What has Bill Kristol been smoking
In his opinion piece titled “Why Bush Will be a Winner,” Bill Kristol writes:
Let’s step back from the unnecessary mistakes and the self-inflicted wounds that have characterized the Bush administration. Let’s look at the broad forest rather than the often unlovely trees. What do we see? First, no second terrorist attack on U.S. soil — not something we could have taken for granted. Second, a strong economy — also something that wasn’t inevitable.
And third, and most important, a war in Iraq that has been very difficult, but where — despite some confusion engendered by an almost meaningless “benchmark” report last week — we now seem to be on course to a successful outcome.
And no, this is not an Onion piece, it appears in Washington Post. Seriously Bill, what have you been smoking? Not surprizingly, there are 249 pages of comments as of now, and most of them aren’t favorable, to say the least.
Why does a right-wing pundit get a free pass to speak things without an iota of truth? All reports point to how disastrously the Bush administration has handled the war on terrorTM; but all that does not matter: the war is going well because I say so. How consistently and seriously wrong a right-wing political pundit has to be before we sees him/her fit for an insitution for the mentally challenged?
I read that piece yesterday and laughed out too. And he never gave any plausible reasons for the odds being Bush’s favor post-Presidency.
Hey. Went through your blog :-).. Looks like you’re facing a culture shock, ironically in your homeland :-)..