Friday, June 01, 2007

Peggy laments

Wasting an inheritance. Not a good thing to do.
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11 comments:

Arelcao Akleos said...

Not good at all, AI
My regret McCain did not join up with Kerry in 2004 only deepens with time. It would have saved us, and Bush, this mess of a second administration. It would have given hope, assuming McCain did run it as the plan went, of a deeply serious and undistracted military campaign in the WOT. It would have given hope of some genuine bipartisanship and stalling the dems drift into Pepean delight at the triumph of our mortal enemies. At worst, should it have been no better than Bush has been, it would have given hope to capable choices for 2008....
As it is, with the Bushes we are getting a live run of one of history's great counter-intuitives: first, with Bush elder, we got a Farce, and then later with Bush Jr we get the fucking tragedy.
This sucks

6/01/2007 12:42 PM
Tecumseh said...

Turning Karlie on his head, yes?

6/01/2007 1:32 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...

Absolutely

6/01/2007 1:42 PM
Mr roT said...

Oh, bull. Poonan is just trying to make more Reagan hagiography than is digestible. Reagan got 300 Marines killed in Beirut and turned tail and ran after a weaker opponent in Gorby. He was Carter with the Muslims and a drooling stopped clock with the Russians.
Your idea of a Grande Centro of McCain-Kerry is as laughable as it would have ben tragic. The Democrats would have taken the opportunity to co-opt the right with this Feingold collaborator and now both sides would be with Binny, but four years quicker.
You really think Kerry with his animadversions would have been up to the steadfastness the WOT requires? Hell no.
He would have looked at the weathervanes and remembered his halcyon days of medal-chucking. He would have sold us out from the Oval Office itself.
Bush may be playing this slowly and indecisively, but he is doing the right thing in the end.
Kerry and McCain would have punched a hole under the waterline before we got out of port.

6/01/2007 3:07 PM
Tecumseh said...

Let me stay out of the waht-if-Kerry-and-McCain-had-won fight, but I cannot let pass your crime de lèse majesté against Ronnie, JJ. Allright, en guarde! Let's duel. I say the Gipper was the greatest President since WWII, arguably the graetest of the 20th Century (thus, since Abe Lincoln). If you disagree with that, we'll have to settle this mano-a-mano.

6/01/2007 3:58 PM
Tecumseh said...

Gallup Poll. Powwww!!!! OK, you've been diggin and diggin, JJ. To get out of this jam, you will need at least a couple of Arrogant Bastards. Chilled to perfection.

6/01/2007 4:02 PM
Mr roT said...

Same poll puts Bill Clinton above FDR. Whatever, dude.

6/01/2007 5:03 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...

I guess, given what was faced before and through WWII, I'd give FDR the nod. Then Reagan. Then TR. Then Truman. Then Eisenhower. All more positives than negatives.
Taft, JFK, Coolidge are iffy
Then, with the rest, varieties of shit hit varieties of fan

6/01/2007 6:06 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...

so much for the 20th century.
As for the 21st, GB is the Best of Presidents and the Worst of Presidents, sans doute

6/01/2007 6:08 PM
Tecumseh said...

You said it, buster. Question is: Do we go uphill from here, or downhill?

6/01/2007 8:04 PM
Mr roT said...

You're the guy that prefers Romney to Giuliani. Sure we can go downhill.

6/01/2007 11:31 PM

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