Jay Beattie
12-31-1969, 08:00 PM
On Jun 1, 6:57*am, "Tom Kunich" <cyclintom@yahoo. com> wrote:
> "Jay Beattie" <jbeat...@lindsayhart.com> wrote in message
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> news:ce914144-3208-4372-bc62-578cd2b43272@z24g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> On May 31, 7:26 pm, "Tom Kunich" <cyclintom@yahoo. com> wrote:
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> > > I never said that there was an upside to Bush. I said that there was a
> > > FAR
> > > worse downside to his opponents.
>
> > I don't know if that is true. *I get the sense that throwing dice or
> > using the Magic Eight-Ball would have given us better quality
> > decisions.
>
> Jay, that gives me the idea that you've never done anything yourself.
What do you mean? I don't think there is anything I haven't done
myself -- except for sew my own wounds (unlike Muzi), although I have
used quite a few Steri-Strips. Do you think Bush has done better than
a monkey-score on Iraq? I don't. One of my many college employments
was teaching English as a second language to Arabs -- mostly Saudis.
Arabs do not act or think like Americans. I could have told you (as
could anyone with half a brain), that rebuilding Iraq would be harder
than herding cats. GWB though he could do the Marshall Plan in Iraq --
which was either supidity or self-delusion. Why do you think everyone
is lining up to criticize the on-going "war" in Iraq -- from both
parties? Why do you think GWB has the lowest approval rating of any
president -- ever? You criticize social welfare programs, and look,
we have a gigantic one going in Iraq. How could Gore or Kerry have
done worse? -- Jay Beattie.
> "Jay Beattie" <jbeat...@lindsayhart.com> wrote in message
>
> news:ce914144-3208-4372-bc62-578cd2b43272@z24g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> On May 31, 7:26 pm, "Tom Kunich" <cyclintom@yahoo. com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > > I never said that there was an upside to Bush. I said that there was a
> > > FAR
> > > worse downside to his opponents.
>
> > I don't know if that is true. *I get the sense that throwing dice or
> > using the Magic Eight-Ball would have given us better quality
> > decisions.
>
> Jay, that gives me the idea that you've never done anything yourself.
What do you mean? I don't think there is anything I haven't done
myself -- except for sew my own wounds (unlike Muzi), although I have
used quite a few Steri-Strips. Do you think Bush has done better than
a monkey-score on Iraq? I don't. One of my many college employments
was teaching English as a second language to Arabs -- mostly Saudis.
Arabs do not act or think like Americans. I could have told you (as
could anyone with half a brain), that rebuilding Iraq would be harder
than herding cats. GWB though he could do the Marshall Plan in Iraq --
which was either supidity or self-delusion. Why do you think everyone
is lining up to criticize the on-going "war" in Iraq -- from both
parties? Why do you think GWB has the lowest approval rating of any
president -- ever? You criticize social welfare programs, and look,
we have a gigantic one going in Iraq. How could Gore or Kerry have
done worse? -- Jay Beattie.