Posted on 11/29/2005 5:17:43 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
November 29, 2005 - 08:00.
Give me a moment, please. Got to let my head stop spinning. Been watching the Today show.
See, I thought we all agreed it was bad for presidents to be poll-driven, in the image of a Bill Clinton deciding everything from foreign policy to vacation destinations based on the latest shift in public opinion.
Turns out I was wrong, at least according to this morning's Today.
Matt Lauer interviewed New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh, or "Sy" as Lauer chummily called him, regarding Hersh's piece in the magazine's current edition. As Lauer described the article, it portrays Pres. Bush as believing he has a "divine mission" to bring democracy to Iraq. Asked who was telling him that, Hersh responded:
Some of the people in the last few months with whom I've been talking for years are suddenly opening up and telling me some of their deeper concerns about this president's inability to adjust, to accept new information. I think he really does think that he's not going to be judged by today. The events on the ground will be judged in 20 years, 30 years or whatever.
But, but, but . . . isn't that good? Don't we want our presidents to set policy based on the nation's long-run best interests rather than on the ephemeral views of the day? Apparently not, per the MSM, at least so long as George Bush is in office.
Today Show/NewsBusters ping.
Hersh maintained that a USA Colonel was in charge of the troops killing non-combatants in the Al Qaim area (last month?). This guy was a Vietnam vet still on active duty and wrote some scathing critique some years back on VN. I do not recall the Colonel's name nor the book.
Most of Hersh's other criticisms were from unnamed sources. I got the distinct impression that this guy wallows in slime and is about as honest as Lardass Michael Moore.
Wasn't he discredited at some point (over Clinton scandals?)?
I deeply appreciate the sentiment, but really, it's too much. A month's supply of Nexium would be nice, though ;-)
By the way, you sent me scuttling to the online urban dictionary with your descripton of Today as a Jabroni-fest.- I see Jabroni means:
"a loser, poser, lame-a__." LOL.
Seymour Hersh was on CNN on Sunday basically saying the President was crazy
I guess this is the new DNC talking point
I am lovin' your tagline!
Thank dfwgator. I could not fit his name in the tagline space.
I saw him say that one day and started ROFL. Now it's memorialized.
Good grief. I am sure they will now pick up on John Fund's inexplicable (to me) allegation that the President is so volatile and angry that the people around him are afraid of him. I don't believe this for a minute and I cannot understand why he would say such a thing.
LOL. Thanks for calling my attention to that.
Don't we all long for the good ol' days when the President of the United States would do focus groups on whether he should buy a dog.
Libs are poll driven because they base their opinion on what the public thinks at that time. The public, as we all know, is extremely fickle which is probably why the libs flip-flop so much.
Conservatives, real ones at least, have a core set of beliefs and work forward from that. If the polls favor us thats great. If they don't, thats too bad.
Leadership is not about doing what the public wants in the latest poll. Leadership is about doing what *you* think best. That is one (of many) libs will never be good leaders. Instead of making up their own minds, they let the fickle public do it for them.
Exactly. And there was that famous incident where Clinton wanted to vacation on Martha's Vineyard again but Dick Morris told him he had to go camping out West for image purposes.
Yeah, I saw that segment with Blitzer and old "Sy" was implying that GWB's religion has put him in the "disturbed" zone and he may need "watchers" now.
Sy is so anti-religion as to be a bit disturbed himself.
I haven't read that article yet
But if he's trying to say the President is ticked because of the outragous lies that have been said by the talking heads and the outrageous leaks from the CIA??
I'd be angry also
And you would be right
This pimple on America's backside has a long history of America bashing and
is a "darling" of America hating liberal leftist
One of his speaking engagements;
On July 8, Seymour Hersh addressed the ACLU's 2004 Membership Conference.
They were comments he made on Chrissy Matthews program last evening rather than an article. Txsleuth was watching and reported his remarks.
I just found the post
The comment about not making more speeches is BS and Fund hasn't been paying attention to the news
I tought "Rock" the rassler invented Jabroni.
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