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• Friday, September 4, 2009 10:27 AM

  Enough.

  These absurdities have been tolerated for too long.

  If you are a conservative/libertarian/Republican who supported the last administration, but are now screaming and stomping your feet over Obama's imaginary socialist agenda then you are a hypocrite. You are a hypocrite for allowing eight unchecked years of Constitutional abuse. You are a hypocrite for not speaking out when the President demanded 'loyalty oaths' from all attendants to his speeches. You are a hypocrite for not demanding accountability when Reagan's anti-torture legislation was shredded under the Bush/Cheney aegis. You are a hypocrite for watching as the very banks that the federal government has attempted to save were abused and looted by the proponents of 'unfettered Capitalism,' thus necessitating the very bind we are in now. And foremost, you are a hypocrite for demanding fealty to President Bush in all cases and at all times when that stance was politically attractive to you.

  You have no authority, moral or otherwise, to wail about dangers to the Constitution or to the country when you have stood by, slack-jawed, self-absorbed and uncaring as all of this occured. All the self-satisfying anger in the world cannot, and will not, dilute these facts.

  You are a farmer who has willingly let the fox steal both your and your neighbors chickens for eight years and has now decided to blame the neighbor for his decision to build a fence around both your properties.

  You are irresponsible. You are anti-logical. You are filled with hatred and invective and worst of all bone-deep hypocrisy. And you know it.

  —George Kaplan Read George Kaplan's other letters
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