Some of these are very well done. Any comments people?
The Hitler-comparison ads were removed… see:
drudgereportarchives.com/dat … flash2.htm
after the Anti-Defamation League criticized the same
[quote]The Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Congress said the ads were beyond the pale of political discussion. Rep. Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican, called them “hate-mongering.”
“Certainly myself, as an American and as a Jew, I’m disgusted by the casual use of Hitler by liberal Democrats and groups such as MoveOn.org,” said Mr. Cantor, the House chief deputy majority whip.
“To compare any American president, much less George W. Bush, to Adolf Hitler, cheapens the sacrifice of millions of lives that have been lost by this country over its history and really denigrates the efforts by the American military,” Mr. Cantor said.
The two 30-second ads were submitted as part of a contest MoveOn.org sponsored. The organization invited submissions of spots criticizing Mr. Bush’s record. Two of the submissions compared Mr. Bush to the Nazi dictator of Germany, whose regime killed 6 million Jews during World War II.
[quote]It’s not the first time MoveOn.org has had to promise to change its procedures after facing public criticism.
MoveOn.org is a combination of a political action committee and two separate political-education funds defined as a 527 and a 501©(4) because of the part of the tax code that governs them.
It is illegal for the political action committee and the 527 organization to receive contributions from foreign nationals, but several foreign Web sites were referring potential donors to the MoveOn.org Web site.
After the situation was reported, Mr. Boyd said the organization would no longer accept any foreign contributions.
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David Frum and Richard Perle make an interesting interview on NPR’s Fresh Air today.
freshair.npr.org/day_fa.jhtml?todayDate=current
This is Bush in about 45 minutes.
[quote=“Jonah Goldberg”]Well, you can say one thing for President Bush’s new immigration reform proposal: It makes all of the people who say he’s a reincarnated Adolf Hitler look like idiots (again). It’s kind of hard to see Der Fuhrer offering what amounts to a sweeping amnesty to millions of Third Worlders residing illegally in our midst.
townhall.com/columnists/jona … 0109.shtml
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[quote=“Fox”]David Frum and Richard Perle make an interesting interview on NPR’s Fresh Air today.
freshair.npr.org/day_fa.jhtml?todayDate=current
This is Bush in about 45 minutes.[/quote]
Forty-five minutes??? I would rather watch dingleberry’s dry off a cheetah’s ass. I respect some conservative pundits such as George Will but these two neo-cons are full of vitrolic hatred. Especially the Canadian David Frum. A third-rate mind from a second rate family. Although I am cente-left, I would take the cockiness and erudition of Conrad Black over Frum any day.
BTW, Black’s new book on FDR is excellent.
Chewy
This ain’t W in 30 seconds… This is [color=blue]George W. Bush… Grand Strategist[/color]
A new book titled [color=red]Surprise, Security, and the American Experience[/color] (Harvard Press due out in March 2004) argues that President Bush has developed and is ably implementing only the third American grand strategy in our history.
[quote=“John Lewis Gaddis, the Robert A. Lovett professor of military and naval history at Yale University, described by the liberal Boston Globe as “the dean of Cold War studies and one of the nation’s most eminent diplomatic historians.””]
Grand strategy is the blueprint from which policy follows. It envisions a country’s mission, defines its interests, and sets its priorities. Part of grand strategy’s grandeur lies in its durability: A single grand strategy can shape decades, even centuries of policy.
[George W.Bush is undergoing] one of the most surprising transformations of an underrated national leader since Prince Hal became Henry V.
[Mr. Bush] undertook a decisive and courageous reassessment of American grand strategy following the shock of the 9/11 attacks. At his doctrine’s center, Bush placed the democratization of the Middle East and the urgent need to prevent terrorists and rogue states from getting nuclear weapons. Bush also boldly rejected the constraints of an outmoded international system that was really nothing more that a snapshot of the configuration of power that existed in 1945.
[color=green]So far the military action in Iraq has produced a modest improvement in American and global economic conditions; an intensified dialogue within the Arab world about political reform; a withdrawal of American forces from Saudi Arabia; and an increasing nervousness on the part of the Syrian and Iranian governments as they contemplated the consequences of being surrounded by American clients or surrogates. The United States has emerged as a more powerful and purposeful actor within the international system than it had been on September 11, 2001[/color].
[Bush’s] grand strategy is actually looking toward the culmination of the Wilsonian project of a world safe for Democracy, even in the Middle East. And this long-term dimension of it, it seems to me, goes beyond what we’ve seen in the thinking of more recent administrations. It is more characteristic of the kind of thinking, say, that the Truman administration was doing at the beginning of the Cold War.
washtimes.com/op-ed/20040210 … -8099r.htm[/quote]
The writer of the article (not of the book cited above) poses the question,
[quote]Is Mr. Bush becoming an historic world leader in the same category as FDR, as the eminent Ivy League professor argues? Or is he just a lying nitwit, as the eminent Democratic Party Chairman and Clinton fund-raiser Terry McAuliffe argues? I suspect that as this election year progresses, that may end up being the decisive debate. You can put me on the side of the professor.
washtimes.com/op-ed/20040210 … -8099r.htm[/quote]
Move over, Moveon.org…
Hi girls!
