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2008-04-23 Home Front: Politix

P.J. O'Rourke: a civcs lesson on an aircraft carrier

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Posted by Mike 2008-04-23 10:59|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 PBS has been promoting an upcoming program titled "Carrier". I believe it starts Sunday night. I look forward to it. Yeah, I know, it's PBS money that put it together so I'll reserve judgment. At least it's not produced by Bill Moyers. Anyway, we'll see...

Posted by MarkZ 2008-04-23 11:26|| 2008-04-23 11:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Actually, the PBS series on various aspects of the Long War (by Frontline?) has been pretty good. They did one on the Pakistani border territories that I found fascinating, including getting a glimpse through the crowd of that famously handsome but invisible Taliban leader with the curly black locks.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-04-23 12:46|| 2008-04-23 12:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Tidbit from the piece, page 2:

I look from John McCain to what the opposition has to offer. There's Ms. Smarty-Pantsuit, the Bosnia-Under-Sniper-Fire poster gal, former prominent Washington hostess, and now the JV senator from the state that brought you Eliot Spitzer and Bear Stearns. And there's the happy-talk boy wonder, the plaster Balthazar in the Cook County political crèche, whose policy pronouncements sound like a walk through Greenwich Village in 1968: "Change, man? Got any spare change? Change?"

The man can express his opinion!

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-04-23 13:00|| 2008-04-23 13:00|| Front Page Top

#4 PBS has been promoting an upcoming program titled "Carrier".

tax sponsored spying for our enemies.

Posted by Sninert Black9312 2008-04-23 13:05|| 2008-04-23 13:05|| Front Page Top

#5 And there's this from the article:

Supposedly the "youth vote" is all for Obama. But it's John McCain who actually has put his life in the hands of adolescents on a carrier deck. Supposedly the "women's vote" is . . . well, let's not go too far with this. I can speak to John's honor, duty, valor, patriotism, etc., but I'm not sure how well his self-discipline would have fared if he'd been on an aircraft carrier with more than 500 beautiful women sailors the way I was. At least John likes women, which is more than we can say about Hillary's attitude toward, for instance, the women in Bill's life, who at this point may constitute nearly the majority of the "women's vote."

Posted by ptah">ptah 2008-04-23 13:53|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2008-04-23 13:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Yowser! That's gonna leave a mark on the dhimmis.

Posted by AlanC 2008-04-23 14:53|| 2008-04-23 14:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Before I started reading PJ, I was pretty wishy-washy about politics - he opened my eyes and moved me over towards the libertarian side. The key takeaway quote I got from one of his books was something to the effect of "Giving money to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to a teenage boy"

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-04-23 15:20|| 2008-04-23 15:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Would have liked to have this story to pass on to my Dad; the boat schedules and his infrequent visits to us never coincided so he never understood what we did.

And yes, the 'kids' run the show and are damn good at it. us khakis just sat back and gave a gentle nudge when needed ( insert your own definition of 'nudge' here)

Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-04-23 17:37|| 2008-04-23 17:37|| Front Page Top

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