This morning Mary Matalin was on the Today Show defending her "vice" president to some semi-tough questions from the ever perky Katie Couric. Katie was probing and Mary Matalin had a difficult time answering the questions posed in the short interview. Ms. Matalin should have read some of the news reports from this past weekend to get her story straight. She did not have her facts congruent with the facts poised by the White House, the VEEP's office and the neo-con talking heads. She kept referring to the "fact" that Ms. Armstrong was an "eye witness" to the accident, when she herself, said on Sunday that when she saw the security detail running toward the area where the "VEEP" and Mr. Whittington were hunting, she knew something was wrong.
Mary, Mary, you are so contrary. It is a good thing James is so forgiving. He must have a great sense of humor. Well he is Southern and a Cajun.
"Half the truth is often a great lie." ~ Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)
As my friend William would say. Even though he has been decidedly silent on this issue. No surprose there. He seems to listen to Neil Boortz, Rush Limbaugh and Faux News 24/7. And what's more he believes it all. He thinks Thomas Sowell is a God and "W" was the original cherry tree chopping president.
He is one of those "silent majority types" that thinks eventually he will own everything he touches. He has a very negative attitude about everything except wealth. What is so ironic about William is that he lectures me about my morals, yet he uses drugs, has been divorced, skipped the country to avoid paying child support, moved to Germany to get free health care and votes republican; because he doesn't want anyone to have those kind of benefits here.
He just doesn't want to pay for any one else to have the same benefits he wants. He doesn't believe in abortion, yet has paid for more than one for girlfriends in trouble. He lectures me about how I have let down society because I don't have the moral convictions he has.
He probably hasn't been into a church, except for a funeral, since I was in his wedding back in 1981. I am not only a regular attender, but involved in many aspects on my local church. No, I am not guilty, I am just fed up with his repugnant attitude. The holier than thou thing has gotten old. We must take back the faith.
"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right." ~ Isaac Asimov
"If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused." ~ Walter Mondale
"If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused." ~ Walter Mondale
After this weekend's shooting of Attorney Whittington by NincomVEEP, it could be very easy to make jokes about the plight of the injured lawyer and the aforementioned VEEP, but folks this is serious business.
Not only did he shoot someone, he did it without being legally licensed to hunt in the State of Texas. If that was to happen to a normal, ordinary, regular, plain, non-influential person not of color, he probably would have been arrested and stiffly FINED!! ON THE SPOT!! Obviously, not surprisingly, the vice president does get special treatment. But come on.
For a man that could not find time to pick up a gun when it mattered during the Vietnam war, he finds time to pick one up just after getting out of the hospital after a Heart Attack. But if can't tell the difference between his hunting companion and a quail, it is probably a very good thing for all of our Veterans of the Vietnam era that he did not serve. He may have mistaken them for a dove or for that matter a VC.
I grew up hunting quail, and the noise of hunting from a "car" limits the number of coveys to a minimum. Also, hunting in the afternoon is for the, well, lazy. And without dogs, pointless. He may be able to sniff out an oil deal or another KBR/Haliburton contract, but I doubt he would be able to find a downed bird.
So, let us say if they really started hunting in the morning....maybe this happened long before we were told it did. That just goes to motive, as with everything else this administration is involved in, damage control first; then a smattering of the possible truth.
"The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His." ~ Roger Ebert, film-critic (1942- )
