TurquoiseB wrote: >--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >>>Just thought the sound of Pacifist vs Fascist sounds kind of >>>funny. Can you imagine who would win? And ruling class >>>(something like a monarchy) Hmmm >>>reminds me of the Kennedys, America's Royalty. >>> >>> >>Thing is that not all lefties are Pacifist. ;-) >> >> > >And the Republicans in the administration don't >seem to have one intact testicle among the lot >of them. They're good at sending other people >off to fight, but with only a couple of exceptions >(out of dozens of senior positions) NONE of them >ever served in the military themselves. Chickenhawks >the whole lot of them, with Bush the biggest >motherclucker of the lot. > >The good thing about the whole Cindy Sheehan saga >is that it's pointing out the abject cowardice of >George W. Bush. If he had just agreed to meet >with her privately, this whole thing would have been >over in a flash. They could have had the meeting >behind closed doors, and could have put any spin >on it they wanted. > >Instead, George did his usual thing and ran for >cover when faced with the possibility of being in >the same room with someone who doesn't agree with >him. Now he's hosed, because the only way to make >her go away IS to meet with her, and on camera. >And George really, really, really doesn't do well >on camera when talking to someone who hasn't been >intimidated into sticking to the script. > >For those who are interested, here's a *remarkable* >interview with George Dubya. An Irish journalist >named Carole Coleman did nothing more sinister than >ask Bush a couple of tough questions. He reacted >on camera by losing his cool, getting red-faced >angry, and then reacted afterwards by lodging a >formal protest with the Irish embassy and trying >to get the reporter fired from her job. > >http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi? >file=/gate/archive/2004/07/01/worldviews.DTL > >The video clip on that page doesn't seem to work >any more, which is a crying shame because in it >you get to see what the President of the United >States is really like. He's a coward who, like >many cowards, turns into a bully when someone asks >him a direct, unscripted question. > >Bottom line is that the man is TERRIFIED of dealing >with people who hasn't been programmed to say the >"right" things and ask the "right" questions. He's >systematically eliminated anyone in his government who >*doesn't* abide by the script, and has intimidated >the media such that most of them follow the script >as well. > >As far as I can tell intuitively, this isn't just a >political thang, it's a real phobia. He has a near- >pyschotic inability to deal face-to-face with some- >one who isn't a Yes-man. Cindy's fucking with this, >big-time, both in the media and by pushing his phobia >buttons. Good for her. > > > > BTW, the interview can be seen here: http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0624/primetime/primetime56_1c.smil And an MP3 here: http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/rte-carol-coleman-bush.mp3
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