Re: Doesn't look like the guy's a screaming partisan, either

Shazam! No reason, it's just magic. So Josh Hill
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>On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:50:25 +1000, Ivor Longhorn
><longhornster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>Shazam! No reason, it's just magic. So Josh Hill
>><usereplyto@xxxxxxxxx> said:
>>
>>>On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:33:57 +1000, Ivor Longhorn
>>><longhornster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>>>Shazam! No reason, it's just magic. So Josh Hill
>>>><usereplyto@xxxxxxxxx> said:
>>>>
>>>>>On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:09:23 +1000, Ivor Longhorn
>>>>><longhornster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Shazam! No reason, it's just magic. So Josh Hill
>>>>>><usereplyto@xxxxxxxxx> said:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>'Secretary of State Colin Powell's former chief of staff has offered a
>>>>>>>remarkably blunt criticism of the administration he served, saying
>>>>>>>that foreign policy had been usurped by a "Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal," and
>>>>>>>that President Bush has made the country more vulnerable, not less, to
>>>>>>>future crises.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>[...]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>'Mr. Wilkerson suggested that the dysfunction within the
>>>>>>>administration was so grave that "if something comes along that is
>>>>>>>truly serious, truly serious, something like a nuclear weapon going
>>>>>>>off in a major American city, or something like a major pandemic, you
>>>>>>>are going to see the ineptitude of this government in a way that will
>>>>>>>take you back to the Declaration of Independence".'
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>[...]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>'The former aide referred to Mr. Bush as someone who "is not versed in
>>>>>>>international relations, and not too much interested in them, either."
>>>>>>>He was far more admiring of the president's father, whom he called
>>>>>>>"one of the finest presidents we've ever had".'
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>http://tinyurl.com/dvzmd
>>>>>>>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/21/politics/21wilkerson.html?incamp=article_popular_1
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>. . . Which leads one to wonder just what it is he /is/ versed in: pet
>>>>>>>goats, maybe?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Making one's friends wealthy.
>>>>>
>>>>>-er.
>>>>>
>>>>>>>Meanwhile,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>'The Bush administration is bracing for a powerful new attack by Brent
>>>>>>>Scowcroft, the respected national security adviser to the first
>>>>>>>President George Bush.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>'A Republican and a former Air Force general, Scowcroft is a leading
>>>>>>>member of the bipartisan foreign policy establishment, and his
>>>>>>>critique of both of the style and the substance of the Bush White
>>>>>>>House, is slated to appear in Monday's editions of the New Yorker
>>>>>>>magazine.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>'The article also contains some critical comments on the handling of
>>>>>>>U.S. foreign policy by the current President Bush from his father . .
>>>>>>>.'
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>http://tinyurl.com/aexqf
>>>>>>>http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20051021-051052-6225r
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>It just gets worse and worse. What we should be asking ourselves at
>>>>>>>this point, I think, is how to fix the system that gave us this
>>>>>>>incompetent in the first place.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Import one hundred million Europeans.
>>>>>
>>>>>Been there, done that.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>You imported the wrong ones. I suggest you take more Frenchies next
>>>>time. Actually, take all of them. It's a beautiful country and would
>>>>be much improved by being vacated.
>>>
>>>You do know that the neutron bomb was designed with Paris in mind.
>>>
>>
>>Yes but we don't want the people who designed it -- IOW, you -- moving
>>in. The only good thing about the States is that its several thousand
>>miles of water away from civilisation.
>
>Yes, good thing you Europeans sent your best physicists and rocket
>scientists here. I mean, wouldn't want to lose that 20 minutes of
>protection.
>
>>>>>>> Having a president who doesn't read
>>>>>>>the newspaper serves no one, Republican or Democrat. The Republicans
>>>>>>>in particular have to ask themselves what purpose is served by their
>>>>>>>remarkably effective spin and smear machine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>The people who pay the bills are getting wealthier.
>>>>>
>>>>>Well, yeah, but they get wealthier under Democrats, too, and they
>>>>>don't seem to have caught on to that. The difference is that under
>>>>>Democrats, everybody gets wealthier.
>>>>
>>>>Hmmm, maybe. They insist on irksome things like labour laws though.
>>>
>>>What they can't see in their chronic myopia is that labor laws,
>>>insofar as they increase the worker's income, increase demand and keep
>>>their factories humming -- meaning they get a bigger cut.
>>
>>U r stupid. One would have thought you'd learn not to talk economics.
>>
>>Modern corporations don't like factories. They like repackaging.
>
>Bwah. What web page did you read that on? The stuff has to get made,
>same as always.
>

Yes. We get the Chinese to do that nowadays.

>>>>>>> Getting elected is only
>>>>>>>half the job -- one has to govern successfully as well.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Nope. He got reelected without bothering with governing hardly at all.
>>>>>
>>>>>Fortunate, in a way:
>>>>>
>>>>>http://tinyurl.com/3czxt
>>>>
>>>>Well yes. You have to reckon that some in his party realised that if
>>>>they "reformed" social security, they'd never get elected again.
>>>
>>>Ditto abortion. The extra-chromosome conservatives just can't
>>>understand why those GOP Court appointees never get around to
>>>overturning Roe v. Wade. It hasn't occurred to the poor Fox
>>>News-watching suckers that that's the last thing any Republican
>>>politician wants to do.
>>
>>Well, not *any*. Some would, even so.
>
>Yeah, all three of 'em. As long as their own daughters don't get
>knocked up, of course . . .

It was ever so.


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