How do you know? Laura Bush has always had much better numbers than her husband, first ladies usually do. That’s why the White House is sending her out to black radio stations in order to defend her husband from criticism.
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He’s going to have serious trouble getting re-elected…
Serious trouble…
Hehe
She will the same impact as she has had in her initiative on preventing gang violence. /snark.
Kind of funny how Condi apparently doesn’t have the credibility to visit black radio stations, but Laura does.
Frank, you are wrong … she is a sell out and a race traitor.
JD, you think blacks are only allowed to think, act, and vote a certain way.
Hmmm, sounds like racism to me.
neo is such an asshat. I suppose there was not one Democrat that went shopping, out to eat, to a sporting event, played golf, anything, during the same time period. Also, I suppose that the lady that yelled at Condi in the store was ignoring the fact that in light of the natural disaster, she was out shopping for shoes as well.
SafeFarris : I was joking. I was saving the effort of having to type it themselves.
Yea, right Frankie, she was probably busy buying shoes and attending Broadway shows. Why ask her?
BTW, has Condi’s Excellent Manhattan Adventure hit your blog yet? If not, why? Haven’t found anyone elses work good enough to cut and paste?
Why, Loopy? So people like you can say Bush sent out a token?
Sadie, Dick Cheney could dangle a New Orleans refugee out of a hotel room balcony and it still wouldn’t convince these nutcases.
As Secretary of State, Dr. Rice is also a leading member of the National Security Council. But that’s no reason she shouldn’t take a little time off during a national emergency.
Condi to the hurricane victims: “Let them eat shoes”.
I suppose there was not one Democrat that went shopping, out to eat, to a sporting event, played golf, anything, during the same time period.
Considering your party is is the one that controls both houses of Congress and the White House, your gonna have to start accepting that there is a higher standard to be held in matters like this. So please quit the “But Democrats” defense.
The thing about this story is, you can’t make this stuff up. You’ve got Bush with his cake and guitar, Rice buying shoes. Basically Marie Antionette, Nero and Imelda Marcos all rolled into one. How many more metaphors for arrogant out-of-touch leadership can they cram in here?
Well there was not one Democratic Secretary of State that was out shopping I can assure you of that.
I know, I know.
In fact, I am beginning to have second thoughts. I love Oliver’s trolls because they are so masochistic, but part of me is wondering if I shouldn’t stop giving it away for free. If I dressed head to toe in black leather while treating grown men like this, I could be charging good money.
Then again, what do I want with money?
Well there was not one Democratic Secretary of State that was out shopping I can assure you of that.
You can assure us of that? Okay, here’s a homework assignment. Warren Christopher, a Democratic Secretary of State, was in office when the seventh most expensive natural disaster to hit the United States occurred.
Please prove to us that Warren Christopher did not go shopping in its aftermath. I’ll be waiting.
Are you sure that’s a confession you want to be making on the Internet.
First of all, YOU’RE the one who made the outlandish claim that you could assure us that a Democratic Secretary of State wouldn’t go shopping after a disaster struck. So put up or shut up and don’t try to shift to me what you told us all you could do yourself.
Waiting, waiting….
Now for the main attraction…
I COULD CARE LESS whether or not Warren Christopher went shopping. Because it’s not relevant. But he probably did. Or he had someone else do it for him. And I seriously doubt that he went anywhere near the disaster area, BECAUSE IT’S GENERALLY NOT EXPECTED OF THE PERSON WHO CARRIES OUT THE COUNTRY’S FOREIGN POLICY.
The difference between then and now is that in 1994 we didn’t have the seriously deranged moonbats that seem to have evolved in the last five years or so.
If some deranged person had criticized Warren Christopher for going shopping in the wake of a disaster, back in 1994 that person would have been rightfully scorned. But, back then, no one would have cared.
It took the de-evolution of the Democratic Party to make it a hanging offense.
By the way, are you ever going to tell us your qualifications for judging whether or not a person is sufficently loyal to their ethnic group?
Two things.
You can’t prove a negative. Show me one photograph or even a credible eyewitness who says he was shopping.
Second, it wasn’t in the aftermath it was during. There were two disasters here, one was the hurricane itself and the other was a period of, what was it, five days that people were dying slowly of shock and dehydration? It was during those five days that she was shopping. You’d think a Secretary of State might have had things to do like, I don’t know, twisting arms to line up foreign aid?
Uh no, I said no Democratic Secretary of State was out shopping because we have no Democratic Secretary of State. We have a Republican one, because we have a Republican White House and a Republican Congress. With power comes responsiblity, deal with it.
And the phrase is “couldn’t care less,” because when you say “could care less” it kind of means the opposite of what you are trying to say.
I care about what the Secretary of State was doing during a national disaster because damnit, she is on my payroll. I am paying her salary and I expect a little bit more from my employees. I expect them to show up for work.
