{"id":556,"date":"2005-02-01T11:57:50","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T18:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/liberty-liberal\/"},"modified":"2005-02-01T11:57:50","modified_gmt":"2005-02-01T18:57:50","slug":"liberty-liberal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/liberty-liberal\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Liberal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Immature protests ignore need to fight radical Islam<\/a><\/p>\n

[F]or those who protested during Bush’s inauguration, they should realize they lost and stand behind the commander in chief. … If you want to help this country, stand behind it or move to Canada.<\/p>\n

You are liberal in college. Then you graduate and grow up.<\/p>\n

Phillip Sitges
\nUNM alumnus<\/p>\n

I have been observing presidents since Kennedy. I have never seen any use the “Commander-in-Chief” title as much as George W. Bush, our War President. I have never seen another president strut in a flight suit. I have never seen another have a military-style jacket created just for him. I have never seen another use “crisis” to drive everything.<\/p>\n

Even 35 years ago, in the days of “America – Love It or Leave It” and abundant flag-decals, no one so glorified the Presidency and wrapped it in the flag. Our fellow citizens tell the 48% who opposed Bush to shut up, move on, get over it, get in line or move to Canada.<\/p>\n

We are not fighting “radical” Islam. We were surprised by a craven but tiny sect of “reactionary Islam.” We have thrown fuel on that small fire in over-reacting with our own home-grown and very dangerous reactionary conservatism.<\/p>\n

“Commander-in-Chief”? Auf deutsch sagt man “der Fuehrer.”<\/p>\n

Still a liberal American after all these many years, mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[printed 2\/2\/05 in the Daily Lobo<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Immature protests ignore need to fight radical Islam [F]or those who protested during Bush’s inauguration, they should realize they lost and stand behind the commander in chief. … If you want to help this country, stand behind it or move to Canada. You are liberal in college. Then you graduate and grow up. Phillip Sitges … Continue reading Liberty Liberal<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}