"We are worried about "the cow" when it is all about the "Ice Cream"
The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching third grade this year.
The presidential election was heating up and some of the children showed an interest.
I decided we would have an election for a class president.
We would choose our nominees.
They would make a campaign speech and the class would vote.
To simplify the process, candidates were nominated by other class members.
We discussed what kinds of characteristics these students should have.
We got many nominations and from those,
Jamie and Olivia were picked to run for the top spot.
The class had done a great job in their selections. Both candidates were good kids.
I thought Jamie might have an advantage because he received parental support.
I had never seen Olivia's mother.
The day arrived when they were to make their speeches.
Jamie went first.
He had specific ideas about how to make our class a better place.
He ended by promising to do his very best.
Everyone applauded and he sat down.
Now it was Olivia's turn to speak.
Her speech was concise.
She said, "If you will vote for me, I will give you ice cream."
She sat down.
The class went wild. "Yes! Yes! We want ice cream."
She surely would say more.
She did not have to. A discussion followed.
How did she plan to pay for the ice cream?
She wasn't sure..
Would her parents buy it or would the class pay for it.
She didn't know. The class really didn't care.
All they were thinking about was ice cream.
Jamie was forgotten.
Olivia won by a landslide.
Every time Barack Obama opened his mouth he offered ice cream
and 52 percent of the people reacted like nine year olds. They want
ice cream.
The other 48 percent know they're going to have to "feed the cow and clean up the crap."
Remember, the government cannot give anything to anyone --- that they have not first taken away from someone else.
The fact of the matter is: Obama preaches dependence on the government.
Another fact: We are in a political fight to the death. Anyone who doesn't realize this is either stupid or smoking crack. People, it's game time. DO NOT LET UP...keep the pressure on. We do not want to take this mess into overtime. We really don't.
On Friday the White House claimed they had no idea the rally was even planned. A ridiculous assertion that shows how dismissive the Obama administration and the Democrat-led Congress are of those who oppose their agenda. It is impossible to believe that President Obama knew nothing of the event. The denial is a perfect example of why the President is losing the trust of many Americans. He stretches his credibility to its limits, and beyond.
I watched all of the town hall meetings yesterday, and the people are pissed...rightfully so. Obama's meeting in New Hampshire was definitely staged. There was basically no opposition. I don't know for certain, but it appears Obama hand picked the people to answer the questions his mob provided. He was campaigning, plain and simple. Talking about his 1st term in office, like he expects a 2nd. America is in BIG trouble.
Michelle Malkin has done a little research...read it here.
I have a few appointments of my own...in no particular order. I know 'em all, so I've got a little Nepotism going on here. I believe the showing of favoritism for friends based upon that relationship is the American way.
PINK CZAR...Velociman...because he understands the color of the good thing.
RED CZAR...Jimbo...because he's as pissed as I am.
CAMOUFLAGE CZAR...Dax Montana...because he knows how to blend it.
DEATH CZAR...Acidman...because he's holding down the upper fort.
BLUE CZAR...that would be me...because I'm holding down the "burns blue beads clear" for the rest of the Czars.
100 WORD CZAR...Elisson...because we need someone to write bills that can be read in less than two months.
TECHNICAL CZARINA...Teresa...because she understands the Technicalities associated with moving forward.
ARMS CZAR...Eric The Blade...blades and bullets...most important. There ain't no Bread and Breakfast going on here, unless it's October.
GHOST CZAR...Primordial Slack...Because she can handle the transparent Juju...also hangs with Pain.
OFF AND UNDER THE BUS CZARISTA...Leslie...because everyone needs a little Omni...a real bus ride, so to say.
ALLIGATOR CZAR...Catfish...because he knows how to deal with reptiles...know what I mean?
GARDEN CZAR...Guyk...because he grows all he can...and is prepared. Too bad he can't grow bullets.
BEER CZAR...Redneck...because you've got to keep the cooler full.
WINE CZAR...Denny...because he appreciates a tight ride, and keeps on keeping on.
CLEAR HEADED CZAR...LauraB...because she sees the writing on the wall.
GOT YOUR BACK CZAR...Joe the Drunk...because we once had a close call.
COACH GUN CZAR...The Baboon Pirate...because you'd want him around if the chips fell short. He also will preserve the Sausage Dog.
ART CZAR...John Cox...because he draws it like it could be.
OK...I have many more Czar positions and colors open...contact me and I'll set you up.
She said, "We were not, I repeat, were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used."
Now, Pelosi is insisting that her congressional colleagues, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and CIA personnel are ALL LYING... while ONLY SHE, Nancy Pelosi is capable of telling the truth.
Now she says..."THEY always mislead US."
Who is They? I would really like to know.
I think she should be water-boarded...would she then be able to distinguish truth from fiction?
I think she must go...after all, she is third in line for the presidency...for goodness sake. Could you imagine Nancy Pelosi as POTUS?
Fact of the matter is...no one else at the 2002 briefing appears, at present, to agree with Pelosi's version of what was really said. We'll see if that changes.
