Hero/Hack of the Year 2006
My Hero of the Year is Pope Benedict XVI.
He has done wonderful things this year, and has certainly worked beyond the expectations of most people. He has stood strong defending the Faith from both secular European values and the threat of growing Muslim influence in the world. He is a strong and passionate leader.
In July, he was received by huge crowds in Spain when preaching traditional family values in opposition to the Socialist government.
He did the same in Canada in early September, saying that Catholic politicians should vote their values.
The following week, he gave his now-infamous speech in Germany about historical religious violence. In the aftermath that followed, he was accused of being intolerant towards Islam. (More here)
In October, there were reports that he was going to revive the Latin Mass.
In November, he visited Turkey, and defused any tensions with that NATO member, prayed in a mosque, and met with the Patriarch of the Eastern Church.
Pope Benedict has acted heroically all year.
Honorable Mentions:
Men and Women of our Armed Forces
UN Ambassador John Bolton
Canadian PM Stephen Harper
Australian PM John Howard
U2 Lead Singer Bono
Milton Friedman
My Hack of the Year for 2006 is President Bush.
Bush has been soft on immigration, hard on the budget, weak on Iraq, and may be flip-flopping on global warming. For this and the continual squandering of his second term leave me to say that President Bush has earned the Hack of the Year title. This also sums it up well:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Kofi Annan
Mike Nifong
Bob Woodward, who in G Rex's words,
Keith Olbermann
My Election Day Predictions
Mark Foley
Republican Congressional Leadership
He has done wonderful things this year, and has certainly worked beyond the expectations of most people. He has stood strong defending the Faith from both secular European values and the threat of growing Muslim influence in the world. He is a strong and passionate leader.
In July, he was received by huge crowds in Spain when preaching traditional family values in opposition to the Socialist government.
He did the same in Canada in early September, saying that Catholic politicians should vote their values.
The following week, he gave his now-infamous speech in Germany about historical religious violence. In the aftermath that followed, he was accused of being intolerant towards Islam. (More here)
In October, there were reports that he was going to revive the Latin Mass.
In November, he visited Turkey, and defused any tensions with that NATO member, prayed in a mosque, and met with the Patriarch of the Eastern Church.
Pope Benedict has acted heroically all year.
Honorable Mentions:
Men and Women of our Armed Forces
UN Ambassador John Bolton
Canadian PM Stephen Harper
Australian PM John Howard
U2 Lead Singer Bono
Milton Friedman
My Hack of the Year for 2006 is President Bush.
Bush has been soft on immigration, hard on the budget, weak on Iraq, and may be flip-flopping on global warming. For this and the continual squandering of his second term leave me to say that President Bush has earned the Hack of the Year title. This also sums it up well:
Thank you for nothing, Mr. Bush. Thank you for squandering your political capital on issues that went nowhere (Social Security), nominations that were mainly laughed at (Harriet Miers), anti-conservative big government programs (Medicare Part D), and allowing the Democrats to shape the debate on Iraq. You must realize that this has cost you credibility on both the left and the right, and allowed you to squander anything meaningful out of your second term (besides John Roberts, and the later reversal of Miers to Alito).(Dis)Honorable Mentions:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Kofi Annan
Mike Nifong
Bob Woodward, who in G Rex's words,
"can only write scurrilous things about conservatives (Bob Casey, Jerry Ford) after they’re dead and can no longer defend themselves. Yes, in this case we’ve got a scratchy tape recording that may indeed be Ford disagreeing with Bush about his justification for the Iraq War, but after his deathbed “confession” from Casey, you have to question anything he puts out."
Keith Olbermann
My Election Day Predictions
Mark Foley
Republican Congressional Leadership
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