Kristoff's job is to get sheep back in line who are thinking about straying. He's very good at it too. In this instance he's doing it with some good old-fashioned fear mongering.
In an earlier instance he prodded people who were entertaining the notion of attaching "liar" to shrub.
counterpunch.org
Kristoff--
"Mr. Bush's central problem is not that he was lying about Iraq, but that he was overzealous and self-deluded. He surrounded himself with like-minded ideologues, and they all told one another that Saddam was a mortal threat to us. They deceived themselves along with the public - a more common problem in government than flat-out lying."
"I'm against the "liar" label for two reasons. First, it further polarizes the political cesspool, and this polarization is making America increasingly difficult to govern. Second, insults and rage impede understanding."
You see? That's all it is. He's just overzealous and delusional, so quit calling the man a liar.
his problem with polarization is it makes America increasingly difficult to govern.
What the f*** does that mean? Is governing this country supposed to be made easy by compliant citizens? Is THAT why we're here? Jeezum H. Jumping Jiminy, better we should all march in lockstep into the ovens than make things difficult for the maniacs currently in command of this nation!
In another case he tries to get people to be more introspective about conservation instead of being more overtly opposed to shrub's policies:
"I wish that Mr. Bush's environmental policy wasn't rooted in rapine. But I also wish that the green movement fought as hard for interactions between humans and our environment as it did against blind development. If environmentalists applied a small fraction of the energy they devoted to fighting snowmobiles in Yellowstone to push for the coast-to-coast trail, we would now have one.
We should give our descendants every chance to show their children how puny we humans are in a wilderness, by taking them hiking and getting them bitten by mosquitoes, hopelessly lost and totally exhilarated.
At a time when America is struggling with obesity and fewer Americans have daily contact with the outdoors, we should not be sealing off the wilderness but rather increasing access to it ...
Presidential fingerprints on a country usually fade quickly, but an exception is the decision to preserve or develop the wilderness. Teddy Roosevelt's imprint on 21st-century America is enormous because he preserved wild spaces for future generations, while Mr. Bush's 22nd-century legacy may be the permanent scarring of those same spaces.
Yet the environmental movement is wrong to emphasize preservation for the sake of the wolves and the moose alone. We should preserve wilderness for our sake - to remind us of our scale on this planet, to humble us, to soothe us. Nothing so civilizes humans as the wild.
truthout.org
So too many fat people in the country...think about THAT you fatties.
Let's all "wish..."
ahhhh...wilderness for all...so serene.
Presidents leave mere "fingerprints"
Allowing more mercury in the environment is a helluva "fingerprint".
He always throws a few little zingers at shrub...like a pretty bauble to get attention but that's just to grab people and steer them away from thoughts of "straying".
His ploy is, a little meandering is fine but don't get serious about it. |
