no tingle?
[Chris Matthews on West Point as choice of venue for President Obama’s speech on the War in Afghanistan:]
“I think it’s true of most wars,” Matthews said. “They start with a lot of excitement. I remember the scene in ‘Gone with the Wind’ where the rebels are so excited about going to war with the North, a country they can’t beat because of its industrial advantage and population advantage. They are going to lose that war eventually.”
Gone with the Wind… It was an historical documentary, yanno—on the History Channel. Pro’lly made by Michael Moore’s grandfather—yeah, that’s right.
“It seems like in this case, there isn’t a lot of excitement,” Matthews said. “I watched the cadets, they were young kids - men and women who were committed to serving their country professionally it must be said, as officers. And, I didn’t see much excitement. But among the older people there, I saw, if not resentment, skepticism. I didn’t see a lot of warmth in that crowd out there. The president chose to address tonight and I thought it was interesting. He went to maybe the enemy camp tonight to make his case. I mean, that’s where Paul Wolfowitz used to write speeches for, back in the old Bush days. That’s where he went to rabble rouse the “we’re going to democratize the world” campaign back in ‘02. So, I thought it was a strange venue.”
“rabble"… West Point cadets and staff… “rabble”.
Later, Chrissie elaborated on his ..."point:"
“He went up there to West Point, okay, and maybe earlier tonight I used the wrong phrase, ‘enemy camp,’ but the fact of the matter is that he went up there to a place that’s obviously military. People in the voluntary army that - and you have officers up there, people who have been tough,” Matthews said. “McChrystal, Petraeus identified with the Bush strategy, much tougher, more hawkish. He went up there, it was almost like he telegraphed the fact that he was going to, what, change sides on the issue of dove versus hawk.”
Oh. So now Uh-Bambi is a “rabble"-rousing neocon?
Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite 12/02 at 06:30 AM •
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