Kristof: Bush is...ACHILLES!

[Joeve]

Permission to vomit, sir!

[Book Lover]

1. Well, the sulking in the tent part, maybe...

I get the feeling Kristof likes using these high-sounding themes when he writes. The only greek mythological character I'd compare * to would be Ate: "a definition rather than a deity, Ate ... is the personification of moral blindness in which the sense of natural vaules is destroyed. It can happen in love or war, through physical passion or envy - any emotion strong enough invokes Ate. In Homer she is the daughter of Zeus, blamed by Agamemnon for provoking the conduct which led to his fateful quarrel with Achilles (Iliad, Book XIX)." -Stapleton, Illustrated Dictionary of Greek & Roman Mythology

[Joeve]

2. Hmm

I think I might compare him to that Greek King who went to the Oracle at Delphi to ask if he would be victorious in a war, and the Oracle said "If you go to war you will destroy a great empire," and so the King goes off gleefully, getting slaughtered. The great empire he destroyed was his own.

Or better yet, I might compare him to that guy who rode into a town in a noisy chariot wielding phony lightning bolts and demanding to be worshipped because he was Zeus. Zeus promptly struck him down with a lightning bolt.

Whoever we compare him to, he's still a friggin' meatball

[Book Lover]

3. I just hope your first point

is not prophetic.

[kodi]

4. dont forget, achillies dodged the draft too.

haha!

and thank you mrs marks (9th grade lit class) for teaching me that.

[Joeve]

5. Update: My response to The Times:

To The Editors:

Is Kristof kidding? Is he on drugs? Has the whole world just gone mad? Achilles? ACHILLES? Why not compare George W. to Jesus Christ himself, or better yet, God Almighty? It's not a question of partisanship, it's just outrageously immature and beneath the standards The Times supposedly sets for itself. You ought to be ashamed of yourselves for printing such mindless drivel!

Disgustedly Yours,

Joe

kodi: yeah, he dressed as a woman to avoid having to go fight. Odysseus tricked him though.

But of course that's not what Kristof was intending, frankly I think I may know more about Achilles than he does. He wants it to seem that W is a heroic warrior who is learning from his mistakes, when nothing could be further from the truth: he's a vicious little coward who's in way over his head. Why Kristof and the rest of the American press (with a few RARE exceptions) is covering for this person, I have no idea...

[kodi]

7. still, you might want to add that tidbit in your missive to the times.

something a long the lines of "how dare kritof compare our president to achillies. while it is true that bush, like achillies attempted to avoid fighting in a war, president bush did not wear a dress when awol from the tang."

[Zhade]

6. Well, gee, let's hope so!

After all, Achilles did have that one issue with his heel...

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. I think what he meant was that Bush is Achille's Heel.

Yeah, that's what he meant.