posted on October 25, 2006 12:32:09 PM new
Today's San Francisco Chronicle's editorial:
Spin the course
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
"Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength."
Let's hope we have not reached George Orwell's "doublespeak" future depicted in his novel "1984" where the Ministry of Truth erects a giant pyramid enshrining those slogans.
But when President Bush says "stay the course" doesn't mean "stay the course," you have to start worrying about our national leadership's ability to redefine almost everything.
If there are three words that define this administration -- regarding its attitude toward governance, tax cuts the war in Iraq, etc. -- they are "stay the course."
But here's what Bush told ABC's George Stephanopoulos: "Listen, we've never been 'stay the course,' George."
According to Bush's spokesman, "stay the course" now means "a study in constant motion."
Let's be charitable. Maybe the administration is just confused -- starting with the president.
On Oct. 11, Bush said the following: "Stay the course means keep doing what you're doing. My attitude is: Don't do what you're doing if it's not working. Change." But then he added, "Stay the course also means don't leave before the job is done. And we're going to get the job gone in Iraq."
Come again?
Those running the war are now grappling with the meaning of "win" -- a semantic debate with far graver consequences than former President Bill Clinton's musings about the definition of "is."
Doesn't winning mean defeating the terrorists in Iraq, as President Bush has been telling us for years?
Apparently not. On Tuesday, Gen. Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said, "You have to define what it means to win."
Winning, Pace said, now means security, good governance and a functioning economy. He gloomily predicted that terrorism in Iraq is going to be around "for the next 10, 20 or 30 years."
Remember how for months the administration pilloried anyone who wanted to set a "timetable" to end our occupation of Iraq? According to its math, "timetable" equals "cutting and running."
Now the administration is talking about its own benchmarks, deadlines, time lines -- and even timetables. Just not the kind of timetables proposed by those "cut-and-run" Democrats.
"Freedom is the freedom to say 2 plus 2 makes 4," Orwell wrote. "If that is granted, all else will follow."
Wouldn't it be great if our freedom-loving president acknowledged that 2 plus 2 equals 4 -- not some other fictional number?
posted on October 25, 2006 07:49:57 PM new
Thanks, that was a good read.
The Native Americans had guys like Bushy and his gang pegged over a 150 years ago.
Many of the Native Americans said, the White Chief in Washington speak with forked tongue. No truer words were ever said about Bushy and his gang of CROOKED NEO-CON lawmakers.
posted on October 26, 2006 01:14:27 PM new"Stay the course also means don't leave before the job is done.
In reality, that is what it has always meant. Just you dumbazzed demomorons can't accept that. You would rather turn and run like a bunch of wimps.
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"Unfortunately there are levels of Stupid that just can't be cured!!" The new Demomoron motto.
posted on October 26, 2006 01:41:05 PM new
Stonecold said, "Stay the course also means don't leave before the job is done."
So now Stone says nothing is new with Bushy? Talk about no fix for NEO-CON stupid.
Stone, if your words are true the MAJORITY OF AMERICANS AGAINST BUSHY'S INVASION OF IRAQ will only increase and vote against the people you support the NEO-CON LAWMAKERS.
Again and again in Stone's own words he proves how stupid NEO-CONS LIKE HIM ARE!!!
posted on November 6, 2006 02:18:01 PM new
Would this count as "double-speak" or just using RACE when it's necessary????
The Wall Street Journal - Editoral section calls it:
Hypocrisy, Anyone?
"Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois today urged hundreds of blacks not to vote along racial lines next week in Maryland's Senate race. Obama, the only black U.S. senator, came to the state to rally support for Democratic Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin, who is white. Cardin's Republican opponent, Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele, is the first black candidate ever elected statewide and has been courting black Democrats."
--Associated Press, Nov. 3
"The nation's only black senator, Barack Obama, D-Ill., asked voters at two black churches and at a Nashville rally to elect [Harold] Ford, a Democrat who is trying to become the first black senator from the South in more than 100 years. 'I know that all of you are going to work the next couple of days to make sure it happens, because I'm feeling lonely in Washington,' Obama said at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church. 'I need my dear friend to join me.' "
--Associated Press, Nov. 5
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OR....would speaking IN CHURCH...as the liberals here OFTEN whine about our side doing....matter to them now? You KNOW....separation of CHURCH AND STATE and all.
ROFLOL Nope...didn't think so.
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While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation:
What would a Democrat president have done at that point? Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack.
Ann Coulter
[ edited by Linda_K on Nov 6, 2006 02:20 PM ]
