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As featured on p. 218 of "Bloggers on the Bus," under the name "a MyDD blogger."

Saturday, December 30, 2006

Unlimited Potential

There's a rash of Administration officials and Bush defenders speaking in the future tense, literally painting the picture they see in their rose-colored glasses and calling it reality. Two examples of this derangement:

Jeff Goldstein on Saddam Hussein's execution:

Let them (Democrats), for one brief moment, bracket their partisan aggressions and reflect on what the US and its allies have done in removing this butcher from power—which, contrary to received wisdom, has made Iraq a far better place, if only for the moment potentially.


Potentially, I ride gold-encrusted ponies in a green meadow while 73 naked virgins feed me grapes. Only potentially.

Here comes number two, the President's top homeland security official, Frances Townsend, on capturing bin Laden.

HENRY: You know, going back to September 2001, the president said, dead or alive, we're going to get him. Still don't have him. I know you are saying there's successes on the war on terror, and there have been. That's a failure.

TOWNSEND: Well, I'm not sure -- it's a success that hasn't occurred yet. I don't know that I view that as a failure.


Isn't that a good phrase to describe the entire 6 years of the Bush Administration? "A success that hasn't occurred yet."

This attempt to define the world as you hope it to be is becoming almost an epidemic. But when you're dealing with magical thinkers that think they have the power to write their own history (and then claim THEMSELVES to be the morally superior ones), what are you gonna do?

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