Molly Ivins In Obama's Corner - Don't Let The Bullies Win THIS Time

[kpete]

Don't let the bullies win this time.

Obama and Patriotism Bullies -- With Molly Ivins In Obama's Corner
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 04/29/2008 - 1:35pm. Analysis
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
by Christine Bowman


On January 20, 2006, Molly Ivins wrote a plea for reform and a stinging critique of certain Democrats* who had pissed her off. She wrote about the fear that had kept those Democratic disappointers in line, causing them to line up behind the misbegotten Iraq war:


Molly: Bush, Cheney and Co. will continue to play the patriotic bully card just as long as you let them. I've said it before: War brings out the patriotic bullies. In World War I, they went around kicking dachshunds on the grounds that dachshunds were "German dogs." They did not, however, go around kicking German shepherds.


What was that? Patriotism bullies only kick the weak, little guys? Ms. Ivins continues:


Molly: The MINUTE someone impugns your patriotism for opposing this war, turn on them like a snarling dog and explain what loving your country really means. That, or you could just piss on them elegantly, as Rep. John Murtha did. Or eviscerate them with wit (look up Mark Twain on the war in the Philippines). Or point out the latest in the endless "string of bad news." Do not sit there cowering and pretending the only way to win is as Republican-lite.


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Barack Obama – you have right on your side and a vision for making us a better nation. A million and a half Americans in your corner have backed you with their very hard-earned small money donations. You have the most voters, the most delegates, and a swelling contingency of superdelegates in your corner. Most remarkably, you still have faith in this country, in its voters, and in yourself.

It's time to play your own patriotism card, or the movement you have been building for 15 months, and your whole life long, just might crumble. Don't let the bullies win this time.

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[southern_belle]

1. kick & rec

[TragedyandHope]

2. Kick

:kick:

[Indydem]

3. This is sick...

Molly Ivins was a true and loyal Democrat; an honest to goodness Texas liberal. But she has passed away, and to make it appear as though she would have supported Barack Obama, his general fakeness, or his campaign packed full of platitudes, is disturbing.

Molly did not endorse Obama, and you shouldn't twist ther anti-bush statements to make it look like she was an Obama supporter.

[earth mom]

4. How do you know Molly was for Obama?

:eyes: