All his targets are taking aim

It seems the president just can't make enough enemies. With his support for enshrining an anti-equality provision in the United States Constitution, President Bush has gone and caused a passionate supporter to pen these words:

This president wants our families denied civil protection and civil acknowledgment. He wants us stigmatized not just by a law, not just by his inability even to call us by name, not by his minions on the religious right. He wants us stigmatized in the very founding document of America. There can be no more profound attack on a minority in the United States - or on the promise of freedom that America represents. That very tactic is so shocking in its prejudice, so clear in its intent, so extreme in its implications that it leaves people of good will little lee-way. This president has now made the Republican party an emblem of exclusion and division and intolerance. Gay people will now regard it as their enemy for generations - and rightly so. I knew this was coming, but the way in which it has been delivered and the actual fact of its occurrence is so deeply depressing it is still hard to absorb. But the result is clear, at least for those who care about the Constitution and care about civil rights. We must oppose this extremism with everything we can muster. We must appeal to the fair-minded center of the country that balks at the hatred and fear that much of the religious right feeds on. We must prevent this graffiti from being written on a document every person in this country should be able to regard as their own. This struggle is hard but it is also easy. The president has made it easy. He's a simple man and he divides the world into friends and foes. He has now made a whole group of Americans - and their families and their friends - his enemy. We have no alternative but to defend ourselves and our families from this attack. And we will.

Who wrote it? This may never happen again. I'm linking to Andrew Sullivan.

(Via Hit & Run. "All his targets are taking aim" from "March of Death" by Zack de la Rocha and DJ Shadow.)

UPDATE: Tom Tomorrow has this to say to Andrew Sullivan:

Memo to Andrew S.

All those people you've been giving your snarky little awards to the past few years, the actors and college professors and intellectuals and so on? All the lefties you've worked so hard to portray as small-minded knee-jerk opponents of diversity?

They're the ones on your side, in this struggle for basic civil rights.

Your Republican pals? The ones you like to pretend are so inclusive and tolerant? They think you're less than human. They think you are, to borrow a phrase, a useful idiot. It's been apparent all along that they'd toss you overboard at the first politically expedient moment--the only question is how you could have ever deluded yourself into thinking otherwise.

You've been played for a grade-A chump, pal.