fantapolitica
humorous look at Italian politics (bilingual)Thursday, March 25, 2004
Reading the transcript of Richard Clarke's 9/11 commission testimony I wonder about the state of the presidential jockey shorts.
I was inspired by Dave Barry's column "Red Shorts Over Panama" (http:// google it yourself) in which he inquired about the nature of President George H.W. Bush's underpants.
I am pretty sure that The President pissed his pants when Clarke apologised for his failure to prevent 9/11. I am also quite sure that he shitted them before Clarke finished. But when ?
Was it when Clarke swore he would not work in the Kerry administration and a reverential silence fell over the room ?
Was it when Clarke explained that special assistants to the president are not expected to express their personal opinions to journalists and have more time to pack their things if they resign than if they spend a briefing dumping on the president. And the audience laughed ?
Was it when Clarke said "I don't think it's a question of morality at all; I think it's a question of politics," and the audience applauded ? When was the last time the audience applauded a witness under oath on TV ? And they applauded Clarke for saying his actions were guided by politics not morality !
In any case, I'm sure that, bBy the time Gov Thomson left the room the presidential undies were as full of it as the Bush administratios attacks on Clarke.
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
I think that the notorious August 2002 background briefing tells us nothing about Clarke's true opinions or about his honesty and integrity. Delivering the talking points to the press is part of the job.
he says he kept doing it because he was really interested in fighting cyberterrorism. That means the virus jerks temporarily kept Richard Clarke on Bush admin message. One more reason to hate them.
Clarke is not pure unmixed extasy (the emotion not the drug) for us Bush haters.
otice that some of the points we use to bash Bush are now inoperative, because Clarke says that they were Clarke's calls.
He says that and the secret service decided to send Bush to Offut so no more Bush was a coward on the run cracks.
He says that and the FBI decided to allow the Saudis including Bin Ladens to leave the country, so no more tinhat speculation that this was done to hide the arbusto petroleum-al Qaeda link.
If it is not true he loses credibility. If it is true, those decisions don't reflect on Bush.
I do like the thought of Clarke sending Bush to the wonderfully named base.
I wonder if "go to Offut" could become slang for "you procastinated way to long and messed up big time" or maybe "Offut you " .
Would be grim if "get off it" were convused with "get Offut" a message to al Qaeda about how to kil Bush. That could lead to some innocent person becoming an angel before their time what with Bush's enthusiasm for the death penalty.
Saturday, March 13, 2004
Just the same old link
ha ha made you look
