Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 24 September 2006

1,001 posted on 09/24/2006 1:29:25 PM PDT by AliVeritas (The road to hell is paved with bishops - St. Athanasis)

... (Clinton) really wanted them to GUARANTEE it with their careers/jobs... which he knew they wouldn't do. The guy is a perfect, human parasite... who understood the shortcomings of professional bureaucrats.

Exactly! No intelligence analyst is ever going to give a guarantee. That's why there's a President, to make those tough calls. Clinton didn't have it in him to make tough calls unless he had someone he could blame if anything went wrong.

1,002 posted on 09/24/2006 1:34:25 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)

All I had on it was anita's link in her #61 (article by Dick Morris and well worth reading the whole thing IMO to see the corruption the Clintons are still tied in with).

Thank goodness I am apparently wrong about wider "uses" for the kids and they DO use tiny little kids for camel jockeys and, I assume, somewhat bigger kids for the heavier work. See A.Hun's post #260 to me. Amazing!

1,003 posted on 09/24/2006 1:34:34 PM PDT by Sal (Once you know they sold USA out to Red China, what do you think they would NOT do?)

I said that too. LOL

1,004 posted on 09/24/2006 1:35:35 PM PDT by AliVeritas (The road to hell is paved with bishops - St. Athanasis)

To: Alas Babylon!

"It might be funny and ironic, that the next president of the United States is from Massachusetts, but NOT John F'n Kerry!"

LOL..I like it

1,005 posted on 09/24/2006 1:35:35 PM PDT by evad (sarcasm may be introduced at any moment of any post)

To: Seattle Conservative

I think Bubba would like to be Pres of the World, but would take Secty General of the UN; however, since we have a permanent seat on the Security Council, it's my understanding that no one from the US can hold the SC position.

That is tradition and bylaws, not part of the charter. It can be changed, as I understand it, by a simple majority in the General Assembly and the Security Council can't stop it.

And then, in the name of the children, he'll ask all countries to surrender their sovereignty to the UN in order to insure peace in our time, starting with the dismantling of the evil United States.

1,006 posted on 09/24/2006 1:37:09 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)

Amazing that the DNC must constatntly "DEFINE" what Billy actually says, isn't it??

LOL!

1,007 posted on 09/24/2006 1:38:34 PM PDT by tcrlaf (VOTE DEM! You'll Look GREAT In A Burqa!)

"Rather, someone needs to counter the lies he is spewing."

They did. Just not in the way you would have liked them too.

1,008 posted on 09/24/2006 1:42:07 PM PDT by marajade (Yes, I'm a SW freak!)

#956, I thought from the first time I heard that G Allen used the word "macaca" that it sounded very much like a Yiddish expression "fekakteh" meaning messed up,screwed up,very confused situation. At the time I heard it, I dismissed it as being that Yiddish expression because George Allen is not Jewish (or so we thought),and even though it is a common Yiddish expression he would not have heard the expression unless he were around older Jewish People that used those expressions. I could not shake the similarity of the sound so every time I heard someone say "macaca" it made me think of "fekakteh ,and lo and behold his Mama confessed to being Jewish. I think Allen got a unfair bunch of bad press,but since the DBM hate Israel and Conservative Jews it would have been worse if he had been repeating "Yiddish" expressions. His entire defense of his remark that night has been "fekakteh".

1,009 posted on 09/24/2006 1:43:24 PM PDT by samantha (cheer up, the Adults are in charge,but need Reserves really fast)

ED Hill isn't being bumped from Fox and Friends. She's taking over for Bridget Quinn. Gretchen Carlson and ED Hill are just swapping places to cover for Bridget.

1,010 posted on 09/24/2006 1:44:26 PM PDT by marajade (Yes, I'm a SW freak!)

If you watch his body language in the Wallace interview... he demonstrated the movements of a cornered liar... caught for the umpteenth time. He's a 60 year old, snot-nosed punk.

1,011 posted on 09/24/2006 1:53:21 PM PDT by johnny7 (“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)

LOL, I thought the same thing.

1,012 posted on 09/24/2006 1:53:32 PM PDT by AliVeritas (The road to hell is paved with bishops - St. Athanasis)

Do you know this as fact, like from a source within FNC? I can't figure out why Fox would take a gamble with Carlson doing F&F full time when they are pretty much guaranteed respectable ratings with E.D. Also, it just seems strange that no one mentioned her swap on Friday's show. I also heard on today's show that "everything is going to look different on Monday", and I took that to mean that the set of the show will be changing as well. Lots of changes at FNC lately.

