The other side works against Bush in the WOT every chance they get.
Big difference here between the parties.
Nothing Rove said was or will be used by Al Jazeera to promote hatred towards the United States and coalition troops.
You've BOTH got it exactly right in posts 2 and 3.
But as a former Lefty (from the late 60s) its the yet-more-absurd rhetoric of the Dems that is ever-so-much-more-laughable to me, having trafficked in it myself at the age of 19-21 (but even then I was more tempered and subtle than ANY of them). What you have to keep in mind is that the political class is largely composed of ACTORS , who are playing parts in our ongoing national entertainment called POLITICS. Unfortunately, this has come to be the most expensive entertainment going, and it long ago ceased being funny. It moved from comedy to tragedy on 9-11, when none of them were really called to task for this fundamental failure,and pounced on our sense of numb, confused anger and grief, and in effect, forced us to give them a pass. Everyone was given a pass except the new President and his Administration(predictably). Another question is : for whose sake is this Commedia dell'Arte show being
produced? 90 % of the country is essentially apolitical, believe it or not. The only way members of the political class gets us to look at them and listen to them is by trading in this absurd rhetoric, and now as always the political class has an undying ally in the chattering class , which populates the MSM and ALL media.Together these two Elites create a universe of discourse which is neatly tied tight at both ends and is always overheated and swollen at the middle, where all of us live.
You've BOTH got it exactly right in posts 2 and 3.
But as a former Lefty (from the late 60s) its the yet-more-absurd rhetoric of the Dems that is ever-so-much-more-laughable to me, having trafficked in it myself at the age of 19-21 (but even then I was more tempered and subtle than ANY of them). What you have to keep in mind is that the political class is largely composed of ACTORS , who are playing parts in our ongoing national entertainment called POLITICS. Unfortunately, this has come to be the most expensive entertainment going, and it long ago ceased being funny. It moved from comedy to tragedy on 9-11, when none of them were really called to task for this fundamental failure,and pounced on our sense of numb, confused anger and grief, and in effect, forced us to give them a pass. Everyone was given a pass except the new President and his Administration(predictably). Another question is : for whose sake is this Commedia dell'Arte show being
produced? 90 % of the country is essentially apolitical, believe it or not. The only way members of the political class gets us to look at them and listen to them is by trading in this absurd rhetoric, and now as always the political class has an undying ally in the chattering class , which populates the MSM and ALL media.Together these two Elites create a universe of discourse which is neatly tied tight at both ends and is always overheated and swollen at the middle, where all of us live.