Chicago Sun-Times: How * dodges the tough questions

[ailsagirl]

Freedom's just another word for dodging tough questions

May 27, 2005
BY DEBRA PICKETT SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST

The news from Washington is like a bad Broadway show, the kind that promises to make you laugh and cry and be better than "Cats." The comedy came first. On Monday, President Bush stood beside Afghan President Hamid Karzai for a "Joint Press Availability."

Asked if the Iraqi insurgency was getting more difficult to defeat militarily, Bush answered with a classic Dubya-ism. "No, I don't think so," he said, "I think they're being defeated. And that's why they continue to fight."

It's the sort of answer that makes you pause and scratch your head for just long enough to give him a chance to change the subject. He's quite masterful at doing this...

=snip=

If it were a Broadway show, you could buy a ticket, watch the show and then walk out into the open air. But this is our real life, and there are not even fire exits.

emphasis mine



http://www.suntimes.com/output/pickett/cst-nws-pickett27.html

[NMDemDist2]

1. good editorial, kick n/t

[Sick_of_Rethuggery]

2. "...and there are no fire exits."

Heartbreakingly poignant...