A New Secretary of State?

"Wishful thinking might bring comfort, but not security."

        - President George W. Bush

I missed Andy Rooney Sunday night but Jeff Jarvis at BuzzMachine didn't.  Andy wants President Bush to get the world to like us:

"You might not think so from listening to me, but I like to be liked.  Not only that, I like my country to be liked around the world and it isn't."

Jarvis's answer is right on.  Here's a bit of his response:

"Well, that's a pretty hard standard on which to run your foreign policy.  In fact, it's neither a rational nor an intelligent standard. It's emotional.  You want us to appoint Sally Field as Secretary of State?"

Matthew Hoy at Hoystory.com talks about Fox News' Tony Snow/Senator Jay Rockefeller debate on the Democrat's claim there was no "imminent threat" from Iraq and that Bush said there was, scaring the American people into supporting the war in Iraq.  Snow's question:

"...you and your colleagues have said he talked about an imminent threat.  And he never did.  As a matter of fact, the key argument, was it not, that you can't wait for it to become an imminent threat because then it's too late?"

Rockefeller disagreed and continued his argument even when Snow dug up one of his old speeches which refuted his current position.

There's more over at The Daily Dish. 

Grim's Hall says the French are trying to sell the Saudis battle tanks, but the Saudis are leery.  Seems there's something about the transmissions in the tanks.  I'd be leery too.