6 posts tagged “president”

Have you seen Ann Coulter lately. she looks like I've never seen her - frazzled and frantic, and her voice seems to have risen several octaves.

As John McCain closes in on the Republican nomination and polls say he's the only one who's competitive with Clinton and Obama, the most prominent conservative to actively oppose the Senator is becoming more and more strident.

Today, Ann said she'd vote for Hillary before she'd vote for McCain. That's not the sort of comment one can backtrack on very easily, and it's as outrageous as it is impractical.

We understand, Ann, that you really hate McCain, but there are far more important issues than the ones you and other conservatives cite in denouncing him, and even if they were equally as important as security and spending, why haven't you been demanding that the President get tough on immigration and spending?

What we're now seeing is a prime example of why I say I don't like conservatives much better than Democrats. McCain is not an ideal candidate. He's just the best of those who've run. I know you think Romney is far better, Ann, but he's had plenty of time to demonstrate that... and he hasn't.

So I hope you read that column in the Wall Street Journal today. If you had already, you wouldn't have said what you did about voting for Hillary. Either that or you're blinded by hate and thus merely typical of many conservatives.

McCain is The Man. He's the only choice for Republicans and the country, and if you were not to support him, you would do your country a disservice for which I would never forgive you if it came to pas that McCain lost and Hillary won.

By the way, would you vote for Obama over McCain?

John McCain is a known entity. You can predict where he'll be unpredictable. Romney is an unknown entity, one in which it's impossible to predict where he will fail you. Or do you think he won't?

If so, did you think Bush wouldn't either? Because I don't know about you, but I expected George Bush to become more conservative, not less, once he took office if for no other reason than simply because he'd be grateful for the support conservatives had shown him.

So I'd advise you to be very careful, Ann. You've already turned me off, and it's time to prove you're not a blind ideologue - something I'd never thought you were. if you can't find a reason to endorse McCain, then at least take a cue from Al Sharpton's suggestion for Bill Clinton and shut up.

Because if you continue, you're not going to bury John McCain, you'll only be marginalizing yourself, and I'd hate to see that happen. You've taken your best shot, you lost, move on... before you start to sound like that group of the same name.

If you hadn't run for President, your fellow liberals might never have understood, much less admit, what absolute dirtbags your husband and his spouse are.

Of course, I understand full well that doesn't mean they won't elect you, since they still have all the same problems with principles they did in '98... and a whole lot more now.

Senator John McCain, W-Az, was on The Late Show last night where he announced that he'd be running for President, and that he'd be announcing that again in April... and presumably, every month thereafter.

However, in the course of announcement, he happened to say the following:

"Americans are very frustrated, and they have every right to be... We've wasted a lot of our most precious treasure, which is American lives."

The comment seems at first to be remarkably similar to one made by Barry O'Bama a few weeks earlier and it has resulted in some Democrats further demeaning the military (they can't further demean themselves) by disingenuously demanding that McCain apologize. McCain subsequently has, thus proving conclusively that two wrongs don't make a right.

That's because there's a big difference between what McCain meant and what O'Bama meant.

See, Barry opposed the war from the start, and as such, he has a vested interest in seeing that it not succeed. That may not be conscious on his part, by the way, it just is - if we are successful in Iraq, Barry is diminished.

McCain, on the other hand, wants victory, and he realizes how important it is for us and the world, even if the world doesn't.

So when O'Bama says that our soldiers' lives have been wasted, he wants you to feel outraged, angry, disgusted, and demoralized. He wants you to realize you were a fool for ever backing this operation.

John McCain wants nothing of the sort. He's probably angry and disgusted too, but not about the mission. He's likely frustrated with the one man who has steadfastly refused to do what's necessary to win, but McCain, of course, can't talk about that considering the absurd numbers reported in a recent poll which showed that 76% of Republicans are, in fact, ostriches.

So O'Bama wanted you to know that the lives of our finest were just wasted from day-one. McCain wants you to know that they have been wasted because we haven't done what it takes to prevail. Make no mistake, lives were wasted in either case, but the numbers differ, and for McCain, it doesn't... or at least it didn't... have to end in abject failure.

It's one thing to say that every life we've lost in Iraq was a waste, and quite another to say that (some) lives have been squandered due to incompetence and indecision or worse, for... staying the course.

So McCain's candidacy is officially wasted, but he had nothing to apologize for. Someone else does, and not for saying that lives have been wasted, but for actually wasting them. However, Republicans won't demand that - they are even reticent to name.names.

Democrats will name names, there's just always in the wrong context.

So Nancy Pelosi returned from a tour of Iraq and promptly called for an end to the war because it's gone on too long. Coincidentally, that's exactly my gripe.

I said our engagement over there had gone on too long after the first year when we hadn't paved Iraq and left.

See, somehow, I'd gotten the impression from Mr. Bush when he said, "You're either with us or against us," that he meant that if you were against us, we'd either persuade you not to be or you wouldn't be - at all - in the Hamlet sense.

Instead, we became infatuated with a grotesque remix of that Carpenter's song, Rainy Days and Mondays, this one called Holy Days and Mosques... And what the world thinks about us.

Most of "the world" wouldn't help us they if it could, since they actually are members of that Bush designated group: "those who are against us." Of course, there's nothing wrong with being respectful of the religion of peace except that too much respect in a place like Iraq results in Americans (with the notable exception of the President himself) losing parts of themselves and even their lives.

So while we might have lost three thousand of our finest in the push to Baghdad alone and accepted that as a cost of war, to lose them in ones and twos and twenties for seemingly nothing is unconscionable, especially when you can still find Fallujah on a map and al-Sadr still exists.

If you juxtapose Pelosi's comment with the opening this week of the Center for the Intrepid, a -privately- funded facility in San Antonio for the rehabilitation of our many fallen heroes in Iraq and Afghanistan, an event, by the way, that the President was unable to attend, no doubt due to his intense personal involvement in the training of Iraqis to take up their own fight, you realize that this "surge" Mr. Bush is in the process of implementing is unlikely to accomplish anything other than increasing the numbers of our dead and wounded, and that under no circumstances will it result in a safe and secure Iraq with terrorists in full and pursued retreat.

Now here's the worst part of it: the President could have likely turned things around at any time after things started to go wrong simply by reasserting his "with us or against us" policy and ordering his generals to do what the military does best. But not only will he not do that,  it's clear he never intended to, and so among his many and grave sins, perhaps the gravest of all is his creating a set of conditions in which people like Nancy Pelosi appear to be right.

Because when you're right, the reasoning that got you there gets overlooked. So you see what I'm saying? The President has made it possible for absolute morons to believe they're geniuses. But then perhaps one day well look back and say, "That was the genius of George Bush?"

I've said over and over that there's no one on the planet who hates Bush more than I, but I have to give the man credit where it's due. Early in the 2000 campaign he told us that he was a uniter, not a divider, and he has finally made good on his claim. I mean, if you live in on the planet and you don't hate him, let's just say you're not of this Earth, because the other alternatives are that you're either insane or a fool, and I think I know you well enough to say you're neither of those.

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Researchers have found a major trigger for Tourette's Syndrome - George Whatsaborder© Bush.

I know myself, from the instant I see his face or hear his voice, I can't stop screaming obscenities, and I only stop when I'm completely exhausted.