Pender- you bring up a very iteresting point about that onel ine – good job and spot on- people can call Pres. Bush an idiot all they like- but this isn’t hte first time he’s set traps and forced the Dems to show their true colors- apparently, judging by all the vitriol from the left today in the news, they just aint bright enough to realize they’ve been trapped- they’re still going on in oblivious bliss

The link to the video is pretty funny, but the rest of it sucks ass. A bunch of anti-Chimpy McHallibush type crap.

Don’t waste your time.

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Bush’s best line of the night-possible the best and most important line he’s spoken since his Jan29, 2002 Axis of Evil State of the Union speech:

“It is fair to hold our views up to scrutiny. And all involved have a responsibility to explain how the path they propose would be more likely to succeed. ”

Most people didn’t even see the right cross across Howard Dean’s face. It happened so fast, with such textbook precision, and with such clarity and deliberate effect of purpose that few even notice it today.

Let’s look at the replay:
“It is fair to hold our views up to scrutiny. ”
Here the President is holding out his hand in an obvious effort to hold the door open to those who wish to leave the anti-war party and walk back into our plane of reality where a ‘just leave’ strategy seems viable, acceptable, and even good.

“And all involved have a responsibility…”
Here we see the President’s comforting and welcoming gesture of an apparent call for bi-partisanship. It sounds so warm and fuzzy. It’s a can’t-we-all-get-along lovefest. But what’s really happening is that his outstretched arm of embracing is drawing attention and while no one notices, his left shoulder has moved forward bracing upon his left foot.

“…to explain how the path they propose would be more likely to succeed. ”

KA-POW!!! The right arm of open embracing and apparent love for healthy debate and sweet unity while casting aside the partisanship that’s divided the nation and threatens to lose another American war in the exact same manner as Vietnam….wha!? It wasn’t an outreach. The President just wound up and in those closing 13 words of his 19 word move, he just crushed Howard Dean and every single Democratic piece of post-powergrab opposition rhetoric.

Here it is again….listen carefully to the sound of the wheels that had been spinning in opposition members minds as they clung on every word looking for a way to strike, when hit…they machinery stops in an instant-

“…to explain how the path they propose would be more likely to succeed. ”

Friends, that’s perfect rhetorical boxing imo. The only thing that could have taken that from a 10/10 to an 11 would’ve been bigger speakers (exclusive to Spinal Tap) and the inclusion of “A New Direction In Iraq” http://newsbusters.org/node/8944

For example, if the President had instead said,
“It is fair to hold our views up to scrutiny. And all involved have a responsibility to explain how the path they propose would be more likely to bring success and take us in A New Direction In Iraq. ”

OMG, I think Chris Matthews would’ve had a stroke. Those 5 words of that were the crux of the Dem’s midterm campaign promises, “A New Direction In Iraq.” They hang upon their necks like an …..
….well, like an elephant.

Problem with power is it comes with responsibility, and Dems have to be more than just the opposition party now. They have to
PUT UP OR SHUT UP

“It is fair to hold our views up to scrutiny. And all involved have a responsibility to explain how the path they propose would be more likely to succeed. ”

LOL! Anyone seen that vaunted, “New Direction In Iraq” plan that Dean, Pelosi, Reid, and other Dem leaders tricked voters into believing even existed?

Anyone who believes the Dems have any sort of plan, or that one can want America to succeed and/or win in Iraq while being anti-war in Iraq….well, they’re just pawns to the Deans of the party.

“It would be unworthy of a great Nation to exaggerate an isolated incident, or to become inflamed by some one act of violence. But it would be inexcusable folly to minimize such incidents in the face of evidence which makes it clear that the incident is not isolated, but is part of a general plan. The important truth is that these acts of international lawlessness are a manifestation of a design which has been made clear to the American people for a long time. It is time for all Americans, Americans of all the Americas to stop being deluded by the romantic notion that the Americas can go on living happily and peacefully in a Jihadi-dominated world.

Generation after generation, America has battled for the general policy of the freedom of the seas. And that policy is a very simple one — but a basic, a fundamental one. It means that no Nation has the right to make the broad oceans of the world at great distances from the actual theater of land war unsafe for the commerce of others.

That has been our policy, proved time and time again, in all our history.

There has now come a time when you and I must see the cold, inexorable necessity of saying to these inhuman, unrestrained seekers of world conquest and permanent world domination by the sword: “You seek to throw our children and our children’s children into your form of terrorism and slavery. You have now attacked our own safety. You shall go no further.”

One peaceful Nation after another has met disaster because each refused to look the Jihadi danger squarely in the eye until it actually had them by the throat.

The United States will not make that fatal mistake.

Do not let us be Hairsplitters Let us not ask ourselves whether the Americas should begin to defend themselves after the first attack, or the fifth attack, or the tenth attack, or the twentieth attack.

The time for active defense is now.

This is the time for prevention of attack.

But let this warning be clear. From now on, if Iranian or Syrian support of insurgents in this war is conducted , the protection of which is necessary for American defense they do so at their own peril.

I have no illusions about the gravity of this step. I have not taken it hurriedly or lightly. It is the result of months and months of constant thought and anxiety and prayer. In the protection your Nation and mine it cannot be avoided.

The American people have faced other grave crises in their history — with American courage, and with American resolution. They will do no less today.

They know the actualities of the attacks upon us. They know the necessities of a bold defense against these attacks. They know that the times call for clear heads and fearless hearts.

And with that inner strength that comes to a free people conscious of their duty, and conscious of the righteousness of what they do, they will — with Divine help and guidance — stand their ground against this latest assault upon their democracy, their sovereignty, and their freedom.

When You See a Rattlesnake Poised to Strike,
You Do Not Wait Until He Has Struck Before You Crush Him.

Those words all come from FDR’s Sept 11, 1941 fireside chat speech (I had to replace NAZI with Jihadi and Italian and German with Syrian and Iranian).

Wouldn’t you love to see Sen. Hillary Clinton, Fmr President Carter, Chris Matthews, Brian Williams, Howard Dean, or Sen. Dick “Dirka Dirka Dirka” Durbin all rant about how militant and pre-emptive that rhetoric was only to have the following day’s headline be,
“Press SsecretaryTony Snow admits Bush plagiarized his speech from FDR”

ahhhhhhh, historical irony. I bathe in its soothing warmth and ironic effervescence.

You could read that two ways. Either we would “seek out and destroy” the entire network, which would mean going directly to it’s source.

Or, as more likely, “seek out and destory” that part of the network in Iraq.

Tough speech and not Bush’s best format. I’ve been collecting my thoughts on the matter, but I did notice one thing and I wonder if the “news” media will report it.

President Bush said that 80% of the violence is occurring in the Baghdad area and we are also going to step up efforst in Anbar Province.

Does that mean victory, as the President has defined it, is already secure in the vast majority of the rest of the country?

If so, why hasn’t the “news” media reported this???

The $64k question is will W (and the rest of the pols) take the gloves off and allow us to do our jobs…

In it to win it?

Don’t hold your breath…

“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

- Thomas Paine, “The Crisis”, December 23rd, 1776″