I haven't wandered over to Drudge Report for a while--unclean feeling sticks until a shower. But today I thought I'd give it a go. Plus, I'm gonna jump in the shower in a few minutes.
I spit the food right out of my mouth when I read this little headline:
Rice Says History Will Rank Bush With Roosevelt, Churchill...
It got worse.
http://www.trivalleyherald.com/Stories/0,1413,86~10669~2189429,00.html
Condoleeza Rice, ladies and gentlemen:
"When you think of statesmen, you think of people who seized historic opportunities to change the world for the better, people like Roosevelt, people like Churchill, and people like Truman, who understood the challenges of communism. And this president has been an agent of change for the better -- historic change for the better."
<cough, cough...sputter, wheeze--choke>
WTF planet are you living on?
I was going to make a list of missteps, international outrage, scandal, failure, blah blah blah...
The man is lawyering up to protect himself from an investigation of treason.
And her little qualifier that it is "historic"--meaning that in, say, fifty years time the shit will smell like roses--is utterly ridiculous.
How many investigations are going on right now that could bring down this administration? And we don't even know anything yet. In terms of history, what we know now is nothing compared to what we're going to know in ten years. hell, even a couple months from now.
The fact that she can say this without her mouth filling up with bile, is truly remarkable. And for that I say "Good for you, Condi." You have not only lowered the bar on the performance of the National Security Advisor, but also as an historian and a scholar.
It's bad enough they screw it up when it counts. How do these people sleep at nite?