george will is (regarding this at the very least). he certainly does NOT have the perception i have (and ms ephron has) on this.
i agreed with senator (to be) webb (although i would have went farther. i can SCREAM really well). if MY child was sent to a VERY dangerous place for NO apparent reason, with inadequate protection, inadequate knowledge, inadequate communications, no local language skills, no friends, no family and a very great chance of being blown to smithereens and the person who sent my child to this hell hole asked how my child was doing, i'd do more than be rude to that person. (my blood is boiling right now). how DARE will think king george deserves respect in this instance. he sent our men and women to their deaths for NO reason and illegally. he invaded another country that was NO threat to us. NONE. he deserves to be kicked the hell out of office NOT our respect. PERIOD. oh wait a minute. we didn't catch anyone having oral sex with the king. i guess he can keep his job AFTER all
Nora Ephron Slams George Will's 'Civility' Column
By E&P Staff Published: December 01, 2006 12:30 PM ET updted 6:00 PM
NEW YORK Columnist George Will has accused U.S. Sen.-Elect Jim Webb (D-Va.) of bad manners, which led to a strong blog response on the Huffington Post by writer Nora Ephron.According to press reports, President Bush asked Webb at a reception for new Congresspeople how his son -- currently serving in Iraq -- is doing. Webb replied that he hoped U.S. troops would be home soon. Bush said that wasn't what he asked, and again queried Webb about how his son was. Webb said that that was between him and his son.Will, in a piece syndicated yesterday by the Washington Post Writers Group, called Webb a "boor" and added: "Never mind the patent disrespect for the presidency. Webb's more gross offense was calculated rudeness toward another human being -- one who, disregarding many hard things Webb had said about him during the campaign, asked a civil and caring question, as one parent to another."The columnist continued: "Based on Webb's behavior before being sworn in, one shudders to think what he will be like after that. He already has become what Washington did not need another of, a subtraction from the city's civility and clear speaking."Ephron, the author and filmmaker, responded: "Washington is a place where politics is just something you do all day. You lie, you send kids to war, you give them inadequate equipment, they're wounded and permanently maimed, they die, whatever. Then night falls, and you actually think you get to pretend that none of it matters. 'How's your boy?' That, according to George Will, is a civil and caring question, one parent to another?.............
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Will's nuts. Webb was completely respectful to the office of the Presidency, responding with "Mr. President" each time (words Will deleted from his version of the exchange). And as you point out, he was far more respectful than some of us would have been to Bush himself.
king george and to the best of my knowledge will have NO idea what it is to have a family member in iraq.
it's one thing if we were indeed defending OUR freedom. we're not
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I must first offer apologies about this shameful plug but the current post on my blog shows a big contrast in pictures between Senator-elect Webb and someone I like to call Maximum Ferret.
Bush has shown a constant disregard concerning the children that get sent into combat for his imperial wars and the new senator was an excellent example of restraint and respect of the OFFICE of the president in not beating the crap out of him. I wrote somewhere that my one criticism of the senator was him not bringing up the current activities of his two partybrat daughters and the international incident they caused apparently on vacation in Argentina.
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