Springsteen: History Revisionist

I complimented Bruce Springsteen in the previous post as a great lyricist; too bad he's also an ideologue and completely wrong in his assessment of recent American history:

The Born to Run singer said that the US was now "suffering the consequences" of eight years of rule by a "very radical group of people" who had attempted to undermine the country's democratic values.

And just what democratic values did the Bush administration "undermine" Bruce? He can't still be harking back to the disputed 2000 election, can he? Move on, dude. Any recount scenario had Bush beating goal and that was even clear to the NY Times. Hell, if The Boss wants an example of undermining democratic values, all he need do is look at the recent recount in Minnesota where Al Franken stole the Senate election or how about the way every liberal group (I.E. ACORN) in America registered illegal people like, say, the Dallas Cowboys.

Bruce has that "coming home to roost" mentality, doesn't he. Perhaps he's been visiting with the good Rev. Wright. Bush and Cheney equal radicals; real radicals like Wright and Ayers must be considered zealots by NJ's favorite son.

But Springsteen unfortunately continued:

resident Bush's period in power as a "nightmare" for most Americans, the songwriter said: "We had a historically blind administration who didn't take consideration of the past; thousands of thousands of people died, lives were ruined and terrible, terrible things occurred because there was no sense of real history, no sense that the past is living and real."

"Historically blind"? I believe the administration was quite clear in their realization of what has occurred in the Mideast historically; Saddam gassing Kurds in Halabja, Iraq consistently giving the finger to the vaunted UN, the Taliban cutting off arms of thieves and allowing rapists to go free and other atrocities such as slavery.

Perhaps Springsteen was sleeping the day that 10 middle class Arab Muslims flew two planes into the Twin Towers just miles from where he grew up. Perhaps it is he who is too incredibly moronic to understand that to not respond would have been a much greater security concern because the zealous Muslims would have seen it as weakness and come at us again and again. And finally, perhaps Springsteen wasn't aware that he did not have to sing at another benefit for those whose loved ones were killed by terrorists save the one after 9/11.

Perhaps he's too ideologically brainwashed to realize that it was specifically those "terrible, terrible things that occurred" that made us a safer nation; one that hasn't been attacked again in nearly eight years when everyone on every ideological side (almost as many people on all sides who thought Saddam had WMD's) believed another attack was in the very near future.