Posted on 12/18/2002 6:43:53 AM PST by BigWaveBetty
Jersey sheets are comfy cozy, I agree! Living in an old, drafty house, we've taken a different approach to avoiding nighttime frostbite, however, and that's a heated mattress pad (like an electric blanket, except it's underneath instead of on top).
racist ;>)
But I digress. Not only did Spike Lee say Lott was a card-carrying KKK member (not to be confused with Robert C. Byrd, a former card-carrying member of the KKK), but he added these delectable nuggets of wisdom:
Lee says he's not surprised that President Bush hasn't called for Lott's resignation outright. But he expressed disappointment at the lack of criticism from other political figures.
"I think there's only one member of the Senate who has really said, `Look, you gotta go.' I haven't heard a peep out of Hillary Clinton. What is she saying? She hasn't called for his ouster. Miss Condoleezza Rice ain't said s---. Colin Powell ain't said s---, because they're on the team. They're on Bush's team. They're the good Negroes!" source
Is he calling Hillary a good negro on Bush's team? Do these people even hear what they're saying?
And, Ann Coulter, in her column of today, also points out the hypocrisy of the Dems:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/archives.asp?AUTHOR_ID=186
I don't agree with Ann's position on Lott - she thinks he should stay as ML. But I do think she makes some good points in this article.
Dems seem to think we're all too stupid and helpless to "look at our world" without their guidance and direction (to show us exactly how to look at it, and what to think about it).
Never mind President Bush's cowboy boots and Texas twang. This 1968 Yale graduate is such a creature of the Establishment, says author Alexandra Robbins, that he hires from a talent pool supplied by Skull and Bones -- the secret society to which Dubya and his dad, the first president George Bush, remain fiercely loyal.
Robbins ... told us that William H. Donaldson, the new nominee to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission, is merely the latest in a long line of Bush administration Bonesmen. They include Assistant Attorney General Robert McCallum and Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago Roy Austin -- both classmates of Bush as well as Bones brothers -- and Edward McNally, general counsel to the Office of Homeland Security. ...
"President Bush likes to feign detachment from Yale and the Northeastern Establishment, but they really did shape his life," explained Robbins, herself a 1998 Yale graduate and a member of a rival senior society, Scroll and Key. "And he's actually following one of the key tenets of Skull and Bones -- which is that once you get into a position of power, you bring other members up with you. The whole purpose of Skull and Bones is to elevate its members to power and wealth. I think if people across the country were to read my book, they'd be quite dismayed that their president is a member of a secret society and that he has some sort of allegiance to this secret group."
Trilateral Commission, anyone? WashPost
Anyone here feeling dismayed?
WHICH Hall of Fame baseball hero cooperated with a best-selling biography only because the author promised to keep it secret that he is gay? The author kept her word, but big mouths at the publishing house can't keep from flapping. Page Six
And this from Liz Smith:
Sen. Hillary Clinton's being named to head the Democratic Steering Committee of the Senate, a post being vacated by Massachusetts' John Kerry, is a very big deal - coming, as it does, on the heels of the GOP's Trent Lott debacle. It's making waves because Sen. Clinton has been in the Senate for only two years and there are others with much more seniority. But after being unable to seem to do anything right for months on end, the Democrats aren't taking any chances. They believe Hillary's smarts, her savvy and her connections will stand them in good stead while the "steerers" set up a strategic organization role inside the Senate, deciding on policy, messages and strategy.
Minority Leader Tom Daschle wanted Hillary in this important spot and, of course, he got his way. (Many believe that by mid-January, Daschle will announce that he is going to run for president in 2004. He is said to be weary of working in the Senate.)
And here's Democratic inside stuff on Al Gore's decision to step out. They think he may well try again in 2008. They say he realized that people who go for the presidency twice in succession always lose and that he'll take a leaf from the book of Nixon who avoided that and lived to fight and win another day.
.... (T)he Cheneys are ready to more or less pack it in. Lynne, in particular, feels she is living in a nightmare. She has had it. And Dick Cheney can easily be named an Ambassador at Large by the president if the veep does not join the 2004 ticket.
So who will George W. Bush select? Many think he has already decided on Condoleeza Rice, the National Security Adviser, to be his running mate. "It would be a Karl Rove Special," says one observer, "to put Condi in this spot. Her profile right now is huge; she has just been on the cover of Newsweek and she is all over the Bob Woodward book at Rove's doing. She would go a long way toward changing African-American hard feelings exacerbated by Sen. Lott's foolishness. She would be the GOP's secret weapon for mending that racism fence for good. And, anyway, Mary Matalin's departure from Cheney's staff is a real good indication that the veep is going to step aside for 2004."
The only cavil I hear about Condi as veep comes from those who know her well and feel she isn't the type to campaign. She doesn't go out; she isn't social; she isn't political; she isn't married; she's enigmatic. Nevertheless, Karl Rove could use her judiciously in a low-key manner for African-American and feminist votes.
I'm feeling dismayed that the WashPost would print such garbage.
Wait... what am I saying? Silly me, I keep thinking they're an actual news source and forget they're just a liberal mouthpiece.
I have no idea why, except that since JFK was a dercorated service man and has been saying that GWB is handling the war incorrectly, who better than a general to be your VP running mate.
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