Monday, June 01, 2009

The Tiller Blame Game   [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

The Internet is a wild forest of ridiculous comments about George Tiller's murder. This, from the AMERICAblog, high among them:

Thank God that the Obama administration caved last month to religious right and GOP demands that it withdraw a new domestic terrorism report that indicated, among other things, that radicals might use abortion as a justification for committing acts of domestic terrorism. Now a man is dead, and an American church has been shot up during services. Which leads to the question as to whether the Obama administration plans to do anything about the terrorist threat posed by religious right extremists, or whether typical Democratic spinelessness will lead us to now ignore this brutal murder, since that is the message that was sent last month, just weeks before this act of terror.

Note that had Obama held firm in the face of the criticism last month, he'd be riding high right now and the GOP would be cowering in shame for having basically enabled this terrorist act. But Democrats rarely look to the future, nor do they see benefit in having a spine or doing what's right. And now a man is dead.

Blaming the Obama administration for Tiller's death is as nutty as blaming Bill O'Reilly (which, of course, is happening too).

06/01 11:12 AMShare