A little rant, but I will say I hope her (our) jet flies on french fries.
She is greasy like the bent spoon I use to work on my weed-eater.
I absolutely detest this woman. I would like to raise my right hand and give this left coast traitor a spinning back fist. I have never hit a woman...but there is a first time for everything.
Israeli elections are interesting and confusing. They have many different parties and after the general vote; they all wiggle around and throw support here and there. Politics.
Netanyahu's brother was the only Israeli commando killed when they had to slip on down to Entebbe and save the lives of their citizens who were hijacked and kidnapped by Palestinian IslamoFascist and West German left wing terrorists. None of the bad guys lived...which is a good thing.
Tzipi Livni, a former Mossad agent, gave him a run for the money. I like her, and I hope she joins his team.
I would not fuck with Netanyahu...would be my advice to Bobobama.
We all live in troubled times, but at least nobody is shooting rockets at us...Yet.
Let me get this straight: They're going to vote on this bill, any bill for that matter, that they haven't read. Would you sign your name to "a piece of paper" or a one thousand plus page document without first having read it?
"The Democrats finally made the bill's language available around 11 p.m. Thursday, approximately 10 hours before members meet Friday to consider the bill and 38 hours short of the time promised Americans to review the bill."
What are they going to do? Stay up all fucking night...read this garbage...sync up with their colleagues...discuss...make an informed decision...and vote blind. I read fast, but over 1000 pages overnight is a lot for anyone. We're not talking about a couple of Tom Clancy novels here...well, maybe we are. I've read many books cover to cover...pulled many all nighters...because I wanted to know how it ended. The problem with this shit is there is no end. This is just the beginning.
Okay, wait, I get it...Pelosi is leaving this afternoon for an 8 day trip to Europe. Doesn't want to miss her flight...no, wait...she has her own plane (on our dime by the way). WTF!
If it wasn't so serious...the blunders (so far) by Bobobama and his "team", I would laugh.
Monkey see, monkey do...and I don't mean that as a racial slur...no I don't.
Sen. Judd Gregg just bailed for consideration of U.S. Commerce Secretary, but he lied because he said, "...I greatly admire President Obama and know our country will benefit from his leadership..."
That was a lie...he doesn't believe that anymore than I do.
Anyone believe this bullshit? He should have told it like it is.
But, all things considered...he made a conscience decision to get out while the gettin' is good.
I say again...he is smart man.
I wouldn't get wrapped up with Bobo for the rings of Saturn. No I would not.
...is in a little "time-out". I always believed Bobobama (as much as I detest him) would do whatever was necessary to send her to the corner. Make no mistake; Bobobama is a self serving socialist who does not have the best interest of the American people at heart. He does have the oratory skills...like Adolf Hitler did. No, that is not a comparison in values, but it is a comparison of charisma. He does not understand anything aside from telling people what he thinks it is they want to hear. And he is good at it. That doesn't go for his mob though...they're drunk with their new found power. Drunk and stupid.
The fact is...I'm embarrassed that America chose to follow his rhetoric. The world loves it...he just opened the door to a bunch of bad juju...and the world is laying in wait. Fact is...they want the bad juju. They care about nobody but themselves, and if you believe different...prove it to me.
Tim Geithner (cheating SOB) said "We will have to try things we've never tried before". Timmy boy is lucky he has a job, and should understand we're way past trying. We need to act rationally, which we did not do with the passage of the Jokeus Bill. All of us are in deep shit, and if anyone believes we can buy our way out of it; you're fucking crazy.
The times "are a changing"...fast.
I absolutely believe that the election of Bobobama is going to be much worse than most people realize. The US government is going into the counterfeiting business.
Is the general "democratic" public so stupid they don't realize this? I'll bet Abe Lincoln is rolling over in his grave. Bobobama's self comparison to Lincoln makes me sick.
We are prospecting with the hope that some future event will occur which will clean everything up.
This fucking stimulus bill has more pork in it than a pig farmer.
That fucking idiot Nancy Pelosi is clueless. She believes we have 500 million Americans living here. She missed that one big time. According to the CIA, as of July 2008, we have about 303 million people living here the Democrats can fuck. She missed that one by about 40 %. How can you make a mistake like that and believe that people will take your word for truth? That answer is easy. Democratic Party. I'm telling you comrades, we are fucked.
The Democrats are pretty desperate to pass this bill, so you will see them saying whatever they believe is necessary to dupe the American people and further Socialism. Hell, I hear the Swimmer is going to D.C just to vote. Give me a break.
"...In stimulus package language, if Congress taxes to hand out money, one person is stimulated at the expense of another, who pays the tax, who is unstimulated. A visual representation of the stimulus package is: Imagine you see a person at work taking buckets of water from the deep end of a swimming pool and dumping them into the shallow end in an attempt to make it deeper..."
