Nothing to See Here – Spit On A Rock edition
More stuff you should be reading instead of this lousy blog… #
- Two thoughts on reading Bruce Springsteen’s New York Times Op-Ed:
1. Damn. The Boss can write.
2. But he’s so far out of the mainstream. # - Yeah, Digby nails it. General Tommy Franks just put the whole world on alert that we could come after them at any time.
- I want the whole torture thing to go away because it’s so humiliating, but it won’t and it shouldn’t until it gets the attention it deserves. Digby reads the Gitmo report.
- We’re not fighting a war on terror. We’re fighting a war on al Qaeda. However fighting a war on al Qaeda doesn’t have legs, as they say. A war on al Qaeda is, theoretically, winnable. A war on al Qaeda doesn’t bump up the budget as much as fighting a war on terror. So we’re fighting a war on terror. Read this article for more on how we’re fighting a war on a strategy rather than on a military actor.
- One of Kevin Drum’s faithful notices that Rumsfeld has kind of dropped off the radar screen lately.
- Thanks to Boing Boing for pointing out this conversation between Norman Mailer and his son John. The elder Mailer has the most incisive comment about the Bush administration I’ve yet seen, something I’ve felt but not been able to quite put into words. He’s speaking here about watching the faces of our leaders in Fahrenheit 9/11:
The real story was in the faces. All those faces on the Bush team. What you saw was the spiritual emptiness of those people. Bush has one of the emptiest faces in America. He looks to have no more depth than spit on a rock. It could be that the most incisive personal crime committed by George Bush is that he probably never said to himself, “I don’t deserve to be president.” You just can’t trust a man who’s never been embarrassed by himself. The vanity of George W. stands out with every smirk. He literally cannot control that vanity. It seeps out of every movement of his lips, it squeezes through every tight-lipped grimace. Every grin is a study in smugsmanship. #
“No more depth than spit on a rock.” That about says it. The rest of the piece is hardly a bash-fest, but a pretty intelligent conversation about the current political situation. Long, but worth a read. #
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Thursday, August 5th, 2004 @ 11:35 am 
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