To be fair, Bush doesn’t actually suggest that liberals are suggesting that brown-skinned people can’t be trusted with democratic government (at least, not in the excerpted passage).
Rather, that there are people (of unspecified ideology) who oppose the war for such a reason.
A very,… uh, liberal interpretation is that this might be directed at anyone who holds such a prejudice, whatever their ideology.
But the Bush administration’s tendency to paint anyone who opposes the war (or disagrees with it in general) as a freedom-hating, terrorist-loving gay-homosexual liberal makes this a very hard interpretation for me to accept.
Is he still pushing the tripe about SS being unfair to African-Americans because they have a shorter life expectancy, or has he dropped that particular line of bullshit?
(The life expectancy difference is almost entirely due to infant mortality; among people who reach age 65, there is a bigger difference between men and women than between blacks and whites.)
Wouldn’t you just love to be able to get the President in a situation where he is actually required to cite for these accusations? Don’t these kind of lies bother his supporters at all?
They’re not bothered about supporting a guy who lied about WMDs to start a war that killed over 15,000 civilians. What makes you think they’d be bothered with trivial stuff like cites?