Just for the record, I am 100% behind globalization, especially since it allows developing nations to become more integrated into the international business community. The more ecomomic interests the United States has in a nation the less likely they are to be ignored by the likes of Bush and co. This is evident in Bush and co’s softly softly approach with Saudi Arabia and China.
George W. seems to yap often about “free trade.” However, when “free trade” affects his chances in the election, well, it gets chucked out the window. Old Georgie is up to his protectionist antics again:
Bush to exclude sugar from free trade pact
[quote]President George W. Bush made the final decision to exclude sugar from the free trade agreement completed with Australia last weekend, according to administration and agricultural industry officials.
The White House decision, which shores up the president’s electoral prospects in key states and avoids a bruising election-year trade fight in Congress, has raised new questions about the administration’s willingness to stand up to domestic lobbies that oppose freer trade.[/quote]
Dunc
Tony Shalhoub of Monk was on the voting panel of Bushin30seconds.
Hoody Hoo!
Hi girls!
What the hell was that post all about? One-sentence statements are, for sure, the weapon of the mentally disabled.
Christ! Is this a Pepsi Club debate? Shall we play a friggen’ Bruce Springsteen song to show our loyalty? If that is your lame attempt at understanding Islamic revivication, piss off to a Fred-Smith dinner and give us all a break – there you will find true bigotry dressed as rationality.
At least Fred Smith, after a binge, attempts to defend his self-enriching point of view with carefully crafted, though grossly-deluded dialogue. Fred Smith and his Ilk underestimate “other” people’s intelligence and capabilities of course. They pretend to take the intelectual high ground in their defence of the indefensible.
It is of course that very intelligence and capability of individuals that they are so threatened by, as is the neocon brigade in Washington. Basically, they portray all Arabs as dumbwits, just like they try and portray “voices of dissent” or quiet whispers of disapproval as “shrill lefties” – hah!
These shrill neocon whiners are indeed threatened by the new, and youthful, people that will ultimately shift the balance of power away from their dumb, middle-aged, christian-based fanaticism.
And they – the neocons – are the most yellow, spineless pricks you would ever have the misfortune of meeting in your lifetime. Vote the fuckers out of DC – right back to their backward, cake-on-Sunday paddy, where they rightfully belong.
Fred Smith, you ain’t nothing but a drop in the ocean: bye bye! Enjoy your individualistic, self-rotting retirement of self gratitude – us youth will outlive you; you sad, self-deterministic fool.
Dunc
Grand Strategy is right.
What I envision is great swaths of the world where it is unsafe for Westerners to travel, an intergenerational period of fear and hatred stretching over hundreds of years. A time where differences can no longer be tolerated, dissent is akin to terrorism, and innocents die, die, and die some more.
Of course, in another part of the world, a small group of men manipulate this tragic scenario in what is known as the Grand Strategy, a strategy designed to milk the wealth of their own people. Having ceased the day, as it were, they determine to set in motion a series of events that lead to unimaginable wealth for those chosen few and unspeakable tragedy for so many others.
Who were these evil men? How were they ever allowed to ascend to such power? Why were they never forestalled? In truth only an enigma called
[quote=“Big Dunc”]Hi girls!
What the hell was that post all about? One-sentence statements are, for sure, the weapon of the mentally disabled.
Christ! Is this a Pepsi Club debate? Shall we play a friggen’ Bruce Springsteen song to show our loyalty? If that is your lame attempt at understanding Islamic revivication, piss off to a Fred-Smith dinner and give us all a break – there you will find true bigotry dressed as rationality.
At least Fred Smith, after a binge, attempts to defend his self-enriching point of view with carefully crafted, though grossly-deluded dialogue. Fred Smith and his Ilk underestimate “other” people’s intelligence and capabilities of course. They pretend to take the intelectual high ground in their defence of the indefensible.
It is of course that very intelligence and capability of individuals that they are so threatened by, as is the neocon brigade in Washington. Basically, they portray all Arabs as dumbwits, just like they try and portray “voices of dissent” or quiet whispers of disapproval as “shrill lefties” – hah!
These shrill neocon whiners are indeed threatened by the new, and youthful, people that will ultimately shift the balance of power away from their dumb, middle-aged, christian-based fanaticism.
And they – the neocons – are the most yellow, spineless pricks you would ever have the misfortune of meeting in your lifetime. Vote the fuckers out of DC – right back to their backward, cake-on-Sunday paddy, where they rightfully belong.
Fred Smith, you ain’t nothing but a drop in the ocean: bye bye! Enjoy your individualistic, self-rotting retirement of self gratitude – us youth will outlive you; you sad, self-deterministic fool.
Dunc[/quote]
After a post like this, where Fred Smith is nowhere to be found, where nary a post from Fred Smith appears, what can I say…
I think the question of intelligence and rationality has been proved far better by this drunken rant than anything I could have said… haha Good job Dunc! I could never have done this w/o your help. hahaha
