Just the Facts
Too tired from chasing the elusive American Greenback, I recline at my computer to read a digital version of the Daily Farce. Herein I am presented by reruns of Presidential Rhetoric, Vol. #8, “I’m Not a Warmonger, I’m In This To Win,” and Vol #17, “Stay The Course (Damn The Torpedoes).” I’m glad I missed that black-tie event. For $1,000-a-plate, I would expect the screenwriters to dres up that dead cow a bit better.
Our Latter-Day Caesar recapitulated his regurgitation upon yet another captive audience at the Naval Academy in Annapolis today. He can’t trust the time-honored “town square” meetings he tried out during the Great Social Security Scare of 2004. One never knows what kind of rifraff will appear to ruin a good photo-op.
Thankfully, in these times of political discontent, enough momentum exists for the previously unthinkable: open criticism of our administrators by the MSM. WaPo presents snippets like a movie trailer - Fact-Checking the President. Oscar-baiting stuff, here. Meanwhile, NY Times analyzes Political motivations.
Tonight’s favorite moment, however, is a mental Freudian slip I made while misreading a CNN headline which read:
Bush: US to Stay In Iraq Until War Is Won.
I read this as:
Bush to Stay In Iraq Until War Is Won.
I thought, “Cool!”