posted on July 8, 2004 08:48:37 PM new
Best of the Web Today - July 8, 2004
Best of the Web Today - July 8, 2004
By JAMES TARANTO
[WSJ -whose humor I just love ]
Give 'Em Hell, Hairy!
On Sept. 11, 2001, America suffered the deadliest attack ever by a foreign enemy on its own soil.
Fanatical Muslim terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes, crashing two of them into the World Trade center and a third into the Pentagon. The trade center was destroyed, the Pentagon badly damaged. A fourth plane, which might have been bound for the Capitol, crashed in a field in rural Pennsylvania after passengers overpowered the hijackers. Some 3,000 people perished that day, and America has been at war ever since.
Nearly three years later, a presidential campaign is under way. One of the wonders of American democracy is that elections have always gone on as usual during wartime--even in 1864 during the Civil War and 1944 during World War II. The president has to defend his record to the voters even as he is fighting the country's enemies--and so it should be.
So, what is John Kerry's argument for turning President Bush and Vice President Cheney out of office and replacing them with Kerry and John Edwards?
Here is what he had to say yesterday: "We've got better vision, better ideas, real plans. We've got a better sense of what's happening to America--and we've got better hair."
And here we thought Kerry was a Democrat, not a Whig. As reader Bill Bruer asks (in response to Peggy Noonan's column), "Has Bush-Cheney vs. Kerry-Edwards been reduced to a race between the tortoise and the 'hair'? We know who won that contest."
On the other hand, at least it's nice to know at last what Kerry and Edwards plan to 'do about terrorism.
posted on July 8, 2004 10:28:47 PM new
.....and if it ever comes to it and everything goes bad for them they can just say that they are having a bad hair day and then it will be alright.
posted on July 9, 2004 12:20:03 AM new Does Edwards pay $1,000 per haircut like Kerry does?
I don't know. Does Bush spit comb his hair like Wolfowitz does?
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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. -- John F. Kennedy
posted on July 9, 2004 08:41:10 AM new
.....and the lefties take great offense whenever someone criticizes the grooming habits of their candidates. We got them on the defensive now Linda. how dare you nasty Republicans make fun of our candidates superior hairdo's
posted on July 9, 2004 08:58:05 AM new
They most likely cannot wait to tie up a busy airport while campaigning to get new do's!
In Christ,
Rick
Judges 16:19
"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I do not accept His claim to be God." That is one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic....or else he would be the devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
C.S. Lewis: "Mere Christianity"
posted on July 9, 2004 01:16:48 PM new HA! Righties are pretty scared when they start picking on HAIR DO'S
Kerry is the one who first breeached the subject of hair between he & Bush.
Not So Fast, John Kerry; Survey Says President Bush Has Best Hair
STERLING, Ill., July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- May the best candidate win, but
when it comes to the best presidential hair, George W. Bush has America's
vote, according to Wahl Clipper Corporation's 2004 Grooming Survey and First
Ever "Index" on men's grooming habits.
Despite John Kerry's recent claim that the Kerry-Edwards ticket has the
best hair, Wahl's survey found that the majority of Americans overwhelmingly
voted for Bush's hair over Kerry's (Bush -- 51 percent; Kerry -- 30 percent;
neither -- 10 percent; don't know -- 9 percent.)
"Wahl isn't choosing sides politically, but when it comes to what we know
best -- hair -- we're interested in what Americans think is a fitting
hairstyle for their president," said Pat Anello, Director of Marketing for
Wahl Clipper. "Whether you're running for president or running a busy
schedule, Wahl has innovative, quality products that make grooming easy."
The truth behind these and other hairy facts have been tabulated to form
Wahl's first annual Grooming Index, designed to benchmark the grooming
behavior and habits of American men (age 18 and over).
The survey, conducted by Opinion Research Corporation, is based on
telephone surveys of 1,009 adults, 18 and over (including 512 men) conducted
between May 6-9, 2004 with a margin of error among all adults plus or minus
three (3) percent (and a margin of error plus or minus four percent among
men).
For complete survey findings, visit http://www.wahlclipper.com/home.htm .
"The natural family is a man and woman bound in a lifelong covenant of marriage for the purposes of:
*the continuation of the human species,
*the rearing of children,
*the regulation of sexuality,
*the provision of mutual support and protection,
*the creation of an altruistic domestic economy, and
*the maintenance of bonds between the generations."
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