I suppose just because someone is an easy target doesn't mean we should take shots at them.
Great - I posted this silly piece because I was harshing everyone's day by posting about genocide, and here I am talking about targets and shots. Guess that's where my brain is today.
No worries. I usually don't get into politics here as my blood boils and heart rate goes through the roof just at the thought of some of the more nefarious actions of this administration. Hoo - it's starting already. Must.listen.to.Bananaphone...
I dunno. Considering, say, this administration's total response to the effects of Katrina, even to today; Considering Truman's The Buck Stops Here concept; I'd say he's earned every wisecrack anyone can think of. And I think this is one's really funny
Setting aside for a moment that traditionally (at least for the last few dozen years) the Presidency has been a standard target for jokes and "sniping", I offer this: I'm pretty sure the sniping would go away if the incompetence did too.
I can appreciate the idea that critics should offer constructive criticism, but the critics aren't the ones who claimed to have all the answers (or more pithily, "be the decider"), or who assumed that their position allowed them to do essentially whatever the hell they wanted. Only one person did that, and he's the target of the sniping. There comes a point when the only really constructive criticism that can be offered is "stop doing what you're doing and go away."
Beyond that, all we have that can temper the abysmal dispair is humour.
Besides, it's pointless to offer constructive criticism to a man who never listens. Also, the only cheap shots are ones made against people without power. Bush gets no sympathy from me. He made his own bed and he can get mocked in it.
Ooof...don't start. There was a time, years ago, when he was a passable journalist. And passed it has. But at the moment he's the only notable public figure with whom I share a name. <sigh> Well, except for this guy...
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I suppose just because someone is an easy target doesn't mean we should take shots at them.
Great - I posted this silly piece because I was harshing everyone's day by posting about genocide, and here I am talking about targets and shots. Guess that's where my brain is today.
I'm sorry. I don't mean to be a party pooper. I'm just tired of the sniping. It shouldn't get my hackles up the way it does.
Considering, say, this administration's total response to the effects of Katrina, even to today;
Considering Truman's The Buck Stops Here concept;
I'd say he's earned every wisecrack anyone can think of.
And I think this is one's really funny
Setting aside for a moment that traditionally (at least for the last few dozen years) the Presidency has been a standard target for jokes and "sniping", I offer this: I'm pretty sure the sniping would go away if the incompetence did too.
I can appreciate the idea that critics should offer constructive criticism, but the critics aren't the ones who claimed to have all the answers (or more pithily, "be the decider"), or who assumed that their position allowed them to do essentially whatever the hell they wanted. Only one person did that, and he's the target of the sniping. There comes a point when the only really constructive criticism that can be offered is "stop doing what you're doing and go away."
Beyond that, all we have that can temper the abysmal dispair is humour.
Well I can *never* spell.
No, I meant me. My name is Wolf, and I can't spell.
Sounds like I should be up in front of a roomful of people.
(crowd) "Hello, Wolf!"
;)
But I can't spell either.
(Pass the cookies.)
FWIW, I think Blitzer's still got his uses. He can certainly give Cheney's pacemaker a workout.