Posted on 06/26/2004 1:10:53 PM PDT by BigWaveBetty
On June 14th of this year President Bush welcomed Bill and Hillary Clinton back to the White House for the unveiling of their portraits.
Being the gracious, polite adult that he is, President Bush had some kind words for X42 and that made some people very unhappy. President Bush had done the right thing being gracious to his guests and I disagreed with those who would have had him exoriate old X42. However, each time I heard a sound bite of the president's speech it became clear, someone with an imagination and knowledge of clinton could interpret those words in another way.
Here are my interpretations of some of President Bush's remarks.
The years have done a lot to clarify the strengths of this man.
As we republicans predicted it would take time to see the real damage done to our country and this White House, how do you like your boy now? Still think his presidency was chock full of peace and prosperity? Oh, and some of you still can't name three accomplishments of that Administration.
As a candidate for any office, whether it be the state attorney general or the President, Bill Clinton showed incredible energy and great personal appeal.
Nothing of any significance was accomplished.
As chief executive, he showed a deep and far-ranging knowledge of public policy, a great compassion for people in need, and the forward-looking spirit the Americans like in a President.
Again, nothing of any significance was accomplished.
Bill Clinton could always see a better day ahead -- and Americans knew he was working hard to bring that day closer.
Looking past the terror threat doesn't make it go away. Thanks to the media many were lulled to sleep and received a nasty wake up call that morning in September.
Over eight years, it was clear that Bill Clinton loved the job of the presidency.
What better way to feed his huge narcissistic appetite?
He filled this house with energy and joy.
Too bad so much was wasted keeping this slug out of trouble and the only good times came from saving clinton's bacon from the fire.
He's a man of enthusiasm and warmth, who could make a compelling case and effectively advance the causes that drew him to public service.
Boy he loves to charm the ladies and what's the ultimate chick magnate? The White House of course.
President Bush is a smart man, he knew clinton would sink himself with that stupid tome of his. Why in the world would President Bush attack clinton when clinton does it so effectively to himself?
Thank you President Bush, it was a refreshing change from trying to parse all that bill clinton speak.
dencency should be indecency
In keeping with fair and balanced, it was the top of the 8:00 hour but, C'MON! How low will their faces go when they have to read the charges against Saddam to their audience?
I can't take McCain anymore, immediately turning the channel when he appears. Mitchell's trying to get a scoop I guess, ugh. The media has gone completely out of their minds. Did catch Dan Senor, what a great guy. Single too, for all you single gals out there. :-)
French France and the horse they rode in on.
Q: What is the most useful thing in the French Army?
Love the screen name BipolarBob.
The media has gone completely out of their minds.
They really have. We all know people who have to verbalize every single thought they have. I call them "gumdrop machines"---each new thought drops down onto the tongue and...PLOP!...out it comes.
That's what the media is like now. "How do you think the new Iraqi gov't is going to handle security?". "What will the insurgents do now?". It used to be that the "news media" reported the news rather than anticipate it. They drive me nuts.
Here is a photo of Hillary yesterday in Seattle in the same outfit she wore Monday night in San Francisco...black pant suit, pink sweater thrown casually over the shoulder.
I think I am going to be sick...no wonder Chels got a makeover...she is going to hit the campaign trail?
WHAT a difference four years makes. When he was being considered as Al Gore's running mate back in 2000, John Kerry was lauded as "handsome" and "telegenic" by plenty of pundits. But many commentators don't find him so hunky anymore. Kerry has been compared this election season to "The Addams Family" zombie servant Lurch (by both former New York Times executive Howell Raines and by CNBC talk show host Dennis Miller). The Weekly Standard's Matt Labash has likened Kerry's visage to a "long-faced Easter Island mask," while the New Yorker's Philip Gourevitch sees "a long, angular face [that] has something of the abstraction of a tribal mask." Kerry reminds Knight Ridder's Dick Polman of "those long-faced walking trees in 'Lord of the Rings,' " while the Chicago Tribune sees a "droopy, hound-dog look." And the Columbia Journalism Review observes: "Kerry, it seems, was repeatedly whacked by an Ugly Stick sometime between 2000 and 2004."
