Posted on 09/02/2006 8:13:48 AM PDT by Democracy In Iraq
Stop blaming everything on the president, OK?
BY JONAH GOLDBERG JonahsColumn@aol.com
Lord knows I have my problems with President Bush. He taps the federal coffers like a monkey smacking the bar for another cocaine pellet in an addiction study. Some of his sentences give me the same sensation as falling backward in one of those ''trust'' exercises, in which you just have to hope things work out. Yes, the Iraq invasion has gone badly, and to deny this is to suggest that Bush meant for things to turn out this way, which is even crueler than saying he failed to get it right.
But you know what? It's time to cut the guy some slack.
Of course, I will get hippo-choking amounts of e-mail from Bush-haters telling me that all I ever do is cut Bush slack. But these folks grade on the curve. By their standards, anything short of demanding that a half-starved badger be sewn into his belly flunks.
Besides, the Bush-bashers have lost credibility. The most delicious example came this week when it was finally revealed that Colin Powell's oak-necked majordomo Richard Armitage -- and not some star-chamber neocon -- ''outed'' Valerie Plame, the spousal prop of Washington's biggest ham, Joe Wilson. Now it turns out that instead of ''Bush blows CIA agent's cover to silence a brave dissenter'' -- as Wilson practices saying into the mirror every morning -- the story is, ``One Bush enemy inadvertently taken out by another's friendly fire.''
And then there's Hurricane Katrina. Yes, the federal government could have responded better. And of course there were real tragedies involved in that disaster. But you know what? Bad stuff happens during disasters, which is why we don't call them tickle-parties.
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I hope they continue to do so, it will show how vacant they are.
...but what about Pluto? That doggone planet!
I just wish we could stop the sarcastic remarks blaming President Bush right here on FR.
"Besides, the Bush-bashers have lost credibility."
Another one bites the dust!!
CNN in particular, adds those little shivs in the side when reporting about the President, and it's constant. They tell us what they think he said....all bad...and then have the dems on live or tape to rebut the President. So it's two hits for one.
Of course, Goldberg made sure he retained his bona fides with the left in his opening salvoes. What an interesting read without the Bush-bashing garbage!
I heard a liberal blame the president for the money spent to bring John Karr back from Indonesia. There bis absolutely nothing out of reach for the morons.
Bush's fault.
This kid writes like Soccer Moms talk.
What happened? Did a moose bite your sister? ;o)
Jonah who is one fine writer, hits the ball out of the park on this one!! We all have our issues with President Bush..my hot button is the border!! I undersand without any doubt that my President, President Bush, is the only man in the world today that has the guts and determination to stand up to pure evil, Islamic Muslim Terrorist monsters who threaten our very existance everyday in every way. There is no doubt about this if you just listen to the enemy....Jimmy Carter, who is enemy number one in the United States, being an ex president tells us again what the common ground is for co-existing with Islam..talk talk talk. Enemys two, three and four!! So says Hassain Mussallah, head of Hezbullah "I hope every Jew moves to Israel so we can kill them all at once and not have to roam the world looking for them to kill"
So says Osama Bin Ladin:"Yes, we kill their innocents and this is legal religiously and logically".
So says Umar, Student Islamic Movement (SIMI)" We Will continue. There is no limit on our actions. Even to kill their children is good. You stop the generation there at the beginning." President Bush seems to be the only man in the United States who fully understands these statements and is DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT!! America better wake up or it will be too late. Thankyou Jonnah!!
I blame Bush for the 2006 Cubs. He did throw out the first pitch and most of his time with the team was spent with Prior, Wood and Lee who all missed most of this season and who's presence on the team would make them at least a 500 team.
A wiser thing never said!
LOL.
Posted on 09/01/2006 10:39:33 PM CDT by FairOpinion
Sept. 1, 2006 Jonah Goldberg
Lord knows I have my problems with President Bush. He taps the federal coffers ........
You couldn't be more wrong about Jonnah Goldberg. He is true blue American and a solid Conservative. He has issues with the President as we all have, but understands that critical remarks in almost every day since this President took office have not only hurt the country, it has hurt our influence around the world. Check that up to the DNC, in spades and their left running operation the MSM.
"Political dissatisfaction with the president rests entirely on Iraq and overall Bush fatigue."
Not entirely true. There are some who will never forgive President Bush for successfully preventing algoreloserman and company from stealing the 2000 election.
Me, too!!! The way I 'fight ' with some of them, I don't know which will happen first...either, I'll be banned or have to start taking high blood pressure meds...or worse, maybe both. ;^(
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