tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477716.post-1156438981627591092006-08-24T12:03:00.000-05:002006-08-24T12:05:55.453-05:00<blockquote cite="http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=110008830"><font face="Arial" size="2">"Why are you dressed like that?" asks the Jewish mother of her son when he visits her wearing the uniform of a naval officer. "Because, Mama," he explains, "I just bought a boat, and I'm the captain." To which, smiling fondly, she replies, "Well, by you you're a captain. And by me you're a captain. But by a captain are you a captain?"</font></blockquote><p class="citation"><font size="2"><font face="Arial">That&rsquo;s Norman Podhoretz in Opinion Journal, asking <strong><a href="http://www.opinionjournal.com/federation/feature/?id=110008830">Is the Bush Doctrine Dead? The president's critics are wrong. That includes the neocons.</a></strong></font></font></p><p class="citation"><font face="Arial" size="2">He continues.</font></p><blockquote dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><p class="citation"><font face="Arial" size="2">Which is to say that, like Ronald Reagan before him, George W. Bush may be an ideologue "by" most politicians (who believe in nothing much and are always ready to trade a principle for a political gain), but "by" an ideologue he's no ideologue.</font></p></blockquote><p class="citation" dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><font face="Arial" size="2">Which is to show you can be funny while serious.</font></p>Jim Bowmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03032003470886876268noreply@blogger.com