Good caption....it reminds me of Blue Duck in the movie "Lonesome Dove"...he maintained that he could fly and really thought he could...he broke out of jail and dived from a second story window waving his arms ala Teresa saying, I can fly...'Course he crashed and died.
The feds or their contractors at TSA confiscated my 79-year-old white Christian Anglo-Saxon arthritis-limited, CLL-afflicted mother's nail scissors at the airport, as they perceived her as extremely likely to hijack the plane, apparently (thank goodness no one was racially profiled!!!). I was peeved, but managed to avoid getting arrested (barely). Boy, did I want to give someone an earful.
That poor child, Mattie Stepanek, was brainwashed - and quite possibly used - by some people more interested in an agenda that in his best interests, I'd say. Even my 8-year-old niece knows better than to have a weasel like Jimmy Carter as her hero. Her hero probably is George Washington, unless it's Maria von Trapp (as portrayed by Julie Andrews, whom she hopes to succeed).
I hope you weren't in Rochester to sample their excellent medical facility.
Glad you're back. Sorry about the nail scizzors. Wait 'til they snatch your anti-static cling can.
My mother was visiting the excellent medical facility. I was just along for the ride (and to carry her luggage).
MADONNA , a devout follower of Kabbalah, is donating blocks of the best seats on her current concert tour to her fellow believers. But some of them are scalping the tickets to the highest bidders. And ticket buyers can deduct the cost from their taxes, the sellers promise.
Madonna supposedly donated 50 seats at each show to Kabbalah centers so that her co-religionists can come and see her for free, ensuring the front rows are filled with like-minded fans wearing red string bracelets.
But in Boston, the Kabbalah clique evidently preferred selling the tickets. Avner Madar, head of the Boston Kabbalah Center, put up an ad on craigslist.org, noting: "Madonna VIP Tickets $300-600 — Tax Deductible . . . VIP tickets, best seats in the house. "If you have been wanting to see this show, then this is THE WAY . . . All monies go to a non-profit foundation, and your donation is tax deductible. Enjoy the show with the best seats in the house, and get a tax write-off!" (Page Six)
In case you didn't hear Rush talking about this today:
"Vox" author Nicholson Baker's new book features characters who plot to kill President Bush, using everything from guns to remote-controlled flying saws to mobile boulders made of depleted uranium.
"Checkpoint," which is set to hit bookstores the week before the Republican National Convention, will be published by Alfred A. Knopf - the publishers behind Bill Clinton's "My Life."
In the book, one character rages about Bush, saying: "He is beyond the beyond. What he's done with this war.
"He's one dead armadillo."
It isn't illegal to write about killing heads of state if the purpose isn't to encourage such actions. Besides, the characters never follow through.
A Secret Service spokesman declined comment. A White House rep didn't return a call.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/207638p-178969c.html
Chris Heinz might be one of People magazine's "50 Hottest Bachelors," but apparently he's not getting any action. Or so the 31-year-old ketchup heir wants the world to believe.
"I think I'm the only person who hasn't hooked up because of the campaign. Because I'm deathly afraid to," Heinz confided to Lowdown at Monday night's posh fund-raiser for stepdad John Kerry at furniture mogul Eric Villency's Tribeca palace.
"Campaigns are very young, but I only meet people for one or two nights at a time, max, unless I'm here in New York or in L.A. That's not a good model for me" - presumably he meant "model for living," not Karolina Kurkova. "I've never been that guy. I wish! Or I used to wish. Anyhow, I don't wish now."
Was that a tone of mild self-pity creeping into the handsome, single millionaire's celibacy claim? Impossible! What about all those promising reports about a relationship with "Troy" actress Diane Kruger?
"That's a rumor," Heinz lamented. "She's a friend of mine. We all run in the same group here. I do know her, but I'm single. I should be so lucky!"
Can somebody, please, get this guy a date? Lloyd Grove, NY Daily News
Men don't want me: Nicole Kidman
Hare Krishna, Hare Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Hare, Hare ...
Our gumdrop machines are also fond of buts. Every good news story is butted into oblivion. That 'Baby Got Back' song rolls through my head (with a bit of a tweak on the lyrics) with every but bomb....
I like big butts and I cannot (help but) lie......
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