{"id":37481,"date":"2013-09-07T19:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T23:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37481"},"modified":"2013-09-07T19:02:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T23:02:02","slug":"code-pink-complains-about-their-fellow-travelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37481","title":{"rendered":"Code Pink complains about their fellow travelers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Times<\/a> reports that Code Pink has a morale problem – and its the Democrats. Earlier today<\/a>, we read about Senator Al Franken who said that there were no good options in Syria, so he’ll vote to send the military in harm’s way since that’s the most politically expedient answer and he has no skin in the game in the way of his blood being endangered. The other day<\/a>, DC’s Democrat non-voting (thankfully) delegate to Congress, Eleanor Holmes Norton told the media that she’d vote for Obama’s plan out of loyalty to the party and Obama.<\/p>\n

In the Washington Times article, Medea Benjamin complains about her fair weather friends in the Democrat Party;<\/p>\n

A day earlier, Ms. Benjamin was arrested for protesting in the middle of the Senate\u2019s hearing on Syria, yelling \u201cWe don\u2019t want another war\u201d as she was escorted out.<\/p>\n

She said she expected better of President Obama and that it \u201cfeels terrible\u201d to have to protest against a member of the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels surreal,\u201d she said. \u201cIt seems like this country is so topsy-turvy when you have Code Pink and Rand Paul on the same side of foreign policy issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another group member waiting for the hearing said the conflict goes beyond party lines and the Democrats are now \u201cjust as bad\u201d as Republicans.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I first moved to this country in 2008, I was very excited to see Barack Obama,\u201d said Noor Mir, who is originally from Pakistan. \u201cBut it seems as though he is backed up by so many warmongers that he\u2019s just become one of them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Buzzfeed<\/a> lists 14 Hollywood anti-war crackpots who they suspect have been kidnapped because they haven’t spoke out on the impending Syria military action.<\/p>\n

The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> interviewed two stanch anti-war zealots in Hollywood, Ed Asner and Mike Farrel about the sad state of the anti-war people in Hollywood who were so eager to protest against war in the Middle East ten years ago, but are oddly silent now. The emphasis is mine.<\/p>\n

“It’s incredibly improper for the president to call for a strike. I have said it everywhere I can and I suspect a lot of others will do the same, but whether there will be an organized effort, I don’t know,” Farrell continued. “We’re talking about the difference between an invasion in Iraq and a limited action in response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria.”<\/p>\n

Asner said the lack of an organized effort against war in Syria is a matter of timing. Bush took months to make the case for war in Iraq, giving the antiwar left plenty of time to prepare a response.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Another reason some Hollywood progressives have been reticent to speak out against war in Syria, according to Asner, is fear of being called racist.<\/p>\n

“A lot of people don’t want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama,” he said.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, basically, they called us racist for so long, they believe if they oppose Obama, people will think they’re racist, too. Of course, they are racist because they’re willing to let Syrians die in a US airstrike just so they don’t upset the racial applecart. But unfortunately, it doesn’t bother them on the same level when they mistreat Conservative blacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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