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Posted on 12/18/2005 9:00:39 AM PST by Mia T
It was bombastic or ludicrous or pompous but it wasn't sarcastic. Matthews believes nothing has worked in Iraq to-date and nothing will work in the future. Iraq to Matthews is Vietnam squared.
Matthews was setting the bar for Bush greatness as high as his limited intellect was capable of doing. Coming only days after the Iraq election just makes it all the more obvious that Matthews is totally disconnected from reality when discussing Iraq.
I look forward to a little Matthews back pedaling on his Mt. Rushmore statement but his show is so unwatchable I will probably miss it when it happens
I actually disagree. If one wants to be cynical about it, Matthews is hedging his bets.
I personally think Matthews is conflicted: His Liberalism v. his Red-State sensibilities
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Nice thought by a guy who belongs in a mental institution!
Some would argue he is already there, i.e., leftist institutions are a crazy house.
This would be the simplist explanation for their self-destructive behavior.
Hedging involves making a deliberately noncommital or unexplicit statement as a counterbalance to previous statements. Where is the balance in saying if Bush pulls it off he deserves to be on Mt. Rushmore? I don't see it and if Matthews has a time of the day when he isn't trying to be Matthews I don't beleive he will let his Mt. Rushmore statement stand.
Both his positions, taken together constitute the hedge.
I suppose the hypothetical nature of statement 2 satisfies your take somewhat.
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What can explain both Crissy's and Lindsay's "rush to the center?" Are they both being blackmailed over their relationship?
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No problem on the hinkey in the link, you were quite expedient with the repairs, a bug now and then is to be expected...
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It's the old Dick Morris Hail Mary pass, (when in trouble, triangulate3), the once trusty play that for eight years kept two clumsy kleptocrats4 in the Oval Office and out of the slammer (even as it placed America and Americans in ever-increasing peril.)5 That missus clinton has managed, thereby, to stake out Iraqi territory occupied apparently by no one6 seems to have escaped her notice. Nonetheless, this constituency of zero is the least of her troubles. IMPERIOUS HILLARY
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December 7, 1941+64 RE: a not-so-modest proposal concerning hillary clinton
The context of our concern today--regardless of political affiliation--is Iraq and The War on Terror, but the larger fear is that our democracy may not survive. We have the requisite machines, power and know-how to defeat the enemy in Iraq and elsewhere, but do we have the will? In particular, do we have the will to identify and defeat the enemy in our midst? Answerable to no one, heir apparent in her own mind, self-serving in the extreme, Hillary Clinton incarnates this insidious new threat to our survival. What we decide to do about Missus Clinton will tell us much about what awaits us in these perilous new times. COMPLETE LETTER |
Mia T, this was an absolutely brilliant hedge. Matthews could learn a lot from you.:)
touché ;)
"I personally think Matthews is conflicted: His Liberalism v. his Red-State sensibilities"
That's my take on Matthews. He's like a lot of libs...he has no real principles so he shifts in the wind and can't decide what he things about a few issues like Iraq. He initially seemed conflicted over Klintoon's oval office behavior with interns, but when Matthews started seeing all the Democraps defending Klintoon, he bought into their talking points. He's buys into the left's moral equivalence arguments freely.
But, 98% of the time, he spouts the total liberal line replete with all the Democrap talking points.
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... which reminds me... I don't seem to recall the outrage over missus clinton's abuse of the raw FBI files of her opposition... or her abuse of the IRS.
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Hillary Clinton's revisionist tome notwithstanding, 'living history' begets a certain symmetry. It is in that light that I make this not-so-modest proposal on this day, exactly 64 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor. 