Well, let’s see. We need an experienced commander in chief for President, Chuck?

Does that mean he’s nominating W for a third term? Or is he pushing for Cheney, too?

Which explains John McCain’s roaring success.

What if the “wartime presidency” is is the problem? (Not to mention that it is also Teh Big Lie.)

Meanwhile, Osama bin-Forgotten, six years after 9/11. Forgive my lack of seriousness in pointing out the inconvenient truth that, so eager were the neocon chickenhawks to dress up and play army, they forgot to catch the criminals responsible for the worst terror attack on their watch.

Sure. Leader of the free world. President of the worlds remaining military superpower. Political leader of of a Democracy of 300 million souls, comprised of 50 states, a federal district, 14 territories and various other interests with frequently conflicting goals and agendas. Commander in Chief of the worlds most powerful military, head of American foreign policy and international relations.

Sure. Get someone with that experience. Let’s see. Bill Clinton is available. From there, we go to the “B” list. Jacques Chirac? Tony Blair? Ariel Sharon is probably not to be considered. I guess we could go with Gerhard Schröder. Hmm, that’s pretty much the list.

Know what? As far as the whole “experience” thing goes, I think I’ll risk it…

mikey

“Holiday from history.” Telling, that. I guess America’s natural condition is to be mired in a crappy economy and useless bullshit wars all stewarded by Republicans.

Krautie’s an all-day sucker, all right. In all three meanings.

What’s this fixation on the word ‘serious’? Never have guys like Krauthammer seemed more ludicrous and never have they been more obsessed with appearing ‘serious.’

I just heard the perfect Simpsons quote for wingnuts. I was going to save it for Malkin’s next hot scoop – say, a newly declassified 9-11 video that shows Barack Obama parachuting out of one of the planes just before the moment of impact, and is revealed six minutes after Malkin breaks the story to have been knocked up using Flash and Paintshop – but I can’t be bothered to wait. Anyway, it’s:

“Why do things that happen to stupid people keep happening to me?”

Doesn’t that just sum them up to a tee?

Glenn Greenwald just bashed the use of “serious” the other day.

Ah, I see, Obama announces an intention to engage in diplomacy (which everyone credible agrees is the best way forward in the Middle East) and Krauthammer seizes upon it as teh biggest blundar EVARRRRR!!111!!!!

Translation: No president who believes in diplomacy will ever hope to capture the votes of the moronic 25% of the electorate that shares Krauthammer’s fact-proof beliefs. Because, you know, when Hillary is nominated, she will so totally attract votes from the Kagan and Podhoretz families.

So lets see… experienced War Timey presidents…. Lincoln? just a trial lawyer… T Roosevelt? well, he started a war…. FDR? nope, just a guv of NY…. Nixon???

BTW, anybody see this? http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/7/27/91954/3762

I meant to say “no presidential candidate”…but you get the idea.

Another “experienced” guy like Preznit Dumbya? Yeah, that’ll work, Chuckie!!

If I know Krauthammer, he’d be overjoyed to see Bush and Cheney cancel the elections. “Mein fuhrer! I can walk!”

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Which explains John McCain’s roaring success.

Dude. You gave me pink-eye.

Kiki, I’ve been using this Simpson’s quote:

“Don’t you ever get sick of being wrong all the time?”

And, as of yet, no one has answered as honestly as Marge did:

“Yes. Yes I do.”

It’t hard to imagine why, after 9/11, Bush & Cheney weren’t impeached.

“holiday from history”?

Some commenter here theorized the other day that the new strategy for the right is to “crypto-defend” Hillary because she seems to be the most right-leaning of the major Dem candidates. This certainly does seem to fit the bill doesn’t it?

Kraut’s column seems pretty transparently motivated by fear of Obama, and a desperate need to create an alternate reality where he’s a weak candidate….even if it means fawning over Hil in the process.

I mean, look at how he closes the column–that’s a pretty weak vote of confidence for Rudy & the gang, isn’t it? He seems to stipulate that Rudy or another Republican could only win if they ran against a freshman Senator (would Edwards count?), and even then he downplays the possibility (“might,” “…yes, a Republican…”). Looks like he might be acclimating himself to Life with Hillary, which he now apparently views as the best he can hope for.

KrapHammer is the same one who loudly propagandized about what a marvelous, unprecedented, galaxy-spanning coalition pulled together by Bush Sr and the super heroic Colin Powell for the first Iraq War, as if all civilized humans hat put aside its petty bickering to come together for that one, noble purpose.

And that’s pretty much been the mythology since then.

Then a few years later HammerKrap (correctly) snickered that there was no coalition, that it was a “fig leaf”, and the immoral part of that was not that he and everyone lied about the ‘grand coalition’, but that the Great Empire of USA had been forced to pretend that a coalition was necessary.

Well, he got his wish when Iraq War II and Iraq Occupation I was the USA and its toadie Britain, and that was it.

But he certainly is proud of lying for his purposes.

“Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.”

That JFK was one huge pussy. Imagine a guy like him having to lead the nation through a perilous confrontation with a powerful and hostile foe.

“Mein fuhrer! I can walk!”

I feel bad, but every time I think of or see Chuckie, this is the first quote that comes to mind. To stamp out that bad feeling, I generally pound back a couple Freedom Braus.

norbizness did a contest a while ago on Simpsons lines to best sum up the Bush administration. (http://norbizness.com/archives/001677.html)
I think my entry was sadly overlooked.

