Former co-contributor John Kowalski has his own blog now, so check it out. He’s putting out his Hollywood Buddhist spin on the Democrats’ convention, insisting that Carter’s labeling of Bush as a radical extremist insensitive to human rights isn’t “Bush-bashing.” If you say so, John.
But this raises an interesting point, one that’s been perplexing me for a few days now. The Democrats, particularly under Carter, used to be the party of human rights. If one were sincere about this cause, a dictator like Saddam who routinely gassed, tortured, raped, and murdered his people would be completely unacceptable, a point that’s been highlighted by principled men of the left who supported regime change in Iraq on humanitarian grounds. So why has the mainstream of the Democratic Party abandoned this historic commitment to the downtrodden in favor of a “more stuff for me” platform of free health care, higher salaries for union teachers, etc?
Taking cheap shots at the President for the relatively innocuous prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib while ignoring the horror that Saddam inflicted on his people strikes me as craven beyond belief, but that’s Jimmy Carter for you, and that’s why I hate what the Democratic Party has become.