Is it too late to nominate William Safire (op-ed columnist for the NY
Times, former-and-eternal apologist for Nixon) for the World Fantasy
Award? Because the opening paragraph of his column in today's Times
certainly merits a nod:
Democrats worry that President Bush is slumping too soon. Six months
from now, with the economy surging at a 4 percent rate and peace
breaking out in the Greater Middle East, today's seeming-underdog
incumbent could easily come roaring back to win going away.
William Safire is going to be the last human being (possibly the last
carbon-based lifeform) to recognize, or at least to admit, that the USA
is getting bogged down in a nightmare in Iraq that is not going to end
early or well (certainly not both).
He may be right about the economy (I'm not sure any recovery will be
uniformly spread enough to help Bush in states like Ohio and Michigan),
but I don't see any easy solution to Iraq. What's worse, based on his
press conference last night, neither does George W. Bush.
I suppose Safire could be trying to fool us. But it certainly sounds as
if he has succeeded in fooling himself.
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Tom Beck
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I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never thought I'd
see the last. - Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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