It has been a rough 4 to 8 years to be an American, and a time of incredible anger. I think that has become the predominant emotion, replacing pride and apple pie.
Many of us were angered by the way the reign of W began, not with a mandate of the majority but instead with allegations of voter suppression in predominately white regions of Florida, a recount procedure that seemed more akin to a cartoon with then Florida Secretary of State Kathleen Harris serving the role of goofy, and in the end the appointment of Bush to the Presidency by what many perceived as a partisan Supreme Court. The net result for the more than 50% of voting Americans who voted for Gore and not Bush was anger and frustration rather than stubborn acceptance of the will of the majority of their fellow Americans.
During the first term of W, we did not realize the promises made by W to be a compassionate conservative and to bridge the gap of bipartisanship that seemed to overtake Washington during the second Clinton administration. Certainly 9/11 provoked anger (and of course a great deal of fear) in any American who was paying attention. Initially the anger was directed at the “evildoers” – Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. That anger, in some quarters, became displaced by anger directed within – first toward fellow Americans who had the misfortune of being Muslim or having the appearance of anyone from the Middle East or northern Asia, much like we treated Japanese Americans during WWII, and then toward the Bush administration once we learned about the warning signs it ignored about the 9/11 attacks, either due to incompetence, denial or vacation. Anger and more anger.
Rachel Ray has been outed by Michelle Malkin as the Jihadi I had always suspected she was. But now, thanks to Malkinian journalism, we have the proof: an incriminating Dunkin Donuts ad in which Ray dons a Keffiyeh, a traditional head scarf worn by Arab men.
