[Peace-discuss] Liberal culture wars

[David Green]

Mort,

It's not just about issues, it's about an analysis of "what's wrong". An emphasis on Christian fundamentalism leads us away from the fundamental issues that really determine whether these policy changes really matter. Moreover, I'm not even sure that Obama represents a move away from Christian fundamentalism, and certainly not from moralism. 

Rich writes: "The current Democratic president and his family are exemplars of precisely the Eisenhower-era squareness — albeit refurbished by feminism — that the Republicans often preached but rarely practiced. Obama actually walks the walk. As the former Bush speechwriter David Frum recently wrote, the new president is an “apparently devoted husband and father” whose worst vice is “an occasional cigarette.”"

So Democrats are the truly pious? So liberal feminists are going to be happy in their "refurbishing" role? Much can be said about the Carter/Clinton Democrat precedents for this sort of thing. So now we hear that Obama has five ministers, after dumping the one who had something interesting to say.

DG




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From: Brussel Morton K. <mkbrussel at comcast.net>
To: David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 3:52:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Liberal culture wars

Were you distracted? His was an anodyne piece, but not every article need concern itself with war and peace, as important as that is.  You seem to believe there's a conspiracy lurking here.  
Obama's actions on stem cell research and family planning are significant, if not world shaking, and can be applauded. I believe some think that anything that can be applauded in what Obama's does detracts from the criticisms and condemnation of his other policies. It aint necessarily so. 




--mkb



On Mar 15, 2009, at 9:06 AM, David Green wrote:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/opinion/15rich.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

It's important to understand how misguided Frank Rich's column is regarding the so-called culture wars, which are really fake wars conducted between so-called liberals and conservatives in order to distract us from their unifed economic-military agenda. Predictably, it's posted on Common Dreams, the credulous end of the internet left.

DG
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