Shown here channelling Robert McNamara
ABC News: Republicans Hesitant to Push Rumsfeld Out — This guy is an unmitigated disaster and now the debate begins. Bad hair. Bad teeth. Combative. Arrogant. Never reads the newspaper. He’s lost it. Does he think he’s going to pull this Iraq mess out of the fire? If he was smart he would have quit the administration with everyone else.
“Secretary Rumsfeld is doing a spectacular job,” the president’s chief of staff, Andrew Card, told ABC’s “This Week.”
Spectacular?? Spectacular???? How do you define the word?
Journalists hesitant to get John C. Dvorak out?
“Digital Cameras: John C. Dvorak seems to think that a $99 Concord camera is just the ticket. Well, if it’s anything like the Concord 5062AF—don’t walk, run to another product instead. This camera claims to be five megapixels, and I’m sure that in some engineering fantasy land it pushes that many electrons. At about $200, it’s probably the cheapest 5MP camera you’ll see. But in this case, cheap doesn’t equal good. In our tests, its picture quality was barely equivalent to a 2MP camera, which can be found for much less than two Benjamins. It starts up slow and cycles slower, taking more than five seconds between shots. Whites were blown-out and images were overly green. If Kermit the Frog is on your list, then maybe. Otherwise, no. Our Digital Camera Product Guide has much better choices for every budget.”
Funny place for this comment. I am quite familiar with that 5MP camera..and it’s terrible. But this little camera is not the same. The other one is unusable, but I didn’t think it was necessary to qualify a recommendation by mention something else altogether different! If I like the new Corvette from GM, do I need to trash the cars I don’t like from GM? It’s a waste of time.
Actually, as much as I am not fond of Bush, I still rather like Rumsfeld. In the first place, I never saw anything wrong with his answer to the soldier. It seemed like a reasonable off-the-cuff response to a carefully crafted question. In the second place, who cares if he has a machine sign for him? That’s not exactly a revolutionary idea. There’s something fishy about all the quibbling over Rumsfeld. Questions about the handling of the Iraq war are valid– I’d prefer we had never gone in– but when these petty issues start getting front-page coverage, I have to think that something is going on. It has to be a power struggle of some sort.
Bush rewards loyalty and is indifferent to actual performance, integrity or qualifications.
How else can you explain giving Powell the boot and Rice the top job?
So, you are saying that Dr. Condoleezza Rice does not have integrity, good qualifications nor is able to perform?! Idiotic.
Furthermore, you are contradicting yourself if you think that Powell should have stayed based on his performance. If you are for the war, then you should be critical of the fact that he was unable to garner support from more countries to help in Iraq. If you are against the war, then you should be critical of the fact that he was the lynch pin in successfully convincing the UN members to impose sanctions against Iraq.
How else can you explain giving Powell the boot and Rice the top job?
I don’t understand the surprise people have in Powell’s leaving.
He declined to run for President, and I seem to remember him stating he would only serve one term at State. Doesn’t seem to qualify as “getting the boot”, to me. 🙂
The joke about the Bin Laden memo is that it wasn’t about some guy who was unknown to them. . They had to wait until 9/11 to take him seriously? Note: he is still not caught. For this track record the American public re-elects this group!! Now we head toward financial ruin. The irony is that those who voted for Bush are most likely the ones who will suffer most in a depression.