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Scrapbook Clark Blindsided by Baptists On Monday, January 19, while everyone else was staring the other way—at the Iowa caucuses, to be precise—an amusing and unjustly neglected event played...
...I've also met Fijians...
...Romania...
...Later in the morning he made a point to tell reporters that "he didn't support those views...
...Koger went on...
...There were, he has written, "no links to al Qaeda," and suggestions to the contrary are "just plain hogwash...
...Among them, according to Cohen: the president's allegations of Iraqi "links to Sept...
...And, "al Qaeda affiliates based in Baghdad now coordinate the movement of people, money, and supplies into and throughout Iraq for his network, and they have now been operating freely in the capital for more than eight months...
...Clark's speech was nothing much ("Dr...
...Maureen's Testosterone Fixation What is it with N^'w York Times columnist Maureen Dowd and testosterone...
...Here's the latest specimen: "You wonder how many votes [the president] scared off with that testosterone festival [i.e., his State of the Union]: the taunting message, the self-righteous geographic litany of support...
...11 and al Qaeda...
...But our favorite part came before The Howl, before the litany of states, even before the very deliberate rolling up of the Dean sleeves...
...Italy...
...It must have been the final indignity for Harkin, whose oh-so-prudently timed endorsement of Dean (after Gore, before the collapse) had just blown up in his face...
...According to Powell, "a detained al Qaeda member tells us that Saddam was more willing to assist al Qaeda after the 1998 bombings of our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania...
...Martin Luther King...
...Spain...
...And you better act like one...
...Then he started with the screaming...
...Talk about hoary...
...At the start of Dr...
...Norway...
...Koger's voice rose: "But the Lord God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve...
...The ANZACS are not poodles, nor lackeys...
...Nexis her byline and the word crops up so often you'd think she moonlights as a urologist...
...With Wes Clark sitting in the second row among a line of elected officials, Dr...
...Since the debate on the Iraq war began in earnest in the summer of 2002, he has written about Iraq-al Qaeda ties 18 times by our count (not that there's anything wrong with that...
...Someday we'll weary of pointing this out: Bush in that speech did not allege "links" between Iraq and the September 11 attacks...
...Ukraine...
...He is a God of decency and order, and he ain't going to bless no mess...
...Thailand...
...we're in double figures ourselves...
...Cohen's main problem was the president's statement that WMD programs had been found in Iraq and Bush's failure to correct some misimpressions remaining from last year's State of the Union...
...He stepped toward Dean once, then dropped back, apparently not wanting to get too close...
...Who can blame him...
...Koger said...
...Unfortunately not preserved on many of the video loops now circulating was the delicious preliminary scene, when Dean removed his jacket and handed it to a hapless Tom Harkin, treating the self-proclaimed "900 pound gorilla" of Iowa politics, the state's senior senator, as a lowly valet...
...Those guys ride around in swivel chairs with machine gun mounts on the backs of pickup trucks guarding Iraqi Currency Exchange convoys...
...If you're a man, then be a man, not a woman...
...We liked Des Moines Register columnist John Carlson's summation best: "Dean took off his coat, and, incredibly, handed it to Harkin...
...He seems very certain that he is right...
...Cohen's not buying...
...I wonder how many of these soldiers she's had the privilege of looking in the eye...
...Everyone says these days, 'Give me rights,'" Dr...
...What the Bush administration claims, instead, are Iraqi connections with al Qaeda...
...These things were either true or they're false...
...Now if you're not sure which you are, you can just ask yourself a simple question: 'Do I have a womb?' If you ain't got a womb, then you're a man...
...But as she took her detour into gay marriage the candidate turned to a man next to him and appeared to make small talk—Ikere I am, just another four-star genial trying to mind my own business...
...Florida National Guard lieutenant Jason Van Steenwyk, blogging from Iraq (iraqnow.blogspot.com), could barely restrain himself, and who can blame him...
...There were multiple shouts of "Tell it...
...Plus "a gaggle of experts jumped all over" Colin Powell's speech to the U.N...
...Nor do they represent a government who is...
...was the climax), but the prayer service was a doozy...
...I've met and worked with soldiers from the UK, Australia, New Zealand ..., Poland, the Ukraine, Romania, Azerbaijan, and Denmark...
...And don't we all...
...Can you believe President Bush is still pushing the cockamamie claim that we went to war in Iraq with a real coalition rather than a gaggle of poodles and lackeys...
...Indeed, he has twice said publicly that there is no evidence of Iraqi involvement...
...Indeed, he said, he opposes discrimination of all kinds...
...What's more, Bush has never claimed that Iraq was behind the attacks...
...Or maybe it was unconscious payback by Dean to the man who once mistakenly referred to him as "John Dean" twice in the same set of remarks...
...They told me I could preach the Gospel unadulterated, so that's God's word, not mine," Dr...
...Tom Harkin's Comeuppance Yes, THE SCRAPBOOK lapped up Howard Dean's "I Have a Scream" oratory after the Iowa caucuses...
...In his most recent column, Cohen likens president Bush to Ken Lay, the disgraced ex-CEO of Enron, and excoriates the president for an "intellectually dishonest" State of the Union address...
...Harkin stood behind him, with one of those 'Oh, my God, what have I done?' panicky smiles on his face...
...The Philippines...
...Koger's sermon Clark set his face in the rictal smile that is traditional for white politicians who find themselves in black churches...
...Know-it-all Few columnists have devoted as much ink to links between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein as the Washington Post's Richard Cohen...
...Pulling Rank Wesley Clark deserved all the grief he got last week for his ostentatious reminder that he and John Kerry had both been decorated veterans but that "with all due respect, he's a lieutenant and I'm a general...
...If Cohen knows they're false, he should let us in on how...
...Bulgaria...
...Poland...
...Give the gay people rights,' they say...
...The Netherlands...
...detailing the links...
...Guest preacher was an "evangelist anointed by Our Lord"—Dr...
...Scrapbook Clark Blindsided by Baptists On Monday, January 19, while everyone else was staring the other way—at the Iowa caucuses, to be precise—an amusing and unjustly neglected event played itself out in South Carolina, which holds a primary of its own February 3. Wesley Clark came to Columbia, the state capital, to celebrate Martin Luther King Day, appearing first at a prayer service at the Zion Baptist Church, then addressing a crowd on the statehouse grounds...
...Denmark...
...Half of the congregation was on its feet before too long, shouting approval...
...Happy Birthday to you, sir...
...El Salvador...
...Koger began her sermon with a conventional tribute to King, then took an unexpected turn...
...Because "al Qaeda is not well disposed toward secular leaders...
...In recent months, Cohen has called these claims "hoary" and "fictive" and "a farce...
...But suddenly he must have realized that the supposedly monolithic "African-American community" might be more complicated than his fellow Democrats tell him it is...
...Their . . . job is dangerous as hell, and they are as tough as two-dollar steaks...
...The best rejoinder came in the Hotline's "Last Call" on Friday, following the death of children's TV star Bob Keeshan: "A rival campaign aide asks: 'If Wesley Clark makes a statement eulogizing the late Captain Kangaroo, will he mention that he outranked him?'" Mr...
...King...
...Yes, and...
...Sheila B. Koger, formidable pastor of Columbia's Bethlehem Baptist Church, who favors white satin robes, complete with surplice, and emphatic earrings...
Vol. 9 • February 2004 • No. 20
