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Sunday, January 18, 2009
Let’s go Steelers!
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
They draw first blood, up 3-0.
UPDATE:
And that’s how it’s done. Troy Polamalu, who returns an interception for the clinching TD, is a Hall of Famer.
Steelers will be favored by what, 9 or 10 points in the Super Bowl?
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When Bush told us to just go shopping
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In his Washington Post column yesterday, David Broder looked back at the last eight years and located what he considers “the greatest moral failing of the Bush presidency” in the days right after the attacks of September 11:
“‘But in that moment, when the country was truly unified and the people were more than ready to sacrifice, Bush asked for … nothing. He spoke of the need for ‘patience’ and ‘resolve,’ but at a news conference at Camp David on Sept. 15, 2001, he was asked, ‘Sir, how much of a sacrifice are ordinary Americans going to have to be expected to make in their daily lives, in their daily routines?’
Bush’s first words were: ‘Our hope, of course, is that they make no sacrifice whatsoever. We would like to see life return to normal in America.’”
The consequence “to the American people - both those living now and those yet unborn - was placing the entire cost of Bush’s ambitious, if not misguided, national security policy on the tiny fraction of American families with loved ones in the armed services,” Broder writes.
I think there’s some truth to that.
