The bicycle extremists continue their violent rampage against innocent Americans. The latest example of cycle rage comes from Seattle, a wealthier, more diverse version of the lunacy known as Portland, Oregon. The AP reports that the incident ended when:
The car stopped a block down and the bicyclists surrounded the car. One biker punched the driver through an open window and another used a knife to slash the tires.
When the driver got out of the car, a male suspect struck him with an unknown object in the back of the head. The driver was taken to the hospital. His female companion was not injured.
It seems cyclists are deliberately targeting one group for their violent assaults. This would be an example of both profiling and hate crimes, and, as we all know, those things are wrong. When will we have a candlelight vigil for motorists? When the term “biker gang” is mentioned, the mind does not conjure images of violent hippies wearing hemp spandex. But then the Northwest is always on the cutting edge of leftist trends.
I should mention that a motorist insurgency has been provoked by the violent bicyclists. A recent example:
The liberals and the media, two groups perhaps too intertwined to be distinguished between, made much of the fact that President Bush declined to name any mistakes he had made. Terry Moran, who has quite the reputation for being an unabashed left-wing ABC news reporter, challenged Sen. Obama in an interview during his European vacation on his opposition to the surge. The surge, it should be noted, that Obama claimed would lead to increased violence, but instead played a significant part in the incredible Iraqi turnaround. In fact, Obama would probably not be able to even visit Iraq if it wasn’t for the surge. Yet Obama repeatedly told Moran that he would not reconsider his opposition despite the evidence against him.
President Bush has also faced repeated mocking, much of it deserved, for his lack of articulacy. That may be one reason for the ascendancy of Obama; liberals yearn for a president that won’t embarrass them every time he opens his mouth. It is well known that Obama (pronounced jee-zuh s) is a stirring orator, in the tradition of Lincoln, Churchill, and Reagan. And yet we don’t see much reported on the uh, well, uh . . . inability of Obama to communicate artfully without a teleprompter.
But Bush is not only inarticulate, according to his bashers; when he is able to articulate an idea, he is often inaccurate or mistaken. He is, they claim, a verbal gaffe machine, even inspiring a book on “Bushisms.” The latest DNC talking point, faithfully repeated, I mean reported, by the media, is that Sen. McCain is also continually making gaffes, although not because of a lack of intellect similar to that suffered by Bush, but because McCain is tired and confused (hint, hint). As I write this, Anderson Cooper opened his show on CNN this evening by stating that McCain had made a possibly “game changing” mistake during an interview on the surge (more on that tomorrow). Obama has made several mistakes, some quite bizarre, that go beyond anything that Vice President Quayle ever did. For instance, Obama referred to the 57 states that he visited and the 8 to 10 years he plans on being president. As Michelle Malkin started reporting earlier this year, there are quite a few others. This is not the audacity of hope; this is the audacity of the hypocrisy of the Left, from the media to politicians to voters, who lack even an ounce of intellectual consistency or honesty.
Drudge headlined the breaking story this afternoon that the NYT editorial page editor David Shipley turned down an op-ed submitted by Sen. McCain. The article was written in response to an op-ed published in the NYT by Sen. Obama on his shifting Iraq position. Shipley, a former Clinton White House employee, claimed the article wasn’t what they were looking for. This is understandable. The McCain op-ed merely expressed the views of a man who may be the next president on one of the most important issues facing the country. Besides, publishing the op-ed would have squeezed the space available for the latest column from Bob Herbert or Maureen Dowd.
In her Saturday column, NYTer Gail Collins quotes Sen. Obama’s senior foreign policy adviser on our Lord and Savior‘s visit to Iraq: “. . . I don’t think he’ll be strolling around the market in a flak jacket.” This is a snarky reference to Sen. McCain’s visit last year where he had to wear such protection during a visit to local market. Is it possible the reason Sen. Christ will be sans a flak jacket is because of the success of the surge implemented by President Bush, advocated by Sen. McCain, and opposed by Sen. The One?
Tomorrow’s Christian Science Monitor is reporting in a front page story that “coupled with intelligence finding that fewer foreign fighters are seeking to enter Iraq, as well as with postings from jihadist websites exhorting would-be foreign fighters to take up the fight in Afghanistan, the arrivals suggest that Islamist extremists are adjusting their international fight to hit the United States and the West where they perceive them to be weakest.” Why do I think that Sen. Obama and the rest of the D’s will attack President Bush for increasing violence in Afghanistan without acknowledging this is a result of the success of Bush’s policy in Iraq?
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