Bush takes responsibility
It's about time. This admission probably represents a cabinet level decision. It isn't enough, and he is probably saying it because no spin will serve to distract from what the country already knows. But here is it anyway:Bush: 'I take responsibility.
That's a big deal for Bush. For a peek into just how big a deal it might have been, check out Dan Froomkin's Washington Post column on how Bush is experiencing his "emperor has no clothes moment." The entity holding up the mirror is our old friend the media. Katrina seems to have blown away the the rose-colored glasses through which Bush has been viewed, and now, only now do we see them willing to construct a clearer picture of what the boy president is really like.
posted by Chris Dykstra @ 1:46 PM |
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12 Comments:
Finally. I never thought I'd hear him say those words, about anything. Too bad it took something of this magnitude.
[Also, this is a test of our new word verification on comments to prevent SPAM.]
I am not a fan of the word verification.
Maybe we should require registration instead.
I think Froomkins made the whole
column up.where did he get this high school stuff from?
Last time we brought this up we decided to keep it as open as possible. And we do have a number of anonymous commenters. But we've been getting a lot of spam lately... that's why most Blogger blogs I've been on have word verification turned on.
Hey New Patriot visitors -- what do you think? Would you rather have word verification or Blogger registration?
We should probably do a post on it and ask our readers.
I would prefer occasionally going in and deleting comment spam than having to type in a word every time I post a comment.
As always, I'm opposed to requiring registration. Some of our best commenters are non-registered and it would be like we're shutting the door in their faces.
The USENET died from spam OD. The blogosphere needs to avoid that trap.
Doing nothing might be OK short term, but as the signal to noise ratio continues to rise, its not a robust long term solution.
I think you have a false dilemma though, you could just require word verification for non-Blogger posters or even more exclusively for posters other than yourselves. You shouldn't need to jump thru the extra hoops if you're authenticated.
-Censored
Whoa, Censored says something I agree with! :)
Seriously, I think the world verification is fine. Maybe you could waive it for those already registered w/ Blogger?
Yes, this is truly a milestone.
Unfortunately, I don't think we have that much control. It's word verification for everyone or no one.
I wish Blogger would implement a machine learning based solution that learns which posts we don't want by the ones we delete (of course we would never use this for censorship ;).
But I also wish I had $1,000,000 and that hasn't happened either.
I don't find entering a a word to be that much of a barrier. In fact, it kind of makes me happy knowing that some pinhead who makes his/her living screwing with a good thing is shut out. I am opposed to registration though, for reasons Mark D. lists.
The word verification is sort of lame because disabled people can't use it. Also, becuase sometimes it's hard to tell what letters they are. I've had to type it more than once on many occassions.
That being said, our previous comment spam protection was non-existent. I'm terrified of what would happen if the spammers would target our older posts. We'd wouldn't be able to keep up with that.
Right, we unfortunately can't control who gets word verification.
I definitely want to keep comments open to anonymous posters - so we agree on that. Sounds like most of us don't mind word verification, so let's go with it hey?
old post comment spam = evil
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