Comments on: Quote Of The Day http://donklephant.com/2008/11/04/quote-of-the-day-54/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:33:07 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Donklephant » Blog Archive » Don’t Miss A Moment Of Donklephant Today - Part 2 http://donklephant.com/2008/11/04/quote-of-the-day-54/comment-page-1/#comment-422902 Donklephant » Blog Archive » Don’t Miss A Moment Of Donklephant Today - Part 2 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:56:40 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=10462#comment-422902 [...] Quote Of The Day [...] [...] Quote Of The Day [...]

]]> By: kranky kritter http://donklephant.com/2008/11/04/quote-of-the-day-54/comment-page-1/#comment-422900 kranky kritter Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:50:12 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=10462#comment-422900 That's a nasty and impolitic thing to say, IMO. McCain deserves the respect of not having members of the President's family, members of the his own party, deliver post-mortems prior to death. It's like composing someone's eulogy in the same room as the bedside vigil, while the patient yet lives. Aint it? He couldn't have waited until tomorrow? What this shows me is that Jeb had his one little kernel of supposed insight/soundbite, and he wanted to be the first one to say it and gain ownership of the meme that the ideas were sound but the approach was dated. It's a way to arse-kiss the base. Can you say Jeb 2012? I have a hard time believing a 3rd Bush could win anytime soon, but that would never stop an ambitious man. That whole 20th/21st century thing is a compelling rhetorical device because it hooks into peoples vision of us forging bravely into a new future. But for the most part its bullshit. The world is always changing, and as it does, much stays the same. I can't think of anything much that suggests to me that McCain misunderstands the way the world works. That’s a nasty and impolitic thing to say, IMO. McCain deserves the respect of not having members of the President’s family, members of the his own party, deliver post-mortems prior to death. It’s like composing someone’s eulogy in the same room as the bedside vigil, while the patient yet lives. Aint it?

He couldn’t have waited until tomorrow? What this shows me is that Jeb had his one little kernel of supposed insight/soundbite, and he wanted to be the first one to say it and gain ownership of the meme that the ideas were sound but the approach was dated. It’s a way to arse-kiss the base. Can you say Jeb 2012? I have a hard time believing a 3rd Bush could win anytime soon, but that would never stop an ambitious man.

That whole 20th/21st century thing is a compelling rhetorical device because it hooks into peoples vision of us forging bravely into a new future. But for the most part its bullshit. The world is always changing, and as it does, much stays the same. I can’t think of anything much that suggests to me that McCain misunderstands the way the world works.

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