Posted on 01/21/2005 12:29:43 PM PST by baseball_fan
Because the conservatives want to stay out of the world as much as possible. They don't believe it's our job and they don't believe in grand missions. IMHO they are mistaken. If over the next decade just N Korea, Iran and China were to become more democratic, the world would be an immensely safer place. Bush has not proposed doing anything extreme to get there.
well now Buckley knows how I feel after listening to him all these years. LMAO
Obviously he meant that no amount of Martian flesh can be traded for a human. What's wrong with Bill?
What the hell do any of these speeches mean?
And now Buckley is saying that the word choices were quite to his liking. Sheesh!
I dropped a "not". The word choices were "not" to Buckley's liking.
What? The Great Obsfucator confused? My My.
Buckley must really be getting senile. President Bush's speech was crystal clear: It's open season on the bad guys, and we're going to roll them back like no one's business.
Why not? What's wrong with that phrase? Sheesshh
I honestly have not the slightest idea what bone Buckley is trying to pick here. What is his beef?
Misunderestimate away!!!
ah, jeez! there's too many damned "too"s in current news!
Peggy Noonan 1/21 => Referenced God too many times
Irish Aid Work 1/21 => US troops pulling out of Indonesias too soon
Hersh 1/19 => US too secretive
Coalition troops are too brutal; too few; too vulnerable . . .
It would be nice if the MSM actually worked on something worthwhile instead of pumping out more, and too many meaningless words / ideas.
Bush should just said:
Kiss my ( ! ), I here for 4 more years!
The MSM would have been in lather trying to discern how to interpret that inaugeral address : - )
I had to guffaw upon reading this. Yesterday, I criticized the speech here at FR and the bruises from the knee-jerk piling on response are still showing.
The minutiae of the apparent "boilerplate" sources and platitudes, as a substitute for thought, were too subtle for me to identify immediately, but Peggy Noonan and William Buckley have done a masterful job of it.
Mindless adulation for one of my favorite presidents seems to be a mindless requirement of the very young and the very rigid, here at FR.
What is Buckley saying?
Maybe it's He couldn't really mean that!!! could he?
Mike
Uh....when controlling others is a habit maybe?
I wonder if this has any relation to Peggy Noonan's screed. Perhaps the blueblood conservatives are getting nervous that the words might actually mean something.
But even granted the difficulties in applying the Bush code everywhere, the American realist inevitably asked himself questions, upon hearing the soaring, Biblical rhetoric of the president. How to apply the presidential criteria?
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