Posted on 01/31/2009 3:36:21 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Because we live in a practical world where nothing is ever totally new, it is possible to see there is as much continuity between the administrations of George W Bush and Barack Obama as discontinuity. The massive stimulus package being prepped for presidential signature follows a similar, if more modest, effort by Bush. More than 140,000 troops are still in Iraq and it will not be easy to withdraw them. The war in Afghanistan grinds on. The fantastic debt of the past eight years will soon increase by an even more fantastic amount. The prisoners at Guantanamo Bay cannot simply be let go, however haphazard and clumsy their detention.
And yet there is something unmistakably different about Washington. Obama clearly sees the presidency as a different institution from his immediate predecessor. The constitution itself has been quietly but swiftly rebalanced by the manner and tone and executive orders of Obama.
This is a good thing. Bush the dauphin lived and breathed a monarchical sense of the office from his father and his political godfather (Dick Cheney).
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Andrew Sullivan is the one and only prissy toad.
Is Andrew still searching for the real mother?
Andrew Sullivan, flaming queen and insatiable whore, who performs countless perverted sexual acts that threaten his life and the lives of those with whom he is copulating, does not have the standing to make any judgement calls on anyone anywhere. He lives in a fantasy world that ignores reality if he truly believes what he says about President Bush and Nobama. Just as he believes in the fantasy world of men marrying men as normal.
Hope this doesn’t degenerate into the too typical FR “refutation.”
The writer is incorrect because:
if a Female writer: “You’re ugly.”
if a Male writer: “You’re gay.”
And your point is?
American Heritage ditionary defines the adjective prissy as excessively prim and proper, or an affected manner. Such fictional TV characters as Fraiser and Charles Winchester III might be described as prissy. Certainly a writer who distains those not as liberal or urbane as himself may be described as prissy. As to the idea that all men with whom I disagree can be titled as gay - that's a bit silly. George Clooney is well known for his leftwing politics, but I've never heard anyone tag him as ugly or gay.
“And your point is?”
Seriously? OK.
It is cheap and easy to reply to an argument/political position with an irrelevant, obvious and worn out ad hominem.
oddly enough, it is Bulldog who is gay.
Actually the writer being gay is not irrelevant. It is the prism through which AS views everything.
It is sort of like reading a article trashing a piece of art that done primarily in reds and green and then noting that the writer has deuteranopia.
It is a valid observation on why his opinion is different from that of people with normal vision.
you may -— may-— have a point with AS and relevency.
However, I don’t recall anybody here attacking his viewpoint as “gay” when he was vigorously defending GWBush post 9-11.
Will you give me “obvious and worn out” and all three regarding Helen Thomas?
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