Brian Rucker
07-25-2006, 12:22 PM
Chris took a hard stance against Bush’s foreign policy…Matthews has been against the Iraq War all along, but today he wailed on Bush’s foreign policy or should i say his lack of one that has made things much worse for the us and the world. Matthews singled out the PNAC group that has instilled our completely failed policy.
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We took the number one threat in the world. Back
Matthews: I think we’ve completely lost the ability to be a power broker. Look at Condi Rice, it’s a joke–He trusted the pencil necks–it’s ideology with this crowd.
Imus asked him how do we change all of this and he said the magic word. "Election"
Matthews: It’s all ideology with this crowd. All they care about is ideology. The President bought it, hook, line and sinker, he had– but you know, it was just put into his head, sometime after 9-11, and his philosophy is what he has given it. He didn’t have to have any philosophy when he went in, and they handed it to him. These guys– the guys–you know, the guys that you used to make fun of at school, pencil necks, the intellectuals, the guys you never trusted. All of the sudden he trusts the intellectuals, the guys you knew at school, yeah, they’re a bunch of pencil necks and now he buys completely, their ideology, because he didn’t have one of his own coming in. That was his problem. I don’t know what Bush stood for, except I’m a cool guy and Gore isn’t, and that was our problem. We elected the guy because he was a little cooler than the other guy, and, I hope the next election, it isn’t a problem of who goes to bed with their wife at 9:30 at night, or who knows how to tell a joke on a stage. But it’s who had the sense of strength that comes from having read books, most of their life, tried to understand history.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/
Now, of course, I agree with Matthews that Bush is increasingly appearing to be a dolt who was manipulated by his VP and the necon network in the administration. However, saying that Bush's problem was that he trusted "intellectuals" and "pencil necks" and then asserting we need someone who reads books and understands history as our president is about as uselessly obtuse an observation as I can imagine. Isn't someone who reads books and understands history likely to be an intellectual?
Video-WMP Video-QT coming (still uploading on the servers. Should be ready soon)
We took the number one threat in the world. Back
Matthews: I think we’ve completely lost the ability to be a power broker. Look at Condi Rice, it’s a joke–He trusted the pencil necks–it’s ideology with this crowd.
Imus asked him how do we change all of this and he said the magic word. "Election"
Matthews: It’s all ideology with this crowd. All they care about is ideology. The President bought it, hook, line and sinker, he had– but you know, it was just put into his head, sometime after 9-11, and his philosophy is what he has given it. He didn’t have to have any philosophy when he went in, and they handed it to him. These guys– the guys–you know, the guys that you used to make fun of at school, pencil necks, the intellectuals, the guys you never trusted. All of the sudden he trusts the intellectuals, the guys you knew at school, yeah, they’re a bunch of pencil necks and now he buys completely, their ideology, because he didn’t have one of his own coming in. That was his problem. I don’t know what Bush stood for, except I’m a cool guy and Gore isn’t, and that was our problem. We elected the guy because he was a little cooler than the other guy, and, I hope the next election, it isn’t a problem of who goes to bed with their wife at 9:30 at night, or who knows how to tell a joke on a stage. But it’s who had the sense of strength that comes from having read books, most of their life, tried to understand history.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/
Now, of course, I agree with Matthews that Bush is increasingly appearing to be a dolt who was manipulated by his VP and the necon network in the administration. However, saying that Bush's problem was that he trusted "intellectuals" and "pencil necks" and then asserting we need someone who reads books and understands history as our president is about as uselessly obtuse an observation as I can imagine. Isn't someone who reads books and understands history likely to be an intellectual?