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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (432356)	11/3/2008 1:20:32 PM
From: jlallen	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572605

Yep...I believe history will be kind to GWB for his vision with respect to Islamic fundamentalism.....but he has been a disappointment in many respects...nevertheless he need not be demoinized to be criticized....that is the problem with folks like rejek, et al...

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (432356)	11/3/2008 1:26:07 PM
From: jlallen	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1572605

OLD VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold. MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself! ------- ------------------------------------ MODERN VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green. ' Al Sharpton stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, 'We shall overcome.' Jesse Jackson then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake. Nancy Pelosi & Barack Obama exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share. Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government. Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients. The ant loses the case. The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood. MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2008

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (432356)	11/3/2008 1:29:06 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572605

>>> Just read Bob Woodward's books. The problem with Woodward's books is they reflect the views of a liberal who undertook to write books that bashed Bush. Woodward's last book, which I believe was historically accurate, included a great deal of Woodward's opinion that must be carved out to get to the truth -- that Bush's determination to turn Iraq from the nightmare scenario to a Win is what made it happen. Bush's judgment in relying on Keane was instrumental in turning it around. I can understand people taking different views of it, but you have to cut through the crap in Woodward's books to get to underlying truth.