[what's up]

His most solemn duty as President, he said, was to protect America from “emerging threats.” Did he mean, guard against emerging threats?

I honestly have not the slightest idea what bone Buckley is trying to pick here. What is his beef?

[gov_bean_ counter]

What is his beef? Perhaps this...

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?

[ejo]

What's his beef?

Me thinks he may be experiencing the classic symptoms of the 'dreaded alz.'

[rwfromkansas]

protect and guard. That is his quibble.

My word, Buckely is anal retentive.