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April 9, 2008 at 08:35:44

Headlined on 4/9/08:
White House and McCain Try To Nail Us With Fuzzy, Flaccid Math

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During the 2000 presidential election, candidate Bush called Al Gore's economic figures, "fuzzy math."

Seems like the White House is still using the same arithmetic.

"We'll look at the circumstances and assess," said U.S. Iraq Ambassador Stephen Crocker speaking "battlefield geometry" and "political-military calculus."

Yet yesterday, with General Petraeus or Crocker unable to define success to senators, Sen. John McCain said it all added up to mean that "success is within reach."

If General Petreaus or the White House cannot even determine what success is, how does McCain know it's in reach?

Perhaps he's using the well-worn Republican abacus.

Last time the voters bought this illogic, it added up to nearly eight years of devastation.

The only hard facts that have come from the hearing came from Crocker who said that "Almost everything about Iraq is hard." Last September he said, "Iraq is hard, and reconciliation is hard."

That doesn't define success, folks. That only means that Iraq's the one place that doesn't need Viagra.

And if it lasts longer than five years, don't call your doctor...call your Congressman.

Award-winning television writer and author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful," Steve Young' s "All The News That's Fit To Spoof" appears in L.A. Daily News opeds every Sunday on the same page with Bill O'Reilly's...really.

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A talk show host, author, columnist,award-winning television writer and filmmaker, his inspiring book, "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful" (Tallfellow Press) has been published internationally and has become required reading in the Wharton School of Business Masters Program. His "All The News That's Fit To Spoof " column appears every Sunday on the L.A. Daily News Oped Page. Steve has appeared all over national TV and radio with his unique brand of satirical punditry and social observations appearing in national periodicals from the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, to his own weekly Internet column "The Lords Of Loud," at AlbionMonitor.net and The Huffington Post.

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Born in 1929 in Sheffield Yorkshire England. Left school at age 14 and worked as a painter & decorator until I was called up for National service in the British Army. Served in the army untill 1973, then worked as an electronics/radio engineer untill 1984 when i retired. Built a boat and sailed around the Med. for 11 years then sold it in Tunisia, returned to the U.K. then to Florida where I've lived ever since.
douglas kayBorn in 1929 in Sheffield Yorkshire England. Left school at age 14 and worked as a painter & decorator until I was called up for National service in the British Army. Served in the army untill 1973, then worked as an electronics/radio engineer untill 1984 when i retired. Built a boat and sailed around the Med. for 11 years then sold it in Tunisia, returned to the U.K. then to Florida where I've lived ever since.

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McCain is by far the worst candidate since Bob Dole that other war hero but Americans love their military, love their generals looking like christmas trees with medals down to their knees. Perhaps a decent education sytem could change all that.

by douglas kay (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 83 comments) on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 9:33:46 PM

I'm a recently graduated math and music student living in California; I'd like to believe the world is my oyster!
Kiel PrattI'm a recently graduated math and music student living in California; I'd like to believe the world is my oyster!

Great article

I pray that the public can appraise the candidates before we all walk too much further down the path of destruction.

The ability to reconcile political bloviating with reality, and the ability to detect contradiction, are the MINIMUM requirements for the democratic public to faithfully execute its sovereign power. (That's still the system we have, right?)

I would even appreciate a God-given order for all Americans to watch The Daily Show each night, just to get a taste of skilled criticism and sobering wit. The mainstream news media lends no critical thinking tools to the discussion... people have to realize that as Americans, it really is OUR wits alone against the powers of corporatism and decay.

by Kiel Pratt (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 14 comments) on Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 1:45:58 PM