Posted on 08/30/2004 11:57:52 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Thanks. I enjoyed your insightful post.
It's not just virtue I'm looking for, I'm looking for honesty, integrity and just plain old common sense.
Most liberals live in a fantasy world and common sense is illogical to them.
And they have no moral compass. There is no right or wrong in their world.
Funny how the NYTimes still keeps on lying without him... not even skipping a beat.
Thank God for the internet and FOXNews!
The answer, Mr. Raines, is yes and you, therefore, don't qualify.
I agree.
However, it became apparent in the Bush vs Gore campaign just how much of this perception was Media created.
Bush graduated Yale's MBA program while Gore dropped out of law school. But Bush was presented to us as the idiot while Gore was presented as the technology expert. It's clear there is media bias.
Yes virtue, wisdom and intelligence are all desired for the Presidency. But virtue is also desired in the media and we aren't anywhere close.
Exactly!
My guess is that GWB's IQ is higher than JFK's. After both graduated from Yale, GWB got into Harvard Business school and JFK couldn't get into Harvard law school.
I heard that line when I was counter-protesting in the midst of a Bush-hater crowd at one of Bush's campaign stops.
My very loud retort, directed at the speaker and his laughing fellow semi-literates? "I didn't know Kerry was from Texas!"
That shut 'em down right quick. ;-)
"Somewhere in Texas," the bumper sticker said, "A Village Is Missing Its Idiot." The next showed up at the Home Depot on the back of an equally battered pickup driven by a tough-looking kid dressed for construction work. It said: "Bush," and then, "Like a Rock Only Dumber."
Battered work truck. Battered pickup. I saw a Kerry sticker on a old, rusting pickup truck yesterday. It also had an IBEW emblem.
I was going to stop the guy and ask him if he felt that the multi-billionaire could run things better for guys like him, who obviously didn't have the wherewhithal to make intelligent enough choices to enable himself to get a better vehicle, like mine.
But I took pity on the poor, underinformed dear. :-)
"Howlell" still can't get it right: "Voters are quadruply disadvantaged, by a paucity of information in campaign coverage, by the elusive nature of the evidence about the kinds of intelligence that matter in our leaders, by a Democrat media machine that lies like a freaking rug about its Republican political enemies, and refuses to make the simplest inquiries about the "war-hero" tall tales of its Democrat standard bearer."
I know guys like George W. Bush, and I'm willing to take direct orders from them. I'm a really, really bright educated guy. I'd love to see "Howlell" Raines manning a chain saw. I'd quietly sidle away, and let the "brilliant" Raines drop a log on himself, and make sure I wasn't in the line of fire. Elitist guys like Raines are used to giving orders to people who work for money - they have NO idea what to do when the troops find that mere money is no longer enough. Witness what happened when Raines jacked things up at the New York Times. ;-)
In regard to Iraq and the war on terror, though, there's little evidence in the public record of such Bush interventions. We have been told instead that George Tenet, then director of central intelligence, successfully misled Bush by assuring him that the evidence on Saddam Hussein's possession of weapons of mass destruction was "a slam-dunk."
Hey, Howell, "super-genius". Let me move in next to your mansion, shoot it up for a week, then give me a year before the cops bust into my house to search it.
Effing jerk - it would take CSI times 1000 to prove that I had the weapons to shoot up your manse.
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