1,013 posted on 09/24/2006 1:56:13 PM PDT by fox0566

Bubba's 'Tom Cruise' moment.

This is the Bubba we always wanted America to see.

Great post. The two highlights above are definitely keepers. I'm going to send off the "Tom Cruise moment" comment to a few interested parties.

1,014 posted on 09/24/2006 1:58:00 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)

Somebody up the thread from FNC.

1,015 posted on 09/24/2006 1:58:24 PM PDT by marajade (Yes, I'm a SW freak!)

That switch works out very well for E.D. Hill because she can get the kids off to school and not have to be out the door before them. Since she often takes a lot of time off, this gig will probably make her take less time off to deal with Family matters.

1,016 posted on 09/24/2006 1:58:39 PM PDT by samantha (cheer up, the Adults are in charge,but need Reserves really fast)

Its only temporary until Bridget Quinn comes back from "time off." Whatever that means.

1,017 posted on 09/24/2006 1:59:47 PM PDT by marajade (Yes, I'm a SW freak!)

Sunday, September 24, 2006

NR & Bin Laden 1998 [Jonah Goldberg]

Bill Clinton in his interview today seemed to be suggesting that conservatives uniformly opposed and denounced him when he launched his "wag the dog" strike in 1998. For the record, here's the NR editorial in response to the attacks, dated9/14/98:
COMEDY Central's The Daily Show called it "Operation Desert Shield Me from Impeachment." Funny, but too cynical. The U.S. missile strikes against terrorist facilities in Afghanistan and Sudan were a response to a real threat: They targeted the operations of Osama bin Laden, the terrorist mastermind who, according to U.S. intelligence, was responsible for the brutal bombing of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and was plotting further attacks on Americans.

Congressional leaders were therefore right to support President Clinton's action. The last thing Republicans should do is add to the inhibitions and hesitations of an Administration congenitally averse to the forthright use of American military power. The White House's blatant exploitation of the crisis for its own political purposes-dragging Mr. Clinton back from vacation for a portentous Oval Office address to the nation-should be a source of amusement only. Richard Nixon, too, tried to claim indispensability for his foreign-policy expertise-a much more valid claim in his case, and at the height of the Cold War to boot. It didn't help him.

Launching 75 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the training camp in Afghanistan and the chemical-weapons plant in Sudan was, by Clinton standards, a strong performance. In June 1993, responding to an Iraqi assassination attempt against ex-President George Bush, Mr. Clinton launched 23 cruise missiles at a military-intelligence headquarters in Baghdad-in the middle of the night, so that no one would get hurt! This time, the strike in Afghanistan was aimed at a gathering of terrorist leaders reported to be taking place on that day. Admirably cold-blooded, that.

Bin Laden, the terrorist kingpin, is a new phenomenon, but we should not exaggerate either his novelty or the difficulty of defeating him. (There is a canard that he is an American creation. There is no evidence that he is. He did win his spurs in the Arab world's equivalent of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade-the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan-but U.S. money and arms went to the Afghan freedom fighters through the Pakistani military.) While he is a freelancer, bin Laden is dependent on the support of renegade governments, such as Afghanistan's and Sudan's, against which we have leverage. We can target his physical assets by military or covert means and his financial assets through other controls (as Mr. Clinton has also done). His Islamist revolutionary ideology is increasingly discredited in the Muslim world, even in Iran. Defeating him will take time, but it will be done.

1,018 posted on 09/24/2006 2:00:31 PM PDT by AliVeritas (The road to hell is paved with bishops - St. Athanasis)

Validation of the Clinton temperament written about by Dick Morris and some others.

1,019 posted on 09/24/2006 2:01:01 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( I am sitting under my cone of silence, inside a copper wire cage wearing a tin foil hat...)

Clinton Unleashed
(With a tad of linky goodness)
http://www.macsmind.com/wordpress/2006/09/23/clinton-unleashed/

1,020 posted on 09/24/2006 2:03:32 PM PDT by AliVeritas (The road to hell is paved with bishops - St. Athanasis)

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