James Thurber
James Thurber
James Grover Thurberwas an American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright, and celebrated wit. Thurber was best known for his cartoons and short stories, published mainly in The New Yorker magazine and collected in his numerous books. One of the most popular humorists of his time, Thurber celebrated the comic frustrations and eccentricities of ordinary people. In collaboration with his college friend Elliott Nugent, he wrote the Broadway comedy The Male Animal, later adapted into a film, which starred Henry Fonda and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth8 December 1894
CityColumbus, OH
CountryUnited States of America
The question of whether the vice president was involved, we'll probably never know. But it was pretty close to him,
Politically, war trumps the economy. But the president has very few things that he can brag about right now. He has to point out that the economy is doing very well. It would be foolish not to.
Most presidents eventually have to shed people who are liabilities in order to survive.
This is a very black day for the White House, and it's going to be very hard for the president to dig out of this. Bush is in trouble. He is going to have a difficult time moving any part of his domestic agenda.
It's made it more difficult for his agenda generally and it certainly has made it more difficult in the Supreme Court nomination battle. As we've seen with other presidents, when presidents encounter serious difficulties, they tend to have to compromise.
It's going to be almost impossible to overcome the perception about the president that he didn't show compassion and didn't get control of the policy failures. The vivid images that are coming across the television are really destroying his image as a leader.
There is, of course, a certain amount of drudgery in newspaper work, just as there is in teaching classes, tunneling into a bank, or being President of the United States.
running away from the president on the war and Katrina.
While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.
You may as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward
As the Justice Department gets closer and closer to him through his aides, and if he is in more trouble, certainly the Democrats will use that.
The grand jury investigation has the possibility of really shining a light on the credibility of the administration, how officials tried to undermine those who were criticizing them and how they then covered up that attempt.
what they are running from, and to, and why.
With 60 staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs.