Letters to the Editor
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suggestion for a meme...
"Bush in cinéma vérité does not resemble Bush in tableau vivant."
Now, there's a sentence that deserves to be memed. It certainly bests "heckuva job [fill in name]" in its scope for future exploratory posts and extended metaphors.
And just to show that I "meme" what I say, I intend to distribute this priceless gem in comment boxes throughout my cyber-space connections.
Of course, as one reader has already pointed out, many of Bush's supporters will not accept comments without a monetary donation. Which would make it only that much more delightful to see Blumenthal's words appear in the right-leaning blogosphere... as a more fitting epithet for our nicknamer-in-chief than any sobriquet with which he has dubbed one of his minions.
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on constructive suggestions...
I meant to add, in my previous post, that I agree with those who have written that constructive suggestions would really be more helpful than criticism. And, if I had anything of substance to contribute on that front, I would. Since I don't, I am suggesting a new version of the emperor wears no clothes,-- along the lines of-- he's lost his costume.
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Fine piece, regretably
Once again, Sidney nails the failures to act on behalf of the Katrina victims by Bush and cronies. One can imagine, if Katrina had wreaked the same havoc in brother Jeb's state, the presidential visits and "real" federal assistance for victims would be overwhelming in it's intensity. But, New Orleans, in a Democratic state and a Democratic city suffer the indignity of gross neglect. Outside of the Army Corps' work on the levees(finally), little is coming from Bush's bunch in Washington.
We have modular Fema homes warehoused in Hope, Ark., and folks wanitin to return to New Orleans and the Mississippi and there they sit because yhry are no approved for "flood-plains". How many of the houses destroyed in the storm were storm-proof and approved for flood plains? Fema continues it's utter disregard for the citizens harmed terribly by a natural disaster.
Was it guilt on behalf of the federal government that riches were rained on the surviving families of 9/11? Yet, gross neglect before and after the storm is the ststus quo down south.
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Bush W as Henry V
Adelman's not the only pundit who has cast Bush as a reformed Prince Hal:
http://www.poppolitics.com/articles/2003-05-01-henryv.shtml