This is why I miss the West Wing
BARTLET GET ANGRIER! Call them liars, because that’s what they are. Sarah Palin didn’t say “thanks but no thanks” to the Bridge to Nowhere. She just said “Thanks.” You were raised by a single mother on food stamps — where does a guy with eight houses who was legacied into Annapolis get off calling you an elitist? And by the way, if you do nothing else, take that word back. Elite is a good word, it means well above average. I’d ask them what their problem is with excellence. While you’re at it, I want the word “patriot” back. McCain can say that the transcendent issue of our time is the spread of Islamic fanaticism or he can choose a running mate who doesn’t know the Bush doctrine from the Monroe Doctrine, but he can’t do both at the same time and call it patriotic. They have to lie — the truth isn’t their friend right now. Get angry. Mock them mercilessly; they’ve earned it. McCain decried agents of intolerance, then chose a running mate who had to ask if she was allowed to ban books from a public library. It’s not bad enough she thinks the planet Earth was created in six days 6,000 years ago complete with a man, a woman and a talking snake, she wants schools to teach the rest of our kids to deny geology, anthropology, archaeology and common sense too? It’s not bad enough she’s forcing her own daughter into a loveless marriage to a teenage hood, she wants the rest of us to guide our daughters in that direction too? It’s not enough that a woman shouldn’t have the right to choose, it should be the law of the land that she has to carry and deliver her rapist’s baby too? I don’t know whether or not Governor Palin has the tenacity of a pit bull, but I know for sure she’s got the qualifications of one. And you’re worried about seeming angry? You could eat their lunch, make them cry and tell their mamas about it and God himself would call it restrained. There are times when you are simply required to be impolite. There are times when condescension is called for!
Aaron Sorkin Conjures a Meeting of Obama and Bartlet , Maureen Dowd's Op Ed from LAST WEEK that I just found.
3 comments:
When you're right, you're right.
Obama should be up by 15-20 points!
I guess he's just waiting for Oliver Stone's movie "W" to hit the theatres..
not much of a plan?
Go for the jugular.
Oh and Caribou Barbie will get slaughtered in the media..we'll see if she does any more interviews.
"I can see Russia from my house!" does not a foreign policy make.
If a bear shits in the woods, is it provably wrong? I watched the
debate, and as might any reasoning person, drew my own conclusions
about who won. On the other hand,
the debate itself was a sterling
example of the indifference our
country shows about little things.
You know, things like govt actions, Constitutional law, civil liberties
or international relations. If one
truly believes that the "Ends justify the Means", without thought of exactly what those Ends most likely are... AND... can find
50.1% other blighted souls who can
elect you into office... No sense being anal about logic, debates, culpability, or plain facts. If
the debate rule was, "For any
direct answers to our direct questions, you forfeit your time
for rebuttals in later rounds" ,
the debate would have been more
effective, or at least, much shorter.
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