You've heard the horror stories about the wasteful projects in the House version of the Obama-Reid-Pelosi debt bill. You heard about reseeding the mall, and funding 'stimulative' contraception. But did you know that the Senate has a whole raft of new items in their version of the bill?
Here's a taste:
$20 million "for the removal of small- to medium-sized fish passage barriers." (Pg. 45 of Senate Appropriations Committee report: 20,000,000 for the removal of small- to medium-sized fish passage barriers)
Fish passage barriers...Give me a break.
$400 million for STD prevention (Pg. 60 of Senate Appropriations Committee report: "CDC estimates that a proximately 19 million new STD infections occur annually in the United States...The Committee has included $400,000,000 for testing and prevention of these conditions.")
$400 million...Give me a break.
$25 million to rehabilitate off-roading (ATV) trails (Pg. 45 of Senate Appropriations Committee report: "$25,000,000 is for recreation maintenance, especially for rehabilitation of off-road vehicle routes, and $20,000,000 is for trail maintenance and restoration")
$25 million...Give me a break.
$34 million to remodel the Department of Commerce HQ (Pg. 15 of Senate Appropriations Committee report: $34,000,000 for the Department of Commerce renovation and modernization")
$34 million...Give me a break.
$70 million to Support Supercomputing Activities for climate research (Pgs. 14-15 of Senate Appropriations Committee Report: $70,000,000 is directed to specifically support supercomputing activities, especially as they relate to climate research)
$70 million...Give me a break.
$150 million for honey bee insurance (Pg. 102 of Senate Appropriations Committee report: "The Secretary shall use up to $ 50,000,000 per year, and $150,000,000 in the case of 2009, from the Trust Fund to provide emergency relief to eligible producers of livestock, honey bees, and farm-raised fish to aid in the reduction of losses due to disease, adverse weather, or other conditions, such as blizzards and wildfires, as determined by the Secretary")
$150 million...Give me a break.
-- Brian Faughnan
How many jobs are these projects likely to create? We're in deep deep shit.
If anyone can, please explain this to me...please do.
Here's another one by another Obama idiot.
We are not rich like y'all, that is one thing you will have to understand, that one day this year we will be, because we have Barack Obama.
-- Obama supporter whose car was being repossessed.
We're in BIG trouble..BIG BIG Trouble. If anyone believes Obama can save anything, than you can kiss the north end of a duck flying south.
Below the fold is a brief bio of Charles Krauthammer who, I believe, has great insight and clarity, and an article he has written addressing the Obama nightmare. We might be in deep shit right now, but if Obama is elected, we'll be in quicksand. It could be a "no way out" situation.
Anyway, if you have a few minutes...give it a read.
Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary, Charles Krauthammer writes a syndicated column for the Washington Post that appears in over 150 newspapers worldwide. He is also a monthly essayist for TIME magazine, a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard and The New Republic, a political analyst for FOX News and a weekly panelist on Inside Washington.
For two decades, his influential writings have helped frame the very shape of American foreign policy. He coined and developed "The Reagan Doctrine" (TIME, April 1985), defined the structure of the post-Cold War world in "The Unipolar Moment" (Foreign Affairs, 1990/1991), and outlined the principles of post-9/11 American foreign policy in his much-debated Irving Kristol Lecture, "Democratic Realism" (AEI Press, March 2004).
Born in New York City and raised in Montreal, Krauthammer was educated at McGill University (B.A. 1970), Oxford University (Commonwealth Scholar in Politics) and Harvard (M.D. 1975). While serving as a resident and then chief resident in psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital, he published scientific papers, including his co-discovery of a form of bipolar disease, that continue to be cited in the psychiatric literature.
In 1978, he quit medical practice, came to Washington to direct planni ng in psychiatric research in the Carter administration, and began contributing articles to The New Republic. During the Presidential campaign of 1980, he served as a speechwriter to Vice President Walter Mondale. He joined The New Republic as a writer and editor in 1981. His New Republic writings won the 1984 National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism, the highest award in
magazine journalism.
In 2001, he was appointed to the President's Council on Bioethics. He has been honored by many organizations, from the Center for Security Policy (Mighty Pen Award) to People for the American Way (First Amendment Award).
In 2003, he was a recipient of the first annual Bradley Prize. In 2004, he received the American Enterprise Institute's Irving Kristol Award.
Krauthammer lives in suburban Washington with Robyn, an artist. Their son, Daniel, is a student at Harvard University.
Article by Charles Krauthammer
Washington Post
The Audacity of Vanity
By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, July 18, 2008; A17
Barack Obama wants to speak at the Brandenburg Gate. He figures it would be a nice backdrop. The supporting cast -- a cheering audience and a few fainting frauleins -- would be a picturesque way to bolster his foreign policy credentials.
What Obama does not seem to understand is that the Brandenburg Gate is something you earn. President Ronald Reagan earned the right to speak there because his relentless pressure had brought the Soviet empire to its knees and he was demanding its final "tear down this wall" liquidation. When President John F. Kennedy visited the Brandenburg Gate on the day of his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, he was representing a country that was prepared to go to the brink of nuclear war to defend West Berlin.
