Collective Conscious

Track-A-‘Crat and The Green­room jump on Michael Moore, Obama, and ideas of honor:

Moore rounds off his mas­ter­piece by exhort­ing Obama to once again retreat [read: end our com­mit­ment to the Afghan quag­mire], promis­ing that if he does so, then,

“You can be your mother’s son.“

Which makes about as much sense as the pre­ced­ing entirety of the let­ter.  That right there is surely going to form the cen­tral plank of Obama’s surrender-​​with-​​honor strat­egy, when it comes:  we’re ditch­ing Afghanistan, because “I want to be my mother’s son.”  Flaw­less reasoning.

Yet, just eight short years ago:

[I]n dis­cussing the threat posed by Iraqi Pres­i­dent Sad­dam Hus­sein, Bush said: “After all, this is the guy who tried to kill my dad.”

Con­ser­v­a­tive pun­dits didn’t think this was such bad ratio­nale back then.