First, about Chavez (from
The Hindu):
(Chavez) never stops talking and he never stops working. He has time for everyone and never forgets a face. For several years he travelled incessantly around the country, to keep an eye on what was going on. This was not mere electioneering, for he would talk for hours to those who had hardly a vote among them. He exhausts his cadres, his secretaries, and his Ministers. I have travelled with him and them into the deepest corners of the country, and then, after a 16-hour day, he would call the grey-faced Cabinet together for an impromptu meeting to analyse what they had discovered and what measures they should take.
Now the fun part --
Maureen Dowd rips Bush a new one:
W. vacationed so hard in Texas that he got bushed. He needed a vacation from his vacation..."I'm kind of hangin' loose, as they say," he told reporters.
As the Financial Times noted, Mr Bush is acting positively French in his love of le loafing, with 339 days at his ranch since he took office -- nearly a year out of his five.
And finally, about the latest rationale for the Iraq war:
What twisted logic: with no WMD, no link to 9/11 and no democracy, now we have to keep killing people and have our kids killed because so many of our kids have been killed already?...Just because the final reason the President came up with for invading Iraq -- to create a democracy with freedom of religion and minority rights -- has been dashed, why stop relaxing? W. is determined to stay the course on bike trails all over the West.
