Posted on 07/03/2006 5:37:58 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
The Los Angeles Times is a leftist rag. It spews such liberal propaganda that it is hard to find actual news in its pages. To say that it is anti-American, anti-war, anti-business, anti-Republican is just scratching the surface of this pathetic excuse for communication. Today they scold Harvard Business School for turning out the embarrassment of all embarrassments, their MBA, George W. Bush. To give some authority to their scolding, they enlist the services of Charles R. Kesler, a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College. After a reading of the article I seriously doubt this academe is any more qualified to opine on the subject than my pet poodle.
Professor Kesler has only two substantive issues that he claims prove Bush to be a dunce; the disarray in Iraq and Hurricane Katrina. He doesn't expand on those failings, he relies on the Times's Kool Aid drinkers who have been bombarded with enough anti-Bush propaganda to generate the knowing nods. Hell he doesn't even have to justify his screech, it is just presumed that if you read the Slimes you are a Kool Aid drinker.
As a committed liberal propagandist, Kesler, has no understanding of the great swath of history involved in Bush's attempt to democratize the Middle East. He just calls Bush dumb for calling out the "axis of evil"; a yellow-stripped surrender monkey like our professor would have no understanding of what needs to be done to turn a Muslim country comprised of three warring tribes into something other than the radical theocracy it would have become had Bush listen to mush-brains like him. A dispassionate review of what Bush has accomplished in such a short time only leads one to the conclusion that he has been a miracle worker. And of course his close associates have had some say in the matter, but that seems to have escaped our professor's study.
And our Democrat cloying professor, in an attempt to denigrate Republicans, makes it clear that Bush's attempt to employ "business" principles is as unsuccessful as those of Robert MacNamara. What a total load of crap that is. Bush solved a depression worst than the one faced by Roosevelt. He solved it in 4 MONTHS, whereas the professors icon, the Great FDR, did not solve it in 13 YEARS; it took a war to end the Great Depression.
Unlike the politicians he salivates about, the Professor forgets the economic boom that has been created by George W. Bush. A boom so successful it has taken the 24/7 efforts of the MSM and Democrat squawkers to put economic doubts in the public's mind. The MSM quietly ignored the greatest environmental set aside in the history of America because George Bush did it; and W is to be given no credit for anything. Right, Professor?
Finally, and most significantly, politics has to reconcile multiple goals consent, security, liberty, prosperity, justice, virtue in the presence of continuing disagreements about both means and ends. These inherent differences frustrate, eventually, all businesslike schemes of government. Too bad they don't teach that in business school.
The Professor's concluding paragraph is most instructive to my readers. George W. Bush has been trying to make the poor rich ever since his first run for office in 1978. His privatization of Social Security and Medicare will use "business" principal of "compounding" which I'm sure just confounds Professor Dysfunction. Read here for a way to reconcile the goals of consent, liberty, prosperity, justice and virtue; goals that have eluded Democrats and academe for a century. Goals Republicans will achieve.
The grasp of the obvious herein boggles the mind.
You gave us Peter Singer. Can we forward this dink and Ward Churchill to you? Don't you still have penal colonies or desert islands or something?
The perfesser's theory should get wide publication.
They are undeserving of reference.
Sadly, I think Singer is back here now. What we've done to deserve him I don't know!
As for the other two, I'm in the process of contacting John Howard to have them declared "illegal immigrants".
LA Times is even worse than the NY Times. It's like comparing Ted Kennedy to JFK.
It is said that the antichrist will appear as a angel to the ignorant....
But quite deserving of debunking and ridicule.
The entire idea that President Bush is a "dunce" is probably the silliest thing I've ever heard.
What does it the proposition of Bush's "stupidity" say about the democrats, particularly as the president outsmarted them twice.
I appreciate the idea that the leftists hate and oppose Bush, but their attacks against him are just so silly, sometimes I think that Rove has double agents in the DNC pushing this silliness on the koolaid drinkers over there.
This so called expert who somehow faked his way through to gain the rank of professor, is no more than a far-left-leaning, anti-war, book reviewer, who like Mother Sheehan likes to hear the sound of his own voice.
The perfesser seems to be an exception.
Uh, maybe the article is that dumb (and I haven't read it), but Charles Kesler is no liberal.
He's on the board of directors of the Claremont Institute, and a contributor to National Review.
McDonald may be correct, but his failure to do his homework on Kesler takes away from his argument.
No problem getting a gun for vermin eradication!
I'll take the supposed "dunces" like Bush or Reagan anyday.
A friend of mine went to Oz and NZ for an extended perior back in the '70's. He was in the outback someplace and hitch-hiking. Some boy-o's picked him up in a beat-up old sedan. They opened the trunk for his pack and there were a bunch of rifles and scads of ammo. Suddenly concerned for his safety, he asked what they did out there in the boonies. They replied: "Anything in the murderin' line, Mate!"
They were bounty hunters of somekind. Good ol' boys as well.
There is a cool radio (always on a talk station) commercial, part of is this...(voice inflection is everything).....
Tell me something I DO NOT know.
Here we are just a few months later and the state is closed to business.
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