Posted on 02/28/2005 10:45:40 AM PST by SmithL
A man could get cynical. A recent non-story of national interest involved one Doug Wead, a friend of President George W. Bush. Wead, an author, motivational speaker and former assistant to the first President Bush, created a bit of a stir when he released a dozen audiotapes in which he secretly taped conversations with George W. Bush from 1998 until mid-2000, as Bush sought and won the Republican nomination.
News readers and commentators jumped on the Wead tapes as if they were the missing 18 minutes from the Nixon Oval Office tapes, but a listen to the tapes could put even a non-Bush partisan like myself to sleep.
Instead of being an embarrassment, the tapes actually make Bush look good. In them, he speaks passionately against discrimination, and he shows a parental concern for the safety of America's children.
He comes across as a good guy. After listening to the tapes, the circling sharks went home hungry.
However ...
If a man had become a cynic over the past four years he might wonder if the whole Wead affair was a setup. What if (just "what if") the tapes were not made when Wead said they were -- before Bush became president -- but instead were made recently.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Im starting to think guys like this have watched their DVDs of THE CONVERSATION and THE PARALLAX VIEW about ninety times too many!
San Francisco is in a Bizarro World.
Break... out... tin... foil... hats...
There is not a single shread of evidence to support this charge. Sorensen should be suspended right now for so carelessly offering up such a baseless accusation.
What if (just "what if") the tapes were not made when Wead said they were -- before Bush became president -- but instead were made recently.
Using his wayback machine, Harley actually wrote this dopey article twelve years in the future – at a time when being a goofy jackass carries less social stigma.
Goofing on such people is soooooo 2005.
Too easy.
Why would they need to insert someone to give Bill a Monica when most of the press was already doing it?
I was waiting for this stupidity.
LIBs: Everything that is good for BUSH is a setup and everything that is bad for BUSH is the absolutely the truth.
Harley has been hitting the kool aid acid again!
This guy is so out of whack he ought to be in a Napoleon XIV song.
"They're coming to take me away, ha ha,..."
Anyone else care to finish off the lyrics?
Oh for Pete's sake.
I can't speak extensively to the other issues, but Choicepoint has been around a very long time as a data gathering organization.
If memory serves, they're an offshoot of Equifax which was one of the three credit bureaus of the time. As an insurance industry employee, I've been involved with Choicepoint products for about 15 years.
With very little research, readily available, Harley could have figgered out that Choicepoint, at least, ain't "Bush's fault."
Fantastic suggestion!
Furthermore, rather than just e-mail him, howzabout sending a picture - 1 or 2 MB ought to do it!
Remember when you ran away and I got on my knees and begged you not to
leave because I'd go berserk?? Well...
You left me anyhow and then the days got worse and worse and now you see
I've gone completely out of my mind.. And..
They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa
To the funny farm. Where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be
happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're
coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!!!
You thought it was a joke and so you laughed, you laughed when I had said
that loosing you would make me flip my lid.. RIGHT???
I know you laughed, I heard you laugh, you laughed you laughed and
laughed and then you left, but now you know I'm utterly mad... And..
They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa,
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa.
To the happy home. With trees and flowers and chirping birds and basket
weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes and they're
coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!
I cooked your food, I cleaned your house, and this is how you pay me back
for all my kind unselfish loving deeds.. Huh??
Well you just wait, they'll find you yet and when they do they'll put you
in the ASPCA, you mangy mutt!!! And...
They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa.
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa.
To the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be happy
to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're coming
to take me away, ha-haaa!!!
To the happy home, with trees and flowers and chirping birds and basket
weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes and they're
coming to take me away, ha-haa!!!
To the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time... (fade out)
Hey, buddy!
Yes officer..
You a head?
No, but I'm catching up, ha ha ha....
Good fun, isn't it?
Poor ol' Harley appears to have been dumped from the paper to boot. Must be Rove's fault!
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