George W. Bush-the Kathleen Parker interview

[underpants]

If there is one thing Kathleen Parker can do it is write! Seriously that seems to be about it, I have been reading her columns for years and to date she has made an actual point once and that was a few years ago. She comes close in this one too but not quite-see if you can spot it. I have no earthly idea why she is continually published, she must have some really incriminating photos of half the newspaper crowd or something.

You can read Bush's quotes here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3745479&mesg_id=3745479

Bush confident in core belief
President sure of the Almighty's gift of freedom to all people<---she references her own line :rofl:




George W. Bush has accepted that he won't live long enough to witness his legacy, though he still hopes to capture Osama bin Laden before leaving office in just over a year.

These were among his thoughts during an in-flight interview on Monday following a Thanksgiving address in Virginia. Bush looked relaxed in a blue jacket, and frequently gazed out the window as he reflected on his years in office, the war and this season of gratitude.


If that sounds familiar, it should. Bush offers few new insights these days as he remains focused on his mission to build a foundation of freedom in the Middle East. If Americans can trust anything, it is that Bush won't relent in his conviction that security at home depends on creating democratic institutions and stability elsewhere.

don't they already have a Peggy Noonan?

His greatest critics are, of course, those who want to take his place in the Oval Office. Bush won't entertain hypotheticals about who that might be, but says he's trying to make the next president's job easier by making the tough decisions now.

Bush's confidence in a successor's wisdom, regardless of party, may be tied to his own convictions and his characteristic tendency to project his values onto others. No sentient American needs to be reminded of the president's core belief in the Almighty's gift of freedom to all people.

But what does that mean in a practical sense? What does George W. Bush see when he looks out that window? A big picture and a time in a distant future.

Holy crap I can feel my Americanism swelling :patriot:

I suggested to him that he has acquired a sense of time shared by our enemies. Radical Islamists have said that Americans have watches, but that true believers have time. To successfully defeat such an enemy, one needs to think as the enemy does, to see time from the perspective of real stars rather than rising political ones.

Finally, I asked about bin Laden. Bush said getting bin Laden is still important, but warned that his death won't end "extremist views" or the al-Qaeda threat. Only free societies will.

This is surely true. The question is whether Americans have the patience for such a long journey.

Time will tell. Wow she agrees with the Radical Islamists!

[mrreowwr_kittty]

1. I cannot stand her.

I will never forget the article she wrote shortly after 9/11 admonishing, get this, atheists for not going along with the fervent religiosity that the country was (briefly) caught up in at the time. She said atheists were "strangely silent". Um, yeah, you dumbass. We were silent because we figured it would be unseemly to point out that it was 19 religious nuts who rammed planes into buildings so soon after the attacks. The piece was the usual RW boilerplate about how people are incapable of being patriotic or moral without state-mandated theology. http://www.positiveatheism.org/crt/eml8755.txt

She is nothing but a moralizing, pearl-clutching, sanctimonious, stick-up-the-butt bore.

[underpants]

2. *spit take*

You nailed her. Excellent description.

Like I said I have taken to reading her as a way of trying to understand why on Earth she is being paid to do this. She doesn't even echo the talking points, what's the use?

[rAVES]

4. I find it so funny how they don't see the hypocrisy in that...

Actually in a way its terrifying...

[clarence swinney]

3. BUSH hit him hard

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