Code Pink complains about their fellow travelers
The Washington Times reports that Code Pink has a morale problem – and its the Democrats. Earlier today, we read about Senator Al Franken who said that there were no good options in Syria, so he’ll vote to send the military in harm’s way since that’s the most politically expedient answer and he has no skin in the game in the way of his blood being endangered. The other day, DC’s Democrat non-voting (thankfully) delegate to Congress, Eleanor Holmes Norton told the media that she’d vote for Obama’s plan out of loyalty to the party and Obama.
In the Washington Times article, Medea Benjamin complains about her fair weather friends in the Democrat Party;
A day earlier, Ms. Benjamin was arrested for protesting in the middle of the Senate’s hearing on Syria, yelling “We don’t want another war” as she was escorted out.
She said she expected better of President Obama and that it “feels terrible” to have to protest against a member of the Democratic Party.
“It feels surreal,” she said. “It seems like this country is so topsy-turvy when you have Code Pink and Rand Paul on the same side of foreign policy issues.”
Another group member waiting for the hearing said the conflict goes beyond party lines and the Democrats are now “just as bad” as Republicans.
“When I first moved to this country in 2008, I was very excited to see Barack Obama,” said Noor Mir, who is originally from Pakistan. “But it seems as though he is backed up by so many warmongers that he’s just become one of them.”
Buzzfeed lists 14 Hollywood anti-war crackpots who they suspect have been kidnapped because they haven’t spoke out on the impending Syria military action.
The Hollywood Reporter interviewed two stanch anti-war zealots in Hollywood, Ed Asner and Mike Farrel about the sad state of the anti-war people in Hollywood who were so eager to protest against war in the Middle East ten years ago, but are oddly silent now. The emphasis is mine.
“It’s incredibly improper for the president to call for a strike. I have said it everywhere I can and I suspect a lot of others will do the same, but whether there will be an organized effort, I don’t know,” Farrell continued. “We’re talking about the difference between an invasion in Iraq and a limited action in response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria.”
Asner said the lack of an organized effort against war in Syria is a matter of timing. Bush took months to make the case for war in Iraq, giving the antiwar left plenty of time to prepare a response.
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Another reason some Hollywood progressives have been reticent to speak out against war in Syria, according to Asner, is fear of being called racist.
“A lot of people don’t want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama,” he said.
So, basically, they called us racist for so long, they believe if they oppose Obama, people will think they’re racist, too. Of course, they are racist because they’re willing to let Syrians die in a US airstrike just so they don’t upset the racial applecart. But unfortunately, it doesn’t bother them on the same level when they mistreat Conservative blacks.
Category: Antiwar crowd, Code Pink, Liberals suck
The irony is delicious!
According to this article, Bodaprez is going to have to expend a great deal of effort to sell his Syria policy to members of both houses of Congress.
http://news.msn.com/us/obama-plunges-into-high-stakes-week-on-syria
Not the writer’s repetitive use of terms like sales pitch, selling, sell to, lobbying. That speaks volume about what is really going on. Not persuade, not debate, but ‘sell’.
If you truly believe that your choice is the right one and that people are behind you, then you do not need to become a pitchman or lobbyist or anything else for your choice.
He lost his sales pitch mode a while back, but he’s going ti ram this thing down the throats of all of us, including his staunchest supporters, and have his way, no matter the consequences.
Racism has nothing to do with it. I wouldn’t like that idiot if he were a blue-eyed blond white man.
They’re against war, unless their guy starts it.
Oh, the irony.
Ed Asner’s statement will get him Afro-Americanlisted, if not Afican-Americanballed all together. No more African-Americantie affairs for him. There is now an African-American cloud over him, now that he personally has given Hollywood an African-Americaneye.
It’s official. The world has gone completely and utterly mad! Code Pink and Hollywierd have actually done something for which I can almost generate a teensy, tiny bit of respect for them. They may even have discovered a little thing the rest of us call consistency!
(Must now go check the stars and a few other things to see just how out of whack everything really is.)
[…] How’s that hope and change? Good thing we didn’t elect Romney right? […]
Considering how Democrats voted for the war in order to secure porkbarrel cash to buy votes, then gave moral support to the Taliban and AQ with declarations that the war was lost and trying to delegitimize the then POTUS – why should Code Pink or any of that ilk trust Democrats?
Vultures circle, snakes bite, Betrayers betray.
“Eleanor Holmes Norton told the media that she’d vote for Obama’s plan out of loyalty to the party and Obama.”
Political bullspit at it’s finest.
No matter who gets elected to President, they are always politicians.
This article starts with a Kerry reference, in which he says the ‘number of states supporting action in Syria is in the double digits’.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24004836
Now, where he gets his information is a mystery to me, because I found a survey that showed exactly how many senators and representatives had already said ‘Yes’ or ‘No’, and exactly how many were in the ‘undecided’ category, and how many of the undecided were leaning toward ‘No’.
