First Door on the Left

John Hinderaker is all upset because we aren’t all outraged that some dude named Vladimir Arutyunyan threw a grenade (which turned out to be a dud) at some stage where George W. Bush was giving a speech this past May 10. He concludes…

Maybe the current political climate is making me paranoid, but I cannot imagine that our news services would be equally indifferent to an attempt to assassinate a Democratic President.

I don’t know who to put this delicately, so I’ll just come right out with it… there are losses and then there are losses. Some are easier to live with than others; some or easier to recover from than others.

Maybe John wants us to declare May 10 a national holiday or something?

Nothing happened, dude. It was a dud. Get over it.

I will be the first to admit that the right-wing mind baffles me to no end. How could anybody honestly believe that a man with no life experience whatsoever who has been handed everything on silver platters his entire life could ever make a decent president of our country? How could anybody honestly believe the lies we were told in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq? How could anybody honestly believe that the aforementioned invasion has made our country or the world any safer from the threats of terrorism? How could anybody honestly believe that anything the Bush Administration has done has been for the good of the United States of America?

How could anybody with even half a mind write tripe like this?

It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can’t get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile.

Doofus, through and through.

Man Killed in U.K. Not Linked to Blasts

LONDON (AP) – The man shot and killed on a subway car by London police in front of horrified commuters had nothing to do with this month’s bombings on the city’s transit system, police said Saturday in expressing their regrets. They identified the man as Jean Charles de Menezes, a 27-year-old Brazilian citizen.

A day earlier, the police commissioner said the man was “directly linked” to Thursday’s attacks, in which bombs on three subway trains and a bus failed to detonate properly. No one was injured.

“For somebody to lose their life in such circumstances is a tragedy and one that the Metropolitan Police Service regrets,” a police spokesman said on customary condition of anonymity.

The man was shot Friday at a subway station in the south London neighborhood of Stockwell. Witnesses said he was wearing a heavy padded coat when police chased him into a subway car, pinned him to the ground and shot him in the head and torso.

Just as Iraq had no connection to 9/11. The difference, it seems, between the United States and Great Britain is that Great Britain is willing to admit its mistakes. Sometimes.