Dowd: My Private Idaho

[kskiska]

W. vacationed so hard in Texas he got bushed. He needed a vacation from his vacation.

The most rested president in American history headed West yesterday to get away from his Western getaway - and the mushrooming Crawford Woodstock - and spend a couple of days at the Tamarack Resort in the rural Idaho mountains.

"I'm kind of hangin' loose, as they say," he told reporters.

As The Financial Times noted, Mr. Bush is acting positively French in his love of le loafing, with 339 days at his ranch since he took office - nearly a year out of his five. Most Americans, on the other hand, take fewer vacations than anyone else in the developed world (even the Japanese), averaging only 13 to 16 days off a year.

W. didn't go alone, of course. Just as he took his beloved feather pillow on the road during his 2000 campaign, now he takes his beloved bike. An Air Force One steward tenderly unloaded W.'s $3,000 Trek Fuel mountain bike when they landed in Boise.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/24/opinion/24dowd.html

[Gildor Inglorion]

1. My cockles are warmed...I feel all fuzzy...Gawd BLEY-USS him!

:puke: :puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:

[speedoo]

2. scathing. must read.

Dowd kills the Coward on his latest "logic" for staying the course, now tht his first three reasons no longer exist. Or is it four or five. Sorry, I've lost track.

[rodeodance]

6. "we have to keep killing.....because so many of our kids have been

killed"------yes, dangerously twisted 'logic'



,,,,What twisted logic: with no W.M.D., no link to 9/11 and no democracy, now we have to keep killing people and have our kids killed because so many of our kids have been killed already? Talk about a vicious circle: the killing keeps justifying itself.,,,,,

[rodeodance]

7. Ron Reagen said Bush now has a new reason for the war-- He picked

up on this 'twisted logic' yesterday on the Connected show on msnbc.


What twisted logic: with no W.M.D., no link to 9/11 and no democracy, now we have to keep killing people and have our kids killed because so many of our kids have been killed already? Talk about a vicious circle: the killing keeps justifying itself.,,,,,

[fencesitter]

3. She's missing the point.

President Bush is showing the American people that he is environmentally friendly, biking to work to save energy and enjoying our great outdoors that he tries so hard to protect.

[rodeodance]

4. "America has caved on Iraqi women's rights."

....The rest of us may be fixated on the depressing tableau in Iraq, where the U.S. seems to be delivering a fundamentalist Islamic state into the dirty hands of men like Ahmad Chalabi, who conned the neocons into pushing for war, and his ally Moktada al-Sadr, the Shiite cleric who started two armed uprisings against U.S. troops. It was his militiamen who ambushed Casey Sheehan's convoy in Sadr City.

America has caved on Iraqi women's rights. In fact, the women's rights activists supported by George and Laura Bush may have to leave Iraq.

But, as a former C.I.A. Middle East specialist, Reuel Marc Gerecht, said on "Meet the Press," U.S. democracy in 1900 didn't let women vote. If Iraqi democracy resembled that, "we'd all be thrilled," he said. "I mean, women's social rights are not critical to the evolution of democracy."

Yesterday, the president hailed the constitution establishing an Islamic republic as "an amazing process," and said it "honors women's rights, the rights of minorities." Could he really think that? Or is he following the Vietnam model - declaring victory so we can leave?.....

[rodeodance]

5. "Maureen Dowd exposes frontal nudity" (also see this)

http://jmpolitics.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Maureen Dowd exposes frontal nudity

In the New York Times today, opinion columnist Maureen Dowd exposed Bush's frontal nudity by writing in the piece My Private Idaho as follows:

What twisted logic: with no W.M.D., no link to 9/11 and no democracy, now we have to keep killing people and have our kids killed because so many of our kids have been killed already? Talk about a vicious circle: the killing keeps justifying itself.

[Jack Rabbit]

8. A very good piece

This is a very good piece written on the Bush is out of touch theme. There have been quite a few of those lately.

[paineinthearse]

9. he got bushed. He needed a vacation from his vacation.

:rofl:

Could it have been the effect of the patriots at Camp Casey? The Idaho trip was so hastily put together, McClellan's assistant was clueless (well, maybe she is clueless anyway).

Nominated.