Sheryl McCarthy: Rice is a hawk

1 posted on 04/12/2004 1:51:50 PM PDT by presidio9

Rice is a former college professor, and what we got was a lecture, delivered not just in complete sentences, but in whole paragraphs and pages about the steps Bush took to keep the country safe.

It's telling that such an ability impresses a Newsday columnist.

2 posted on 04/12/2004 1:53:48 PM PDT by dirtboy (John Kerry - Hillary without the fat ankles and the FBI files...)

It might have made us feel better to have the Bush administration admit that it had some shortcomings and had made some mistakes that allowed a vengeful enemy to get in the door.

The vengeful enemies, all 19 of them, got in the door long before Bush took office.

If you actually researched your articles, you would know that, Sheryl.

3 posted on 04/12/2004 1:56:32 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)

We might have got a softer view of Ms. Rice if those two Democratic a**holes weren't so hostile to her and the Bush admin. As it was, they back her up against a wall, and deserved the drubbing they received.

4 posted on 04/12/2004 1:59:08 PM PDT by etcetera

As Rush says...it is all about the apology. He says that any liberal can forgive anything done by anybody if they just say "I am sorry".

Such pablum is nauseating.

5 posted on 04/12/2004 2:00:14 PM PDT by Conservababe (Kerry, you said to "bring it on". We are.)

To: Conservababe

They don't even ask that it be sincere, just on the record.

I don't understand the mentality at all.

6 posted on 04/12/2004 2:01:37 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)

Dear Sheryl,

You are completely partisan, and wrong in your opinions! You are also as DUMB as a stump!!

LLS

7 posted on 04/12/2004 2:03:33 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (We point out Kerry's record and the facts, and they just THINK it's attack politics.)

It is that most liberals do not believe in inherent evil. They would like to think that others just 'make a wrong choice" and therefore saying that they are sorry exonerates them.

To acknowledge true evil is to say that they, the liberals, cannot change the world.

8 posted on 04/12/2004 2:05:51 PM PDT by Conservababe (Kerry, you said to "bring it on". We are.)

To: Conservababe

the need for 'apologies' is ingrained in the left. The reason is that they are not satisfied until they control what you think. And the only way they can confirm that you are engaging in right-think is through public apologies. This is the sort of 'self-criticism' that Zapatero referred to when he talked about Bush and Blair needing to rethink their support for the Iraq war after he won the elections in Spain. You can trace this use of the public apology back to the Soviets and the Chinese communists who required people who had engaged in wrong-think to self-criticize themselves and to then issue public apologies. Going back further, the Catholic Church did this with heretics. If heretics, such as Lutherans, admitted that they were wrong and then repledged themselves to the Church, then their punishment would be relatively slight as compared to heretics who refused to renounce their heresy and then were oftentimes burned at the stake. The Roman Empire, in turn, engaged in the same sort of behavior with respect to the Christian martyrs who refused to acknowledge that the emperor was divine. For their troubles, martyrs were tortured in hideous manners including being thrown to the lions in the Roman Colisseum, .

As I said at the beginning, the demand for the apology is important for the left because of their love for power and their attendant need to exercise their power by controlling not just what you do, but you how you think as well.

9 posted on 04/12/2004 2:14:38 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender

To: LibLieSlayer

If you click on the excerpt, you'll see that Sheryl is black and therefore her criticisms are as much directed at Condi as a black who "has left the plantation" as they are about Bush policy.

10 posted on 04/12/2004 2:15:55 PM PDT by CedarDave (Democrat campaign strategy: Tell a lie often enough today and it becomes truth tomorrow.)

But, depending on whether you believe her or Richard Clarke, George W. Bush was either truly engaged in, and on top of, the al-Qaida threat or his head was somewhere else entirely.

Ms. McCarthy prefers an administration who considers ejaculation as an appropriate response to terrorism threats, I presume.

Prairie

11 posted on 04/12/2004 2:30:21 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (America recognizes those responsible for the killing of our troops. It's the Demon-cRATS.)

