I love Thomas Oliphant (great Boston Globe op-ed)

[Killarney]

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/09/03/the_gloss_cant_hide_bushs_flaws/
YOU CAN always try putting lipstick on a pig, as President Bush did last night, but the result is rarely helpful, much less transforming. Promises of tax reform that contain not a syllable of specifics, the confusion (usually attributed to liberals) between legislation and results on education and prescription drug costs, the rehash of a vague, four-year-old idea for partially privatizing the Social Security system without paying for it -- these were the main lipstick ingredients in a familiar political response to a familiar political problem.

snip

This last canard is what brought Kerry out of the shadows late last night, in an unprecedented counterattack during the same news cycle against a nominee's acceptance speech. Kerry's assertion that Bush is up to his eyeballs in a smearing campaign, his raising of Bush's and Cheney's selfish evasions of combat as young men, his claim that this is the real Bush campaign -- these are rough words, and the course of the campaign may hinge on the reaction to them.

Bush had it coming.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Oliphant is very observant and very incisive.

[SHRED]

2. Yes

He is a very intelligent man with great insight and perspective.

[ET Awful]

3. Wooohooo for Oliphant!

Bush had it coming.

Well said.

[cthrumatrix]

4. this is why you won't see him on Faux or CNN every 5 minutes

like the GOP whores have.

[Englander]

5. Good article..is the Monkey still pushing the Iraq/911 nonsense?.

also,what does the basketball-type up&down movement he does
with his right hand mean? What is the hidden-meaning of that?


:shrug:

[MrBenchley]

6. I love this line....

"His second approach is to pretend that this grand war only he can lead began on Sept. 11 and ended on the morning of the invasion of Iraq."

Mission Accomplished!

(By the way, for any DUers still pissing their pants over Karl Rove's "jenius"....who do you suppose dressed Junior Flyboy in the pilot costume and hung up the banner?)

[Octafish]

7. What Oliphant said. "Lipstick on a pig," indeed.

Thanks, Killarney!