A pic of the author: perhaps she can lend Rummy some of her testosterone...
Posted on 09/10/2007 4:44:18 PM PDT by ventanax5
The private plane about to deliver Rummy and Mrs. Rummy to their getaway in Taos, New Mexico, is idling on the tarmac at Dulles when the Secretary arrives. He enters smiling, beaming, swaggering, a compact little 75-year-old package of waning testosterone, dressed in real-man-headed-to-his-ranch khaki, two dachshunds (names: Reggie and Chester) yapping at his loafers, classy, no-nonsense wife of fifty-two years Velcroed to his side. In other words, the perfect tableau of a Bush-administration official—except, of course, that he no longer is and has chosen this outing to talk at length for the first time since he was rudely banished from the kingdom last December.
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Who asked you, Ms. DiPaulo, and HOW did you arrive at that conclusion, did you measure the testosterone?
Check out first sentence of the second paragraph: “Two young, studly pilots—from the private firm Rummy uses to book his private planes—greet him in the doorway of the airport lobby.”
Someone get Ms. DiPaulo a cold shower...fast!
Barf-a-roni!
No doubt the Rumsfelds’ two dachshunds have more class than Ms. DiPaulo.
Wow! The never ending story! Joyce sounds like a sweetheart. Rummy a little grumpy, in a take charge sort of way. Ordinary people, after all.
A pic of the author: perhaps she can lend Rummy some of her testosterone...
And after looking at her pic, the dogs no doubt are better looking too.
Yes, and “they stood erect and giddy...”
This author is suffering from heat stroke.
“The fact is, we’re in a conflict and a struggle—the first conflict of the twenty-first century for the United States of America. It is new, it is unfamiliar to the American people, and there’s… In a very real sense, the American military cannot lose a battle, they can’t lose a war. On the other hand, they can’t win the struggle themselves. It requires diplomacy, it requires economic assistance, it requires a range of things that are well beyond the purview of the Department of Defense.” His purview. “In terms of what’s going on in Iraq or Afghanistan today, what the Department of Defense is doing is working. What isn’t working is the diplomatic side. The government of Iraq has not been able to find ways to bring the elements of that country together sufficiently that they can create an environment hospitable to, uh, whatever one wants to call their evolving way of life, a democracy or a representative system or a freer system. Look at Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, 28 million people are free. They have their own president, they have their own parliament. Improved a lot on the streets.”
DHR gets it. The White House Reporters didn’t stand a
chance when they decided to go toe to toe with him or challenge him.
good read ping
Her ignorance about cattle guards etc. is not the only “New York” thing about her. She has this pretentious way of assuming the voice of the narratator of a novel, and calling too much attention to herself. Unlike a good reporter like Teddy White, who could talk in the first person and still keep the focus on his subjects.
The first paragraph says: “that he no longer is and has chosen this outing to talk at length for the first time since he was rudely banished from the kingdom last December.” I suppose this makes for a good story. However, my recollection was of great pomp and a parade and Vice President Cheney and President Bush praising Donald Rumsfeld prior to his departure.
“...flashing that special Rumsfeldian ability to exude charm and arrogance at the same time...”
- an ability the author so obviously wishes she had, so desperately attempts to imitate, and so pitifully lacks.
As for the testosterone, only one person can speak to that, and well, honestly...has anyone ever seen Mrs. Rumsfeld not looking completely relaxed and happy?
If I had to bet on it, I suspect Rummy can still deliver some “shock and awe”...
...and James, Kelly, Rocky, and Rex love him more now, too! ;-----)
Who would have known? I would not have taken him for a dachshund kind of guy.
What do you expect from a fag mag?
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