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2004-05-19 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Steve 2004-05-19 10:52:14 AM|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 On the grand issues of life and death Safire cuts through the fertilizer. The opening line explains it all!

You probably missed the news because it didn't get much play, but a ~~small, crude~~ weapon of mass destruction may have been used by Saddam's terrorists in Iraq this week.

Posted by BigEd 2004-05-19 11:15:15 AM|| 2004-05-19 11:15:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Safire, if you don't start toting the party line, you're gonna get fired.

Sincerely,
The New York Times

Posted by Chris W. 2004-05-19 12:43:23 PM|| 2004-05-19 12:43:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 nah, Safire was hired 30 years ago to be the house conservative. Theyve since hired David Brooks for that role. Still Safires passion is admirable.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-05-19 12:51:55 PM|| 2004-05-19 12:51:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Coming up next:
Blixie Sez: "I knew it all the time!"

Posted by tu3031 2004-05-19 1:48:34 PM|| 2004-05-19 1:48:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Them four noes that Safire talks about is the Dems platform for victory in November. Right now, for half the country, that goal (victory in November)is more important than defeatin the Islamists, freein Iraqis, Middle East peace, savin our soldiers lives, or protectin American prestige and integrity abroad. The Dems is so single minded, they's like the "Squidgicum-Squees 'at swallers the'rselves" spoke of by Mr Riley.

Posted by Hank 2004-05-19 4:20:54 PM|| 2004-05-19 4:20:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 "The Dems is so single minded, they's like the "Squidgicum-Squees 'at swallers the'rselves" spoke of by Mr Riley."

As usual, Hank has nailed it again - this time bringing a quote from the past - The Raggedy Man - by James Whitcomb Riley. Hank, you didn't think anyone would get that one, did you? But your point about the Dems' attack plan and their single minded goal is right on. They don't care what they destroy in the process, even their country.

Posted by Sam 2004-05-19 8:48:07 PM|| 2004-05-19 8:48:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 The Raggedy Manby James Whitcomb Riley

Oh, the Raggedy Man! He works fer Pa,
An' he's the goodest man ever you saw!
He comes to our house every day,
An' waters the horses, an' feeds 'em hay;
'An he opens the shed - an' we all ist laugh
When he drives out our little old wobbledy calf,
An' nen - ef our hired girl says he can -
He milks the cow fer 'Lizabuth Ann.
Ain't he a awful good Raggedy Man?
Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy Man!

W'y, the Raggedy Man - he's ist so good
He splits the kindlin' an' chops the wood;
An' nen he spades in our garden, too,
An' does most things 'at boys can't do!
He clumbed clean up in our big tree
An' shook a' apple down fer me -
An' nother'n, too, fer 'Lisabuth Ann -
An' nother'n, too, fer the Raggedy Man.
Ain't he a awful kind Raggedy Man?
Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy Man!

An' the Raggedy Man, he knows most rhymes
An' tells 'em, ef I be good, sometimes:
Knows about Giunts, an' Griffuns, 'an Elves,
An' the Squidgicum-Squees 'at swallers therselves!
An', right by the pump inour pasture-lot,
He showed me the hole 'at the Wunks is got.
'At lives 'way deep in the ground, 'an can
Turn into me, er 'Lizabuth Ann!
Ain't he a awful funny Raggedy Man?
Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy Man!

The Raggedy Man - one time when he
Wuz makin' a little bow-'n'-orry fer me,
Says "When you're big like yer Pa is,
Air you go' to keep a fine store like his -
An' be a rich merchant - an' wear fine clothes?
Er what air you go' to be, goodness knows!"
An' ne he laughed at 'Lizabuth Ann,
An' I says "'M go' to be a Raggedy Man! -
I'm ist go' to be a nice Raggedy Man!
Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy Man!

Posted by Rock 2004-05-19 8:55:00 PM|| 2004-05-19 8:55:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 The âFour Noes" that have become the âdefeatists'[Dems] platform.â

1) no stockpiles of W.M.D., used to justify the war, were found.

2) no connection was made between Saddam and Al Qaeda or any of its terrorist affiliates.

3) no human-rights high ground can be claimed by us regarding Saddam's torture chambers because we mistreated Iraqi prisoners.

4) no Arab nation is culturally ready for political freedom and our attempt to impose democracy in Iraq is arrogant Wilsonian idealism.

Hank is right. The Dems are "Squidgicum-Squeeses?" and we just might get to see them "swaller" themselves.

Posted by Jake 2004-05-19 9:38:23 PM|| 2004-05-19 9:38:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Jake - it can't come soon enough!

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-05-19 10:57:27 PM|| 2004-05-19 10:57:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 I've searched my apartment for elephants and haven't found any, but that's no evidence there aren't any TO A MORON.

Posted by Anonymous4979 2004-05-24 3:02:59 AM|| 2004-05-24 3:02:59 AM|| Front Page Top

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