In some ways I look forward to a President from the Democratic party. Overnight, the Democrats will be for the war on terror. I know that right now the right is calling the Democrats the Surrendercrats and otherwise calling out the lack of a Democratic backbone, but we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that with a Democrat in the White House the Democratic party doesn’t just rattle sabers, it slashes away with great gusto. Bill Clinton had no trouble attacking other countries, and the Democrats didn’t say boo. Our attack on Serbia over Kosovo was pre-emptive, our airforce bombed Serbian state television — killing civilians and members of the press — because we didn’t like what they were broadcasting.
And lest we forget, it was the Clinton administration that invented “extraordinary rendition. It was Peace Prize winner Al Gore who defended the procedure in interal deliberations thusly: ““That’s a no-brainer. Of course it’s a violation of international law, that’s why it’s a covert action. The guy is a terrorist. Go grab his ass.”
Since the mainstream media isn’t just made up of Democrats, but has become a chief supporter of Democrats, the tone of stories will change overnight. Our successes in Iraq will at last be reported; the economy will improve overnight (except for those areas that the Democrats want to change, so healthcare will still be in crisis, and the deficit will be mentioned only in the context of the need to raise taxes). And with the press not feeling the need to smear Bush any way they can, the tone of overall reportage in general will improve, while the stores about how bad the US is will dramatically decline, so much so that our stature in the world will improve (which naturally will be described as result of the policies of our wise and beloved Democratic President). Yes, the stories the US press pushes are picked up internationally; the idea that somehow our press stops at the waters edge and has no influence on how the rest of the world sees us is laughably naive. It’s human nature to assume that a country’s own press is more accurate than any foreign reportage.
You might think I’m cynical – but I don’t. I think I’m quite scientific, since I’ve seen this happen before.
