The Crucial Alliance--Why I stopped hating George W. Bush

TCS ^ | 10/27/2003 | MICHAEL J. TOTTEN

[MEG33]

United we stand,divided we fall.

[redrock]

Excellent article.....

redrock

[iceskater]

bump

[headsonpikes]

But the most crucial alliance of all is the one here at home.

Absolutely!

[HitmanLV]

My complaints against George W. Bush were the usual ones. He lost the popular vote, he mangles the English language, he's incurious about the world, and he's just too conservative.

The author loses me right here - any credibility gets tossed from the window. Anyone 'curious' about their own country (instead of the world) should know that the president is elected by the electoral college. Second, the fact that one is not a smooth talker or articuale speaker isn't that important to someone who is wise enough to know that stuff is icing, and the real matter is the cake. Curiosity about the world? That's unfair to say - it's unclear what level of curiosity the author would fine acceptable.

At the very least, a lack of interest isn't a bad thing. I'm not interested in visiting large portions of the world - I don't think that makes a person particulary bad in any way.

And Dubya's too conservative? Gee...I can't figure that one out. He is a centrist Republican at best, much like his dad.

[presidio9]

I sincerely hope this article is posted on DU today. Sadly, I'm afraid they'd focus on Reagan and Efraín Rios Montt and miss the point as usual. Sometimes presidents are force to choose between the lesser of two evils. Montt was no worse than Castro, who many prominent Democrats continue to openly embrace today.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

George W. Bush . . . [is] incurious about the world

Liberals mistake President Bush's choice of sources for knowledge about the world for a lack of curiosity.

Their real beef is that Mr. Bush gets his information about the world from the State Department and the CIA, to the near-exclusion of journalistic reports. Democrats are well represented in the State Department and CIA, so they have no legitimate beef. But of course all journalists are Democrats, so Democrats--especially journalists--claim that Bush should pay attention to them.

[blackie]

Excellent article ~ Bump!

[Steve_Seattle]

When the campaign gets into full swing, the Republicans should assemble a bunch of these "Bush is the enemy" quotes into an ad, and then show footage of the Twin Towers in flames. Then a voice-over would say something like, "Do you agree with the Democrats that President Bush is a bigger threat to America than terrorism? Or do you support the President's efforts to fight back against those who would destroy us? You have a choice in November."

[thepizzalady]

Are you in advertising? If not, you should be. The imagery of your proposed ad, sent shivers through my body. It would be very very effective.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

EXCELLENT READ PING

SJackson : Great find!
redrock : Thanks for the ping!

[Britton J Wingfield]

ping.

[stand watie]

!!!!

[DollyCali]

great article SJ..

thanks for heads up Tonk...

[F-117A]

Thanks for the post bump!

[nosofar]

The author loses me right here - any credibility gets tossed from the window.

I suppose you didn't notice the past tense verbage.

[weegee]

I'd tick off a list of all of the attacks starting with the 1993 WTC bombing/cyanide gas attack; both foreign interests and domestic attacks.

Everyone seems lulled into a false sense of security because the domestic attacks have yielded few casualties (the Tampa teen kamikaze died a suicide with some financial damage, the LAX shooter didn't kill a lot of people, the DC sniper duo may have killed more people than in just the DC area but their terror game did more to scare people than put them at physical risk). Then there are the averted attacks that we know about... Robert Reid's shoe bomb would have killed the occupants of that plane and would have led the bodycount for post-911 attacks. We did have another plane that blew up "mysteriously". Somehow I don't think we will be informed of just how close some of the islamofascists came to pulling off more attacks in America. It might embolden some to be more committed and it might tip off some others to be more careful in who they talk to.

The WTC attack on September 11th was far from the first domestic strike by islamofascist terrorists and it was not even the only attack that day. This is not to minimize the impact of the WTC attack; it is to wake people up to the fact that we were not safe and that we are still at risk.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, SJackson, for a good read.

[Wphile]

This article should be given to all those nine dwarves out there that are playing right into the hands of those who seek to destroy us.

I hope Howard Dean pays bigtime for calling GW the enemy.