To: vbmoneyspender

As anyone close to me knows, for months I have been grappling with how best to reconcile myself to the American people, to acknowledge my own wrongdoing and still to maintain my focus on the work of the presidency.

Others are presenting my defense on the facts, the law, and the Constitution. Nothing I can say now can add to that. What I want the American people to know, what I want the Congress to know is that I am profoundly sorry for all I have done wrong in words and deeds. I never should have misled the country, the Congress, my friends or my family. Quite simply, I gave into my shame.

I have been condemned by my accusers with harsh words. And while it's hard to hear yourself called deceitful and manipulative, I remember Ben Franklin's admonition that our critics are our friends, for they do show us our faults.

Mere words cannot fully express the profound remorse I feel for what our country is going through, and for what members of both parties in Congress are now forced to deal with.

These past months have been a tortuous process of coming to terms with what I did. I understand that accountability demands consequences, and I'm prepared to accept them. Painful though the condemnation of the Congress would be, it would pale in comparison to the consequences of the pain I have caused my family. There is no greater agony.

Like anyone who honestly faces the shame of wrongful conduct, I would give anything to go back and undo what I did. But one of the painful truths I have to live with is the reality that that is simply not possible. An old and dear friend of mine recently sent me the wisdom of a poet, who wrote, "The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on. Nor all your piety, nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line. Nor all your tears wash out a word of it."

So nothing -- not piety, nor tears, nor wit, nor torment -- can alter what I have done. I must make my peace with that. I must also be at peace with the fact that the public consequences of my actions are in the hands of the American people and their representatives in the Congress. Should they determine that my errors of word and deed require their rebuke and censure, I am ready to accept that.

Meanwhile, I will continue to do all I can to reclaim the trust of the American people and to serve them well. We must all return to the work, the vital work, of strengthening our nation for the new century. Our country has wonderful opportunities and daunting challenges ahead. I intend to seize those opportunities and meet those challenges with all the energy and ability, and strength God has given me.

That is simply all I can do -- the work of the American people.

William Jefferson Clinton 2000

12 posted on 04/12/2004 2:34:26 PM PDT by presidio9 ("See, mother, I make all things new.")

Which is why she threw in the anecdote about the obnoxious black reporter: To demonstrate how "oh so objective" she is.

13 posted on 04/12/2004 2:35:49 PM PDT by presidio9 ("See, mother, I make all things new.")

My email to the author:

Regarding your closing statement describing "Bush 101: The Terrorism Fighter. Which made it a little scary.", I'm simply amazed that people can blame President Bush for what happened on 9/11/01, and blame him alone. Apparently you feel you were safer when the United States President chose to ignore the threats against the United States.

Neither Bush nor Clinton's policies warranted Al Qaeda's hatred toward the United States. Neither did the 3000 people who died at the hands of Al Qaeda. We now know that the crazies can't be pacified.

Please feel safer while accepting the fact that your government is taking a more proactive stance against her enemies. While an enemy of this kind requires a different kind of warfare, this president is willing to take those measures.

14 posted on 04/12/2004 2:38:37 PM PDT by FLCowboy,

To: vbmoneyspender

My bad. Clinton's apology was dated December 11th, 19998.

15 posted on 04/12/2004 2:44:09 PM PDT by presidio9 ("See, mother, I make all things new.")

She knows the truth, she chooses to ignore it.

Giving Aid & Comfort.

16 posted on 04/12/2004 2:48:50 PM PDT by PsyOp (Fear, not kindness, restrains the wicked – Metus improbos compescit, non clementia. – Syrus, Maxims.)

her criticisms are as much directed at Condi as a black who "has left the plantation"

My reading of the article came to a screeching halt at this statement....

"Rice is the quintessential good employee"

Euphemism ?

17 posted on 04/12/2004 3:04:49 PM PDT by kanawa (Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one.)

To: vbmoneyspender

excellent post! I knew this apology business sounded familiar.

19 posted on 04/12/2004 4:33:43 PM PDT by Spotsy (Bush-Cheney '04)

20 posted on 04/12/2004 4:35:33 PM PDT by cyborg (GO CONDI GO!)

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