Wish It Were Unbelieveable
September 23rd, 2007I can believe this, but barely.
In a speech defending his administration’s Iraq policy, Bush said former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s brutality had made it impossible for a unifying leader to emerge and stop the sectarian violence that has engulfed the Middle Eastern nation.
“I heard somebody say, Where’s Mandela?’ Well, Mandela’s dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas,” Bush, who has a reputation for verbal faux pas, said in a press conference in Washington on Thursday.
Jailed for 27 years for fighting white minority rule, Mandela became South Africa’s first black president in 1994. He won a Nobel Peace Prize for preaching racial harmony and guiding the nation peacefully into the post-apartheid era. References to his death — Mandela is now 89 and increasingly frail — are seen as insensitive in South Africa.
This, too, is something I can believe but barely.
BARACK OBAMA gets morning breath. Elizabeth Edwards felt her rib pop during some good loving with her husband, John. And Rudolph W. Giuliani, by the testimony of no less than his third wife, is a really-high-testosterone guy. […] So Mr. Obama’s penchant for leaving dirty socks around the room is revealed by his wife, a teenager in New Hampshire asks John McCain if he’s too decrepit to be president, and reporters dissect Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (very discreet) hint of cleavage. The professional-image types shudder at the questions. But the answers set their heads to throbbing. […] Michelle Obama may be a lead scout on T.M.I.: Campaign Trail 2008. She’s already told us that her husband (you know, the buff dude in the bathing suit?) leaves dirty socks around the house and is “snore-y and stinky” in the morning, and that her daughters talk to her about menstrual periods. […]
[…]Walk farther down the T.M.I. trail and find Judith Giuliani, who posed sitting in her husband’s lap, holding his face and kissing him for Harper’s Bazaar. She purred about her adoration of “strong, macho” men. “Rudy’s a very, very romantic guy. We love watching ‘Sleepless in Seattle,’ ” she told the magazine. “Can you imagine my big testosterone-factor husband doing that?”
Someone at the New York Times took the time to write such nonsense? Jeez. I expect it out of Time magazine when one of Time’s editors is looking to get into Ann Coulter’s gun cabinet but this is ridiculous.