Posted on 12/03/2004 7:34:52 PM PST by RWR8189
Misunderestimated!!
Really great piece by Fred Barnes. Fred is one of those people who reads better than he sounds. I also get the feeling that over time he has become more of a George Bush fan than he was in the beginning. I would admit, though, that I wasn't paying as much attention to Fred's positions at the start of the Bush presidency, so I could be wrong.
I'm almost certain that Fred considers himself an evangelical Christian, or at least a conservative Christian. I have heard him pretty heatedly defend Christian thought in politics, and get pretty riled up at the liberal, elitist snobbery about Christian conservatism.
An assessment of the President not shared by a lot of the media..... Probably has a lot of truth in it.
Wow, hold on to your hats. The more I read about Bush, the more I like.
Nice work, I'm starting to enjoy Freds writing more and more these days.
Dasshole gone
Chretien gone.
Kerry gone.
Gore gone.
Rather gone.
Brokaw gone.
Arafat gone.
Gephardt gone.
Edwards gone.
Saddam gone.
Taliban gone.
Kofi is on the ledge.
Putin is on the ledge.
The French still suck.
And President Bush is still standing tall.
Actually, my guess is that Fred is not an evangelical, just a fellow traveller of sorts. Would love to know what church he attends.
That's the man we voted for.
That's the man we love.
There could be another reason that Fred likes President Bush, and it isn't political.
Fred Barnes loves baseball, and so does President Bush. I wonder how Bush is going to play it now that Washington will have a team. I think he has stayed a Ranger fan, but he may change. Of course, since the Rangers used to be the Washington Senators, I guess they are "related" like cousins or something.
Char
You would be correct there. I have a friend in DC who attends the same church Barnes does. Brit Hume too.
I just love it when Krauthammer is on Fox. He pops up a lot on the weekend shows also, especially with Tony Snow.
I think Fred gets "yelled down" on Brit's show by Mort so much, that he doesn't expect to get much talking time, and then when he does he's surprised and just doesn't say things right sometimes. I do agree with his writing.
Good to see them all listed!
He da man.
Fred Barnes is an Episcopalian.
4th Pres., Bethesda, MD
I hate to tell you this, but I'm beginning to worry that Dashcle getting beat MAY NOT be such a great thing.
I read an article a little while ago on "The Hill" website about Harry Reid, who took Daschle's place. Oh, boy, he is adding something like 17 new staff members, and is forming a Democrat War Room in Wellstone's old offices in order to get "more organized". He also said that if people think because he is "soft spoken" that he will be easier for the Republicans to deal with, forget it, he says he plans on making it harder on the Republicans by not only better organization in the Senate, but with the outside groups like
NARAL, AFL/CIO, MOVE.ON.ORG, and other 527's.
Methinks we celebrated too soon. They also already have reams of notes on the records of every possible candidate that Bush will nominate for SCOTUS, with their records and their "negatives" ready to go as soon as name come up. That way their NEW press corps. will be able to get the smear job out before the Republicans can "promote" the candidate.
He then said, that they have to learn to smear people like the Republicans have done all these years, and that they (the Dems)have played "nice" for too long.
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