Liberal Talk Radio

I was watching a West Wing rerun the other day. It was from about 3 years ago, just after 9/11. The epsiode was “100,000 Airplanes,” and it was about the State of the Union. On the TV, in the background, you hear excerpt’s from President Bartlet’s speech:

It may be said that in the last half century, America won the Cold War and modeled freedom for a waiting world. Today, we are faced with a new challenge…Now in a new century, when we meet and master new forms of aggression and hatred, ignorance and evil, our vigilance in the face of oppression and global terror will be unequaled by any moment of human history. And to the enemies of freedom, the enemies of democracy, the enemies of America, the enemies of humanity itself, we say here tonight with one voice. There is no corner of this earth so remote, no cave so dark, that you will not be found and brought to light and ended.

Compare this with President Bush’s 2004 SOTU:

In the long-term, the peace we seek will only be achieved by eliminating the conditions that feed radicalism and ideologies of murder. If whole regions of the world remain in despair and grow in hatred, they will be the recruiting grounds for terror, and that terror will stalk America and other free nations for decades. The only force powerful enough to stop the rise of tyranny and terror, and replace hatred with hope, is the force of human freedom.

Interesting. I wonder how the “realists” would react if Bush’s war were being waged by a liberal Democrat?