimilated into the Obama collective.
The words of Clark were carefully crafted to imply the message that McCain's military record calls into question his fitness for the office, while still offering the plausable deniability of misunderstanding. The remarks were, dare I say, Clintonesque in thier very nature. But, alas, Clark is not Bill Clinton, and so he is unable to pull off the trick.
As to the charge that McCain brings with him the "third term for Karl Rove" there can be but one answer. WTF? The demonization of King Karl, so much a part of the lunatic left for the past eight years, fails the smell test.
While objective internet observers such as thinkprogress.org, Huffington Post and Salon.com all note that Karl Rove is an "unofficial" or "informal" advisor to Sen McCain, it is the people on the payroll that count. The last time I looked, it was Fox News that was now signing the paychecks made out in the name of Karl Rove -- but if the evidence exists that I am wrong, I am eager to see it.
For the record, let me state that I am also an "informal advisor" to Sen McCain. On these pages, and elsewhere, I often advise the good senator on his positions about policy, and what he can do with them. The senator is free to do with my advice what he will. The same is true of any other "informal advisor."
For that matter, I serve also as an "informal advisor" to Senator Obama, although I seriously doubt that he will take much of my advice to heart.
The irony, not lost on Democrats, is that Col. Day himself has done what he falsely accused Wesley Clark of doing: he appeared in the 2004 Swift boat ads that impugned John Kerry’s wartime service.
Yes, some of the Swift Boat people did indeed call into question the facts surrounding John Kerry's three rapid-succession purple hearts, while incurring hardly a visible scar. But, the fact of the matter, and what the Democrat left would most like to forget, most of the Swift Boat criticism mounted at Kerry surrounded his actions after he returned from Vietnam, when he met in Paris with the vietnamese enemies of our nation; when he testified before Congress about atrocities "reminiscent of Genghis Khan;" and his activities with the anti-War movement, throwing away his medals; that most concerned the Swift Boaters.
Conveniently, the left and their accomplices in the Mainstream Media have perverted the meaning of the Swift Boat message, turning it instead into a pejorative with a meaning opposite of the truth.
The willingness of the McCain campaign to engage in these tactics, employing such tainted spokesmen, tells us that the campaign has decided to go negative — specifically, to apply the strategy Karl Rove used so effectively ... that of portraying Democrats as unpatriotic.
Yes indeed, a Medal of Honor winner, one of the most decorated war heroes ever to win that honor and live to tell about it; the only man to escape captivity in North Vietnam, only to be recaptured and returned to endure torture as a cellmate of John McCain; is certainly not a man to be trusted. Tainted without a doubt.
And, to those of us who opine on the Right, we would welcome a little negativity out of the McCain camp. His decision to remain positive in the face of a never-ending assault from the left, portraying this President as a liar, and John McCain as his surrogate has angered his would-be allies on the Conservative side of the aisle.
Republicans do not portray Democrats as unpatriotic, but "by their words so shall they be known." If Democrats would stop, by their own words, from portraying themselves as anti-American, perhaps the American public would stop getting the wrong ideas about their positions.
Since then, however, both the press and the Obama campaign seem to have recovered some of their balance. Opinion pieces have started to appear pointing out that General Clark didn’t say what he’s accused of saying.
SURPRISE! In the real world, we call this, "Circling The Wagons." The MSM, which Mr Krugman has declared to be in the tank for the Republican nominee, has begun to take up the Obama cause. The MSM, while scrupulously unbiased, has been known to vote overwhelmingly Democrat. Not that there is any possibility that the MSM would unfairly target McCain, or carry the water for Obama, but some more cynical among us might suspect something of the like.
In the end, the Clark affair may have strengthened the Obama campaign. Last week, with his cave-in on wiretapping, Mr. Obama was showing disturbing signs of falling into the usual Democratic cringe on national security. This may have been the week he rediscovered the virtues of standing tall.
Bwahahahaha! Bwhahahaha!
My only fear is that Mr Krugman's delusions might become contagious. If reading his rant could somehow pull others like him into his fantasy world, what are the possibilities that we could all become affected. I shudder at the mere prospect of such a thing.
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