Who is Obama representing? And what exactly has he done in his lifetime to merit appropriating the Brandenburg Gate as a campaign prop? What was his role in the fight a gainst communism, the liberation of Eastern Europe, the creation of what George Bush the elder -- who presided over the fall of the Berlin Wall but modestly declined to go there for a victory lap -- called "a Europe whole and free"?
Does Obama not see the incongruity? It's as if a German pol took a campaign trip to America and demanded the Statue of Liberty as a venue for a campaign speech. (The Germans have now gently nudged Obama into looking at other venues.)
Americans are beginning to notice Obama's elevated opinion of himself. There's nothing new about narcissism in politics. Every senator looks in the mirror and sees a president. Nonetheless, has there ever been a presidential nominee with a wider gap between his estimation of himself and the sum total of his lifetime achievements?
Obama is a three-year senator without a single important legislative achievement to his name, a former Illinois state senator who voted "present" nearly 130 times. As pre sident of the Harvard Law Review, as law professor and as legislator, has he ever produced a single notable piece of scholarship? Written a single memorable article? His most memorable work is a biography of his favorite subject: himself.
It is a subject upon which he can dilate effortlessly. In his victory speech upon winning the nomination, Obama declared it a great turning point in history -- "generations from now we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment" -- when, among other wonders, "the rise of the oceans began to slow." As Hudson Institute economist Irwin Stelzer noted in his London Daily Telegraph column, "Moses made the waters recede, but he had help." Obama apparently works alone.
Obama may think he's King Canute, but the good king ordered the tides to halt precisely to refute sycophantic aides who suggested that he had such power. Obama has no such modesty.
After all, in the words of his own slogan, "we are the ones we've been waiting for," which, translating the royal "we," means: " I am the one we've been waiting for." Amazingly, he had a quasi-presidential seal with its own Latin inscription affixed to his lectern, until general ridicule -- it was pointed out that he was not yet president -- induced him to take it down.
He lectures us that instead of worrying about immigrants learning English, "you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish" -- a language Obama does not speak. He further admonishes us on how "embarrassing" it is that Europeans are multilingual but "we go over to Europe, and all we can say is 'merci beaucoup.' " Obama speaks no French.
His fluent English does, however, feature many such admonitions, instructions and improvements. His wife assures us that President Obama will be a stern taskmaster: "Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism . . . that you come out of your isolation. . . . Barack will never allo w you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed."
For the first few months of the campaign, the question about Obama was: Who is he? The question now is: Who does he think he is?
We are getting to know. Redeemer of our uninvolved, uninformed lives. Lord of the seas. And more. As he said on victory night, his rise marks the moment when "our planet began to heal." As I recall -- I'm no expert on this -- Jesus practiced his healing just on the sick. Obama operates on a larger canvas.
This guy wants to be our President and control our government. Pay close attention to the last comment!! Below are a few lines from Obama's books ... his words:
From Dreams of My Father: '"I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites."
From Dreams of My Father : 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mothers race.'
From Dreams of My Father: "There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white."
From Dreams of My Father: ; "It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names."
From Dreams of My Father: "I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela."
From Audacity of Hope: '"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
The Judge pointed to "nine assertions in the film that are not supported by mainstream scientific consensus."
Logic dictates if any one of the premises on which an argument is based is invalid, so is the conclusion.
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Madam speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to put a Windfall tax all stock market profits (including Retirement fund, 401K's and Mutual Funds! alas it is true. All to help the 12 Million Illegal Immigrants and other unemployed Minorities!
Boy, are we in trouble... This woman is frightening. Take special note of the last paragraph. Is she really this whacked out?
Nancy Pelosi condemned the new record highs of the stock market as "just another example of Bush policies helping the rich get richer". "First Bush cut taxes for the rich and the economy has rebounded with new record low unemployment rates, which only means wealthy employers are getting even wealthier at the expense of the underpaid working class".
She went on to say, "Despite the billions of dollars being spent in Iraq our economy is still strong and government tax revenues are at all time highs. What this really means is that business is exploiting the war effort and working Americans, just to put money in their own pockets".
When questioned about recent stock market highs she responded "Only the rich benefit from these record highs. Working Americans, welfare recipients, the employed and minorities are not sharing in these obscene record highs". "There is no question these windfall profits and income created by the Bush administration need to be taxed at 100% rate and those dollars redistributed to the poor and working class". "Profits from the stock market do not reward the hard work of our working class who, by their hard work, are responsible for generating these corporate profits that create stock market profits for the rich. We in congress will need to address this issue to either tax these profits or to control the stock market to prevent this unearned income to flow to the rich."
When asked about the fact that over 80% of all Americans have investments in mutual funds, retirement funds, 401K's, and the stock market she replied "That may be true, but probably only 5% account for 90% of all these investment dollars. That's just more "trickle down" economics claiming that if a corporation is successful that everyone from the CEO to the floor sweeper benefit from higher wages and job security which is ridiculous". "How much of this 'trickle down' ever get to the unemployed and minorities in our county? None, and that's the tragedy of these stock market highs."
