The New Editor has yet another example of the stupid, overheated rhetoric of the Left when it comes to George Bush, this one by Peter Mehlman in the dumbest post I've read lately at the HuffPo:
...we're six and a half years into Bush and everyone from Helen Thomas on down is declaring him the worst president ever. What no one is saying is the one overarching reason he's the worst: the Bush administration is the first that doesn't even mean well.
With the possible exception of immigration reform -- and who knows what grotesque financial incentive underlies that -- try to pinpoint even one policy motivated by the desire to lessen human suffering, to improve the life of citizens. Nothing. There is nothing.
As The New Editor notes, this statement is patently absurd and the sort of juvenile rhetoric I expect from Jesurgislac.
Nothing supported by Bush is well-meaning; it's all evil: Efforts at improving education in "No Child Left Behind," the prescription drug benefit for seniors, Social Security reform -- no matter how one feels about their relative merits or efficacy -- none of these things were done with good intentions.
The increase in spending to combat AIDS in Africa, the stated dream of a manned mission to Mars -- all selfish acts not meant to achieve some benefit for people. Of course the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq are both inspired by pure evil.
This is what the unhinged Left has come to: it isn't enough to disagree with President Bush about the war in Iraq or No Child Left Behind. It can't be a policy difference: George Bush must be evil.
You could argue that even the world's worst fascist dictators at least meant well. They honestly thought were doing good things for their countries by suppressing blacks/eliminating Jews/eradicating free enterprise/repressing individual thought/killing off rivals/invading neighbors, etc.
Oddly, Mehlman is willing to give Stalin the benefit of the doubt about killing 20 million of his own people, including starving 14.5 million to death but he can't even assume that George Bush believed No Child Left Behind would improve education.
So, according to Mehlman, killing 20 million of your own citizens is all right if you had the right intentions, but making students pass standardized tests is pure evil?
Please tell me liberals haven't slipped to this level of stupidity.
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