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The editors lambast the "pathetic incoherence" of Republican foreign policy and urge a return to the more moral and aggressive approach of the Reagan era.
Jaws drop; people fall all over themselves; buddies, goggle-eyed, take you aside: "How did you manage that ?" What a shallow, empty, and pathetic reverie: having one's worth enhanced by a gorgeous celebrity.
(I hadn't grasped how square and stolid the framing was until last night, when, while filming a concert by the pathetic dregs of a real '70s band, the camera tilted sardonically, just for an instant.)
As neither a Democrat nor a Republican, I am amazed at the party-and-ego-induced conjunctivitis that has given this pathetic president a mantle of glory as he balances precariously on the shoulders of those who came before him.
It was almost funny that just after Bush's pathetic answer, Steve Forbes put a question to Gary Bauer that accused Al Gore's black campaign manager, Donna Brazile, of being a racist for criticizing Colin Powell and J.C.