Misunderestimated

techcentralstation.com ^ | 14 November 2002 | Pejman Yousefzadeh

[Darlin']

Loved that one, too :)

[cake_crumb]

"One thing we can count on: the nattering nabobs of negativism will continue underestimating GW."

Or looking for something else to hate him for, like not having abolished government entirely the moment after he was inaugurated.

[Darlin']

That quote sounded vaguely familiar when I read the article but I couldn't recall where I might have heard or read it.

[mdmathis6]

I think Bush is trying to make a distinction between the average everyday Muslim who just goes about his every-day life, trying to make a go of it in America as opposed to terrorists who under the guise of Islam or any other ideology practise violence against America and the world.

I think though he may be mistaken about the depth of the anti-Americanism that runs thru the Muslim community. They by and large are a well disciplined group that "keeps the family secrets" to themselves. While the majority may never pick up a bomb or rifle, and there may be differences in dress and practise, in their heart of hearts, they would cry tears of joy should the US become an Islamic republic. That black males are gravitating to Islam should be a clue to that sense of personal empowerment that Islam provides to males, as well as providing justification and a channnel for directing rage and violence against a specified enemy..all infidels!

Sugar coat it all you want, Mr. Bush. I can sympathise with your desire that America remains mellowly tolerant of all faiths and creeds, but we must be cautious of clasping a viperous ideology to our breasts. The devastation to our country would be too bitter to contemplate. Islam does preach violence, and forced violence is how it historically has spread, when weaker nations have "voluntarily" refused its embrace. Many Moslems I have talked too exhibit a sense of abrupt "rightness", many of the most polite of them simply nod at your disagreement with them as a parent would with the childish assertions of a 3 year old child. The worst of them await only the word of their local Imam to cut your heart out. They are "right", the rest are all wrong.

Feminists should be especially worried about the inroads that radical Islam is making, especially among fatherless black males. Yet they are so busy railing against the so called "slavery" that our judeo-christian traditions have have "chained" them too, they have not even considered the utter brutality and repression that Islam would subject them to. An Islamic male sees himself as all powerful, totally in control of the women and daughters in his life. The religion teaches him to be brazenly intolerant of all other religious views and opinions and it teaches him that all women are chattle, to be used and abused as is his want! The religion gives him direct justification for his abuse of his women and what is worse, Islamic women en masse suffer a kind of Stockholm syndrom, having come to believe that it is right to suffer the indignities that they suffer...in order to survive it!

This loathsome philosophy needs to be stamped out of our American system like a serpent under our heels...though we must be prepared to be bitten in our heels while we crush its head!

[MaeWest]

This guy still doesn't get it. Dubya is a foxy hedgehog.

[Darlin']

FOFL. You got that right, he is the foxiest hedgehog. :)

[driftless]

I hope they never catch on. The last time I argued politics with my three Dem sisters, they still insisted on using the Bush-is-an-idiot tack. They know nothing about issues and only really care about abortion rights. But liberals are by definition obtuse..but diligent...they never give up. We'll have to be on guard constantly.

[shhrubbery!]

They know nothing about issues and only really care about abortion rights.

Funny how when you boil down liberal arguments, abortion 'rights' is really what they're ALL about.

I'm convinced that even their opposition to war against Iraq boiled down to desperately defending their precious 'right to choose.' Liberals feared war would make Bush even more popular ---> more Republicans would be elected on his coattails ---> conservative judges would be appointed ----> and WHAMMO, the golden calf of Roe v. Wade would be smashed.

Ergo, they had to oppose the war -- to protect Roe.

[Darlin']

Pinging ya :)

[Darlin']

{{{Ping}}}

[Darlin']

Ping. :)

[kylaka]

Sure. Link Here

Scan Down to the secton on Rhodes Scholar. Check the last sentence in the last paragraph of that section. Even Clinton's Official WH Bio said he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, but nothing about being one.

[Darlin']

Ping :)

[kayak]

I love that opening quote .......

Thus far, the reputed idiot Bush has graduated from Yale and Harvard, made a stack of cash in the oil industry, become the first consecutive-term governor of Texas, defeated a dual-term VP for the Presidency, and led his party to [November 5th's] extraordinary triumphs. Let his opponents keep calling him stupid; if they do, within five years Bush will be King of England, the Pope, and world Formula One motor racing champion.
- Tim Blair, Australian blogger and journalist.

[Carolinamom]

Blair left out that Dubya was also a jet pilot.

[m1911]

Thanks

[WarEagle]

McAuliffe and Gore may want to take note of the warning issued by Clinton. It would be the smart thing to do.

But they won't, because they are completely unable to face the truth. If they were, there would have been no Florida fiasco in 2000, no Pubbie sweep last week.

They can remain in denial forever as far as I'm concerned!

[Darlin']

I do, too. :)

[Darlin']

Absolutely. We can never thank them enough for all they did to make this election a GWB slam dunk. LOL.

That wasn't a gloat... hehehe... really, it wasn't

[Tokhtamish]

Carter was not a fox.

He most definitely did have ironclad, uncompromising principles. That was the problem. The idea of bargaining, negotiating, give and take was abhorent to him. He saw his position as a moral imperative that all people of conscience should feel obliged to share and therefore compromise on it was moral cowardice. You cannot govern in crusade mode.

He tried to govern as a hedgehog, but a hedgehog must have able people around him. Carter surrounded himself with amateurs, seeking only 'purity'.