Quotables
It's a long way from "Kids Say the Darndest Things" to "Kid Nation."
The pinnacle of spin: According to the new rules set out in Montebello, [videotaping demonstrators, evesdropping on cellphone conversations, intercepting emails] may soon be recast not as infringements on civil liberties but the opposite: proof of our leaders’ commitment to direct, unmediated consultation.
[W]hat do you call someone who won't learn from painful experience? Answer: a supporter of our policy toward Cuba...[T]he embargo has been the diplomatic equivalent of the Chicago Cubs - an infallible loser for an astonishing length of time.
Great question: [W]hen supposedly the same numbers of Iraqi were dying under 12 years of air strikes and sanctions, predominantly Clinton's watch, where was the outrage?...Bill Clinton's 1 million dead Iraqi received almost zero recognition. The infamous 1996 comment of Madeleine Albright regarding 500,000 dead Iraqi children – "we think the price is worth it" only received attention years later.
The numbers weren't "shocking and sobering" back then - folks were just too numbed and drunken in the Clintonian era of "peace and prosperity."
The wit and wisdom of a very cool cat: I think there are times in life when you have to stand up, growl, bite and claw for your beliefs. Maybe you guys could take a lesson from me. Stand up to your government creatures. Growl at them. Bite and claw for what you believe.
The witless wisdom of Rush Limbaugh: "[Democrats] want to get us out of Iraq, but they can't wait to get us into Darfur...There are two reasons. What color is the skin of the people in Darfur? It's black. And who do the Democrats really need to keep voting for them?"
Comments
There wasn't much outrage concerning Iraq during the Clinton era because our military wasn't on the ground. Our soldiers weren't paying the price, so most Americans felt removed. That's not acceptable or excusable, but that's simply a fact of life. Americans have to feel some pain or discomfort before they open their eyes to what's happening around them.
Posted by: Kathy | August 27, 2007 05:07 PM
You're probably right, Kathy. But I would have hoped that we could feel a little pain at having contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of kids under 5 years old.
Then again, the media didn't exactly go out of its way to alert the public about it, either.
Posted by: abi | August 27, 2007 06:05 PM