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24 Sep 2008 08:03 pm
The Blinkers
A reader writes:
One of the rhetorical devices the GOP-prepped candidates (like Bush
& McCain) like to use is talking about "blinking". They often say
how a leader cannot blink in the face of a crisis, how they will not
blink when confronting islamic terrorism, how we must not blink in the
face of monumental challenges.
Well, now McCain and his entire campaign is blinking - blinking at
the press, blinking at debates, blinking at the financial crisis. And
it seems to me that on 9/11/01, President Bush did nothing but
blink for seven minutes. After which he massively overreacted in one of
the most memorable and devastating acts of cover-my-ass in American
history, causing orders of magnitude more damage to America than Bin
Laden could have dreamed of.
That should show everyone what these people are: bullshit artists
who cower at the prospect of accountability and responsibility.
(Photo: James Watson/Getty.)
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