On Sep 11, 2:02 pm, "Keith In Tampa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> *Bush 7, Terrorists 0*
> Ann Coulter
> 09/10/2008
>
> Morose that there hasn't been another terrorist attack on American soil for
> seven long years, liberals were ecstatic when Hurricane Gustav was headed
> toward New Orleans during the Republican National Convention last week. The
> networks gave the hurricane plenty of breaking-news coverage -- but
> unfortunately it was Hurricane Katrina from 2005 they were covering.
>
> On Keith Olbermann's Aug. 29 show on MSNBC, Michael Moore said the
> possibility of a Category 3 hurricane hitting the United States "is proof
> that there is a God in heaven." Olbermann responded: "A supremely good
> point."
>
> Actually, Olbermann said that a few minutes later to some other idiotic
> point Moore had made, but that's how Moore would have edited the interview
> for one of his "documentaries," so I will, too. I would only add that
> Michael Moore's morbid obesity is proof that there is a Buddha.
>
> Hurricane Gustav came and went without a hitch. What a difference a
> Republican governor makes!
>
> As many have pointed out, the reason elected officials tend to neglect
> infrastructure project issues, like reinforcing levees in New Orleans and
> bridges in Minneapolis, is that there's no glory when a bridge doesn't
> collapse. There are no round-the-clock news specials when the levees hold.
> You can't even name an overpass retrofitting project after yourself -- it
> just looks too silly. But everyone's taxes go up to pay for the
> reinforcements.
>
> Preventing another terrorist attack is like that. There is no media coverage
> when another 9/11 doesn't happen. We can thank God that President George
> Bush didn't care about doing the safe thing for himself; he cared about
> keeping Americans safe. And he has, for seven years.
>
> If Bush's only concern were about his approval ratings, like a certain
> impeached president I could name, he would not have fought for the Patriot
> Act and the war in Iraq. He would not have resisted the howling ninnies
> demanding that we withdraw from Iraq, year after year. By liberals' own
> standard, Bush's war on terrorism has been a smashing, unimaginable success.
>
> A year after the 9/11 attack, The New York *Times*' Frank Rich was carping
> about Bush's national security plans, saying we could judge Bush's war on
> terror by whether there was a major al-Qaida attack in 2003, which --
> according to Rich -- would have been on al-Qaida's normal schedule.
>
> Rich wrote: "Since major al-Qaida attacks are planned well in advance and
>
> have historically been separated by intervals of 12 to 24 months, we will
> find out how much we've been distracted soon enough." ("Never Forget What?"
> New York Times, Sept. 14, 2002.)
>
> There wasn't a major al-Qaida attack in 2003. Nor in 2004, 2005, 2006 or
> 2007. Manifestly, liberals thought there would be: They announced a standard
> of success that they expected Bush to fail.
>
> As Bush has said, we have to be right 100 percent of the time, the
> terrorists only have to be right one time. Bush has been right 100 percent
> of the time for seven years -- so much so that Americans have completely
> forgotten about the threat of Islamic terrorism.
>
> For his thanks, President Bush has been the target of almost unimaginable
> calumnies -- the sort of invective liberals usually reserve for seniors who
> don't separate their recyclables properly. Compared to liberals' anger at
> Bush, there has always been something vaguely impersonal about their "anger"
> toward the terrorists.
>
> By my count, roughly one in four books in print in the world at this very
> moment have the words "Bush" and "Lie" in their title. Barnes & Noble has
> been forced to add an "I Hate Bush" section. I don't believe there are as
> many anti-Hitler books.
>
> Despite the fact that Hitler brought "change," promoted clean,
> energy-efficient mass transit by making the trains run on time, supported
> abortion for the non-master races, vastly expanded the power of the national
> government and was uniformly adored by college students and their
> professors, I gather that liberals don't like Hitler because they're
> constantly comparing him to Bush.
>
> The ferocity of the left's attacks on Bush even scared many of his
> conservative allies into turning on him over the war in Iraq.
>
> George Bush is Gary Cooper in the classic western "High Noon." The sheriff
> is about to leave office when a marauding gang is coming to town. He could
> leave, but he waits to face the killers as all his friends and all the
> townspeople, who supported him during his years of keeping them safe, slowly
> abandon him. In the end, he walks alone to meet the killers, because someone
> has to.
>
> That's Bush. Name one other person in Washington who would be willing to
> stand alone if he had to, because someone had to.
>
> OK, there is one, but she's not in Washington yet. Appropriately, at the end
> of "High Noon," Cooper is surrounded by the last two highwaymen when,
> suddenly, his wife (Grace Kelly) appears out of nowhere and blows away one
> of the killers! The aging sheriff is saved by a beautiful, gun-toting woman.
>
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