I SEE THEY HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON

I'll bet you didn't see this article from the Associated Press a few days ago. I'm sure the obsessive wingnut oafs were flipping out when they read this, but truer words about the boy emperor were never written:

"Some look at the challenges in Iraq and conclude that the war is lost and not worth another dime or another day," President Bush said recently.

Another time he said, "Some say that if you're Muslim you can't be free."

"There are some really decent people," the president said earlier this year, "who believe that the federal government ought to be the decider of health care ... for all people."

Of course, hardly anyone in mainstream political debate has made such assertions.

When the president starts a sentence with "some say" or offers up what "some in Washington" believe, as he is doing more often these days, a rhetorical retort almost assuredly follows.

The device usually is code for Democrats or other White House opponents. In describing what they advocate, Bush often omits an important nuance or substitutes an extreme stance that bears little resemblance to their actual position.

He typically then says he "strongly disagrees" — conveniently knocking down a straw man of his own making.

I am sick to death of this mealy-mouthed weaselly Bush-logic. The man could not defend his ideas if his life depended on it. Someone said recently, and I fully agree, that the reason Bushie talks to the American people like children is because ideas are explained to him as if he were a child. It is ghoulish and frankly sickening to listen to the man speak. I can't do it without dry-heaving.

We have a wingnut in PT who is exactly like Bush in this respect. grunto likes to leave his banjo on the porch and come spew his idiocy on the mic. I know I'm not alone in wishing that he'd find another way to amuse himself. Maybe if we give him a few bits of shiny tin foil, he'll skitter off and hide them in a tree. What should we expect from a man who thinks hog-fucking should be a professional sport?

grunto is as much a king of strawmen as Bush. The fool spent 2 minutes on the mic asking this vapid question: "Which of you out there is gonna tell me that Saddam was a great guy? Huh? Who is going to say that the Baathists were nice people?" grunto, you sad sack of simple-minded sputum, no one in the room thought Saddam was a prince. What a depressingly low opinion you must have of yourself if you need to avoid the many and sundry solid arguments against invading Iraq, in favor of knocking over a strawman. Instead, you throw on your water wings, and proceed to splash around in the kiddie pool. I think you need a diaper change, grunto, because your diaper stinks worse than your arguments.

JC