Freepers to Bush: We’re looking through you

In the aftermath of President Bush’s failed attempt to push through the Kill America bill and of his ludicrous speech to an Islamic organization in Washington D.C. this week, delivered in his stocking feet (how does Bush discredit himself? let us count the ways), Free Republic, once a bastion of Bushism, has turned against its erstwhile hero. See the skillfully done photo of the Imam Bush at post 9. And be sure to read the subtle and insightful critique of Bush’s statements about Islam in post 11 and post 24. The commenter explains how Bush’s well-intended statement to his Muslim audience that the United States plans to bring freedom and tolerance to the Muslim world can only be seen by the Muslims themselves as an imperialistic attack on their religion, which, of course, believes in submission to an absolute god, not in modern Western freedom and tolerance. That such a correct understanding of Islam is now being expressed in a mainstream conservative, formerly pro-Bush site against Bush’s ridiculous polyannish slogans about Islam is almost as significant as the mass conservative uprising against him on immigration.

For those who don’t get the reference in the title of this post, it is to the Beatles’ 1965 song, “I’m Looking Through You,” as perfect a lyric, and blending of lyric and music, as the Beatles ever produced:

I’m looking through you
Where did you go?
I thought I knew you
What did I know?
You don’t look different
But you have changed.
I’m looking through you
You’re not the same.

Your lips are moving
I cannot hear.
Your voice is soothing
But the words aren’t clear.
You don’t sound different
I’ve learned the game.
I’m looking through you
You’ve not the same

Why, tell me why
Did you not treat me right?
Love has a nasty habit
Of disappearing overnight.

You’re thinking of me
The same old way.
You were above me
But not today.
The only difference
Is you’re down there.
I’m looking through you
And you’re nowhere.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at June 30, 2007 11:43 AM | Send