Posted on 08/06/2005 4:06:51 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
...."... I think it's important for me and for you to look for the depth of a person's soul and character. I was touched by the fact your mother gave you the cross.' " Bush publicly testified of Putin, "I was able to get a sense of his soul."
...Bush is even apt to apply this particular brand of illogic to his own character. In one of the 2000 presidential debates, Al Gore pointed out that Bush as governor of Texas opposed a measure to expand children's healthcare and instead used the money for a tax cut. The debate moderator then asked Bush, "Are those numbers correct? Are his charges correct?" To which Bush replied, "If he's trying to allege that I'm a hardhearted person and I don't care about children, he's absolutely wrong."
...Gore was trying to make a point about Bush's moral priorities by establishing a series of facts about Bush's behavior. Rather than deny having chosen tax cuts over children's healthcare, or explain his rationale for having done so, Bush changed the subject to more comfortable ground: judging people's hearts. He asked the audience to intuit, based on the way he carries himself, that he is a warmhearted person, and thus to reject out of hand any facts that might clash with this impression.
The point isn't just that Bush refuses to engage with facts he finds inconvenient. ... It's that Bush rejects reason itself. Reason is a process by which we draw our broader conclusions from an accumulation of specific evidence. When the evidence changes ....., our conclusions can also .....Bush, on the other hand, arrives at his beliefs through intuition. His supporters marvel at the unshakeable certainty of his convictions. Well, no wonder.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Even though Democrats continue to resist the outcome, George W. Bush won the 2004 presidential contest. His reelection triggered a time-honored cliche: To the victor, go the spoils. Bush selected a Supreme Court nominee and an ambassador to the United Nations who reflect his philosophy. Any Democratic president would do the same.
......Democrats continue to fight the last campaign, while Republicans are planning for the next two. While the Democrats are busy bashing Bush -- a second-term president who is not running for anything -- the Republicans are working on their strategy for victory in 2006 and 2008. Ken Mehlman, the Republican National Committee chairman, continues the GOP outreach to Latino and African-American voters. Dividing up the Democratic base and conquering even a small piece of it helps Republicans in future elections and hurts Democrats.
......Sniping about Bush's vacations and workout schedule is not a long-range strategy for Democratic success. Winning on election day is what it takes to derail nominees like Bolton and Roberts...***
".....Bush, on the other hand, arrives at his beliefs through intuition."
What a dolt! Doesn't he know the difference between the spoon-fed sound bites and crafted statements for media and public consumption, and what REALLY gets said behind closed doors?
Dear Jonathan,
GROW UP.
Love,
Opus
Jonathan Chait, who recently dubbed Dubya "the 9/10 president" for his failure to tighten homeland security, now calls Bush a liar and derides his tax plan as "fiscal madness." Bush pitched the tax cut as boon to the middle class, but the bulk of the cut will do them little good. Chait also notes—late, but amusingly—that Bush's feeble promise of "one million new jobs sounds eerily like the Austin Powers character Dr. Evil." … Of late, there's a certain thrill in finding one of Ryan Lizza's "Campaign Journals" in a new TNR. It's akin to the feeling you get when you notice that it's Anthony Lane's turn to write at The New Yorker—you know you're in for a good read. This week, Lizza writes on Howard Dean's Internet-based campaigning. There's more to it than those Meetup.com fund-raisers everyone wrote up last month; staffers run streaming video of Dean's appearances and can marshal a phalanx of supporters to defend him in the blogosphere. Some predicted Dean would fade after the war, but, perhaps thanks to the Internet, "the cult of Dean doesn't seem to be going away."
http://slate.msn.com/id/2083065/
What a genius article, why its changed my life, yours truely, Mr Spock
The logic, such as it is, is truly pathetic.
Is there no one left (or is that no leftist left?) who sees that throwing public money at a problem and taxing everyone into a lower standard of living to pay for it, is a terrible thing to do rather than to empower people by lowering taxes and thereby raising their standard of living?
That's how you address healthcare, not turning it into a public boondoggle, and throwing money at it.
.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)
They can't think logically!!
They just want bigger government!
They believe the masses can't do it better than they can.
I'm sure Jonathan LOVED his President Bill.
We can only hope!
On the brain's side: no mention that Bush's grades were better than Kerry's, which he kept secret; On the intuition side, liberals for years have stressed going with one's intuition in making decisions, indeed corporate America even offered employees classes on how to listen to their intuition.
(Yuri Gripas/Reuters)
"Intuition" is simply the very rapid integration of a number of pieces of data into a solution of a problem. Not every datum is necessarily articulated and put down in a checklist, but each is weighted and applied to the sum of pro and con reasoning that applied to every decision ever made by anyone.
This is in no way meant to disparage the value of reflective thinking and calculation of various options in situations where there is an element of risk. But the problem with taking too long to make a decision is that the risk may well be multiplied.
One of the dangers of swift decisions, is that some vital fact may not yet be available, and assumptions are made in that absence of fact. And often as not, that assumption turns out to be wrong.
But much more frequently, the wrong assumption makes no difference what-so-ever on the final outcome.
And there's "Blink".
And then there's always The Los Angeles Times, incredibly biased and hate filled for Bush. Is there any reason to say anything about the LA Times?
The left is so biased it is blind.
Funny, the way they act it's more like "Protecting Terrorists from America."
Actually tax cuts are good for children too in ways that democrats find inconvenient.
This opinion piece is poop.
Good morning CW!
The collective IQ of the la-times stands at about 11. These dim-shill hack writers, can in no way, comprehend the intelligence of our President. Clinton (both), Gore, Carter, Pelosi, Reed, etc are ALL (as Red on "That 70's Show" would say) DUMB-ASSES!
Whenever these anti-American leftists take on our President, he ALWAYS hands them their hat!
Is it not sad that the only dim in America that is worth a damn is SENATOR ZELL MILLER?!
LLS
Jonathan has no clue about the thinking process of the "Master of the Rope-A-Dope".
and granted him the bully pulpit, helped us to keep a house and senate majority, all the WHILE knowing and going up against the mainstream press which always despises Republican presidents and daily makes this known,
then geeeeeeeez..... our President's mere intuition must be heads and tails above the actual intellect of the liberal elites...
and all this without even tapping his intellectual acumen (which I understand...was from early on, higher than john kerry's...lol..course we learned this AFTER the election, but, well, if university grades are a measure, President Bush received higher grades than his metro sexual, N Vietnamese schmoozer, john f kerry the whiner.)
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