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To: longnshort who wrote (137493)6/22/2004 4:03:46 PM
From: Neeka  Respond to of 281500
 
NO, NO, NO! Hitchens has it wrong......MONEY is everything to Michael Moore.



To: longnshort who wrote (137493)6/22/2004 4:42:43 PM
From: Dr. Id  Respond to of 281500
 
Since you obviously seem to find Hichens credible and enjoy his views of Michael Moore, here's a view that Hichens expressed about your own George W. Bush:

"Uncultured...uneducated...incurious...a glove puppet and proud of it, etc.."
He said, "Mr Bush is still one of the most unqualified people ever to have
run for the highest office, let alone to have attained it. There will never
come a time when he reads for pleasure or takes a serious interest in another
country. But the oldest political joke in America has a double-edged point to
it. In this society, anybody can be President.. Having failed by a good margin
to collect a majority of the popular vote, he had succeeded-by delegating
things to leatherly old legal sharks of his father's generation-in getting a
majority of the electoral votes from a state run by his brother...
"The Presidency was owed to the Supreme Court."

Hitchens also said that on 9-11 Bush panicked and hid. "So the Mayor of New
York became leader of the free world for a whole week....
"Overseas, he has tried to have it both ways: finally paying his country's UN
dues while scuttling the ABM Treaty. His vices are, in other words, what they
would have been anyway-the vices of a provincial American conservative who
preferred oilmen as friends., or even oilmen to friends...

"George Bush chokes on a pretzel while gaping at the television screen, and
comes away with a loud blush on his cheek. What a free gift that would have
been. I can do the routine in my sleep: since he utters chunks of twisted and
convoluted matter it's no wonder that he ingests the raw material before
spewing it."

Hitchens