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The Dems are becoming so predictable, that even some jokes about them are coming true. Roger L. Simon anticipated:
According to a new report from his doctors, Bush's fitness has been judged 'superior' for a man his age. Does this mean we are going to have to endure another column from Jonathan Chait? Heaven help us!
Chait had criticized Bush for working out. Now, sure enough, the DNC has issued a statement that attempts to use his good health to criticise him.
I think many people will read that DNC statement and roll their eyes in disbelief at how insular the DNC has become. It's not a crime to be in good physical health. It's absurd for the Dems to slam the President with regard to his being in good health. The Dems are talking to themselves. And the more they do this sort of thing, the more apparent it is that you never hear them cheering for America. In the statement, the DNC attacks GWB by referring to things like childhood obesity and phys-ed programs, but when was the last time the Dems made a very public reference to these things outside of a slam on GWB? Have the Dems made a big public push to actually improve these things? Is there any indication at all the Dems care about these things enough to try to improve them? On the contrary, there is little indication that the Dems have an interest in improving these things.
Slamming GWB for not improving something that they themselves have shown little interest in improving, makes the Dems appear insincere.
The Dems need to lead, follow, or get out of the way.
THIS GEM TURNED UP TODAY ON FACES FROM THE FRONT:
Al Jazeera has been kicked out of Iraq indefinitely by the Iraqi government.
Possibly the reporting of Al Jazeera was not considered conducive to the creation of a democracy.
From Youssef M. Ibrahim, formerly of the NY Times and Wall St Journal, writing in the Middle East Times:
Indeed, jihadis have been killing for a decade in the name of Islam. They killed innocent tourists and natives in Morocco and Egypt, in Africa, in Indonesia and in Yemen, all done in the name of Islam by Muslims who say that they are better than all other Muslims. They killed in India, in Thailand and are now talking of killing in Germany and Denmark and so on. There were attacks with bombs that killed scores inside Shia and Sunni mosques, inside churches and inside synagogues in Turkey and Tunisia, with Muslim preachers saying that it is okay to kill Jews and Christians - the so called infidels.
The Islamofascists have been active for many years predating Iraq, Afghanistan, and even 9-11, killing people in both Islamic and non-Islamic countries, all over the world.
(Via Austin Bay).
Great posts from around the blogosphere.
Newsweek recently made a point of calling the American public "gullible." An observation from Michael Barone may be of interest in this regard:
Now the unsupported charges that "Bush lied" about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have been rekindled via criticism of Karl Rove. A key witness for the Democrats and mainstream media was former diplomat Joseph Wilson. Unfortunately for his advocates, he turned out to be a liar. A year after his famous article appeared in the New York Times in July 2003 accusing Bush of "twisting" intelligence, the Senate Intelligence Committee, in a bipartisan report, concluded that Wilson lied when he said his wife had nothing to do with his dispatch to Niger and Chairman Pat Roberts said that his report bolstered rather than refuted the case that Saddam Hussein's Iraq sought to buy uranium in Africa. So despite the continuing credulousness of much of the press, it appears inconceivable at this point that Karl Rove will be charged with violating the law prohibiting disclosure of the names of undercover agents. The case against Rove--ballyhooed by recent Time and Newsweek cover stories that paid little heed to the discrediting of Wilson--seems likely to end not with a bang but a whimper.
MSM has been falling for every absurd argument the Left puts out there. Nothing could look more "gullible" than Dan Rather did in falling for those ridiculously forged documents. Maybe it's time for MSM to make sure its own house is in order before using words such as "gullible" to describe the American people.
NASA's been catching a lot of flack for letting those heat-resistant tiles fall off on launch -- but at least they had a method in place for repairing the damage.
Mr. Noguchi and Dr. Robinson began their spacewalk at the back of the shuttle's payload bay, spending more than two hours working with damaged samples of the tiles that cover the bottom of a shuttle and the reinforced carbon-carbon material that makes up the wings' leading edges. The repair techniques were developed on recommendation from investigators of the Columbia accident two years ago, and this was the first time they could be tested in space.
...Dr. Robinson used a large caulk gun to squirt an experimental material called NOAX into cracks in the reinforced carbon samples and worked the black, doughlike material into the breaches with an assortment of putty knives.
"It seems to be well behaved," he said. "I see just a very little bit of bubbling." Engineers were concerned about bubbles forming in the material, which might keep a patch from holding.
MAX BOOT REPORTS ON RECENT OPINION POLLS IN ISLAMIC NATIONS:
Muslim opinion also challenges jihadist orthodoxy that proclaims that giving power to the people, rather than to mullahs, is "un-Islamic." The latest Pew poll found "large and growing majorities in Morocco (83%), Lebanon (83%), Jordan (80%) and Indonesia (77%) — as well as pluralities in Turkey (48%) and Pakistan (43%) — [that] say democracy can work well and is not just for the West."
That's exactly what President Bush has been saying. Though his actions and rhetoric have been denounced as "unrealistic" and "extremist" by his American and European critics, it turns out that Muslims welcome it. "Roughly half of respondents in Jordan and nearly two-thirds of Indonesians think the U.S. favors democracy in their countries," the new Pew study said. "About half of the public in Lebanon also takes that view." Imagine that: Bush's actions might actually be making Middle Easterners more pro-American!
