Nobody Could Have Predicted...

Lobbing loaded, softball questions to GWB during press conferences was his stock-in-trade along with being a gay, male prostitute. Someone had to fill his shoes, so to speak. Has a new shill been planted in the White House Press Corp?

Here's Gannon's question that made him stand out:

Thank you. Senate Democratic leaders have painted a very bleak picture of the U.S. economy. [Senate Minority Leader] Harry Reid [D-NV] was talking about soup lines. And [Senator] Hillary Clinton [D-NY] was talking about the economy being on the verge of collapse. Yet in the same breath they say that Social Security is rock solid and there's no crisis there. How are you going to work -- you've said you are going to reach out to these people -- how are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?

Here's the loaded, softball question from today:

What is your reaction to the Moveon.org that mocked General Petraeus as General Betrayus? Said that he cooked the books on Iraq. Secondly, would you like to see democrats, including presidential candidates, repudiate that ad?

Of course, Bush used the opportunity to denigrate the entire democratic party and its members as not supporting the military. What a bunch of whining crybabies the GOP has become. Petraeus is condemned by his own record of rosy projections, political calculation and abject failure. Just how many Iraqi forces are standing up so we can stand down thanks to the training program he was responsible for?

His presentation to Congress should be run through one of those prgrams that professors and teachers use to ferret out plagiarism. It sure would be interesting to see the results.

Way too much reporting on OJ to not have seen some of it. Also, lots of talk about whether he's been treated fairly or given preferential treatment. One thing struck me as odd since it appeared that when taken into custody, OJ hands were not handcuffed together. I've never seen a person whose hands were handcuffed behind his back be able to put one hand in his front pocket. I saw another video where it appeared only one hand was in cuffs, but I can't find it anywhere. Again, not that I care, but it did seem a bit odd.

And don't you think that it's an affront to capitalism to give away a service that someone else charges for?