Mr. Bush…told reporters at a press conference with Mr. [Gordon] Brown that “one of the things that I will leave behind is a multilateralism to deal with tyrants, so problems can be solved diplomatically.”
–New York Times
It’s statements like this that will force me to create a new “Say What?” category for this blog. The [...]
Neal Gabler wrote a NY Times op ed column this week claiming that John McCain has the press eating out of the palm of his hand. It was an interesting and slightly scary (if you don’t want McCain to be president) article. But I guess Gail Collins never rode the Straight Talk Express [...]
Read full post...Bush, who used his family connections to avoid Vietnam, told troops serving in Afghanistan on Thursday that he is “a little envious” of their adventure there, saying it was “in some ways romantic.”
Can someone tell me where the ‘romance’ is? Only a guy who’s never served in a war could say wartime service was [...]
From today’s Maureen Dowd column, Daffy Does Doom (TimesSelect required):
Delusional is far too mild a word to describe Dick Cheney. Delusional doesn’t begin to capture the profound, transcendental one-flew-over daftness of the man.
Has anyone in the history of the United States ever been so singularly wrong and misguided about such phenomenally important events and [...]
Here’s how Maureen Dowd (TimesSelect sub. required) describes Lynne Cheney’s feeble attempt at political humor (at the expense of her husband) at the Gridiron Dinner:
Cheneys and the humor of cruelty (photo: Uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu)
…Cheney is a practiced speaker, but a bit tone-deaf on humor. At the Gridiron dinner here on Saturday, she said of her husband: [...]
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