Oh man. Ever have one of those moments where someone comes up with something so obviously fake that the sheer ballsiness of their statement makes you laugh out loud even as you grimace on the inside?
That happened to me today, courtesy of President Bush. As you probably know, there was a Bush-Allawi press conference recently which painted a rosy picture of Iraq, despite a lot of doubt from the reporters present. Kerry was quick to respond to it. He blasted Bush and his hand-picked governor Allawi for telling a story that contradicts CIA reports, and released an ad including Bush's awful right-track/wrong-track comment.
Bush's response?
Why, he tried to say Kerry was
wrong to criticize Allawi. But what made it really priceless was the first paragraph of the article, which is also used as the summary on the main page.
Democrat John Kerry wrongly questioned the credibility of the interim Iraqi leader, and "you can't lead this country" while undercutting an ally, President Bush said Friday.
You've got to be freakin' kidding me. Yeah, right, Mr. President. Would you like some Freedom Fries with that?
It's times like this that the sheer unmitigated gall of the GOP leadership and the Bush administration appalls me.