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Jan. 13th, 2011 09:30 amOver the past couple of days I've noticed that folk on the right in America have used the left's rhetorical of hatred of GWB as somehow equivalent to the right's rhetorical of hatred for Obama.
However I think this to be a false equivalency.
"I hate George Bush" seems to me to be a personal emotional response.
'Second Amendment Solutions" is a call to arms.
Selling guns with "You Lie" (the words Republican Congressman Joe Wilson shouted out loud at President Obama during a congressional speech in 2009) is rather different from calling Bush a "lying scumbag" in print.
The difference is quite specific: the weaponisation of the debate. If folk don't see that, then I don't suppose it's up to me to point it out.
However I think this to be a false equivalency.
"I hate George Bush" seems to me to be a personal emotional response.
'Second Amendment Solutions" is a call to arms.
Selling guns with "You Lie" (the words Republican Congressman Joe Wilson shouted out loud at President Obama during a congressional speech in 2009) is rather different from calling Bush a "lying scumbag" in print.
The difference is quite specific: the weaponisation of the debate. If folk don't see that, then I don't suppose it's up to me to point it out.
