Comments on: All Gaffing Aside

By: fred

fred — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:31:31 +0000

the guys from scranton doing bong hits are just students from Wilkes University.

but now I realize you may have just been pointing out that keystoners should be one word.

By: Terry

Terry — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:41:16 +0000

Excellent point, Terrence. Big Brother Is All Of Us! I smell a book deal …

P.S. Who are “Key Stoners?” Guys from Scranton who do bong hits?

By: Terrence mcCarthy

Terrence mcCarthy — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:28:06 +0000

If the comment never leaked out of the room, there would never have been this energizer bunny, it keeps going and going chapter in this never ending campaign. Candidates cut the cloth of their speeches to fit the shape of the crowd they’re talking at. My guess is that most of the people in that room would have no quibble with Obama’s wrong headed view of rural Key Stoners. Once it got out, the comments most certainly did not fit those who would never have been invited into that room. It’s a whole new world. A candidate can’t assume what he/she says in a ” controlled ” environment won’t end up on YouTube, etc. George Orwell was wrong about Big Brother watching us all. It’s US watching us all.

By: Terry

Terry — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:37:34 +0000

I never said he had “a single justification.” But you would think the word of “the Almighty” would rate higher than the “comprehensive list of military and political reasons for fighting the war in Iraq” — even if it’s not the first reason he mentions.

As Kinsley said, the spin breaks down …

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:24:50 +0000

“I remember well when President Bush during a prime time news conference in 2004 suggested his war in Iraq was justified because ‘freedom is the Almighty’s gift to every man and woman in this world.’”

Of course that remark followed a 28 paragraph opening statement providing a comprehensive list of military and political reasons for fighting the war in Iraq. You kind of have to ignore everything else he said that day to conclude that he had a single justification for liberating Iraq and that it was based on his Christian belief system. But it works, I guess, if you want to believe that Bush is some kind of Christian fanatic. Doesn’t work so well if you want to think that bringing the Middle East into the 21st century and taking down the one of the world’s worst genocidal maniacs has its positive points.