When someone can confuse Bill Buckley, that's saying something.
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Because the conservatives want to stay out of the world as much as possible. They don't believe it's our job and they don't believe in grand missions. IMHO they are mistaken. If over the next decade just N Korea, Iran and China were to become more democratic, the world would be an immensely safer place. Bush has not proposed doing anything extreme to get there.
2 posted on
01/21/2005 12:32:42 PM PST by
Williams
To: baseball_fan
well now Buckley knows how I feel after listening to him all these years. LMAO
3 posted on
01/21/2005 12:33:21 PM PST by
kellynla
(U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
To: baseball_fan
He said that every man and woman on this earth has matchless value. Obviously he meant that no amount of Martian flesh can be traded for a human. What's wrong with Bill?
4 posted on
01/21/2005 12:33:43 PM PST by
montag813
To: baseball_fan
What the hell do any of these speeches mean?
5 posted on
01/21/2005 12:35:19 PM PST by
riri
To: baseball_fan
Hey, Bill, when ya can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with BS.
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6 posted on
01/21/2005 12:35:37 PM PST by
Viking2002
(Taglines? Vikings don't need no steenkin' taglines..............)
To: baseball_fan
Drives me crazy when Bush says something perfectly sensible and clear, and the Leftwing radicals jump up and down and say "What clumsy wording! He's a moron!!"
And now Buckley is saying that the word choices were quite to his liking. Sheesh!
7 posted on
01/21/2005 12:35:50 PM PST by
ClearCase_guy
(The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
To: baseball_fan
Buckley must really be getting senile. President Bush's speech was crystal clear: It's open season on the bad guys, and we're going to roll them back like no one's business.
To: baseball_fan
You can simmer in resentment, but not in tyranny Why not? What's wrong with that phrase? Sheesshh
To: baseball_fan
His most solemn duty as President, he said, was to protect America from emerging threats. Did he mean, guard against emerging threats? I honestly have not the slightest idea what bone Buckley is trying to pick here. What is his beef?
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To: baseball_fan
ah, jeez! there's too many damned "too"s in current news!
Peggy Noonan 1/21 => Referenced God too many times
Irish Aid Work 1/21 => US troops pulling out of Indonesias too soon
Hersh 1/19 => US too secretive
Coalition troops are too brutal; too few; too vulnerable . . .
It would be nice if the MSM actually worked on something worthwhile instead of pumping out more, and too many meaningless words / ideas.
Bush should just said:
Kiss my ( ! ), I here for 4 more years!
The MSM would have been in lather trying to discern how to interpret that inaugeral address : - )
14 posted on
01/21/2005 12:39:39 PM PST by
NCCarrs
(http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/30/quake.usa.editorial.reut/index.html)
To: baseball_fan
When someone can confuse Bill Buckley, that's saying something.I had to guffaw upon reading this. Yesterday, I criticized the speech here at FR and the bruises from the knee-jerk piling on response are still showing.
The minutiae of the apparent "boilerplate" sources and platitudes, as a substitute for thought, were too subtle for me to identify immediately, but Peggy Noonan and William Buckley have done a masterful job of it.
Mindless adulation for one of my favorite presidents seems to be a mindless requirement of the very young and the very rigid, here at FR.
15 posted on
01/21/2005 12:40:03 PM PST by
Publius6961
(The most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen, ignorance and stupidity.)
To: baseball_fan
16 posted on
01/21/2005 12:40:47 PM PST by
MisterRepublican
("I must go. I must be elusive.")
To: baseball_fan
I don't know about Buckley, but for me, the speech was clear...crystal clear! What is it about plain language that confuses people?
Maybe it's He couldn't really mean that!!! could he?
Mike
17 posted on
01/21/2005 12:40:58 PM PST by
MichaelP
To: baseball_fan
The leaders of governments with long habits of control need to know: To serve your people you must learn to trust them. What is a habit of control? Uh....when controlling others is a habit maybe?
To: baseball_fan
Buckley is losing it, and these complaints are amusing, as he is the high priest of highfalutin gibberish. You can only fail to understand what Bush is trying to say if you are making a genuine effort.
I wonder if this has any relation to Peggy Noonan's screed. Perhaps the blueblood conservatives are getting nervous that the words might actually mean something.
To: baseball_fan
Safire thought it was one of the top 5 of the 20 second-inaugurals in our history:
I rate it among the top 5 of the 20 second-inaugurals in our history. Lincoln's profound sermon "with malice toward none" is incomparable, but Bush's second was better than Jefferson's mean-spirited pouting at "the artillery of the press."
To: baseball_fan
I thought it was a very good speech. It was uplifting and all. It was patriotic and strong. But it was "exhuberant in idealism". And I do have some reservations about getting our guys all shot up to spread democracy. And I'm not totally convinced that spreading democracy is the BEST way to stop terrorism. I figure if you kill all the terrorists that will go a long ways to stopping it. But it's not a very politically sound approach....
23 posted on
01/21/2005 12:42:47 PM PST by
kjam22
(What you win them by, is what you win them to)
To: baseball_fan
Buckley is suffering form either too much marijuana or a cocaine deficiency.
32 posted on
01/21/2005 12:49:16 PM PST by
bayourod
(America, the greatest nation in history is a nation of immigrants. Immigrants are an asset.)
To: baseball_fan
Insert mom and apple pie in place of freedom and see if all people can agree...
34 posted on
01/21/2005 12:50:14 PM PST by
woofie
(Proudly posting inane comments since 1998)
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