"We democrats are going to address this issue after the election when we take control of the congress. We will return to the 60% to 80% tax rates on the rich and we will be able to take at least 30% of all current lower Federal Income Tax payers off the roles and increase government income substantially. We need to work toward the goal of equalizing income in our country and at the same time limiting t he amount the rich can invest."
When asked how these new tax dollars would be spent, she replied; "We need to raise the standard of living of our poor, unemployed and minorities. For example, we have an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in our country who need our help along with millions of unemployed minorities. Stock market windfall profits taxes could go a long ways to guarantee these people the standard of living they would like to have as "Americans"."
I've been tweaking my new 24 incher iMac Catdaddy...and let me tell you...this thing is way too cool...I'm impressed. It will run Piece of Shit Windows in a separate space...no reboot required...and remain stable. It is also the king of Multimedia. Although, you have to pay to play.
Anyway, I've been saying for the last several years that this next Presidential election is probably the most important one in my life. These crazies on the left, if they have their way and are successful, will doom us...and our children. We are all fucked if a Democrat is elected. Plain and simple. We need a viable third party, but we don't have one...so you've got to vote for the future. There is no way around that. Things are changing
I found this interesting:
This will be the first election without incumbents since 1952.
This will be the most expensive election in American history.
If the costs for both Democratic and Republican campaigns are added together (for the Presidential primary election, general election, and the political conventions, they should be somewhere in the neighborhood of...for comparison purposes:
$448.9 million in 1996
$649.5 million in 2000
$1.01 billion in 2004
You can do the math...guesstimate the number for 2008. Crazy.
I wonder how much it would cost to nuke Iran. or California?
I'm just sayin'...if the Democrats gain control at the top...we are all fucked...including you Democrats out there.
The polls are all over the map, and I don't trust 'em. I say that because there is no way they could change so much every 24 hours. It's in the best interest of the left wing leaning mainstream media to project a close race. More TV time = more money = more people hear their biased views = they think they can help Kerry. I've never been polled, and I don't know anyone who has. I believe there will be a much greater turnout than in the past, and that will automatically invalidate the polls. The polls are voodoo.
I do not believe the majority of Americans will vote for John Kerry, or he will win the college. I am, of course, assuming that there will be no dead people casting votes, people multiple voting, or the likes of Mary Poppins voting. At least I don't want to believe that living, honest people could elect a man of his character as President of the United States. If he is elected, it will be a major setback.
If people are still undecided this close to the finish line, then where in the hell have they been? How could that be?
Whatever happens, I hope whoever wins, wins decisively. The last thing we need is another legal fiasco.
I could be right, or I could be wrong, but at least I have an opinion.
If we presume a dead-heat race, the 270 EVs needed to win may not be met until 11 PM EST … and that presumes states won’t be too close to call, which I presume many will be.
..."On Tuesday you have two chances to make Osama's day. You can (a) stay at home and hope that Bush wins, or you can (b) vote for Kerry. Either way, Osama loves you."
How come I've never been polled? How do the pollsters select people to poll? Do they throw darts at a phone book? Do they throw darts at a list of registered Democrats?
I don't think it will be as close as the predictions, because I can't believe that Americans will be so stupid as to elect Kerry / Edwards. Maybe that's wishful thinking, but I think not. Although, I will admit, there are not many democratic supporters in my personal or professional circles, I could quite possibly be out of touch...but I think not...at least where I come from.
If people vote with the perceived outcome, of a few debates, by the biased left wing media, then we might be in deep shit. Everyone wants to support a winner.
However, I do believe the democrats in every state where the margin is less than 4%, maybe more, will contest the election. Looking at all the spin and back peddling, it's apparent that they want to win "at all costs". They have no integrity.
Yeap...this is going to get ugly.
Let me say one more thing...I don't "love" Bush, but I realize we only have two choices...I do not trust Kerry, period. His career was built on deception and lies.
I really hate to keep posting about Traitor John (well not really), but time is short.
Excerpt:
...John Kerry lied. Without remorse. To advance his budding political career. He tarnished the reputation of his comrades when the military was out of vogue.
Now, three decades later, camouflage is back in the fall fashion line-up. Suddenly, Kerry's proud of his service, portraying himself as a war hero...
"Senator Kerry, you accused the President of the United States of 'misleading the nation into war.' But you had access to the exact same intelligence information he did. You drew the exact same conclusions about the danger presented by Saddam that he did. And you voted in favor of giving the President authority to go to war. Senator Kerry, were you misleading the public then, or are you misleading the public now? If not, can you please explain yourself and why you would say something so divisive to a nation at war?"
Feh. Good luck getting anyone to ask him that point blank.
