Gonzales ‘Repeatedly’ Compares Himself And Bush Administration To Lincoln Presidency

[Ichingcarpenter]

Yesterday, former attorney general Alberto Gonzales gave a speech at Washington University, for which he was compensated $30,000. Gonzales agreed to answer only pre-approved questions and closed the talk to the press.

The Washington University student paper, however, printed an account of Gonzales’s address, noting that he compared his time in the Bush administration with the presidency of Lincoln:

During his speech, Gonzales repeatedly made references comparing himself and the Bush administration to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, suggesting that Lincoln was highly criticized during his presidency and is now highly revered.

According to Gonzales, the truths about his actions will be revealed in years to come.

“There is a difference between what you do and what people say you do. It’s going to take years for the entire story to be told,” said Gonzales. “If you worry about criticism you end up paralyzed and do nothing.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/20/gonzales-lincoln/

[niyad]

1. WHY is this brain-dead cretin being given ANY public airtime or notice, much less being paid

for it? closed to the press? pre-approved questions? gee, fredo, what are you hiding?

[islandmkl]

2. just about says it all about his understanding of history...

about on par with his understanding of the Constitution

[Supersedeas]

11. and what is he saying exactly....not much in terms of substance

[Fridays Child]

3. People are paying him to stand before audiences and defend himself?

I wonder what they're paying the audiences.

[niyad]

6. whatever it is, it isn't enough

I contemplate how much I would have to be paid to sit in an audience with one of the admin cretins speaking, assuming I could even get in. the figure is VERRRRRRY high-- and I could afford to give hearts or shamrocks or whatever on the next fund drive to everyone.

[L. Coyote]

4. Still Standing, I see .. .. What is "Gonzo"? .... "a lying marathon"

"Gonzolies" is the English neologism describing the last man standing after a lying marathon.

What is "Gonzo"? (From Gonzolies (verb. nov.) English, May 17, 2007 ......

"Gonzo journalism" refers to when an author cannot remove himself from the subject he investigates, often referring to a style of writing a story as perceived in the moment in the mind of the writer.

When Boston Globe reporter Bill Cardoso read Hunter Thompson's "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved" he proclaimed "That is pure Gonzo!" Thompson believed objectivity in journalism was pure myth.

Cardoso used the South Boston Irish slang "gonzo" describing the last man standing after a drinking marathon.

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"Gonzolies Adventures in Ronderland" is a tale with twisted logic epitomizing the genre of nonsense literature. Gonzolies is just one of the characters in the fairy tale of current American politics. The Republican Party has fallen down a rabbit-hole into an hallucinatory realm populated by grotesque misstatements from wild, anthropomorphic creatures like Talking Point Cards, a rabbit-hole where beliefs transcend reality.

Gonzolies, a bored attorney looking for an adventure, starts a journey at Folly Bridge near Crawford, Texas, and ends up years later in the village of Gods Town. Gonzolies takes interest in a passing, ghostly super hero, a white knight muttering "Oh dear! Oh God! The Commies are coming!" He follows the knight down a deficit hole, and finds himself in a dreamlike world of magical beliefs where Gonzolies and R, the now aging super hero, grow to gigantic size.

Eventually Gonzolies joins Mad-Hater and his boss, March-to-War at a never-ending tea party of deficit spending, they go to a distant seashore and meet Mock Truth, and finally attend the Trial of "Critical Reason," the sole non-grotesque character in their adventure. Critical Reason has been accused of "disturbing truths." While Gonzolies prosecutes Critical Reason, he shrinks to a fraction of his inflated height, and the dream ends. Gonzolies wakes up at the picnic in Crawford, Texas.

Nonetheless, Gonzolies soon realizes that in Crawford up is still down and down is still up, and his new super hero, W, is enraptured by his own hallucinatory realm populated by wild, grotesque misstatements and talking points. Just when diminitive Gonzolies realizes the dream has not actually ended, he awakens again, and he realizes he was still at a lying contest and he was not the last man standing.

This time he has awakened in American politics, on the far side of Folly Bridge in Gods Town, where up is still down and down is up, and the lying contest goes on as W praises Gonzolies. Gonzolies wonders, "Am I still dreaming. How can I know if up is down and down is up?" He also wonders, "Am I still standing? Am I really Gonzolies, or is all this still just a dream in Ronderland?"

[Hydra]

5. This surprises anyone?

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. I want to know why this asshole is not under indictment?

Anyone know how this is going?

[Webster Green]

8. History will only further demonize these fuckers, not vindicate them..

Arrogant fuck-wads! A Hitler or Stalin analogy is far more appropriate than any comparisons to great U.S. Presidents.:puke:

[Adsos Letter]

9. The only association of Gonzales and Bush to the Lincoln administration...

is in a quote attributed to Lincoln:

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."

Somebody give that guy the hook....

[yardwork]

10. Anyone who would pay $30,000 to have this narcissistic psychopath speak

deserves to be parted from their money. Maybe they would like to buy a bridge from me?