Posted on 11/18/2002 7:57:30 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Correct. Look at the initial backers and contributers to National Review. Communists almost to the man (McManus' book goes into this in great detail). All of them. Aside from a couple of CIA types. There is nothing conservative about NR. Never has been. They have had a few good writers off and on, but as soon as they stepped out of Buckley's globalist reservation, they were given the ax.
If President Bush said "loathe" in a tape, I would be interested to know where Drudge got the tape.
Chris (section 9) brings out a point I had forgotten...that Alma Powell and Condi Rice are friends.
There is a great deal of mischief making in the Washington press. They do not get the 24/7 schmoozing that Clinton gave them, and they resentful. I would direct you to Bill Sammon's book on the war on terr, Fighting Back. There was no hint of this type of undermining in Sammon's book (although there was a lot of stuff which shows how odious Dana Milbank is...HA!).
When they washed your brain they didn't get it clean. What did they use, Woolite?
I still can't get over him using that word. How odd.
I would think it would be better to make your case against Powell on a thread that isn't asking us to form an opinion based on a writer accepting the characterizations of Bob Woodward.
Exactly. Bob Woodward is the Madame Cleo of journalism. He *reads* people's thoughts, and the worst of it is that he should have been debunked years ago.
He even wrote in his book "Veil" that William Casey talked to him right before Casey's death, even though all the doctors and family said that Casey was comatous and surrounded at all times by family, friends, and guards. The guy's a liar and a very poor writer - too luridly dramatic.
Did Woodward received this information from Powell's mouth or was it transferred via telepathy?
Actually, Woodward got it from Abba Eban, via his own very special telepathic channels. I wouldn't believe anything Bob Woodstein wrote, including any occurrences of the words, "the", "is", "and" and "I". What an odious little slug he is.
You mean, like FDR, Harry S, Dwight D, John F and George W?
Would it imrpress you if I became Common F. Tator?
No. But I don' think there's much else you could do either.
He impressess the unknowing, ignorant and less bright. He does not impress much of anyone else.
Thanks you for speaking for the rest of us, but actually, I find Buckley an entertaining and insightful writer.
Right Dubya Professor.
Sorry, it's hard to take lectures on conservatism from one who has self-professed to have been taken in by the siren song of the left. So you join the Right and now want to lecture the rest of us -- who have always been here -- about what it means to be conservative? No thank you.
FDR used his middle name Delano to convey to the world that he was descended from the Delano family. That was a distinct political advantage in New York when he ran for Governor. He never was addressed as Franklyn D. Roosevelt except for his political enemies. The people that hated FDR called him Franklyn D. Roosevelt. The same was true of Truman. H.V. Kaltenborn on NBC could say Harry S. Truman and make it sould like he said "Dirty M*ther F*cker" The S came out like the word "M*ther." The Delano was as important to Roosevelt as Fitzgerald was to Kennedy. It meant votes.
No one ever called Harry S. Truman, Harry S to his face. Not if He did not want to land hard on his a$$. He was Harry or Truman. He never used his S to impress people. His enemies called him that all the time.
The same way with IKE. Ike never presented himself as Dwight David Eisenhower or Dwight D. Eisenhower he was universally known as IKE. That is why people liked IKE. When the media wanted to trash him he was Dwight D. Eisenhower. Reporters that liked him called him IKE.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was never known as John F. Kennedy except by his poticical enemies. He used the Fitzgerald middle name so every voter in the House and Senate races of Mass was sure to know he was the grandson of that great vote getter and legendary Boston mayor Honey Fitzterald.
Repubicans liked to call him John F. Kennedy, but JFK tried to get people to call him Jack. Using a friendly first name and avoiding pretention is a way to get people to like you. Getting people to like you is the way you get elected and respected. That is why GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH likes people to call him Dubya. It makes him a nice guy. He earns respect by what he does not by trying to flaunt a prestigous initial.
George W used the Dubya to distinguish himself from the other George Bush who was in the same profession. He quickly turned that into a nickname of Dubya. Dubya does not have an inferiority complex. But no one in the white house could keep their job by introduding him as George Herbert Walker Bush. If NR employees don't call William F. Buckley Jr. William F. Buckley Jr. they would get their a$$ fired in a heart beat.
Buckley should be more like you and dispense with the middle initial. Then he'd be someone I could respect.
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