...should be to make sure that every man, woman and child sees this: Weekly Standard editor Fred Barnes admits that Bush told him that capturing Osama Bin Laden is not "a top priority."
Couple that with the older clip of Bush saying that he's not that concerned about Bin Laden...the recent news that Osama has a free pass in Pakistan...and all the revelations contained within the extremely important new documentary 911: Press for Truth (about which much more anon)...
...and you have an albatross that all of Rupert's men cannot hope to spin away from the G.O.P.'s neck.
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Jeez, Joseph -- don't we know by now that absolutely NOTHING will disenchant tens of millions of Americans with GWB and the Republican Party?
You sound as if you think American politics is grounded in reality.
You might as well try to argue an evangelical into atheism, by citing Darwin, than persuade a Bush stalwart that the man is danger to health and the republic.
joe, this is also quite the revelation given bush's speech on the 11th that osama IS his top priority!!
do watch jon stewart skewer this blatant contradiction, from last night (wed.).
and anon, two questions: one, do you even glance at the polls? bush has been in the toilet since 04! two, remember lincoln's wisdom, you can't fool all the people all the time. hence, the polls.
cynicism is so unproductive, especially when we need folks to actually be doing things in order for positive change to occur. you could start by changin' the 'tude, dude.
Oh hell, doc. There's a difference between realism and cynicism.
Troting out contradictions and hypocrisy won't disabuse these people of their illusions and ignorance. We've already had 6 years of it, and they still like him in Kansas.
As for the polls -- he may be low 30s, but GWB still has the overwhelming approval of people who identify themselves as Republicans.
Hypocrisy is an intellectual concept. Being moved by it requires a measure of abstract thinking. It's not a good marketing tool.
Barnes: "His vision of a war on terror is one that involves intelligence to find out from people, to get tips, to follow them up and break up plots to kill Americans before they occur."
Then WTF are 150,000 or so of our troops doing in Iraq?!!! Shouldn't he be deploying intelligence assets instead of military assets overseas?
This administration's story seems to change like the direction of the wind.
The Daily Reckoning comments that since 9/11, peanut butter allergies have killed more Americans than terrorists have.
But, there are now 33,000 firms with contracts for Homeland Security business, feeding at a trough filled with half a trillion dollars...
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