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February 27, 2005
Billmon: 02/26

UPDATE  Billmon cites some folks who are: Seeing the Light on the Right  /UPDATE

… One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you …

In the Open (Mind) Thread someone (me!) said:

Oh, Condi into High Heals and leather. Now I understand why her hus…., ahh the President likes her.

Billmon now summarizes the press reaction to my post (really?): These Boots are Made for Walking.

… One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you …

Posted by b on February 27, 2005 at 00:12 UTC | Permalink
Comments

jeez louise. so, you think she’s a virgin?

Posted by: annie | Feb 27 2005 0:47 utc | 1

Bernhard:
Since you have ruined my supper by linking to that horrid Billmon picture, I truly hope you enjoy your breakfast.

Posted by: Groucho | Feb 27 2005 1:03 utc | 2

Shall we call her Madame Condi? I bet she wishes Georgie was there.

Posted by: jdp | Feb 27 2005 1:31 utc | 3

I’d say she’s dressing for the “peter principal” president — everything mommy was…… and was’nt.

Posted by: anna missed | Feb 27 2005 1:50 utc | 4

Music maestro!
And a one and a two…

Posted by: biklett | Feb 27 2005 2:19 utc | 5

On the update
Friday night me and a bottle of wine spent a couple of hours reading all the Hunter Thompson comments at Little Green Footballs (hundreds of ’em) and to my suprise, way over half of them were favorable if not down right in awe of the Duke. The more impassioned of those, were also willing (and able) to admonish those parrots of the party line. In short, many of the comments would have been received favorably here. So I would imagine that as the Bush agenda is more and more outed for what it really is — a psychotic and kinky regression to the failed cultural values that gave us the civil war — ever more idealists on the right will jump ship. After all it was abandonment and isolation that brought Nixon down.

Posted by: anna missed | Feb 27 2005 10:53 utc | 6

anna missed, I hope this speaks to your point about the mysterious process of “outing”. Dennis L. Rader, the “BTK” serial killer, really handed himself over to the Wichita police in a most instructive way. He spent at least a year flooding them with direct evidence of his whereabouts before they could finally make the connection. Why was this so hard for them to do? (It’s certainly not a problem peculiar to Wichita–Poe tells the same story about the Paris police in “The Purloined Letter”.)

Posted by: alabama | Feb 27 2005 18:22 utc | 7

Rader was just a man who could cloak himself in all the correct signifiers–a wife, two kids, church, cub scouts, minor job with the city. And it took thirty years of looking at his face before the police could believe that he wasn’t exactly the same as themselves, that they weren’t just looking in a mirror (he only differing, if at all, because he’d acted on some of his fantasies–a minor difference indeed!). I’d like to think that Rader (a Viet Nam vet, by the way) has indeed been trying, wittingly or unwittingly, to tell us something pertinent about our Serial Murderer-in-Chief, and the world in which we live (hence the timing of his disclosure). He does so as someone belonging to a milieu that Bush and Rove have taken pains to claim as their own. And though I don’t suppose that Rader read the Duke, I’d like to think there’s a part of him that needed, as the Duke did, to expose Bush–if not through the eloquence of written English, then through the eloquence of his own mute example. And if there’s a shred of truth in this surmise, then I hope we can give Rader all due credit for trying to help us think our way out of the mess we now find ourselves in.

Posted by: alabama | Feb 27 2005 18:22 utc | 8

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