Over at Political Animal Hilzoy delivers a farewell dope-slap to the “petulant lazy frat boy” who turned the Oval Office into Omega house — President George W. Marmalard. Examining his 2000 inaugural address, she notes:
He’s a small, small man, who ought to have spent his life in some honorary position without responsibilities at a firm run by one of his father’s friends. Instead, he ruined our country, and several others besides. He wasted eight years in which we could have been shoring up our economy, laying the groundwork for energy independence, making America a fairer and better country, and truly working to help people around the world become more free. Instead, he debased words that ought to mean something: words like honor, decency, freedom, and compassion.
To this day, I do not think he has the slightest conception of the meaning of the words he took in vain.
To repeat an old gag, he’s a man of few words — he only knows a few. Joe Galloway knows a few more, and he uncorks them with a vengeance here.
Meanwhile, it was another excellent day here in Bibleburg, and I enjoyed a third consecutive day on the cyclo-cross bike. This keeps up, it’ll be almost like training, only slower. And the unseasonable weather is supposed to hold, with temps in the 50s —and even the low 60s — forecast throughout the week.
Today’s ride with Dr. Schenkenstein went north into the Air Force Academy and back, and the contrast with Friday’s ride to Fountain was amazing. South of Woodmen the trail is drier than a popcorn fart. North of there it is a gooey, icy mess, with one particularly evil sheet of damp ice curb to curb on the concrete just before the trail turns to dirt.
On the way out, we both walked it. On the way back, I joked that if Dr. Schenkenstein got high enough on the concrete banking of the drainage channel, he could probably ride it. No sooner said than done. Up the wall he went, coming down just short of clearing the ice entirely, but keeping it up nonetheless. Think about going high on the velodrome, but with the high side to your left instead of your right. Pretty friggin’ impressive for a 50-something guy with a $10,000 deductible on his health-insurance policy.
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All I have to say about “shrub” now is; A.M.F.
Joe Galloway spoke at our unit dinner a couple of years ago, when i was with the Third US Army. Straight shooters like that, with the experience and exposure to back up their words, are few and far between
I have to apologize for all the people of TX. We thought we were getting rid of an incompetent Governor by getting him to run for President, we never in our wildest dreames thought he would win, twice. (but to be perfectly honest I don’t think he ever won) Honest we were just trying to get rid of an asshole before he wrecked TX from the least powerful Governorship in the US. That’s how bad he was, and we’re sorry. And now even his old villiage won’t take him back at his old post, they found another idiot…
W should really be forcibly relocated to a cage in Gitmo. And Cheneydick with him. Or, if Gitmo is closing, send them to one of those foreign spas made famous by “rendition”. We can chip in and send a 2×12 and a bucket.
There is nothing good to say. Esp., if as we now seem to be hearing, Obama will not pursue indictments. Its a little like having said “Vaya con Dios” to Albert Speer and offering him retirement digs at Berchtesgaden.
One more day and a wake up! Wooo-hooo! It’s almost over!