Left-wing commentators, in Britain as in much of Europe, have focused disproportionately on the difficulties that any state must undergo during a transition process. To many of them, every terrorist bomb, every murdered election official, every sign of heightened military alertness — even the loss of a British aircraft — makes a nonsense of Iraq’s democratic aspirations. (Source)
Substitute Britain and British with America and American, and the paragraph applies to leftists in the United States as well.
The Iraq election is now a part of history. Over 70 percent of the electorate turned out. In our lifetimes we’ve seen the fall of a brutal dictator under the watch of a vilified and hated American president. But even the New York Times (reg. req.) had to concede that election day in Iraq was a success:
Courageous Iraqis turned out to vote yesterday in numbers that may have exceeded even the most optimistic predictions. Participation varied by region, and the impressive national percentages should not obscure the fact that the country’s large Sunni Arab minority remained broadly disenfranchised – due to alienation or terror or both. But even in some predominantly Sunni areas, turnout was higher than expected. And in an impressive range of mainly Shiite and Kurdish cities, a long silenced majority of ordinary Iraqis defied threats of deadly mayhem to cast votes for a new, and hopefully democratic, political order….This page has not hesitated to criticize the Bush administration over its policies in Iraq, and we continue to have grave doubts about the overall direction of American strategy there. Yet today, along with other Americans, whether supporters or critics of the war, we rejoice in a heartening advance by the Iraqi people. For now at least, the multiple political failures that marked the run-up to the voting stand eclipsed by a remarkably successful election day.
Aside from this editorial, I won’t be linking to news stories. The biased headlines tell you all you need to know about MSM’s coverage of the elections. But if you must read the stories, do so with delight as jaded leftist journalists try to spin the overwhelmingly positive news coming out of Iraq into something negative. They’re so predictable, it’s boring.
The rule of partisan politics, at least where the left is concerned, is that whatever your opponent is for, you must come out against. That’s why the liberal blogosphere was either silent yesterday or overwhelmingly negative. In that regard, I won’t hold my breath as I wait for a group like the NAACP to release a positive press release (for a change) about the elections.
Speaking of the NAACP, last year in Watch Out For Jim Crow, I blogged about this fossil-like relic of the past and a ridiculous report they threw together called The Long Shadow of Jim Crow (PDF). The absurdly dramatic title produced unintended laughs as I flipped through the “report.” I thought to myself, “Groups like the NAACP reinforce the stereotype that blacks are low achievers.” This is only one of many reasons I’m embarrassed by them. Blacks are held to a lower standard, and dreck like that report is partially to blame.
While people are literally losing their heads over the cause of freedom, the NAACP’s limousine liberals living high on the government hog are planning their next social event, but not before adding a little racial hysteria to the mix for good measure. With exaggerated or straight up false claims of “voter intimidation,” the NAACP is a joke.
Iraqis, threatened by throat-cutting Islamofacists, still managed to vote. Yet the NAACP regards blacks as impotent children incapable of casting a simple ballot for fear of the white man at the polls. (The butterfly is so confusing!) You can’t punch a simple hole on a simple ballot? Try it with no fingers or hands or arms, for crying out loud. That’s disenfranchisement.
Pictured are the NAACP’s ranting chairman, Julian Bond and former president Kweisi Mfume. That’s all I have to say. Making fun of the NAACP is not as fun as it used to be. It’s just sad.
Surprisingly, they spoke out against the juvenile hosts of a black radio station after they made some bone-headed remarks about the tsunami victims. When the NAACP actually does something useful, which isn’t often, it should be noted.
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Iraq election coverage around the blogosphere: Arthur Chrenkoff, Day By Day…
Classic Scappleface: “We use that word ‘terrorist’ to marginalize and demonize people whose way of expressing ideas is culturally different from ours,” said Mr. Kerry. “But when a man takes up the scimitar to behead an innocent civilian, or straps on the exploding vest for a walk through the marketplace, he’s just passionately stating his philosophy. Who are we to judge his methods?”
Update: Speaking of the NAACP, go read Black Taliban. A new black conservative in the blogosphere. I like it.
