Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
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This is truly impressive from the self-annointed Begala admirer- an EIGHT paragraph ad hominem against Insight magazine. I guess he does not like their politics or something, therefore everything they write is irrelevant.
Which means I can stop reading the Nation, the NY Times, Josh, the Boston Globe, etc.
The arrogance of the left is unlimited.
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By a growing margin, more than twice as many Americans feel U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton should never run for president, according to a poll released Monday.
The Marist Institute for Public Opinion found 69 percent of Americans said the Democratic former first lady should never run for president. Twenty-six percent said she should run “someday.” That’s a steady decline in support since March 2001 when the poll found 30 percent felt she should run for president someday.
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Signs of Aging
If you leave your lights on, your car battery is dead, and your first thought is:
“Damn. I am going to have to redo all my AM news channel presets.”
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President Bush says: “Obviously, the attack on our marines in Kuwait was a terrorist attack,” Mr. Bush told political reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before leaving for a political trip here.
That’s completely absurd. If an al Qaida attack on armed, uniformed, active-duty military personnel employed by a country that describes itself as “at war” with al Qaida is a terrorist attack, then everything is a terrorist attack. Indeed, what happened in Kuwait was almost the reverse of a terrorist attack. Which doesn’t make it okay. In fact, it was very bad. But it was very bad because al Qaida is a very bad organization with very bad goals and it would be a terrible thing if they accomplished those goals. Trying to seize some kind of procedural high-ground where we label their every action as some kind of illegitimate terrorist atrocity is both pointless and self-defeating. Bush needs to stand up and say what everybody knows
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Jamaican Me Crazy, Harry! (via Drudge)
Singer Harry Belafonte said on Friday he stands by remarks likening Secretary of State Colin Powell to a plantation slave who is “serving his master well” but insisted he never meant to defame the former general.
“This was not a personal attack on Colin Powell,” Belafonte said in a statement issued through his New York-based publicist. “However … speaking on behalf of so many African American citizens, I have found Colin Powell to be a tragic failure.”
Open mouth, insert foot.
Repeat until out of credibility.
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Two Questions:
How long before terrorism like this in Finland swings a number of more countries firmly into the current administration’s line of thinking?
How long before the left-wing kooks and the Common Dreams crowd start to claim that the CIA and the Bush administration are behind these acts to manufacture support?
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If This Is True (via DailyKos)
Then it is just downright disgusting. I have not seen the ad (won’t run on my puter for some reason), but any claim that a triple amputee from combat wounds is ‘afraid’ to lead is enough to make my blood boil. The Chambliss campaign should be embarassed if this is as bad as what the write-ups I have read have stated, and Georgia voters should give him a nice swift kick in the ballot box.
Although the Dems seem to monopolize bad taste, the Republicans have some serious jackasses of their own.
I would rather have Republicans in control of the Senate (despite their loathesome stands on a number of issues), but I can’t support candidates that stoop to this level.
***Update***
For an example of the kind of things about Republicans that drive me up the damned wall, check out this quote (via Eschaton):
Christian Coalition leaders fired up the faithful Friday with a pro-Israel rally and a pitch to renew the group’s power by rousting out the vote in November for conservative candidates.
Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., exhorted the crowd at the Washington Convention Center to vote liberals out of office.
“If you don’t do it, it ain’t gonna be done,” he said. “You will be doing the Lord’s work, and he will richly bless you for it.”
There are a lot of good reasons to support Israel and to vote liberals out of office. The Lord ain’t one of ’em.