I was surfing through the networks last night during the DNC, and it didn’t surprise me to see the majority of the media hoping that wishful thinking, on their part, would prevail. It was “so” fake. They must think-realize-know that most of their followers are suffering from delusions..
Billy and Hilly were a joke. If anyone believes that bullshit, they are crazy. These two, care for nothing unless it is beneficial them.
Jimmy Carter is a “Burnt Weenie Sandwich”. He is done, in more ways than one, and has been for a long time.
Al Gore is “Certifiable”. This guy is a nut, plain and simple. He’s still blaming his ass whipping on the Supreme Court of the United States of America. Well, his type have to blame somebody…. never could do anything on his / their own.
God help us if we elect a President from a party controlled by the likes of these spinning dirt bags.
Aside from the fact that many Americans actually stand with these fools, it was funny.
About forty percent of the people vote Democrat. About forty percent vote Republican. Of those eighty percent, most wouldn't change their votes if Adolf Hitler was running against Abe Lincoln or against FDR....That leaves twenty percent of the people who swing back one way or another...the true independents...That twenty percent controls the destiny of the country.
...It’s becoming more of a reality to the intelligent people who try and stay informed that John Kerry is all over the place with the key issue’s of today’s world. While the economy getting back on track, and it is to those who are in denial. The majority of people in this country want to feel safe and free from terrorism. This country needs strong leadership for that very reasaon. With that being said, I’m willing to bet everything I own that there’s going to be a major terrorist attack on this country before the election. Spain has opened a Pandora’s Box on that subject...
This is the speech Charles Krauthammer gave at the AIE Annual Dinner in Washington on February 10, 2004.
Excerpt:
Whether or not Iraq had large stockpiles of WMDs, the very fact that the United States overthrew a hostile regime that repeatedly refused to come clean on its weapons has had precisely this deterrent effect. We are safer today not just because Saddam is gone, but because Libya and any others contemplating trafficking with WMDs, have--for the first time--seen that it carries a cost, a very high cost.
You know, if I lived in the country Howard "the Coward" Dean believes he lives in; it would be a horrible place. I do not live there. Never could - never would.
You know - listening to Nancy Pelosi slam Bush after the State of the Union address with words that were obviously written before he even gave the "address", makes me sick. Who does she think she's fooling? What an idiot!
Hey Nancy - "kiss the north end of a duck flying south."
Howard Dean is at the center of the controversy because he chewed out Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic chairman. He told McAuliffe he should have used his good offices to get the other candidates to shut up about him and how he couldn’t win if nominated. Everybody is now mad at everybody else but mostly at Dean. One mostly gets mad at front runners.
I contribute an experience: In July 1987, I brought together in Houston all the Democratic candidates for president, for their first joint appearance. I enlisted as co-host Robert Strauss, who was the most revered, fair-minded (and humorous) Democrat on the national scene. We sat down surrounded by attentive and nervous courtiers and inquisitive members of the press. One of the following men would be nominated in 1988 to challenge the Republican successor to Ronald Reagan.
I had questions written for our Firing Line guests. They were Bruce Babbitt of Arizona, Joe Biden of Delaware, Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts, Dick Gephardt of Missouri, Al Gore of Tennessee, and Jesse Jackson and Paul Simon of Illinois.
One of my bright ideas was to begin Hour #2 by asking each candidate to enumerate a weakness of the other candidates. As in, "Senator Biden, Governor Dukakis is contending for the same position you are and there are months ahead in primaries for all of you. What is a singular weakness of Senator Dukakis in winning those?"
My co-chair Robert Strauss leaned over and whispered into my ear, "Brother Bill, you’re not going to get anywhere doing this, you watch." Well of course, seasoned politico Brother Bob was correct. Senator Biden was not about to say anything that drew attention to the weaknesses of Senator Dukakis. Even if he had suspected, back then, that Dukakis would look silly wearing a helmet while riding in a tank, he didn’t say so. Nobody during the entire hour would say anything derogatory about anybody else, stressing only his own superior qualifications and inchoate appeal to the primary voters.
Nothing of the sort in 2003! Howard Dean’s spurt to the head of the line using childlike magic-toy solutions to such questions as the containment of terrorists, the reform of the tax code, and the plight of education at first astonished such onlookers as Lieberman, Gephardt, and Kerry; and finally drove them quite mad. To share time in national forums with the thaumaturgist from Vermont, who with a bright and engaging smile waves his hand eastward and proclaims an end to the problem there by simply shipping our boys home, does two things to the other contenders. They want to say: Stop! stop! stop! The world doesn’t work that way! There are terrible, ridiculous complications! etc. etc.
Their first defense against baby-talk political solutions was to carry on as they did in a half dozen debates. But their frustration has led them to criticize Dr. Dean straight-out, and to enumerate and express contempt for his weaknesses.
So that for two weeks, Dr. Dean read the papers in the morning and turned on television at night and saw himself criticized trenchantly by the only candidates he cares about: Gephardt, Lieberman, and Kerry. So what did he think to do? Call Bob Strauss?
