Posted on 07/21/2005 7:23:50 PM PDT by LucyJo
WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY By Howard Fineman Newsweek Updated: 6:48 p.m. ET July 20, 2005
July 20 - George W. Bush keeps surprising the wise guys. They keep thinking that he’s going to be something other than what he is and that he will do something other than what he says he will do. Well, he and Karl Rove built his career on West Texas Bible Belt conservatism, with deep ancestral ties to the Establishment “up East.” And it was that president—half Cambridge, all “Come to Jesus”—who chose John G. Roberts Jr. for the U.S. Supreme Court.
In the words of the old Texas cliché, President Bush is the kind of leader, and person, who “dances with the one that brung him.” He is as loyal as a hunting dog. On a personal level, his inner circles stay inner and stay around him forever. It’s the same with politics. He owes “the base”—religious conservatives, corporate conservatives, Federalist Society libertarian conservatives—and he pays.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8645516/site/newsweek/
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People who have no honor are always surprised when they see it.
Every time I read or hear H. (not so)Fineman I rejoice that I quit taking Time years ago.
His comment about "come to Jesus" is so demeaning, and so very Fineman.
vaudine.
Yes, and don't trust that it's real in others because it isn't in themselves.
Fineman's glowing (for him) words about President Bush quickly dissolve into the usual liberal line. A man of candor, who means what he says and says what he means, etc., but he lied about the reasons for going to Iraq?
Couldn't read the rest of the article. Although it helped that I got the "page not found" screen. Same ol' same ol'.
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