It goes well with this from Julie.
Character is the essence of all the ads playing out during this election. Character counts. Character tells you how someone will react when something unforseen happens.
Dubya has it. And it has been on prominent display since 9/11.
Dubya had all those records secretly stashed away where nobody could find them… or so he thought. He was obviously trying to hide something. Thirty years ago, as he planned for his reelection, he found a loose board behind a filing cabinet in the Pentagon and stuck the offending papers away where nobody would ever find them. Evil genius… I mean evil idiot (must keep the story straight).
Byron York actually takes a look at National Guard attendance requirements, and whether Bush fulfilled his because
Now, it is only natural that news reports questioning Bush
Slatts started my morning reading off on the right foot:
So, a form of Tourette’s Syndrome for leftwing reactionaries kicks in: “Nazi”, “Racist”, “Enemy of Diversity”, they sneer, and inevitably, “Simplistic moron”, because we all know the left occupies the intellectual high ground.
What he’s talking about is the reaction in some political circles to Andrew Bolt’s article.
We need to know the depravity of what was done in Beslan because we need to understand there is now moving in the world an ideology that spurs men to commit horrors beyond even our nightmares.
Some folks simply don’t want to recognize a depraved ideology when they see it. I think it’s important to see just what happened in Beslan. Photos of body bags tell of the horror, Photos of the destroyed buildings gives some perspective.
Danielle Pletka, writing an op-ed in the New York Times, believes the difference in approach to solving our problems in the Middle East, and the final settling of discord is key in this year’s election.
Early last month, John Kerry devoted 11 days to fleshing out his foreign policy priorities. Promoting democracy in the Middle East, he made clear, will not be high on his agenda. Sadly, Mr. Kerry’s decision could not have come at a worse moment. For the first time in half a century, democracy is the talk of the Arab world
This one will make you slap your forehead.
As I was reading through some other blogs this evening, I heard some of O’Reilly’s program in the background. I didn’t pay a lot of attention but heard the gist of it all. O’Reilly was interviewing a retired general who supports Kerry. Apparently this is the same man who “worked for Ronald Reagan” that the Democrats like to bring out to build some credibility for the cause. The man made a statement to the effect that Dubya screwed up in Iraq because he didn’t serve in Vietnam, and didn’t know what he was doing. Kerry, on the other hand, did serve in Vietnam. Therefore, Kerry would have done things right.
Let me repeat that so it sinks in.
Because Kerry served in Vietnam 35 years ago, he would have handled Iraq much better than Bush has. Bush, as you know, didn’t serve in Vietnam.
By the way, did you know Kerry is a Vietnam veteran?
What is it that some people just don’t grasp about the danger posed by Islamicists, Wahabis in particular. John understands.
I believe we massively underestimate the threat to our way of life. Two well-timed and well-placed nuclear detonations, with warheads not much larger than the ones that were routinely placed on artillery shells in the Cold War, could easily kill the president and the six people in line to succeed him, all of Congress, the Supreme Court, the FBI and the Department of the Treasury. The dollar might well become worthless, as might everything denoted in dollars. The world’s stock markets would plunge, and the value of everything in the world would plummet.
Nuance and diplomacy only work if you choose to ignore the fact that they don’t.
On top of it all, Birdie tells us that he and his wife join the ranks of soon-to-be parents. I will have a Birdiebaby, Bogeybaby, and Slice, Jr., to play golf with in my old age!
The show went quite well. I was on for thirty minutes, and it went by quickly. I really didn’t get the opportunity to say all the things that ran through my mind about the democratic nature of the blogosphere. But there will be further opportunities, as Jim has kindly asked that I be a regular on his show. One thing that really characterizes his program is that he tries to have a group of people on the show consistently to provide a continuity of discussion.
I’ll recap just a bit, as well as I can remember. Jim first ran into blogs through Kim duToit as he was surfing for information about guns. Duh. From there he clicked one of Kim’s links, and it opened up a new world for him. He, like many of us, became addicted. Jim’s producer, Will Diaz, told me while I was waiting to go on that he first read my site yesterday and liked what he saw. I asked what took him so long. Laugh. Will now reads blogs, too.
We discussed my post on what a Kerry Administration might look like, and the folks who already serve in those positions. We talked a little about how blogs work, and who writes them. And why. Finally, he asked how I came up with the name “Bunker Mulligan.” I told him it was about my enjoyment of golf, and the name came to me through a bottle of Chilean cabernet. He agreed things like that do have an effect.
It’s all a bit of a blur, as the whole thing was really a simple conversation between friends. That’s as it should be. That’s what makes Jim a great talk radio personality.
By the way, any bloggers in the Coastal Bend directed to this site through Jim’s program, please contact me through the link at the top of the left column. Jim would like to hear from you, too.
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