April 01, 2004

Better Than the Onion I agree with Josh Marshall. This reads like an Onion article.

It is "deeply offensive and contemptible" to hear "elites and intellectuals on the campaign trail" dismiss progress in Iraq since last year's overthrow of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), the elder Bush said in a speech to the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association annual convention.

posted by Sullivan 20 years ago
  • Well, you know, when you're head of the CIA, you get to hate the Media, and Free Speech, and Democracy, and the like. You just want to make the world a better place. And, you know, safe for Democracy. And stuff.
  • I haven't liked George Bush Senior since he smacked Bart.
  • What are the POTUS and his merry, storied, and monied band if not "
  • Stupid old bastard. He can sense blood in the water as well, it seems.
  • yes, yes, down with the intellectuals. Fuckface.
  • But how do we know who's an intellectual and who isn't? Better kill all those with glasses first, just to be sure we get them all.
  • *takes off glasses, squints at keyboard* Ii arggreee.
  • *puts on glasses* Shit.
  • OMFG.
  • He hates intellectuals and elites (one has to ask what he considers Yale graduates and Texas oil billionaires to be?) but mostly he hates anybody who would ever question his outdated Cold War wisdom. Like father like son. This reminds me, the First Amendment calendar on my desk had the following quote yesterday. I'm ashamed of how far my country has fallen: "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • That is a good quote, TBoneMcCool.