It's a Byrd, S-3B Viking -- it's Taco Bell's dog

Orlando Sentinel ^ | 5/11/03 | Kathleen Parker

[ohioWfan]

Sometimes the best political strategy is simply to stand still and allow yourself to be attacked by the wrong guy.

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We are witness to such a phenomenon as George Bush -- cheered, regaled and not-bad in his Top Gun duds -- finds his form-fitting aviator pants leg in the clenched teeth of Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., playing the Taco Bell Chihuahua to Bush's Rin Tin Tin.

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As one-two punches go, the Byrd/Waxman sally was a bad day for nerds everywhere. Performing a whiney duet of the desperate, they managed to evoke images of skinny boys studying the quarterback's swagger for clues on cool. It's almost as painful to watch them contort in envy as it must have been for them to watch Bush, a stud muffin no matter what his other flaws, arriving on a testosterone bullet to the cheers of 5,000 sailors.

Not to mention the living-room applause of an appreciative nation not nearly as perplexed as pleased by the pageantry clearly intended. Who cares if it was a photo op? It's our photo op, which the other envy-boys around the world also got to see.

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By attacking the right guy at the wrong time, Byrd and Waxman not only have harmed their cause, but aided the Bush ascendancy. For now the president is not only a daring jet rider, he's a victim of empty criticism. The hero-victim doesn't have to do anything but stand still -- and no doubt fight the urge to say, "Yo quiero a Waxman and Byrd."

[countrydummy]

http://bimmerfest.org/forums/images/smilies/pint2.gif
test

[southernnorthcarolina]

I assume that since you added the word "test," you were experimenting with ways of posting an image. If I'm telling you things you already know, forgive me.

In sending me the URL, you sent a "clickable link": if I click on the URL, the little guy drinking a Guinness (and another, and another ... I don't know where he puts them all!) pops up.

If you had wished to include the image in your message, with no clicks required on the part of the recipient, you would have preceded the URL with <#img src=", and placed at the end ">, but without the # sign -- I put it in to keep a link from being created.

So what you'd send would look like this:

<#img src="http://bimmerfest.org/forums/images/smilies/pint2.gif">

...but without the #.

If I type the identical line, but leave out the #, it will come out looking like this:

[countrydummy]

hehehehe, no test meant I had no idea how to do it! I got the link up, but not the pic! So thanks so much for the education!!!!!!!!!!! I will try again! Thanks so much!

[countrydummy]

trying

[countrydummy]

[countrydummy]

ha done it! Thanks a million!

[bmwcyle]

[countrydummy]

God I love it!

[countrydummy]

I love it!

[Fractional-American]

(I don't know how I missed seeing this comment.) I hadn't seen anything about it on local news or I probably would have posted something about it. That doesn't make sense because obviously there is a big GOP base in California, since most of the governors we've had since I've been alive have been GOP. Obviously Bush would have enough supporters to rank above "write-in" status.

dog

[Budge]

Heard on FOX News (today, I think) that Bush WILL be on the ballot in CA after all.

I'm not surprised you didn't hear about it there. :)