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Fri Feb-13-04 11:57 AM
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Fri Feb-13-04 11:59 AM
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1. i won't register wiht the New Whore Times |
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If it wasn't for Krugman I probably wouldn't read anything they publish.
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Fri Feb-13-04 12:09 PM
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4. Try news googling Krugman |
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Fri Feb-13-04 12:28 PM
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11. Truly pathetic. Pictures of bush. This is ALL THEY HAVE. |
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Their talking points and attack postures are as sorry and superficial as is their king.
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Fri Feb-13-04 12:10 PM
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5. universal entry key here |
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Fri Feb-13-04 12:03 PM
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2. wow! krugman skewers the chimp again! |
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Fri Feb-13-04 12:05 PM
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3. WOW!! that POS uses the BUDGET for another photo-op??? |
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even for Krugman, that was HARSH (in the best ways possible) he illustrates the BUDGET with pictures of HIMSELF??
:nuke: <-- my head
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By my count, this year's budget contains 27 glossy photos of Mr. Bush. We see the president in front of a giant American flag, in front of the Washington Monument, comforting an elderly woman in a wheelchair, helping a small child with his reading assignment, building a trail through the wilderness and, of course, eating turkey with the troops in Iraq. Somehow the art director neglected to include a photo of the president swimming across the Yangtze River. It was not ever thus. Bill Clinton's budgets were illustrated with tables and charts, not with worshipful photos of the president being presidential.
<snip> Operation Flight Suit was only slightly more over the top than other Bush photo-ops, like the carefully staged picture that placed Mr. Bush's head in line with the stone faces on Mount Rushmore. The goal is to suggest that it's unpatriotic to criticize the president, and to use his heroic image to block any substantive discussion of his policies.
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Fri Feb-13-04 12:21 PM
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Edited on Fri Feb-13-04 12:42 PM by buycitgo
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Fri Feb-13-04 12:22 PM
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Edited on Fri Feb-13-04 12:46 PM by JohnyCanuck
Somehow the art director neglected to include a photo of the president swimming across the Yangtze River.
Shrub doesn't swim across rivers. He walks across, and what's more, without even get the hem of his white robe wet.
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Fri Feb-13-04 12:12 PM
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6. Bush can't accept responsibility |
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My favorite sentence that the media never asks about Shrub:
"When has he even accepted responsibility for something that went wrong?
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Fri Feb-13-04 12:13 PM
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This column was brilliant! I can't believe they're letting him say what he says. Bob Herbert's was great too. Friday columns are the best!
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Fri Feb-13-04 01:08 PM
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13. I totally agree with you; Bob Herbert's column is super! |
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Fri Feb-13-04 12:17 PM
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I fear for his safety if the Bushveiks retain the Imperial Throne.
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Fri Feb-13-04 12:48 PM
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The tail end of Krugman's column:
Some of his critics hope that the AWOL issue will demolish the Bush myth, all at once. They're probably too optimistic — if it were that easy, the tale of Harken Energy would have already done the trick. The sad truth is that people who have been taken in by a cult of personality — a group that in this case includes a good fraction of the American people, and a considerably higher fraction of the punditocracy — are very reluctant to give up their illusions. If nothing else, that would mean admitting that they had been played for fools.
Still, we may be on our way to an election in which Mr. Bush is judged on his record, not his legend. And that, of course, is what the White House fears.
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