Posted on 09/11/2004 10:39:26 PM PDT by Frank JT
"After 9/11, Americans want tough guys who will protect them from Al Qaeda. They seem to be willing to settle for an impersonation of tough guys by Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, who were so busy with their vanity war in Iraq that they missed critical opportunities to vanquish Al Qaeda and spent money on a foreign occupation that could have been used to secure American ports and come up with plans before the Beslan tragedy to protect children from terrorists."
what a slut to even suggest such crap.
We all need to realize that it was actually Maureen Dawd who personally caused the deaths of each and every child there under the age of seven. It is absolutely her fault, and I believe that she should get down on her knees tonight and beg God's forgiveness for her murderous ways. Had she not spoken last Tuesday night between 7 and 8, every one of those children would be laughing and playing today. She should be punished. She is a disgrace to womanhood and motherhood.< /sarcasm >
THAT makes as much sense as her claim.
That is the perfect name for his obscene claims...she slithers.
Maureen Doop?
She's off her meds again.
There is no medication for what she's got.
BARF!
Dumb slut.
Yep, now the angriest leftist bitch in the universe has concluded that Kerry has had it. She would so like to blame the tanking of the campaign on Bob Shrum, and can't bring herself to admit it's the candidate that is the problem.
All in all, though, not a bad obituary.
Michael Douglass dodged a bullet bump
Westerns and EasternsIt's a remarkable feat, but teeter-tottering John Kerry is even managing to land on both sides of the ambition issue.
For his entire life, he was seen as so ambitious to be president, as so eager to consort with heiresses, that it was off-putting; his St. Paul's classmates played "Hail to the Chief" on kazoos when he walked by, and in the Senate, Bob Dole mocked the Massachusetts senator's love of cameras by nicknaming him Live Shot.
But this summer, when that lust for power should have been coursing through his veins, Mr. Kerry grew timid and logy. He let the Bush crowd and Swift boat character assassins stomp all over him and, for the longest time, didn't fight back. He stumbled into every trap Bush Inc. set.
Finally, the only Democrat who has fended off the WASP Corleones reminded the nominee of the prep-school mantra: punch the bully in the face, and do it in the same news cycle.
When he hasn't been busy with his quadruple-bypass operation, Bill Clinton has been chatting with John Kerry on the phone from the hospital, urging him to juice it up. The Clinton posse - James Carville, Paul Begala, Joe Lockhart, Mike McCurry, Stan Greenberg, Lanny Davis - has intervened to prop up the sagging leadership of Bob Shrum, who had advised Mr. Kerry not to go negative (and allowed the once-hot John Edwards to vanish without a trace).
Mr. Kerry listened to Shrummy, despite the fact that the strategist renowned for his speechwriting talents had not even given his candidate a single stirring speech.
Writing about the Curse of Shrummy in The Washington Post, Mark Leibovich said: "It is common to see him in the back seat of a car driven by a young aide, an image that reinforces a somewhat regal bearing. He loves gourmet food and fine wines and has his suits handmade by a Georgetown tailor."
Democrats were rolling their eyes at the spectacle of a former president in a hospital bed resuscitating a would-be president.
"Howard Dean had the base all warmed up and now Kerry's turned into a girlie-man," said a Democratic insider, comparing it with the scene in "The Godfather" when the singer Johnny Fontane shows up at the wedding of Don Corleone's daughter and whines that a studio chief is being mean to him.
The godfather slaps the singer and barks, "Act like a man!"
Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney jumped in the polls because they cast their convention as a Western. They were the "Magnificent Seven," steely-eyed, gun-slinging samurai riding in to save the frightened town: Rudolph Giuliani, John McCain, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Zell Miller, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush and Poppy Bush, who was on "Imus" comparing Mr. Kerry with Jane Fonda.
The vice president played up the Western motif by giving ABC an interview at his Wyoming ranch.
"The cowboy riding tall in the saddle and holding the reins for a little girl on her pony could have been Shane," wrote Alessandra Stanley in her TV Watch column in The Times.
After 9/11, Americans want tough guys who will protect them from Al Qaeda. They seem to be willing to settle for an impersonation of tough guys by Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, who were so busy with their vanity war in Iraq that they missed critical opportunities to vanquish Al Qaeda and spent money on a foreign occupation that could have been used to secure American ports and come up with plans before the Beslan tragedy to protect children from terrorists.
But the White House has cleverly co-opted the imagery of Westerns, leaving Mr. Kerry to star in a far less successful movie genre: the Eastern.
In Westerns, the heroes are men of smoke-'em-out edicts and action, played out in gorges on their ranches; in Easterns, the heroes have windy, nuanced dialogue, delivered with a lockjaw in mansions on Beacon Hill and on windsurfing expeditions off Nantucket.
In Easterns, the effete heroes get upset when the wrong kind of people join their Boston clubs, and quibble, in the style of the "Late George Apley," about the rules when suit jackets must be worn.
In Westerns, the heroes treat womenfolk with gallantry, but tell them to stay back. In Easterns, Teresa rides shotgun and calls the opposition "idiots." There's a reason Easterns never caught on in Hollywood. High tea in a drawing room is just not as compelling as high noon in the town square.
Last time I checked a map, Beslan wasn't part of the US. When did the change occur?
Dowd hates. That's all. She just hates. She has been this way always.
There's no rhyme nor reason to her writing because hate is its source. Since simple hate is at her core, nothing should shock or surprise.
She's a puppet of the Bush-hating, America-hating, GOP-hating, secular, religion-hating American media.
One wonders why the puppets and their string-pullers hate so fiercely. Perhaps it's because they hate themselves so much.
Much better for her and them NOT to look in the mirror for the source and cause of their self-loathing.
It must be a daily, consistant, horrible source of annoyance for her and them to see Bush and Cheney so successful, positive, America-loving, patriotic and upbeat.
Now that I think of it, my hamburger was poorly cooked yesterday. Do you think I can blame this on President Bush and VP Cheney and expect some compensation ?
Sheeeeesh.
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