EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT: David Frum's "The Right Man"

The Hill ^ | 1/8/03 | David Frum

[hchutch]

Well, your comments in the past don't strike me as being terribly observant - particularly when you're going to label some folks a disgrace. Quite frankly, I don't think you have a grasp on reality.

Go on and rant/make pithy comments/proclaim America in decline, but you ain't changing my mind. And go ahead and call Bush stupid - you'll only prove that you see it by looking in the mirror every day.

[Mortimer Snavely]

Here's a short political fill-in-the-blank /multiple choice political test.

The following are excerpts from a March 23, 2002 Washington Times piece by Bill Sammon.

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--------- Urges More Foreign Aid

"MONTERREY, Mexico: -------- yesterday said Americans are duty-bound to 'share our wealth' with poor nations and promised a 50 percent increase in foreign aid, but 'We should give more of our aid in the form of grants, rather than loans that can never be repaid,' he said. 'We should invest in better health and build on our efforts to fight AIDS, which threatens to undermine whole societies.'

"In addition to the moral, economic and strategic imperatives of increasing foreign aid, ------ said, it could also help in the war against terrorism.

"'We will challenge the poverty and hopelessness and lack of education and failed governments that too often allow conditions that terrorists can seize and try to turn to their advantage"

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Who is quoted above?
a) Bill Clinton
b) Al Gore
c) Hillary Clinton
d) Jessie Jackson
e) Reverend Al What's-His-Name
f) Bono and the pop band U2
g) Whoopie Goldberg
h) George W. Bush

Hint: he's very popular here at Free Republic..

[JohnHuang2]

Thanks for the ping, amigo.

[Marysecretary]

When you talk about demographics, do you mean the influx of illegal aliens or immigrants settling in the western and southern parts of our states? I'm a bit ignorant here.

[My2Cents]

I seriously wonder why Lincoln Chaffee is even a Republican. I guess it relates to what Frum said regarding Jeffords. Despite his antipathy toward Bush -- or more accurately, his own political greed -- Jeffords could not jump to the Democrats because his New England sensibilities viewed the Democrats as the Party of "rum, Romanism, and rebellion." I guess that's Chaffee's excuse, too.

[Mortimer Snavely]

If Bush is really this bland then we have more than a few problems. Somehow I am reminded of the dour and sullen John Adams going to Paris and almost destroying the personal relations and political connections that the urbane and risqué Ben Franklin had cultivated, due to Adams' clumsy and disapproving manner.

Bush's nagging nursemaid code of conduct may be considered refreshing by some after the blatant debauchery of the previous President, but for pity's sake... forbidding late night fast food? What's next? No lounging around the espresso bar with bookish members of the opposite sex?

[RLK]

Bush's nagging nursemaid code of conduct may be considered refreshing by some after the blatant debauchery of the previous President, but for pity's sake... forbidding late night fast food? What's next? No lounging around the espresso bar with bookish members of the opposite sex?

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In some ways Bush reminds me of a half-assed Jehova's Witness. He has an inhibited "as if" personality. It's a commonality between Bush and Gore.

[Marysecretary]

Thanks, Platero. I appreciate your getting back to me. M