January 30, 2004
THE PEOPLE ARE HEARD
Mark Steyn discusses wartime strategy with Senator John Edwards:
Posted by Tim Blair at January 30, 2004 02:13 AMI asked him what he would do about Iraq.
‘We need to get the UN in there,’ he said.
‘But they were in there. They pulled out because it was too dangerous.’
‘We need to get Nato in there,’ he said.
‘But 21 out of the 34 countries with troops on the ground are, in fact, Nato members.’
‘Hey, that’s what I love about these town hall meetings,’ he said, shaking my hand. ‘You get to hear from the people.’
Steyn's latest is his usual fantastic essay and it seems a genuine pearl among...well...go take a look at the current edition of the Spectator and you tell me.
What is the proper term for "clever and funny editor who was so invested in 'Blair lied, people died!' that he is having a hard time recognizing objective reality"?
Posted by: KevinV at January 30, 2004 at 02:25 AMWhat is the proper term . . .
Senior management material?
Posted by: R. C. Dean at January 30, 2004 at 02:31 AMThese people are scary. And they want to determine my child's future.
Posted by: Sandy P. at January 30, 2004 at 03:49 AM...go take a look at the current edition of the Spectator and you tell me.
Maybe "fossil" is the word you want. Note the cartoon that accompanies Steyn's article. As per usual Spectator policy, it has nothing to do with Steyn's topic.
A boy draws an elongated object on his paper and labels it "my dad". He explains to his confused teacher, "It's a test tube."
Ho ho! Yeah, that'd been a real thigh-slapper in 1979, by gum! (Actually, it looks like a condom. Now that would be funny. Creepy, but funny.)
Actually the cartoon reminds me of Lorena Bobbit.
When she severed her husband's penis, she drove down the road and tossed it out the car window.
It bounced off the windshield of a car with two drunks coming home from a bar.
One drunk looks at the other and slurs, "Man, dija see tha size of the dick on that bug?"
Posted by: arlo at January 30, 2004 at 06:58 AMWhat Edwards was saying: "Hey, that’s what I love about these town hall meetings, you get to hear from the people."
What Edwards was thinking: "Wait till I find which one of my flunkies was supposed to be screening these north-woods hillbillies. I'll have his ass on a platter by tomorrow morning."
I'm still puzzled as to why Heinz decided to hitch herself Kerry.On the other hand, perhaps the
campaign trail is giving her cause to reconsider, there is only so much humiliation which can be endured before a letter is sent, `You're bags reside in another state far way,find them.'
Campaign Slogans
"Dated Dean, Married Kerry" (Campaign badge)
"YAAAAARGH!" or "YEAAARGHHH!" or similar (Howard Dean)
"We're coming, you're going, and don't let the door hit you on the way out," (John Kerry)
These slogans all sound pretty hopeless, if you ask me. Do the other candidates have anything better, I wonder?
Posted by: TimT at January 30, 2004 at 09:22 AMTo hell with them!
Kevin V. : if you have anything to do with my kids: I will shoot you and your mates!!!!
Posted by: Johnathan Pearce at January 30, 2004 at 09:28 AMAs Ann Coulter announced at Hannity & Colmes and made Kiki choke on her breath:
Kerry,agigolo and a cad.
Hide you wealthy mothers or daughters folks,he is coming..
Read the rest at:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/ac20040129.shtml
Ooops,sorry about the space,that should read "a gigolo".
Posted by: Fly at January 30, 2004 at 09:41 AMHollywood good looks. A ton of money. The support of every lawyer on the planet.
Doesn't matter if you haven't thought out the incidental policy questions like Iraq.
Jeez. What a moron.
rjk
Posted by: kestrel at January 30, 2004 at 10:55 AMAndrea:
Can you fix Fly's link please ? I'm too damn lazy to cut and paste it.
My all-time favorite campaign slogan was when Edwin Edwards (D. state penitentiary)(noted for saying that he could get elected as long as he wasn't "found with a dead girl or a live boy on the lawn of the governor's mansion) was running (again) for governor of Louisiana against David Duke (R. state penitentiary), former leader of the Ku Klux Klan. "Vote for the crook, it's important."
Posted by: JorgXMcKie at January 30, 2004 at 11:37 AMArik: no. Cutting/pasting is good exercise for the mouse hand. Hey, no pain, no gain. Yes, we practice tough love here at Spleenville.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at January 30, 2004 at 11:48 AM"These slogans all sound pretty hopeless, if you ask me. Do the other candidates have anything better, I wonder?"
Kucinich: My Cookies Have Elfin Magic®!
Posted by: Jim Treacher at January 30, 2004 at 01:20 PMA couple of years back, I read Fred Daley's book From Curtin to Kerr. He had a good ear for one-liners, and his book is full of campaign slogans. This one a Liberal candidate ran against him:
Be clean, be liberal, change Daley
He retaliated with:
Give us this day our Daley Fred
He also tells the story about a National party candidate who was defeated in an election on Sunday. The candidate was called Jack Easter.
