Yesterday I blogged about my distaste for the presence of Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe “observers” at our polling places. Joel Mowbray expresses the sentiment much better than I.
Though the OSCE delegation has no authority to do anything substantive, the very idea that international monitors have any business being in the U.S. is insulting. Any organization comprised of member nations such as France and Germany who saw no evil in Saddam’s tyranny and continue turning a blind eye to Arafat’s iron fist clearly lacks the moral compass to pass judgment on any nation, let alone the United States….
Nowhere in the world do voters have as much information at their fingertips: four all-news cable outlets, three broadcast network newscasts, three or more local news telecasts, one or more local talk radio stations, local and national newspapers, hundreds of magazines, thousands of web sites and web logs, and countless knuckleheads (including this one) ready to share their opinions with anyone who will listen….We don’t need international monitors to tell us that America has the greatest foundation of freedom in the world.
He lays into Representative Barbara Lee, referring to her as one who prefers murderous dictator, Fidel Castro, over George Bush.
While I agree in theory that we have nothing to hide and that foreign observers can observe all they want, in reality, it offends me. I’m offended that liberals, such as members of the Congressional Black Caucus, don’t realize that if the U.S. really needed international election monitors, people like themselves would be in danger for bad-mouthing their country the way they do.
But we live in a free society where uninspired dimwits can gain camera-time to spew lies and paranoid filth about the country that gives the precious right to do it.
In retrospeak, that is what’s known as “ingratitude.”
