"You just hate being wrong" or
"You're the one who is stubborn" or
"You're narrow minded."
"No, that's you" is usually my response because it is, in fact, the truth.
I spend a lot of time ripping President Bush for his lack of a fine touch, particularly when it comes to diplomacy. And yet, today he has brought together Ehud Ohmert, Prime Minister of Israel (right), and Mahmoud Abbas, leader of the Palestinian people (left) for a peace conference.I suppose I could be skeptical and say that nothing will come from it but didn't they say the same thing about Ireland? Look at how that turned out. At least President Bush is trying.
To be perfectly honest, he has done more than that. I recall in 2002, he made history by being the first sitting US president to mention the words "Palestinian" and "state" in the same sentence. Not even the most popular president in the history of our country (and in the world), Bill Clinton, can lay claim to that fame. Pretty wild, coming from a guy who has failed in just about every other area.
And, I have to say, that I do skip with glee when my hard core conservative friends stew about stuff like this. It really is fun to see their pea brains completely unable to comprehend why their commander guy isn't blowing things up like a good ol' boy should be doing!
So, really, either way, I see it as a victory for myself. If I am right that Bush is a political incompetent, then I have the satisfaction of winning the debate and hopefully encouraging people to look for a better alternative. If I am wrong, that means that President Bush is doing what he should be doing--what I know he NEEDS to do--to win the peace and, ultimately, the war of ideas that is truly the center of our struggle with Islam.
I'm WRONG and I love it!!
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That's the spirit, Mark. You have taken one more step to becoming a real Republican!!
He's just going through the motions, mark, he is no interest in any of this. He is a very single minded person who doesn't care a wit about peace.
yes. president bush cares about one thing: "isolating the extremists" which would actually mean himself and his best pals but no, as he sees it: Iran + its friends. Thats what this summit is about, not 'making peace.' Peace is not about destroying and dividing countries and their peoples, directly or indirectly, through policies proxy powers or military campaigns. It's about addressing ACTUAL, REAL, NORMAL and longterm human grievances and applying justice and legal redress (whether sacred, humanistic, national or international) to the equation. This summit will not do that. It's going to gang up the undemocratic, unconstitutional yet "moderate" countries and their leaders, some of which may only control a third of the population and their lands (or 'partners for peace') against those crazy extremists who are crazy, popular and extreme enough to live, struggle and die for their collective rights.
I admire mark's optimisim and hope, i am very optimistic and hopeful myself, just not in the summit. The net result of which will be a decalaration by Bush and his allies or payroll partners, to fight the extremists and sit down to talk more about a peace that at this rate, and by these measures, will never materialise (hooray!! i hear some people celebrating) Luckily there are alternatives to these leaders and their photo tried & tested non-policies.
8 MORE YEARS!
8 MORE YEARS!!
j/k
:~P
COOL... c-a-n-t w a i t (as a journalist & filmmaker working on a feature on crazy ppl in the middle east, as opposed to a doc) because 8 more years of a GIULIANI-THOMPSON in the Might makes Alright Executive hormone role (not to mention front runners from the D-camp tryin to talk Kennedy but act Reagan) is gonna bring stomped on positive and pumped up negative US involvement in the region to a dramatic but rather c-o-o-l Hollywood end. As someone who works in the imagination and 'can't believe he just said & did that' industry, i have a lot of interesting material to look forward to.
Mark, have you lost your mind?
I guess I don't know what you mean.
love bobo's question. so simple and forthright so, answer it :-) journalists never come out and say what's on their minds.
meanwhile, just read this article called: 'Poll shows voters shifting on foreign policy' -- although it doesn't seem like a major shift... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071128/pl_nm/usa_politics_foreign_policy_dc;_ylt=AvJXlI9WgtB2QUQDGSMIRj6s0NUE
some interesting highlights:
Bill McInturff, who describes himself as a Republican pollster, teamed up with Democrat colleague Geoff Garin to conduct a new poll on U.S. voter attitudes to foreign policy ahead of the November 4, 2008 presidential election.
"There's broad consensus that America is less respected in the world and people think this is a major problem," he said.
Republicans ranked hostile nations such as Iran and North Korea as their number two concern in foreign policy, while Democrats' second place issue was the environment.
On the Republican side, the pollsters said around 17 percent of all voters expressed attitudes that could be summarized as "Fortress America" and 16 percent "Reluctant Super Power." Another 33 percent were defined as "Average American," evenly split between leaning left and right.
Asked the most important attribute for a presidential candidate, the top answer across the board was "committed to keeping American strong and secure around the world."
http://michellemalkin.com/2007/11/29/digging-out-the-cnnyoutube-plants-abortion-questioner-is-edwards-supporter/
Markadelphia - haven't you said that the media isn't liberal? Yeah right. All THESE people asked questions last night at the Republican debate.
The thing is, I don't even really care much for the republican frontrunners but CNN officially sucks.
Well, who would you have liked to ask questions? And Bobo, I'm still waiting for why you think I have lost my mind.
What I meant was this.
One of the reasons I came to this blog was to engage in a forum that recognizes Bush and his supporters for what they are: criminals. This post makes you seem like an apologist for Bush. Can't you see that he is just doing this so he can "look better?"
Even more hilarious is the fact that conservatives who post here think you are a liberal. It seems to me that you are pretty moderate. You like Giuliani and Huckabee and hate Hillary.
I say stay on track with the Bush bashing and you can do no wrong because you are right.
I guess simply disagreeing with bobo means that one has "lost their mind". Nice to know that he knows everything.
Who I would like to have asked the questions isn't really the issue here is it?
The co-chair of Hillary Clinton’s veterans’ committee was allowed to ask a video question on gays in the military at Wednesday’s debate and was also flown by the network from California to the debate site in Florida so he could repeat his question to the candidates in person. Sen. Clinton’s campaign Web site features a press release announcing Kerr and other members of the committee in June and a basic Web search turns up Kerr’s past support as a member of a veterans’ steering committee for the John Kerry for President campaign - and his prior appearance on CNN in December ‘03.
The questioner Yasmin from Huntsville, Alabama turns out to be a former intern with the Council on American Islamic Relations.
A young woman named "Journey" questioned the candidates on abortion. On her blog (easily accessed from her YouTube channel), she declares herself a John Edwards supporter. Post debate, she immediately posted a video wearing her John Edwards ‘08 T-shirt.
David Cercone, who declared his support for Obama on his very own blog, asked a question about the pro-gay Log Cabin Republicans.
Yet another plant was LeeAnn Anderson, an activist with a union that has endorsed Mr. Edwards, who was portrayed as just another mother concerned for her kids.
Another questioner worked with Democratic Senator Dick Durbin’s staff. Adam Florzak asked a question on Social Security. It turns out that Florzak quit his job with Caterpillar to work with Dick.
A former intern with Democratic Rep. Jane Harman asked a question about farm subsidies. Ted Faturos was his name.
Mark Strauss, who said he was a Ron Paul supporter, pleaded with Ron Paul to run as an Independent. Turns out he is a Bill Richardson volunteer Who participated in the CNN/youtube democrat debate last July.
David McMillan, a TV writer from Los Angeles, turns out to have several paens to John Edwards on his YouTube page and has attended Barack Obama fundraisers.
Had GOP candidates somehow been able to insert their operatives and supporters into a Democratic debate, and had, say, Fox News failed to vet the questioners and presented them as average citizens, my guess is you would have written a column about it.
Nope, no bias here!!!! Just move along!!!!
Hey, SW, didn't Grover Norquist ask a question?
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