Funny Jewish fella
"Why are you dressed like that?" asks the Jewish mother of her son when he visits her wearing the uniform of a naval officer. "Because, Mama," he explains, "I just bought a boat, and I'm the captain." To which, smiling fondly, she replies, "Well, by you you're a captain. And by me you're a captain. But by a captain are you a captain?"
That’s Norman Podhoretz in Opinion Journal, asking Is the Bush Doctrine Dead? The president's critics are wrong. That includes the neocons.
He continues.
Which is to say that, like Ronald Reagan before him, George W. Bush may be an ideologue "by" most politicians (who believe in nothing much and are always ready to trade a principle for a political gain), but "by" an ideologue he's no ideologue.
Which is to show you can be funny while serious.
posted by Jim Bowman @ 8/24/2006 12:03:00 PM
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