[Cross Posted from Political Strategy. I hesitated putting it up here, since it covers achingly familiar ground, but wanted to add my thoughts on the Politics of Demonization ...]
Awfully presumptuous, I know, to claim to identify Bush's biggest lie when there are so many to choose from (see also the American Progress Action Fund's searchable database of Bush lies, the DNC's top ten Bush lies, and Tom Ball's compendium of Bush's Iraq lies).
Better, perhaps, to call this the lie that under,um,lies all of the other lies.
I'm a uniter, not a divider. I refuse to play the politics of putting people into groups and pitting one group against another.
-- George W. Bush, May 1999 [and other times too numerous to mention]
This lie has been exposed so many times that it may seem utterly redundant to those who frequent the liberal blogosphere to examine it again, but in the light of Rove's suggestion last week that liberals are more interested in therapying than punishing America's enemies, that liberals are just not quite American, I'm going to revisit the Politics of Division.
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