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Arianna Huffington Calls President Bush a “Deluded Cockeyed Optimist”
NewsBusters ^ | 12/13/05 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 12/13/2005 2:34:59 PM PST by Only Waxing

Arianna Huffington went on quite a rant at her blog today over the president’s speech in Philadelphia. In fact, she pulled no punches. Early on, she stated that “the president’s fanaticism is a scary prospect for the country.” But, that was just the beginning:

“The latest issues of both Time and Newsweek paint a portrait of an isolated president detached from the reality of all that is going on around him. Nothing seems to be penetrating -- not the rising death toll, not his depressed poll numbers, not the continuing revelations about the deceptions his administration used to lead us to war. Not even the growing skepticism about the war being expressed within his own party.”

She was just getting warmed up:

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: optimists
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1 posted on 12/13/2005 2:35:00 PM PST by Only Waxing
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To: Only Waxing

Optimism?? What could possibly be more Anti-American than Optimism?


2 posted on 12/13/2005 2:35:46 PM PST by msnimje (http://weblogawards.org/2005/12/best_blog.php .. VOTE FOR MALKIN (everyday) -- DON'T LET KOS WIN!!)
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To: Only Waxing

This from a woman who's husband dumped her in favor of men.


3 posted on 12/13/2005 2:36:14 PM PST by Perdogg ("Facts are stupid things." - President Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: Perdogg

Is she paying taxes yet?


4 posted on 12/13/2005 2:37:08 PM PST by Wristpin ("The Yankees have decided to buy every player in Baseball....")
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To: Only Waxing

according to a recent poll, 70 percent of iraqi's are deluded cockeyed optimists too


5 posted on 12/13/2005 2:37:14 PM PST by samtheman
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To: Only Waxing
He's in good company....


6 posted on 12/13/2005 2:37:31 PM PST by My2Cents (Dead people voting is the closest the Democrats come to believing in eternal life.)
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To: Perdogg

Arianna ~ the queer maker ~ Bump ~ Bump!


7 posted on 12/13/2005 2:38:00 PM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: Only Waxing

A True defeatist courting DimoLoserist degenerate,
furious that their path into a national Culture
of Death, is being thwarted.


8 posted on 12/13/2005 2:39:09 PM PST by Baby Driver
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To: Only Waxing; Chieftain

could she just quit with her phony, squeally accent. Her and Celine Dion are so bizzare!


9 posted on 12/13/2005 2:39:19 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (If Iran has nukes, to hell with my diet!)
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To: Only Waxing

Na na na na na na. What an attack. Uh, any suggestions, mam? If not, STHU.

Thank you.


10 posted on 12/13/2005 2:39:30 PM PST by gathersnomoss
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To: Only Waxing

Zsa Zsa OTH is simply deluded.


11 posted on 12/13/2005 2:40:04 PM PST by sono (They misunderestimated me.)
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To: Only Waxing

A deluded cockeyed optimist is someone who marries Michael Huffington thinking she can "turn" him just because she kind of looks like a guy.


12 posted on 12/13/2005 2:40:19 PM PST by wideawake
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To: Only Waxing

The most useless nationally-known commentator. Does anyone rush to read her? Does anyone care? Why else would she have to found her own site unless she was having trouble finding outlets for her chirping the accepted Hollywood opinion?


13 posted on 12/13/2005 2:41:00 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (An agnostic who never, ever says "Happy Holidays")
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To: Only Waxing

She married the closeted gay guy after all. So who's the "Deluded Cockeyed Optimist?" :-)


14 posted on 12/13/2005 2:41:12 PM PST by HitmanLV (Listen to my demos for Savage Nation contest: http://www.geocities.com/mr_vinnie_vegas/index.html)
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To: Perdogg

Michael Huffington has my deepest sympathy.


15 posted on 12/13/2005 2:42:27 PM PST by OldFriend (The Dems enABLEd DANGER and 3,000 Americans died.)
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To: Only Waxing

Arianna and Mo-Do desperately need to get some.


16 posted on 12/13/2005 2:44:26 PM PST by DTogo (Merry CHRISTmas, and a healthy & happy New Year!)
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To: Only Waxing

Earth to Noel.....Huffington's "dumber than a box of rocks", feeble rants to not constitute news and are not worthy of the breath to rebut.


17 posted on 12/13/2005 2:44:53 PM PST by pissant
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To: Only Waxing


LMAO!!! Bwahahahahahah, isn't her husband gay? Talk about cockeyed optimism, bet she's one of the women that think they can "change" him after they're married, bwahahahahahahaha, how'd that work for ya babe???


18 posted on 12/13/2005 2:45:54 PM PST by rockabyebaby (I'm not afraid to say out loud what the rest of you are afraid to admit.)
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To: My2Cents

He is not cockeyed.


19 posted on 12/13/2005 2:46:09 PM PST by eccentric (a.k.a. baldwidow)
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To: Only Waxing

Better to be called a “Deluded Cockeyed Optimist” than a "Derided Cuckolded Narcissist".


20 posted on 12/13/2005 2:46:32 PM PST by RTINSC (Being Offended is the Natural Consequence of Leaving Your Home...)
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