“All I wanted was a second honeymoon, and now the floor is made of lava.”

Serious is as serious does.

Finally, CK endorses John Kerry.

Seriously, these people should pull their heads out of their asses. It’s a lot more pleasant outside.

Of course, the Republicans can nominate a guy who has never left his country of birth, doesn’t speak any other languages, doesn’t read about other countries, and is very proud of these facts. See, that’s perfectly OK because he can just have advisers with “gravitas” and “experience” to make up the difference.

Besides, we’d rather have a beer with him.

Yeah, imagine how big of a fiasco it would have been if we’d had a novice president after 9/11. We might have ended up missing the attacker all together and started a war with the wrong country… Oh, wait.

“Between the 1991 death of the Soviet Union and the terror attacks of 2001, foreign policy played almost no part in our presidential campaigns.”

Yes. Damn that sorry period of American history when we weren’t at war with anyone! Damn it to hell!

“But post-9/11, as during the Cold War, the country demands a serious commander in chief.”

That’s right! Because finally (praise Jeezus!) there appeared Chimpy, our non-Rhodes Scholarish, non-policywonky, really really serious commander-in-chief to lead us out of all that peace and prosperity and straight back into war! Eternal everlasting neverending war!

“It is hard to imagine that with all the electoral tides running in their favor, the Democrats would risk it all by nominating a novice for a wartime presidency.””

Really. Because surely no Democratic presidential candidate would ever consider so preposterous a policy as, oh, say, not being a “wartime president.” You know, by bringing our troops home and not ordering up any more fucking preemptive strikes on countries that didn’t attack us and not creating phantasmagoric military-industrial complex wet dreams by pulling such abstractions as a “Global War on Terror” out of his/her ass. For example.

It is hard to imagine that, with all the electoral tides running in their favor, any Democrats would consider foreign policy or campaign advice from someone as serious as Charles Krauthammer.

Eet ees not necessary to imagine such a theeng, as eet has happened just today.

Hillary website links to Charles Krauthammer Op-Ed defending her in her dispute with Obama.

“The Clinton camp placed comments from her and Obama on her web site, HillaryHub.com, and provided a link to an opinion article written by conservative Charles Krauthammer that described “how the grizzled veteran showed up the clueless rookie.”

That was posted een a Beeg Baby Blue comment thread by Hesiod, who seemed… less than pleased … over the news.

so.

HemlockEcho, you stole my comment!

Seeing as I thought of it before scrolling down to see your comment, I hereby invoke DaffydLibertarian-brand rights to that comment and all profits obtaining thereof as my intellectual property. My giant sammich will be in touch with your giant sammich.

Well, he got his wish when Iraq War II and Iraq Occupation I was the USA and its toadie Britain, and that was it.

And Australia. We’re still there actually. Not a big presence, and one whose only casualty has been one private who accidentally shot himself, and one whose government refuses to allow it to be posted in Baghdad, but there it is nevertheless.

So your sentence should end “..and its toadies Britain and Australia, and that was it.”

Cheers

Kathleen–

I had outright prolonged laughter at your quote. It wasn’t in vain!

Sadly, inspired.

Gracías.

Funny- I was thinking that same thing about how silly it would be to have a complete novice/amateur as President and how much better it would be to have someone in office that has at least *some* experience in the Executive branch.

Of course, I thought that in 2000, so I voted for Gore.

Is “holiday from history” anything like Holiday in Cambodia?
(sorry, YouTube link won’t work)

http://www.themindrobber.co.uk/mcgann-images/dvd031-.jpg

I’m not the only one who see Charles and thinks, “Evil Doctor Who”, right? Right?

“Why do things that happen to stupid people keep happening to me?”

Heeheehee! That is perfect. For so many people, actually.

Is “holiday from history” anything like Holiday in Cambodia?

Rats! I was going to give you Holiday in Auckland, but I can’t find the clip. So you’ll just have to make do with Too many times and, in honour of the religious nutbag thread downwind, Apocalypso.

And how about The nips are getting bigger? I’ve always been partial to that meself. Well, I’ve always had a soft spot for Mental As Anything, larrikin lads that they are.

Amigos, I must apologize for forgetting thees earlier.

¡lolkraut! (just peecture)

I hope thees helps, eh?

so.

What’s this fixation on the word ’serious’? Never have guys like Krauthammer seemed more ludicrous and never have they been more obsessed with appearing ’serious.’

They must watch a lot of Grey’s Anatomy. I just hope Shondra Rimes is getting her royalties…

This is a little off-topic, but, what’s up with Krauthammers schnozz? Is that some kind of messed up nose job he’s got, or is that just natural? Anyone know?

Of course, the Republicans can nominate a guy who has never left his country of birth, doesn’t speak any other languages, doesn’t read about other countries, and is very proud of these facts.

Dorothy, you forgot “and who has never succeeded in any business venture he started.”

By the way, that image of Krauty makes me laugh every time I look at it. You can almost see the propeller atop his beanie whirling crazily around. It makes me happy. Thank you.

Mikey: it’s worse than that. Everyone you listed is ineligible: Bill’s had his two terms, and the others are all foreign-born. No, if you want an experienced CinC, there are only two men in the world who qualify: George I Bush, and Jimmy Carter.

That would be an interesting election, wouldn’t it?