Opprobrium
On Salon.com today I find this headline about Dubya's Thanksgiving visit to Baghdad: " 'Mission Accomplished' footage is no longer usable, so Karl Rove recalls his cast and crew to shoot a new Bush commercial in Baghdad."
I'm no booster of the President, but give him a little credit, please. First he isn't going to troop funerals, and he's a heartless jerk. Now he's visiting a war zone, and he's an opportunistic SOB. Isn't it possible that once in a while he just remembers to act Presidential? The "left" is going to have to stop demonizing the guy if they're going to make any headway.
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That Salon headline owes me!
That Salon headline owes me! I posted the same thing shit three days ago!
Remember Johno, the following thoughts are not mutually exclusive (1) it's good Bush did this for the troops and (2) the footage will be replayed endlessly in RNC campaign commercials. After all, the same thing could have been said at the time about the aircraft carrier photo-op.
Norby (may I call ya that)?
Norby (may I call ya that)?
That's totally true. My own reaction to the footage was mixed: "oh, yay?" with "oh, jeebuz... here we go."
Have you ever read the great American historian Richard Hofstadter? He was a contrarian, in that if the ideological drift of the history profession was to bash, say, Lincoln, he made sure to write something to counterbalance the prevailing point of view. I share that impulse, sometimes to a fault. Buckethead would accuse me of cavilling, caving, or flimflammery, where what's really going on is a rich and conflicted inner dialogue that results in the tiny gem of knowledge I issue forth.
I kind of feel like the opposite of Howard Dean on Crossfire last night: "I'm sure I do have something good to say about the President, but I'm just not in that mindset right now." heh.
Crap... posted too fast.....
Crap... posted too fast.....
I was just arguing that if the President's critics (of which I am one) don't acknowledge (1) with (2), they risk caricature at best, and total irrelevance at worst.