For ever afterwards, people would ask him, 'Hey Jack, when was it that Easter fell on a Sunday?' and he would threaten to punch them.
Posted by: TimT at January 30, 2004 at 03:36 PMThen there was Peter 'Percy' Jones (knockabout Carlton footballer and larrikin local hotelkeeper) whose slogan prior to his sole unsuccessful bid for public office was 'Point Percy at Parliament'.
Posted by: ilibcc at January 30, 2004 at 04:34 PMYes, we practice tough love here at Spleenville
Lunchy would be pleased to hear that. He's into big tough macho men, based on his obsession with the armed forces.
Posted by: Quentin George at January 30, 2004 at 04:36 PMUh...wait, I just read the comment and I realise I accidently implied you were a man. Sorry.
Please have my children.
Posted by: Quentin George at January 30, 2004 at 04:39 PMHere's one for Kerry (who has as much charisma as Jed Clampett's dog)
Put a Woody in the Whitehouse
Are the rumours (which I just started) true that Edwards is sueing Dean&Dean for Political Malpractice?
"We need to get the UN in there," he said.
"But they were in there. They pulled out because it was too dangerous."
Well, at least they weren't spying this time.
Posted by: Raena Armitage at January 30, 2004 at 08:54 PMThen there was Peter 'Percy' Jones (knockabout Carlton footballer and larrikin local hotelkeeper) whose slogan prior to his sole unsuccessful bid for public office was 'Point Percy at Parliament'.
That story is just too good to be true, so I'm going to tell it to everybody I know!
Put a Woody in the Whitehouse
Hmmm. What is it with politicians peckers that interests you guys?
Posted by: TimT at January 30, 2004 at 10:52 PMKucinich: "I'm a Spaaaace Cowboy -- bet you weren't ready for that!"
Kerry: "I'm a real live nephew of my Uncle Sam's, Born on the Fourth of July." [wink, wink Oliver]
Clark: "I'm in control here."
Posted by: Tongue Boy at January 30, 2004 at 11:48 PMAw, c'mon. Jed Clampett's coon dog had *lots* more charisma than Kerry.
Posted by: JorgXMcKie at January 31, 2004 at 12:37 AMI guess I should admit, thouhgh, that this past summer both Kerry and the coon dog had about the same amount of facial wrinkles. Looks now like Kerry has many fewer.
Posted by: JorgXMcKie at January 31, 2004 at 12:38 AMRaena,
If you think that pretty much every single nation who had a representative on the inspection teams wasn't collecting intel, you haven't been paying attention.
Posted by: SteveH at January 31, 2004 at 04:35 AMDrei Anfeuerungen für Busch! Wir haben Deutsch auf einen anderen gewählten Beamten wie Ihr George Bush für über fünfzig Jahren gewartet. Nicht, da unser großer Vater dieses Land im 1940s regiert hat, irgendjemanden hat die Sicht Ihres Leiters hat gehabt. Gehen Sie George!
Posted by: Henrie at January 31, 2004 at 06:55 AMHitler "großer"? He was a weedy runt in addition to being a genocidal maniac.
henrieH@survivor.de
Do you mean www.survivor.de the reality tv show, or are you falsely pretending to be a holocaust survivor? You are below pathetic.
Hitler "großer"?
In german, it also means "greater".
But I agree. Don't feed the trolls. Especially the foreign language ones.
"Ich habe eine Frage, Henrie. Wieviel Juden hat George W Bush toeten? Wieviel Juden hat Hitler toeten?"
"Dummkopf"
Posted by: Quentin George at January 31, 2004 at 08:15 AMHm. According to my magickal internet powers, "Henrie" lives in Vermont. Nice use there of Google's foreign language translator there, "Henrie."
Here's his IP address: 209.198.73.28 -- use the many free internet devices to track Mr. Fake Holocaust Survivor's web perambulations. Somehow I think real holocaust survivors have more important things to do than troll blogs.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at January 31, 2004 at 11:58 AMRe: Reana's link
I just love the "inspectors were spies" thing. That really gets me rolling. The inspectors were supposed to be spying on Saddam. Duh. Duh. DUUUUUH.
Of course, in the linked article, who's complaining about inspectors inspecting?
Scott Ritter.
Posted by: Sortelli at January 31, 2004 at 07:36 PMwho's complaining about inspectors inspecting?
Wait for Ritter's book "Inspections and the inspecting inspectors who do them", Sortelli.
Posted by: Andjam at January 31, 2004 at 11:19 PMOr better yet, get Ritter's "Teenage Inspections" - see everything! Nice dust cover photo.
Posted by: Craig Mc at February 1, 2004 at 04:13 PMWait...wait a minute...isn't it Bush who is the dumb one? I'm confused.
Posted by: David Gillies at February 1, 2004 at 05:16 PMQuestion: Why is the UN regarded as some sort of magical healing balm which can fix any international problem when history shows us it usually does nothing of the sort.
Sure, it managed to shepherd East Timor to independence, but that's only an island nation of 800,000 people, and Australia had to hand over some oil* just to make it viable.
Note: See Leftists - even your causes are Just About Oil(TM)!