This article has a graphic showing the results to date:
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/09/congress-may-vote-no-on-syria-attack-2756458.html
So, as we all know so well, Mr. Kerry lies whenever he wants to, as long as he thinks it will get him what he wants.
Now, Tuesday is when Bodaprez is making a nationally televised speech to promote his agenda on Syria. It’s not that I intend to watch him, but forewarned is forearmed. He has already dismissed whatever results the UN inspectors will get from the independent lab tests on chemical samples taken in Syria. It would behoove him to exercise restraint, but I doubt that he will and the consequences will be far-reaching.
Don’t anybody get the idea that Code Pink has principles any better than Hollywood’s.
Code Pink is on Iran’s side, which is on Syria’s side. That’s all that this is about.
Broken clocks are right once a day too.
@9: I’ve heard that the EU is now on board in supporting US strikes. If they’re so all hepped up to strike; why the fuck don’t they do it, themselves? I’ll tell you why; they want to be able to disappear as soon as the first video comes out showing civilian dead from our strikes. They can then say “we didn’t do it, it was the Americans” and then they will chastise us for not being more careful. What is Obumbles going to say when we kill more civilians in our strikes than Assad did with, allegedly, his gas attack? Would we even be having this conversation had these people been killed with conventional weapons? Where was the outrage for the first 100,000 deaths in Syria?
Al Franken is a fart huffing freak that needs to go buh-bye next year in the election.
Obumbles has Patreaus backing his call for strikes, now, too. So he will use all this in his sales pitch to congress and with the republican’s lack of a discernible spine, they will get on board and this will get done.
I’m getting to the point where I don’t give a fuck, anymore. Us average Joe types can’t confront and question our congresscritters, in a public forum, who will vote for this clusterfuck, plus they are tone deaf to what we want, anyway.
When, not if, this goes sideways, we will all pay the price.
@12 Old Trooper, this 9/8/13 article from Reuters News Service says the opposite: that 28 EU states do blame Assad for the use of chemical weapons but urge restraint and waiting for the UN inspectors’ report. Germany and the other EU states prefer a UN-led action, if anything is to be done.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/09/08/syria-crisis-eu-idINDEE98702E20130908
Politicians in Congress can vote to stay the hell out of it or vote to do the other thing. Some of them actually do listen to their consituents.
I’ve assembled my super secret, stereo spyscope and have focused it in on Hollywood (nothing to see there) and CODEPinks DC safehouse. Medea, you need to dust and polish the furniture and shells and mop and wax the floors…*cackle*
@13: This is the article I had heard about.
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-says-us-cant-turn-blind-eye-syria-100826646.html
It may not be outright support, but it does appear to give a blessing to strikes.
It sucks that most of us are now of the same opinion as Code Pink and–believe it or not–MoveOn.org. But then I recall that we, as a nation, were aligned with “Uncle Joe” Stalin too and we all know how that turned out. So, fine, the fact that lefties are now climbing out from under their beds and calling for no strikes works for me. And as for the Lithuanian summit or whatever the hell it was, all we seem to have is Kerry’s claim that the nations that support strikes are in the double digits. When some action is morally justified, its proponent usually doesn’t have to scour the earth to find support for it. So, Tuesday, we get to hear the bullshit from obamaman himself. I’m looking forward to it. I have yet to watch a single one of his speeches and I change the radio/TV channel whenever I hear his voice. I’m going to try really, really hard to listen tomorrow night–w/o sharp objects nearby.
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If you write zero as 000, could you say that support is now triple digits?
@2. Ex-PH2, if it’s a Barack-O sales pitch, there’s bait-and-switch involved!
Someone needs to remind our “esteemed” SECSTATE that in diplomatic circles, the term “strong response” does not necessarily equate to “military action”. Other lesser actions also qualify. Remember those “strong measures” called economic sanctions on Iraq, Iran, and North Korea for their nuclear and/or WMD programs in the 1990s and later?
I also want to see a list of the countries who’ve signed-on backing military intervention, with prof that claim has been confirmed by their respective governments, before I’ll buy that “double-digit states supporting military action” claim.
Hondo: The password for the day is (whisper it) “muscular.”
Funny that in the age of the Internet, the first response is to employ $200 bombs dropped from $1bn aircraft when a better response is to have a $20,000/year PFC hack Syria’s financial systems using infrastructure costing (even with Pentagon Math) less than a $1mn. No pay, no fight: it is the universal language of peace for professionals and mercs alike second only to the sound of a 12gauge racking a round.
Considering that is exactly what the Syrians are doing to us, I guess we the US are just too damned noble to win a war anymore.
Hey, if obamaman’s response to the Benghazi attack that took the lives of four Americans (and I do not assign the ambassador’s lost life any greater value than the others) was to ignore it, evade it, conceal the facts of it, and ultimately include it in the category of “phony scandals,” then I can’t lose any sleep over some dead Syrians. Callous? Yes. Sincere? You bet.
@19 When has there EVER been anything other than a sales pitch from that direction?