Posted on 09/26/2005 8:32:01 AM PDT by Happy2BMe
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Do I sound disgruntled? I am also perplexed, left to focus on the inscrutability of such symbolism because the narrative thread of this presidency has become so hard to follow.
For example, Katrina isn't our only crisis. What's up with our borders, for instance? Why doesn't the president bring them under control? So far, the White House solution to the immigration crisis is to plot against border-control advocate Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), conjure up visions of alien amnesty, and now -- final-straw time -- appoint a novice to head up the crucial U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. "I will seek to work with those who are knowledgeable in this area, who know more than I do," 36-year-old Julie Myers told lawmakers at her Senate confirmation hearing last week.
It's not just that Myers' admitted inexperience fails to inspire confidence. It's not just that she is the latest in a string of what columnist Michelle Malkin has called "clueless cronies" appointed to Bush administration jobs in immigration and border security. (Myers is the niece of outgoing Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Richard B. Myers, and she just married Secretary Chertoff's chief of staff, John F. Wood.) Downright scary is the symbolism of her appointment -- that President Bush considers immigration law enforcement a handy place to park a well-connected novice.
What's the president thinking? Maybe for the first time in his administration, I haven't a clue. What's really going on in the Middle East? I get the "staying" part of the "staying the course" in Iraq, but frankly the "course" could use some re-tooling to take into account the hard lessons learned (I wish) about fighting Islamic jihad.
And what's really going on with Israel? Having withdrawn from Gaza, Israel doesn't even get Washington lip service when it comes to its determination not to assist in Palestinian Authority elections that feature Hamas terrorists. Which begs the question: Whatever happened to George W. Bush's raison d'etre -- namely, that we oppose terror networks and the countries that support them?
Maybe the answer lies in what passes for tea leaves these days -- as in the fact that the new U.S. ambassador to Israel, Richard Jones, who was most recently Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's right-hand man on Iraq, has "roots in the Arab world so deep," reports The Washington Post, "that his beloved greyhound is named Kisa -- for Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, his first posting in the Arab world." Explains Mr. Jones about his appointment, "Maybe they wanted someone who could provide the Arab perspective, too." Which is weird, at best. Of all countries, Israel certainly knows the Arab point of view, historically delivered at gunpoint. But why, oh why, is the American ambassador concerned with presenting the Arab point of view? Is the Arab point of view the American point of view? And where does that leave us in the so-called war on terror?
Earlier this month, the shocking plan for the memorial to the heroes of Flight 93 was released -- a memorial in the shape of an Islamic crescent. The only elected official to call for a better plan to honor these brave Americans (who, having saved Washington from further destruction on 9/11, plunged to earth hearing Al Qaeda hijackers cry, "Allah is the greatest") was Tom Tancredo. The president and the rest of our leaders were, of course, silent. Maybe we don't expect much more of them anymore, which in itself is symbolic. But if the symbolism is clear, the leadership is not.
No problem. I see that you happy are keeping up the faltering chuckie schumer/hillary/DNC covert work.
Yeah like using a dead man's name(ann coulter's column etc.etc), Ronald Reagan, to attack the current President, while all evidence points that Ronald Reagan would be in revuslion of your tactics, and would be in full support of GW Bush.
Where did you get your definition of the word integrity, from the Twilight Zone, tin foil dictionary?
That is the former Saudi King Fahd who was in very frail health at the time of that photo.
I would have done the same thing.
Sidenote: Saudi Arabia is fiercely protective of their borders, but allow hundreds of thousands of TWC workers into their country to perform menial labor industry jobs.
Big business in Saudi.
".. and act as covert chuckie schumer allies."
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I'm kinda missing the boat here on that one Dane.
Just who is chuckie schumer and what does he have to do with illegal immigration?
President Bush and others are forgetting something very important.
WE THE PEOPLE OWN THIS COUNTRY.
When it becomes necessary to do the job the government won't do..we will..it is OUR CALL.
Saudi leaders are always in frail health.
Bush did this on two separate occasions.
This wasn't curtesy. This was policy.
So you don't like Ann, I see? You should feel right at home over at DU.
Iraq is a mess, and a great part of the reason we're stuck there is because Bush failed to wring the real facts out of his bureaucracy about Saddam's true capabilities, a sign of a second rate leader. Either that, or, more ominously, he knew the truth about Saddam's weakness but wanted to knock him out anyway for going after his Daddy, and 911 gave him the chance. But he knew he couldn't be honest with the people about his motivations, so the WMD myth was born. And in the process he all too readily and foolishly accepted the rosy scenario endgame predictions of Rumsfeld, Cheney and Wolfowitz.
He's a nice guy in over his head. He's got no real political philosophy at all to speak of (appallingly, he's read very few, if any, of the great books of the western canon -- Condi Rice had to explain to him what Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment was!). And, as one would expect from a not-too-bright guy, he's a captive of his aides. I've had it with him.
Main Entry: in·teg·ri·ty
Pronunciation: in-'te-gr&-tE
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English integrite, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French integrité, from Latin integritat-, integritas, from integr-, integer entire
1 : firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : INCORRUPTIBILITY
2 : an unimpaired condition : SOUNDNESS
3 : the quality or state of being complete or undivided : COMPLETENESS
synonym see HONESTY
Wouldn't be the first time there, IMO.
".. and act as covert chuckie schumer allies."
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I'm kinda missing the boat here on that one Dane.
Just who is chuckie schumer and what does he have to do with illegal immigration?
"This is disturbing, because, like you, I am against illegal immigration.
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Main Entry: com·plic·i·ty
Pronunciation: k&m-'pli-s(&-)tE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -ties
1 : association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act
2 : an instance of complicity
LOL!
Sheesh you are acting like a cheap mata hari.
Well since you have been on Mars for the last 10 years, chuckie schumer is the senior senator from NY, and big GW Bush critic and will say anyhting and do anything to get in front of a TV camera to say it.
LOL! The above italicized passage is too funny to beleive.
Either you are really that naive or just playing it on FR.
LOL!
I just wish I could come up with a good definition of people who blindly support the leftward march of the GOP while pointing to democrats as the reason to support the leftward march.
It's either that or "democrats". It's getting increasingly hard to tell the difference.
Uh maybe "level headed people who do not go kneejerk over every media article".
Maybe a long acronym but a useful one, "lhpwdngkoema", huh that acronym kind of sounds norwegian.
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