But Strauss, after a long life of public service, has retired, and probably wouldn’t welcome getting into this line of fire. So he called Democratic party head Terry McAuliffe.
What is happening is that Howard Dean’s exhilarating nostrums have got the headier members of the young Democratic population absolutely carried away with enthusiasm. Is there any sound on earth more pleasing than END WAR? Or, ELIMINATE POVERTY? And the First Amendment guarantees free speech even if it is hypnotic.
It is, to be sure, easier to take in that kind of thought with deep draughts of toke, but I don’t think Bob Strauss would have permitted us to ask that question in the company of Democratic contenders who are trying to find out why this sudden enthusiasm for Peter Pan. Probably Strauss would say what McAuliffe pretty well has to say. Nothing can interrupt the scheduled train of events. Reality may just decide to sit it out. Until November '04.
Presidential Dopeful Joe Lieberman warned Friday against replacing "one divisive leader with another divisive leader". This was a pot shot at both Bush and Dean.
It makes you want to re-read this, and think about it.
Did he just throw in the towel?
I don't know, but I do believe that Joe Lieberman is a decent man. Maybe decent enough to jump ship and endorse what’s right.
Democratic Dopeful John Kerry's campaign is out of cash. He's going to mortgage his home in Boston and loan himself 850K. I guess Ketchup Head sees the writing on the wall. She won't loan him the money because she knows he doesn’t have a chance.
WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidates sought new grounds for criticism of White House foreign policies Monday as President Bush basked in the capture of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
And who suspected anything else?
Anti-war candidates Howard Dean and Wesley Clark prepared broad foreign affairs addresses while Sen. John Edwards, who supported the Iraq war resolution, zeroed in on what he said is a greater threat than any posed by Saddam Hussein: The spread of weapons of mass destruction.
The threat is one and the same, IDIOT.
"It was great news for the Iraqi people, the world, and the United States that Saddam Hussein was captured. But that alone is no substitute for a comprehensive strategy to deal with the world's most dangerous weapons, no matter how welcome the news," Edwards said in a text of his address in Iowa, site of the Jan. 19 caucuses.
Bullshit, and he knows it. He doesn't have a chance, and he knows it. Why is he still wasting our time? Does he want run in the Dopefull ribbon cutter slot? The last time we had a ribbon cutter, it was Gore.
Titled "Strategy of prevention, not pre-emption," the address urges Bush to reverse plans to try Saddam through the U.S.-selected Iraqi Governing Council. "Yes, Iraqis should take the lead in coming to terms with their own past. But they should do so with the assistance and the involvement of the international community, including the United Nations," the North Carolina senator said. He also urged Bush to reverse an order denying lucrative reconstruction contracts to nations that did not back the war.
He's a traitor, period.
On nuclear proliferation, Edwards said he would convene a world summit to create a Global Nuclear Compact that reinforces the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Nations that opt out of the pact or violate its anti-proliferation rules would be subject to strong, immediate penalties aimed at their military capabilities.
(immediate penalties aimed at their military capabilities) Just how are we going enforce that without an army?
"To win the global war on terror, America does not need a new doctrine of pre-emption; we need a new strategy of prevention," he said, criticizing Bush's approach to the proliferation crisis.
This guy HAS NO CLUE.
Edwards promised to triple the amount of U.S. money spent to secure Russia's nuclear arsenal, and said he would appoint a proliferation czar to oversee the issue.
Yeah, right.
"This Administration's approach to protecting America from weapons of mass destruction can be summed up simply: wait until our enemies gather strength, and then use force to stop them," he said. "We should be exercising every option we have to stop the spread of deadly weapons before war becomes our only option."
What in the hell do you think we're doing? What are those options?
In addition to Edwards, Clark and Dean, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., was giving a foreign policy address Monday.
I feel better now, Hillary is getting involved.
Democrats have been hammering Bush for failing to capture Saddam and Usama bin Laden, despite months of manhunt. The arrest of Saddam took away one symbol of Bush's failings, but several of the Democrats argued the goal could have been met in less time if a different president were in office.
Al Gore? Thank our lucky stars we didn't have to test that statement.
"I congratulate our troops on capturing Saddam Hussein," Dean, front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, said Sunday night. "He's a bad person and we're all better off with him in captivity, but you should know that my views on Iraq have not changed one bit."
What else can you say? Damn, I'm done now. Hehe. Why not the usual backpedaling?
Saddam's capture Saturday also underscored a wedge issue dividing several fellow candidates from Dean, who has based much of his campaign on opposition to the war in Iraq.
Good!
"The fact is that if Howard Dean had his way, Saddam Hussein would still be in power today, not in prison," said Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, a leading Democratic backer of the war.
I agree, and we would have also suffered more major attacks.
Saddam's capture was the second major event in a week that has shaken up the Democratic race. On Tuesday, former Vice President Al Gore endorsed Dean, citing his opposition to the Iraq war. Dean's rivals sought to use news of the former Iraqi leader's arrest to deflate his case.
