Sofia wrote:You think Kerry will look better wearing that triangular hat? (I heard it lengthens the face...)
Nah. It's a perfect fit where it is.
Ah, a little botox here and there and he'd look great in it...
Kerry seems to have stayed above the fray re: the 911 Commission, unless I haven't been paying close enough attention.
I think this is the high road.
Has he made any politically expedient comments about the Commission? Does anyone think he should?
Politicians have big enough heads already -- the cheese just makes them easier to smell.
He's been quiet about the Commission.
He has said he would stay the course in Iraq, and apparently wave a magic wand, the one that creates 10 MILLION jobs, to get us more world support for Iraq.
I wonder how many are volunteering to work on those reconstruction projects in Iraq. That must've added a few hundred jobs - at the very minimum.
Neither Bush nor Kerry have made any comments about the Commission other than to express hope that some useful answers come out of it. And I agree with Sofia that they are both taking the high road on that.
Of interest is that the commission voted on whether Jamie should step down given new information on her role in throwing a monkey wrench into information sharing during her tenure as Deputy A.G. The vote was unanimous that she should not resign. This also I believe is the high road.
It's not so much a matter of staying above the fray as it is that they both have "designated hitters" to cover those activities. keep in mind the commission is fifty/fifty partisan and their report is required to be unanimous which means the only dog and pony show is during the public hearings. the republicans will show disdain for agencies (FBI-CIA) while the democrats will show the same for persons. the distinction is minimal at best.
I hope its more than that Dys. I have been impressed, with exception of a few interrogations that were clearly partisan and intended to make points, that the commission has able to agree on a sensible approach to a P.R. problem. If the GOP had decided to make an issue of Jamie, the controversy would have roared on even though it would have amounted to nothing. But when true bipartisanship happens, it pretty well shuts up the nattering nabobs of negativity and they can get back to work that does matter.
Then again the 9/11 commission is a fact finding body and not a criminal investigation group. Maybe its easy to be civil finding facts.
Quote:the nattering nabobs of negativity
and here I thought Spiro was dead, at least speaking less afer his conviction, felony graft I believe as the charge befiting a republican with a boss who "was not a crook"
Well I won't rise to any bait on that one. Agnew and Nixon both got nailed on things that were intolerable then and much more tolerable now.
Actually I think we've had much worse presidents than Nixon though I didn't vote for him then and wouldn't now.
so then who are you quoting, Spiro or Safire?
Neither. That's the gospel according to Foxfyre. (Oh God, I really opened myself up with that, didn't I?)
The pres doesn't even say "ooops." That sounds too much like an admission of wrong.
From Samuel Shem's The House of God "Remember, if you make a mistake never say 'oops,' always say 'there!'"
undergoing surgery once I heard the doc say Oops while I watched blood spurt over the drape where my arm was...I laughed-I was on drugs.
I hope nobody left anything inside -- you haven't been picking up Air America without a radio have you?
I'll never forget my days supervising new EMT's at Northglenn Ambulance. We ahd one chap who didn't realize he had stuck an iv in someone's brachial artery. Finaly, with the blood climbing up the tubing into the bag, and more blood slopping on the floor, from where the site had gone spurt-spurt-spurt when he stuck the guy, I finally pulled the line myself. I think my former trainee is now an attornery.
still a bleeder then is he?
