“Ummm, is this ‘corn on the cob’ or a ‘cob of corn?’ I’ll have to run it by the Newspeak folks.”
Sorry for the sporadic nature of the postings of late. I’ve been crunched for time and dang it, just not inspired. To top it off, I came down with a wicked stomach bug that laid me up for two days. All the while, we’ve got banks failing, gas prices God knows where, consumer spending dropping like flies, and on & on. It’s like somebody sucked all the Hope out of America.
Then it occurred to me, Hope has left the building. In fact, Hope is on a whirlwind tour of the Middle East as I write this. Yep, Obama the attention whore (but then again all politicians are attention whores), is sucking up the media spotlight. As attention whores go, Obama is one of those high-priced “executive” bimbos and McCain, well he’s the street walking type that’ll give you a “happy ending” for a bag of Doritos. Yep, John “All that for a bag of chips” McCain.
Enough about whores, bimbos, Obama and McCain. The big news yesterday and the past couple of days has been the new wordsmithing going on in the dark caverns of the West Wing. Yep, from the crew that gave us “Mission Accomplished,” “Stay the Course,” “The New Way Forward,” “Surge” and tons of other goodies, we can now add “Time Horizon.” Here
Over and over again, George Bush has stated that he would not accept a specified timeline for withdrawal. To do so would only embolden the terrorist and signal defeat. Nope, we’ve come to learn that “timelines” are bad, I mean real bad! The word “timeline” attained such infamy that should one utter the word in mixed company, you could justly be accused of being Osama bin Laden’s second cousin.
Nope, in keeping in line with the “1984″ theme that has dogged this administration, the White House Department of Newspeak comes up with “Time Horizon” to describe, er, the timeline for withdrawal of combat forces.
Time Horizon, good and Timeline, bad. There’s only one thing I see on the horizon, and it doesn’t matter who wins this November. Folks, our glorious horizon will not include George W. Bush. Although, that horizon does include a huge mess created by him that the next guy will have to clean up. Let’s all hope that there is a rock in Crawford, Texas that is big enough for this imbecile to crawl under.
“In fact, Hope is on a whirlwind tour of the Middle East as I write this.”
You so crack me up.
Dear Attorney College Boy: dang it, you almost made it through an entire post without that name calling thing.
Not much chance on a rock in Crawford, TX. I’ve been to Waco, TX (I won’t mention what happened there) on business several times in the eighties/nineties. So no rocks.
In my (personal) view I am giving Rumsfeld “credit” for the prosecution of the war in Iraq. Granted Bush had final say but he is supposed to “listen” to his advisors…. sorta.
Now if Rummy/Bush had of listened to McCain regarding the surge we would be much, much further down the road.
Did you hear Obama today say that if he knew now what he did then (about the surge) he would still do the same thing because it’s about politics. So…. more dead soldiers are better for him? Dispicable. He is a good reader but not much at thinking on his feet.
@mssc54 – I thought the best statement made this week and perhaps the most insightful was when McCain talked about the problems along the Iraq/Pakistan border.
Here’s the actual words from the proverbial horses mouth:
“I think it’s serious. . . . It’s a serious situation, but there’s a lot of things we need to do. We have a lot of work to do and I’m afraid it’s a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border.”
Yep there’s a ton of problems with the Iraq/Pakistan in fact we call that border IRAN! Lots of problems there, my friend.
Here’s the article:
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/07/mccain_appears.html
Dear Attorney College Boy; Senator McCain and Obama seem to be opposites in more ways then which side of the isle they sit on.
Senator McCain makes occassional mistakes when speaking off the cuff and struggles with the teleprompter. Senator Obama is a master orator with the teleprompter (i.e. he reads real good). However, if you get Senator Obama out somewhere where he just has to talk… ummmm, errrr, ummm, well, errr, mmmm.
You watch and see.
Perhaps Senator McCain was giving a secrete message to Iran!