The ethnic bit I thought I would save for the Malkin thread, since it’s more in keeping with the topic there.
Apparently, things have just gotten better for Bush:
Death Toll May Be Far Less Than Expected
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Sep 9, 5:21 PM (ET)
By ERIN McCLAM
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Alarming predictions of as many as 10,000 dead in New Orleans may have been greatly exaggerated, with authorities saying Friday that the first street-by-street sweep of the swamped city revealed far fewer corpses than feared.
Sorry to spoil the party, lefties
You hear that the death toll may be lower than expected, and the first thing you think about is “Wow, what good news for Bush!”. What a piece of feces you are.
Frankie, when terrorists blow up innocent civilians, is that “better for Bush” (your words)?
Why do you people’s lives in the context of George Bush’s popularity?
No, actually, I meant it was bad news for liberals, loopy…
Save the moral indignation for the next time a terrorist in Iraq blows up innocent civilians.
It is kind of weird, isn’t it neocon?
It’s like George Bush is reality for them. He is more real to them than their own lives, or the lives of anyone else. I mean, I understand the affiliation drive is very powerful, and people will all kinds of crazy things to be part of a group. But they really take it too far the way they can’t help but contextualize everything in terms of “good for Bush, bad for Bush.”
>>Why do you people s lives in the context of George Bush s popularity?
Because he needs George W. Bush to give him something to do with his life.
JK
Loopy, I didn’t say when terrorists blow up innocent civilians, it’s better for Bush… I wish it was, then you lefties would want it stopped, and back the war.
SadieB: Your problem is that George is not reality for you. You still believe that he “stole” the 2000 and 2004 election, when most sane people think of him as the President of the United States.
You wish he wasn’t, so you think he isn’t.
I don’t live my life in the context of George Bush’s popularity.
1) I don’t hate him
2) I support him, when I agree with him, and when Americans’ lives are at stake — there is a difference you lefties don’t acknowledge.
3) I love annoying you left - wing yahoos who think the sun rises and sets on your decrepit ideology.
What do terrorists blowing up innocent civilians have to do with the war Iraq? Of course, I don’t mean the terrorists that have sprung up since the war in Iraq.
Then, what do you mean? If anything but your usual peckish nonsense…
I’ll ignore the ad hominem attack for the time being and address your question:
In responding to neoconsrloopy, you defended yourself by clarifying that you did not suggest that when terrorists blow up innocent civilians, it’s better for bush.
You added: I wish it was, then you lefties would want it stopped, and back the war.
I’m simply asking what you mean by that.
Too bad you didn’t ask the question you meant to ask, or I would have answered it.
I meant that I wish killing terrorists were somehow bad for Bush, because then liberal Democrats would be for it, and with all the Americans behind the effort, we could win.
It’s hard to fight with one hand behind your back.
BTW, by all means, do not ignore the ad hominem attack — it was actually meant to be instructional…
So you’re saying that the war in Iraq would be more successful if it had the support of all Americans? I’m just trying to understand your reasoning for that comment.
As for the ad hominem attack, it’s pointless to be offended by you. It’s like being offended that rain is wet. However, it does point to your hypocrisy when you become outraged at others when you deem yourself sufficiently offended. As I recall, your last exit from our fair threads followed a temper tantrum the likes of which I have yet to experience on the internets. Highly entertaining, but in retrospect rather childish.
Mouse;
Frank is more interested in sowing discord than reaching an understanding.
But it is fun to tweak the weasel. isn’t it?
Mouse: If you don’t understand that wars require popular support, you must have missed Viet Nam. PBS usually has a quarterly special on how lack of support for the war brought it to an end (reliving old “boomer” victories, I guess)… You must have seen one of them.
If you “weren’t offended”, then why bring it up. You called it an “ad hominem” attack. You’re bringing it up for the second time, not I. Finally, how, and why, I stopped posted here before is not in the least bit germane, whether or not you now, “in retrospect” think it was childish (like I care).
At least I could say, then, that the ad hominem attacks weren’t even related to the argument I was making, my posts, or the topic, for that matter.
Semanticleo, when did you get here? Two days ago? In the first place, you know less about me than mouse, who is also a relative newcomer compared to me. I’ve been posting here for years. If anybody is sowing discord it’s you with your stupidly posited arguments that wouldn’t gain points in a high school debate club.
I was referring to your “encyclopedic” knowledge of my thought patterns, my whereabouts, and my motives, in just a few days. And, also, the fact that you are playing the role of the troll in ways I’v never dreamed of.
Yes, you may be a leftie, but you are a troll.
You can barely type a post without insulting me, or injecting some completely gratuitous condescending or arrogant — or both — remarks.
Frank;
Your ‘tenure’ here is iirrelevent. I didn’t fall off the truck yesterday and suddenly discover the world of political debate. Get over it.
Here’s an idea. Ignore the trolls
Why don’t you practice what you preach? Oh, I forgot — you’re a liberal.