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Jens 'n' Frens
Idle thoughts of a relatively libertarian Republican in Cambridge, MA, and whomever he invites. Mostly political.
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures."
-- Daniel Webster
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Sunday, November 30, 2003 :::
As my brother says, the lying to the press wasn't the best thing about Bush's stunt, but it was pretty neat that the most-followed man in the world was able to sneak out without the press finding out about it. I would like to know what the head of the secret service thought when he (she? -- I'll guess he) was told about the plan. I hope he had a clean pair of pants.
The Washington Post is whining that their reporter wasn't allowed to tell his supervisor where he was going over an insecure channel. If the WaPo can't abide the secret service, I'll bet there's a newspaper out there that can.
People in several corners of the blogosphere (I'm writing this off-line, but I believe that Beldar and Andrew Sullivan were not the only two) have made much of the president's off-hand comment that he (a white man) and Condi (a black woman) looked like "a normal couple", and what it says for race relations. Hopefully race relations will eventually get to the point where it doesn't occur to anybody to point that out; I think there will always be pockets of racial strife, but I didn't think the president's phrasing was a big deal even today. Forty years ago it would have been.
::: posted by Steven at 4:43 PM
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