It's Time for Cooler Heads to Prevail

Town Hall ^ | 2/24/2006 | Tony Snow

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

This whole thing is beginning to sound to me like the political/media version of Winnie the Pooh and the Snowy Day. (where the gang keeps running around the bush in pursuit of their own footprints.....)

My other inclination was to start referring to them as a flock of Clangbirds.

[CWOJackson]

Clangbirds. I like that.

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

And I'll bring my granddaughters to stir and giggle at us.

Only question: Is grape or tropical fruit punch okay with you?

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

Think we should provide the definition for the outsiders?

(BTW, are you a Turtle?)

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Clangbirds......

Clangbirds love Koolaid....

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Now we need to slap some sense into Sean Hannity! He is surrounded by solid reasonable facts and he still carries water for the Democrats.

[CWOJackson]

I want to warn you of something. I once called one of the perpetually petulents once here a Poggybait Sailor. He immediately called abuse claiming I had called him homosexual.

[GSWarrior]

I appreciate your passion and work on keeping this discussion alive here. This is too important to write off as just another right versus left conflagration.

[soccermom]

Thanks for posting this! It is nice to know that there are still people out there who don't get whipped into a frenzy of demagoguery.

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

........which only proves that he didn't know any more about sailors and poogybait (old school brownshoe chief spelling) than about REAL abusive language.

You DO have a point there, though.....the PC birds fly around just about everywhere you look.

[Just A Nobody]

One thing all this proves is that Republicans are not walking in lock step behind President Bush,

That is what is really all about isn't it? I can not think of one time, in recent history, that "Republicans" walked in lock step behind the President.

[Final Authority]

Yea, Tony Snow is a genius, he actually knows what the polls are indicating; not. This is a loser for the GOP. The citizens of the USA have decided that it is important to discriminate when it comes to national security. We will profile, we will not pass on our prejudices, we will act on our fears, and since Arabs of the Muslim faith have already killed more Americans than did Japan in Pearl Harbor, then we will do what we must to defend ourselves.

[soccermom]

"It is about one project that entails national security risks and no corresponding gain. " No corresponding gain???? Did you read the article? They gave us access to the Taliban. And, God forbid, we have a confrontation with Iran, we are going to need bases in the UAE. As long as we have items coming into this country, we have national security risks. It is just as easy -- probably easier -- for a terrorist to infiltrate us through a British run company. The whole reason Richard Reid was enlisted to be the shoe-bomber is because he didn't fit the profile. And, while I'm sure there are "men on the street" from Dubai that hate us, it is not merely the elites of the UAE that support us. It is a very "westernized" part of the region.

[soccermom]

I wouldn't stop listening to Sean just because I disagree with him on this issue. That said, I have always been least impressed with Hannity. He seems like a nice guy -- the kind you would love to have over for a BBQ. But he isn't a very good debater. He repeats the same arguments over and over. He rarely follows up when someone makes a point, choosing instead to go on with his own diatribe and he often interrupts people. I hate saying this because I really like the guy, but he doesn't represent our side very well. I like the "cooler heads" of Michael Medved and Tony Snow.

[LibLieSlayer]

Incredibly spot on. It is quite sad actually.

LLS

[soccermom]

Yeah -- and I hate to admit it because he is a really likeable guy. I think he is better suited for his television show. Lately, I have found myself annoyed with him as I listen while driving the kids home from school. I'm not annoyed when I disagree with him --- I'm annoyed when he lets liberals get away with arguments because he is too busy going into broken record mode.

[Doogle]

The UAE had promised and delivered $100 mil to us for Katrina relief a few weeks ago before this port deal was made. Just heard it on my local radio news. ????!

..???..quick where's my foil hat

[saveliberty]

That's one possibility. The other is that Jimmy Carter is an obliviot

[saveliberty]

Thank you!