Perhaps Bill Kristol should consult Miss Cleo......

marmar

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Tue May-26-09 04:54 PM
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Perhaps Bill Kristol should consult Miss Cleo......

Edited on Tue May-26-09 04:55 PM by marmar

Call me now, Bill.....

from ThinkProgress:

Kristol Ball fails: Predicted on Sunday that Granholm would be Supreme Court nominee.

Today, President Obama picked Judge Sonia Sotomayor as his Supreme Court nominee. On Fox News Sunday this past week, right-wing pundit Bill Kristol (ie “Kristol Ball”) confidently predicted that Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) would be the next Supreme Court nominee:

KRISTOL: I think he has made up his mind, and I think it’s going to be Jennifer Granholm, the governor of Michigan, for this reason. Obama gave that interview Friday which we saw the snippet from. In that interview, he uses the term practical seven times — I want someone with a practical sense of how the world works, I want someone with practical experience. Obama knows what he’s doing, and I think he wants to say, I’m putting on someone who went to Harvard Law School, clerked at an appellate level, was attorney general of Michigan, has good quotes from Republicans and Democrats about their conduct of that legal office, but who really understands the effect on real-world decisions.

Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/26/kristol-granholm-supreme-court/

Bill Kristol has also wrongly predicted that Ted Stevens would “hang on” in Alaska, that McCain would conquer “the path to the presidency,” and that Colin Powell would endorse President Obama at the 2008 DNC.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/26/kristol-granholm-supreme-court/

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NewJeffCT

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Tue May-26-09 04:56 PM
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1. It would be news if Bill Kristol was correct on something important

he's even worse than a broken clock...

BTW, you have a typo in your subject line.

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marmar

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Tue May-26-09 04:57 PM
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2. Fixed.

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Stephanie

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Tue May-26-09 05:09 PM
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3. Q: Has Kristol ever been right?

A: NO.

http://www.bodhipaksa.com/archives/contaminated

Kristol’s wisdom includes the following:

“There’s been a certain amount of pop sociology in America that the Shia can’t get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There’s been almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq’s always been very secular.”

and this:

“George W. Bush’s presidency will probably be a successful one. What do we see? … a strong economy…”

and this:

“The war itself will clarify who was right and who was wrong about weapons of mass destruction.”

and this:

“here are hopeful signs that Iraqis of differing religious, ethnic, and political persuasions can work together. This is a far cry from the predictions made before the war by many, both here and in Europe, that a liberated Iraq would fracture into feuding clans and unleash a bloodbath.”

And this on the 2006 elections:

“All this made me think the 2006 elections could result in a Speaker Pelosi. I now think that unlikely.”

and this:

“Very few wars in American history were prepared better or more thoroughly than this one by this president.”

and this:

“We should not fool ourselves by believing that inspections could make any difference at all.”

and this:

“We can remove Saddam because that could start a chain reaction in the Arab world that would be very healthy.”

And this:

“He’s got weapons of mass destruction. At some point he will use them or give them to a terrorist group to use.

and this:

“Look, if we free the people of Iraq we will be respected in the Arab world.”v

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edhopper

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Tue May-26-09 05:12 PM
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4. A broken clock

is right more often than Kristol.

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librechik

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Tue May-26-09 05:36 PM
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5. Give that hunky neocon a raise

and fire the one who was right. Being correct gets you nowhere in this world. But making the correct mistake? That can be a great career move.

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