Sunday, August 10, 2008

Are These Examples of Irony or Hypocrisy?




"I think this president has shown a remarkable disrespect for his office, for the moral dimensions of leadership, for his friends, for his wife, for his precious daughter. It is breathtaking to me the level to which that disrespect has risen."
-- John Edwards, on Bill Clinton, 1999






"Georgia is a sovereign nation, and its territorial integrity must be respected. We have urged an immediate halt to the violence and a stand-down by all troops. We call for an end to the Russian bombings. The attacks are occurring in regions of Georgia far from the zone of conflict. They mark a dangerous escalation of the conflict."-- George W. Bush, on Russia, 2008 (at left, Mr. Bush's own example of "respect for a sovereign nation", circa 2003)



Answer: Hypocrisy. But one is just the expedient blather of a smarmy ambulance chaser, and the other is your country's foreign policy. One matters and the other does not. You pick.

2 comments:

Eric said...

what happened to the evolution post... or did I dream it... or was it on someone elses blog?

Eric said...

I just realize the evolution post was from a million years ago and I just got the link....