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Chip Off the Old Block?

By Jeralyn, Section Other Politics
Posted on Thu Jan 06, 2005 at 04:03:04 PM EST
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Does this father-son team look alike or what?

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    Chip Off the Old Block? | 13 comments (13 topical)
    Re: Chip Off the Old Block? (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Jan 06, 2005 at 05:27:04 PM EST
    Agreed. The questions that need to be asked are too serious to risk losing one's credibility by taking a cheap and irrelevant shot like this.

    Re: Chip Off the Old Block? (none / 0) (#3)
    by Peter G on Thu Jan 06, 2005 at 06:27:26 PM EST
    I could be wrong, but I took TL's comments at face value, and as coming from the mother of a son. The picture of the kid is very cute. The picture of Gonzales, whatever we may think of his legal or political opinions, clearly shows him to be a relaxed, happy (and good-looking) guy, who does in fact greatly resemble his son. I see no cheap shot at all; just a very human and genuinely kind comment on an ideological adversary, showing TL to be the decent, good-hearted human being that she is.

    Re: Chip Off the Old Block? (none / 0) (#4)
    by Kitt on Thu Jan 06, 2005 at 06:43:57 PM EST
    No - I don't think you're wrong. I think the first two posters misunderstood TL's intent. I took it to mean the kid is the 'spitting image' of his father.

    Re: Chip Off the Old Block? (none / 0) (#5)
    by wishful on Thu Jan 06, 2005 at 06:51:44 PM EST
    Indeed he is a chip off the old block. And the little outfit on the young man really makes the comparison so much more apt. My son looks so much like his (late) father that I accuse him of being cloned, except of course I know better.

    Re: Chip Off the Old Block? (none / 0) (#6)
    by desertswine on Thu Jan 06, 2005 at 07:29:18 PM EST
    Hunh! My kid looks like Frank the mailman.

    Re: Chip Off the Old Block? (none / 0) (#7)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Jan 06, 2005 at 08:01:51 PM EST
    Thank you, Peter G. I was not making fun of his son, only pointing out how much the two look alike. And Peter G. also correctly notes the happy, relaxed photo of Alberto Gonzales. If I had wanted to make fun of him, I would not have chosen such a flattering photo. I was just startled at the similarity. I don't look like either one of my parents and I don't think the TL kid looks either like me or his dad. These two look practically cloned.

    Re: Chip Off the Old Block? (none / 0) (#1)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Jan 06, 2005 at 08:10:47 PM EST
    There are plenty of legitimate attacks to make on "Fredo" without picking on his kid. It cheapens what should be a debate on the merits.

    Re: Chip Off the Old Block? (none / 0) (#8)
    by Kitt on Thu Jan 06, 2005 at 08:30:27 PM EST
    Yep - our daughter certainly doesn't look like me nor much like my husband. In fact, he says she looks like Frank the mailman too. Whoo - that Frank gets around.

    Re: Chip Off the Old Block? (none / 0) (#9)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Jan 06, 2005 at 08:38:19 PM EST
    As the guy said in "Stalag 17," upon being informed by a letter from his wife that she had found a cute blond baby on her door step. "I believe it. I believe it."

    Re: Chip Off the Old Block? (none / 0) (#10)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Jan 06, 2005 at 11:54:25 PM EST
    name calling post deleted

    Re: Chip Off the Old Block? (none / 0) (#11)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Jan 07, 2005 at 03:32:26 AM EST
    He is a cute kid. However the phrse 'mini me' springs to mind. "You complete me..."

    Re: Chip Off the Old Block? (none / 0) (#12)
    by kdog on Fri Jan 07, 2005 at 08:02:07 AM EST
    Mini-me is right, but not the kid. Gonzalez is Bush's mini-me. "Just the two of us, we can torture, we can lie, Just the two of us, Thousands die."

    Re: Chip Off the Old Block? (none / 0) (#13)
    by Jlvngstn on Fri Jan 07, 2005 at 01:07:01 PM EST
    Right on kdog. My first son looks zippo like me, these two are spittin images, and the pics are great. "I am going to torture you, not because I think you are going to talk, but because I enjoy this sh*t" That is what I think of when I read the "case" for torture...

    Chip Off the Old Block? | 13 comments (13 topical)