And they say Democrats want America to lose in Iraq!

A bit of a Freudian slip, though, considering Odierno's earlier involvement in turning the battlefield victory of the Iraq invasion into the strategic defeat that was the Iraqi insurgency.

And who said the Bush Presidency offered nothing but irrelevancy and more lame duck failure?

That one was worthy of the great Yogi Berra!

The trite expression he was going for has been bandied about by a fair number of conservative columnists the last fews weeks. Is this evidence that Bush actually does read the work of newspaper columnists? Granted, newspaper columnists that agree with him, at times beyond reason. Is this sign of curiosity a good thing, or does it just go to show that Bush is reinforcing the cracked facade of his ideological cocoon?

Defeats, don't fail me now!

Technically, can't we make George stick around after Jan. '08?  I mean, if we can pluck your basic numbnuts Islamolocos and plunk them into Gitmo for the Special Extended Weekend Package (we don't wash your sheets every day, so you won't feel guilty!), can't the next President sign an Executive Order forcing Bush to do infomercials for the Ronco Rectal Rooter or act as the pommel horse at the U.S. Olympics Trials or just smear himself with Vasoline and roll around in the leaves and then wait behind one of the towers of the Chain Bridge and then lean out and go "Oooga Boooga Boooga!" on the other side, and what not, and if SCOTUS objects, then the new Prez signs a second Executive Order telling SCOTUS to STFU? I mean, how hard can it be?

Because, correct me if I'm wrong, it could just possibly cause folks on both sides of the aisle in Congress to join hands in sincere bipartisan partnership, immediately erase any ill will toward the U.S. among all of our allies worldwide, scare the living shit out of every terrorist group on the planet, reverse the seemingly inevitable weight gain caused by matrimony, etc. etc.

I mean, it's worth a shot.

I think GWB is more John Madden than Yogi Berra.  Of course Madden is a more coherent speaker than W and would likely be a better Commander in Chief as well.

aculimic, Yogi Berra would make a better C-in-C. For all his famous malapropisms, he actually has one of the great strategic minds of American sports. You don't win three MVPs as a catcher without being kind of a genius.

Boom!

Rhubarbs, as usual you put things in perspective.  

So Bush is an "inarticulator" extraordinaire.  But, as he says, "Watch what I do, not what I say."  He may be unable to put a sentence together, but Iraq looks to be working out -- he always saiid it needs time and patience -- and this may mean victory for McCain.  Bush, the moron, won in 2000 and 2004, because we clever, stylish folk paid more attention to what he said than what he did.  As Orr does now.

The logic of the left is that because Bush can't talk good Al Qaeda deserves to win.  I beg to differ.

A vote for Hillary or Obama is a vote for shame, cowardice, self-hatred and defeat.   The Republican Party, for all its faults, is a pro-American party.  The dominant faction of the Democratic Party believes that the US is a bad country that deserves to lose in the battle against Islamo-fascism.  Not to put too fine a point on it, but a vote for the Democratic candidate, whoever he or she may be, is a vote for Osama bin Laden.

What is your favorite Democratic Party policy?  Softness on crime, lousy schools, the Clinton foreign policy weakness that made 9-11 inevitable?   Moronic  trade protectionism?  Giving all power to the  greedy and overpaid government employee unions?

The Democratic Party is a collection of the worst special interests.  The race hustlers, the teachers' unions, the trial lawyers.  What a disgusting bunch of parasites.

The Republican Party is the corruptly suck America dry and give all to your rich friends party.

Wow bulbman...you actually believe that bilious stuff you just knuckled out on the keyboard?

The Republicans are the only pro-American party? You need to read some more history books and get your facts straight. The republicans have been selling this country off to foreign nations for the last two decades in the name of corporate profit and capital gains tax evasion. Is it any wonder that the Iraq war is being financed by borrowing money from China and the Middle East and yet you get on here and say the Democrats will give Al Queada a victory in Iraq? Your party is selling our future off to Communists and Muslim autocratic fiefdoms in the name of patriotism.

I'll take my party and my vote for Obama any day over your crap. Mr. "My Country Right or Wrong"

"The republicans have been selling this country off to foreign nations for the last two decades in the name of corporate profit and capital gains tax evasion."

Whatever are you talking about?  That sentence makes no sense.   Foreigners invest in the US  and Americans invest abroad.  That's supposed to be a bad thing?   I doubt that there is a single professional economist who would agree.

In fact the US economy has done pretty well in the last twenty years.   That is a bipartisan achievement, since Bill Clinton was president for eight years, and followed as he said "Eisenhower Republican" economic policies.

Are you talking about the nutty idea that that that economic powerhouse Mexico has stolen all our good jobs?  If that is the case why have 30 million Mexicans come to this country to find work?