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It almost smells fishy. One week we hear Condi Rice lying about never having a meeting and never receiving a report that every one knows both lived. And Republicans have even talked Condi up about running for president in two more years. This is a gal who cannot remember an important document, with which had she acted on the importance of the memo, we could have saved 3,000 lives in New York.Condi is the lady who was buying $2,000 shoes while "Rome burned." As a member of "The Team," her job seems to be a lap dog for Bush and Cheney, often parroting the exact words and phrases that they conclude will fool the US citizens. Sadly, Rice could have made a difference in this administration, but, ... she didn't.
Forget about Iraq, because Bush would have found some lame excuse for going in over there, anyway; and we would still be in that muck and mire of a war, with no planning for an exit strategy.
If there is one thing that describes the Bush legacy, it would be described as administration "double speak" to fool the voters and the world. Remember, last week at this time, we were reading about the 8 months of the benign Bush regime before 9-11. The president hadn't done a thing during those months, except trying to think up good reasons to invade Iraq.
At the same time, Clinton had slam-dunked Fox News by putting away their petty little reporter, who thought he had his prey cornered once and for all. Bill slams him big time for lying about the meeting. The meeting promised to be mostly about Clinton's foreign aid mission, but Wallace stuns Clinton on ben Ladin, up and front. Big mistake! This was not on the agenda. It was about his mission first and, ... the last few minutes, ... politics. It wasn't Fox's best day. Republicans and Fox News have the same glove size because they are a mirror image of each other. Both will lie in a second, to make themselves look good.
Obermann, on MSNBC, has gotten O'Reilly's goat and won't let it go. Since they are on at the same time, Obermann's crew tapes the Fox editorial slot, to dig up dirt on Fox's "best man," so if we want to see what happened today, we need to wait until tomorrow, before we get it. I have to switch from CNN to catch Obermann, but that isn't a problem. When my wife gets home from work, she sure in heck doesn't want to watch the news, so Obermann is shown again at 11 p.m.. Since I have a continuing problem with insomnia, I fit his program in, after I watch the first half hour of Jay Leno or David Letterman during their monolog and the fun part of their gags.
And, of course, there is Comedy Central's, two brilliant political programs that reaches our youngest voters. Jon Stewart, with sword-in-hand, decapitated Novak and crew on decades old Crossfire.
I personally prefer the CNN crew, with Wolfe Blitzer and Jack Cafferty. Jack is an old crotchety guy like the rest of us, except he has the perfect job behind a microphone and in front of the camera, and he makes ample use of both. All Jack does is give the audience a question which he is disgusted with, and then waits for the emails to come in. Great fun!!! Ol' Jack has read several of my emails; and it's fun to give him answers that are creative and catches his brain. Every retired old person, like me, should be watching The Situation Room on CNN, so they can get on their computer and exercise their brains. Jack always waits to read the most creative email for the last.
But, it does seem odd to me, that all of this stuff is coming out, just before the election. Gosh, we are just getting into the "brain-dead" Bush's first 8 months, when we find out the Republicans in the House has been sitting on a sex scandal for over a year. I know, I know, the Democrats had a scandal just like this a half century ago, but that was long before the Internet and phone sex. Different ball game, Bro, from across the ocean. Sending me a report on Studds is old news. We thought we had already fixed it.
Can we think of anyone in the Bush White House who has not lied? Not purposely leaked? Bent the rules in their favor? Scorched the Constitution. On the other hand, can we think of anyone in that over-ripe watermelon who hasn't made big time snafus? At least Powell was able to cut and run. Speaking of cut and run, ...? As ol' Jack would probably say, "At least with cut and run, we could keep 'the rest' of our soldiers alive."
Me? I am waiting for Woodward's book. Bought it on the Internet, and my Bro across the sea, has been sandbagging it and Woodward. There is good reasons that Bob's book is on the market now. We have enough time to digest it, before the elections. I mean, by now, anyone still on Bush's coat-tails, are truly sucking his dirty tux, big time.
And, what ever happened to Ms. Coulter? Surely, she hasn't gotten tired of eating crow! It's been a breath of clean air, without seeing her mug on TV of late. The college people have been getting to her psyche!! "You guys are dumber than I am!" And where's Michael Moore?
