Posted on 02/28/2005 4:16:05 PM PST by Pokey78
I really don't know. Who's Chris Rock??
nover mind, I just realized I don't care
Beautiful. However did you manage to capture the picture to post here?
I love Steyn.
Thankyou for the report and the ping
History seems to be like that -- you go along, day after day, and nothing seems to happen, and then BOOM! everything falls into place (or the opposite), and then it's back to arguing about homos and sloching to Gomorrah again.
No, of course not. The NEW media understood what was going on. Shoot, this is why we were all beating the drum for war, at least speaking for myself. Because he was finally doing something about it instead of letting it continue to fester and rot.
This is a vindication for all of us.
If he gets the ME to straighten up and fly right, then I think he is in a VERY select club. Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Reagan, Bush. Presidents who saved the world.
I forgot to include the West Bank. And Free Cuba can't be that far away.
BWAAAAHAHAAH...Egypt's "7000-year march to democracy"! Nothing like slow-motion in the Arab world! Maybe they can speed it up a little, now that they know our MOABs can flatten their capitals, and yes, our troops CAN fight house to house and street to street, ala Fallujah. God bless the USA.
Another Steyn ping.
No holds barred; no mercy given.
Ciao!
At Reagan's funeral Lady Thatcher explained why that will not be: "Ronald Reagan is gone now. But we have something Ronald Reagan never had. We have his example."The Middle East has been a festering sore ever since WWII, but until 9/11/01 it never seemed critical in the way that the Cold War's nuclear arsenals did. If Bush brushes that bane aside in a mere four years, it will not be a greater historical accomplishment than transcending Communism was, for the very reason that it was so easily accomplished.
Bush has done nothing that Reagan wouldn't have done in his shoes - but when Reagan did those things, he didn't have GWB's example to prove that they would work.
The bin Laden challenge is no more severe than the Cold War, even reckoning the sad state of the military after 8 years of the Clinton non-leadership. Bush has been bold, but no more so than Reagan was in confronting the Soviet Union from a position, initially, which Carter left the military and the economy.
Ronald Reagan:"Success has a thousand fathers, but failure is an orphan." In the week before Reagan's funeral, the commentators had to give Reagan his due. But you would never have suspected, from what journalists were saying, that half of Reagan's accomplishment was getting what he did done over the opposition of a Democratic Speaker of the House and, in the last 2 years of his administration, a Democratic Senate Majority Leader.
- Whipped Inflation
- Got the Country Going Again,
- Ended the Energy Crisis, and
- Transcended Communism.
Besides Reagan's example, Bush has one other signal advantage Reagan did not enjoy - talk radio and the Internet. The internet came pretty much inevitably, but talk radio was enabled. It was enabled when the FCC "Fairness Doctrine" was abolished so that people like Rush don't have to be balanced with boring liberal commentators. We look back now and see that conservative talk is what the Fairness Doctrine disproportionately inhibited, but at the time it took courage to say that the equal time "medicine" was what was killing the conservative "patient." And abolition of the Fairness Doctrine was due to Ronald Reagan.
If anything, Bush has gone in the other direction with his signing of McCain-Feingold.
Which is also why George Washington will always be the greatest American ever.
Me too.I betting Condi Rice may have said it.
Someone else who has that capability on their computer captured him on C-SPAN's replay of Steyn's interview last Friday. I just " borrowed" it.
Will do!
Superb, as always. :-)
The veil of fear has been shed by the arab people. They now realize they have control of their own destiny and not their leaders.
I personally think the major problem with the left today is that they don't consider integrity to be a virtue -- they see it as a weakness.
At Reagan's funeral Lady Thatcher explained why that will not be: "Ronald Reagan is gone now. But we have something Ronald Reagan never had. We have his example."Which is also why George Washington will always be the greatest American ever.
Ideed. Many Americans are doing what George Washington did, because they have the example of George Washington. That means, not that they are the trailblazers that Washington was, but that America has followed Washington not only in his lifetime but for centuries thereafter.If you think about it, Reagan basically undid a lot of the damage of the Johnson Administration and - in the Cold War - some of the damage of the FDR Administration. If, following Reagans example, GWB undoes the worst of the remaining hangover of the FDR Administration, that will be enough to qualify as greatness (though not of course in the eyes of contemporary, liberal, historians).
You got it first and posted the whole thing! Good on you!!
Dan
My tagline is, "The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR."Integrity and the worship of PR are pretty much opposites . . .
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