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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I don't know. I've been afraid of this guy running for a while. After seeing him this morning with Diane Sawyer, I don't think he's a concern.
I bet most of you think he's the White Obama, donchya?
Same spin, except that he has more obvious contempt for his interviewer - "Diane, that's tactics." Duh, Diane! What a stupid question!
I was just delighted he would be absent from L&O where his character and his acting grate on me ... badly.
Dan Abrams on MSNBC was playing 30-40 year old ** never before seen ** Charles Manson interviews last night ... how desperate is that ... the Manson was barely comprehensive, probably incomprehensible to anyone who didn't live through the 60s and partake of their share.
We can only pray that "the media" doesn't annoint Thompson as "the natural" as they did Bush ...
Bush has been losing an international popularity contest to both Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden....
The Democrats may be poised for a stunning three-peat ... similarly in danger of appearing plainly incoherent and ineffectual ... as they trip over each hurdle between now and November 2008 ... at least they could don costumes including garish makeup and red rubber noses and arrive in a teeny-tiny clown car, battling each other with bouncy foam bats and plastic water-squirting butonnieres.
I find it odd that whenever some plot or terror cell is foiled or discovered its through the efforts of law enforcement and intelligence agencies NOT the military. Yet we keep hearing about the "globalal war on terror" in conventional military and combat terms. Thompson is just parroting (I hate to use that term because my two macaws are clearly more intelligent than the people robotically repeating this nonsence) George Bush. I really don't think at this point the american people are in the mood for 4 more years of this failed policy fronted by a different clueless President.
Then again, people were horrified when John Kerry suggested terror was best combated by law enforcement, so maybe Knox Pooley is just what the public wants.
Did I miss something or did he just use the famous dodge and effectively NOT answer the question? People talk about "blowing smoke", but this is the first time in recent memory that I've actually seen what the smoke looks like in print. Looked like English. Read like English. But all I could get out of it was, "What?"
Let's look at the field here.
Guiliani is quite simply mad. Wholly and defiantly insane.
Mitt Romney is a smiling, amoral opportunist.
John McCain has sold his soul to Satan and proudly wears the shackles.
And Fred Thompson is just muddling along with his old, folksy Southern charm that disguises that he's a Bush worshipper, just like he was a Nixon worshipper back in the day.
If I were a Republican, I'd be thinking, "The earth is doomed" right about now.
Now we can see how he thinks w/o a script. God help us. He said absolutly nothing and had not one new idea. What he did say has been "out there" since 911. How can he be that stupid?
Oh, I forgot. He's running for President.
I want to disagree slightly with the comment above from "independent." Thompson's reply to Sawyer was indeed mostly random language. But while he did in fact try hard to dodge the question, he ultimately doesn't even have the wit to accomplish that. Note that in his last sentence he actually confesses his cluelessness: "And we better figure out a way to contain it because it's going to be with us for a long time after Iraq." So he did answer Diane's question. At the moment Fred has no idea what to do about bin Laden and al-Qaida, but maybe one of these days he'll "figure out a way."
I too once feared that Thompson might ride to the Presidency on a wave of mindless media adulation, but that fear has swiftly been allayed. With the light shining on him now, apparent for all to see is that Thompson is an unattractive, uninspiring man, utterly unprepared and entirely unsuited to be President.
Of course, George Bush suffered from all the same deficiencies, and look where he is…
"...That's tactics"
brilliant.
The new "I'm the decider"?
And the even broader concern that Americans should have is that al-Qaida is still out there in the world. They're in western Europe, they're in the United States, they're in Iraq.
Yes Fred, perhaps because we allowed them in?
Is anyone paying attention how the mainstream media is making this empty vessel of a man the heir apparent to the candidate "you'd like to have a beer with"? Come on!
The man that Nixon called 'dumb', and whose true fame and fortune has been playing the head of a prosecution team in a show that glorifies and celebrates a system that incarcerates more human beings per capita then any other 'justice' system IN THE WORLD, is being packaged as the Republican's great white hope.
Ah..who the hell cares... As long as the Republican party runs away from the truly viable in Ron Paul and the anti-war Republican Chuck Hagel, I shouldn't worry so much when a sleaze-merchant like Fred Thompson throws his gen-u-ine Stetson cowboy hat into the ring.
This man is an empty suit to be filled with one liners and platitudes. Seriously, does anyone know Fred Thompson? We don't even know what is his favorite sick-ass sexual deviency! Maybe we should ask his teen-aged wife?
In the meantime, we'll see lots of well packaged, good ol' Fred Thompson, waving to the crowd, kissing babies, and jumpin' into his pick-up truck.... (to drive to his Jaguar)...
Haven't seen too much coverage of this in the political blogs... Is this story true?
http://news.filefront.com/wacky-jacky-subpoenas-george-w-bush/
Am I the only one here who agrees with Thompson's response? He's absolutely right--answering that question intelligently would be almost impossible. Do you really want to hear him spout the usual nonsense: "Diane, I would have our special forces teams scouring the tribal regions and blah blah blah."
It's frustrating to see Americans on the one hand complaining that our presidential election process seems geared only toward finding out if candidate X has been prepped adequately to glibly answer questions, and on the other, lambasting candidates when they don't have glib responses to questions. And this is a stupid question. Aside from allocating more or less money/manpower to the hunt for bin Laden, how much do you really think the president has to do with catching him? It's operational level stuff.
(For the record, no, I'm not a Republican, and I don't like Thompson. But picking on him for answering that question the way he did is just juvenile and counterproductive.)
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