George Bush may be gone as president, but BDS is apparently forever. Deep in the throes of derangement, Chris Matthews this evening labeled America under George Bush an “aggressor” akin to the regimes of Hitler and Stalin. The Hardball host was David Shuster’s guest on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It was Shuster’s playing of a clip of Pres. Obama talking about reclaiming the “moral high ground” on issues like torture that set Matthews off.

CHRIS MATTHEWS: I grew up with the idea that we were the good guys all the time in foreign policy. Maybe that’s naive, but when we use words like “aggressor,” we’re going to stop aggression, we’re going to stop countries from invading other countries.

We had to stop using that language under the Bush administration, because we were the aggressor. We took over Iraq. They hadn’t attacked us. We attacked them, overtook their country, threw out their leaders, hanged the guy in charge and ran the show for all these last years. We can’t even use the old-time good guy/bad guy language of “stop the aggressor.” Hitler was an aggressor. Stalin was an aggressor. The Japanese empire was an aggressor. They were the bad guys, aggressors.

We have had to change our language to terms like, these totalitarian terms like “homeland,” and “weapons of mass destruction.” We have had to have a whole new lingo to justify this war footing we’ve been on these last eight years. And I think if Barack Obama brings us back to familiar American language, that would be a start right there.