Bush common touch is outreaching Kerry

Sunday Independent (Ireland) ^ | Sun, Sep 05 04 | Gwen Halley

[Happygal]

Gift of the gab?
:-)

[300winmag]

McGuinness told the Daily Telegraph last Monday that he saw comparisons between Agamemnon's declaration, "We can go home now - the war is over", with George W Bush's "ludicrous"'Mission accomplished' speech - "when it clearly was not accomplished," rebellious Frank pointed out.

May I point out that the "mission accomplished" sign on that aircraft carrier was in celebration of its mission, and not of the war on terror in general. The carrier taskforce had a long combat cruise, accomplished its mission, and was on the way back home. The President flew out there to celebrate them, and not himself. He made it quite clear that his job, and America's job, was not finished. But he was there to celebrate with the sailors whose present job was finished.

[Carolinamom]

Excellent and hilarious!

Read this one, Howlin!

[BobS]

"Carole Coleman who summed up Dick Cheney's brilliant political hardball speech last week as "vicious".

Carole is Portuguesa for the English 'Carol'. She needs to go down to nordeste Brasil to experience real conservatives:)

[Incorrigible]

Ha! I'm hoping I've inoculated my relatives in Dublin so that they're not influenced by that "consensus"!

My nephew (the lone America supporter in his class last year, I'm so proud of him) is in Ring this year and said he'd let me know if he was able to get an email address on the computers there. I'll keep him up to date on the lights of liberty!

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

This is funny. Give credit where it's due.

Why do you think that old, tired "joke" is funny? Was it your sign?

[Happygal]

He's in Ring?
Great! He'll be a fluent Gaelic speaker, as well as a smart cookie! :-)

[Happygal]

Carole needs to get laid, that's what Carole needs! ;-)

[Leisler]

"I wonder if his obsessive lifelong quest for the presidency is really based on his desire to finally gain more social status than his classmates at St. Paul's?"

Reading not too much between the lines of his paid for fluff, 'Tour of Duty', both he and his father had strong feeling of hubris and that the common people were mucking things up. His dad who was a glorified paper-shuffler in the State Department thought that President Eisenhower was totally wrong in handling the Europeans. How much more deluded can one get?

[BunnySlippers]

How come the Democrats weren't charged with 'hiding' the loony left when Kerry tried to disassociate himself from them?

This needed to be said! Thanks for posting a great article. This guy gets it.

[Tunehead54]

Great find - great read bump - thanks!

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[liberallarry]

Why do you think that old, tired "joke" is funny?

Because I'm not a blind partisan who administers a loyalty test to his toilet paper.

[Happygal]

Oops, I thought I had you guys on the original ping to this article.

Have a read.

I think you'll enjoy it. :-)

[tubebender]

The writer has a style missing in the USA. Thanks for the post...

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

If you think that stupid joke is funny, maybe you're more of a blind partisan than you think you are.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

I'm going to watch 'Stargate-SG1' first, I'll read and comment later.

[liberallarry]

If you don't like the joke, don't laugh. Your loss.

[tiki]

Great editorial.

[Sisku Hanne]

Great article!

Yes, that confirms what I read somewhere....I heard the crewmen made and hung the banner to tell Pres. Bush that their mission had been accomplished. It was not a banner to announce to the world that Iraq "was accomplished".

I also thought that General Frqanks mentioned that Pres. Bush had to signal some sort of official end to the incursion part of the war in order for the UN to release the economic sanctions and for other nations to bring in their "after incursion" peace-keeping troops. I may be expressing these thoughts poorly, but I trust you get my drift.

It's really just another in a myriad of instances that the press and the Dems try to scrounge up something with which to flagellate the President.

[The Scourge of Yazid]

No problem.

Apparently, these scrubs have never heard of a real adaptation, done in this case, by Mary Zimmerman. I'm thinking of the relatively brief run of Metamorphoses.

I'm sure that its brilliance would be lost on these cretins.

As for Gerry Adams, blecch!

These are probably the same imbeciles that made a hagiography to Arab terrorist extraordinaire, Abu Abbas.

(Michael Stone overhears the name Gerry Adams. Starts chucking hand grenades onto the body of this thread. Lots of injuries. Stone is released from prison after receiving a blanket pardon, applying to Protestants, Catholics, etc.)