Al Gore should move to France.
Those Democrats who supported the congressional resolution authorizing the war basked in Saddam's capture. Their vote has not been popular with some peace activists in their party, who occasionally booed them for supporting the war and cheered on Dean, the former governor of Vermont.
Great, maybe they'll defect.
"I supported this effort in Iraq without regard for the political consequences because it was the right thing to do," Missouri Rep. Dick Gephardt said in a statement. Clark also said he hasn't changed his view that going to war in Iraq was unnecessary.
Dick, you weren't named that for nothing. Wesley, didn't know you made it to Deep Space Nine. You are out there.
"It seems to me that all of the concerns that I have voiced about Iraq remain. I stand by every concern," Clark said in a conference call from The Hague, where he was preparing to testify in the U.N. war crimes trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
The last photo I saw of you two together, ya'll were wearing each others hats.
The Democrats are giving credit for the capture to American troops, not the president. Most of the Democrats say the United States still needs a new leader who would unite the world in the aftermath of victory.
Well, it if wasn't for the President there would be no troops. Hypocrites
"After the concert, Gen Clark and his wife went directly to Madonna's mansion, where the discussion ranged from Iraq to President Bush's recent tax cuts."
This guy wants to be President of the United States of America?
General enlists Hollywood to ignite campaign
By Julian Coman in Washington
(Filed: 30/11/2003)
In an unlikely attempt to gain star backing for a slow-burning campaign, the Democratic presidential candidate, General Wesley Clark, is spending late nights talking politics with Madonna and wooing sympathetic supergroups such as The Eagles, with whom he recently shared the stage during a rendition of Hotel California.
Gen Clark, who had a cerebral and somewhat austere reputation during his military career, has spent much of the past month seeking out the late-night company of west coast rock stars, screen idols and movie producers. While his rivals preach to the worthy but unglamorous residents of early-voting Iowa and New Hampshire, Gen Clark is dressing snappily and going out on the town in LA.
After a 90-minute policy discussion with Madonna in her Los Angeles home recently, a friend of the star was authorised to disclose that "Madonna was very impressed with Gen Clark's intelligence and his vision for America". Another associate added: "Don't under-estimate this. Madonna is often ahead of the curve."
The showbusiness strategy reflects a change of direction by the Clark campaign team, which has already decided not to compete in the rural Iowa caucuses that launch the primary season.
The general's tacticians believe that Howard Dean, the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, has already won the support of most left-wing grassroots activists. Gen Clark's goal is to emulate Bill Clinton in the 1990s by capturing the heart of Hollywood, a centre of liberal power and influence in America.
"He wants to be the chosen candidate of Tinseltown," said one sympathetic film producer. A Clark aide confirmed to The Telegraph: "We're reaching out to the entertainment community. Entertainers have a lot to offer any campaign. They have a platform, a pulpit, and they obviously get more attention than the average citizen."
They also earn a great deal of money. Gen Clark has calculated that popularity on the West Coast would help him to catch up with his rivals financially, after a late entry into the race, as well as achieve a nationwide "buzz" to match Mr Dean. Before his second election victory in 1996, Mr Clinton benefited from a $500,000 cheque from Steven Spielberg alone.
The apparent decision by Hillary Clinton to stay out of the 2004 presidential campaign has reinforced the Clark campaign's conviction that the general has the chance to fill a "charisma gap" on the moderate wing of the Democrats.
Gen Clark's Eagles night was judged a political triumph by his team and a model for similar events throughout next year. The group, who hope to influence a future Democratic president on environmental issues, agreed to play for over an hour at the Hollywood fundraiser.
Dressed in black, the general told the audience that Hotel California had been his favourite song since the days of his military service in the state. The Eagles obligingly placed it first on their playlist. According to a campaign aide, "Gen Clark and his wife, Gert, stood by the stage, holding hands and singing along."
The concert, hosted by the original founder of the Hard Rock Cafe, Peter Morton, attracted sympathetic film stars such as Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, and raised $500,000 for the campaign. Ms Lopez spent a quarter of an hour with the candidate and reportedly emerged a confirmed Clark fan.
Mr Morton, who has also thrown a dinner party for Gen Clark with Aaron Sorkin, the creator of the hit television series, West Wing, said: "I haven't been this moved by a politician since I had lunch with Bill Clinton prior to his becoming President. Clark is the Democrat's best chance."
After the concert, Gen Clark and his wife went directly to Madonna's mansion, where the discussion ranged from Iraq to President Bush's recent tax cuts.
The general's strategic incursion into Hollywood appears to have caught his chief rival rival, Mr Dean, off-guard. In Iowa, the fight for the nomination is expected to be a two-horse race between Mr Dean and mid-west candidate Richard Gephardt. Mr Dean is also the overwhelming favourite to win the New Hampshire primary.
To stay in the race, Gen Clark needs both the funds and the profile to play a longer game. His team claims that he is finding both on the West Coast. Taking advantage of the time freed up by the decision not to fight Iowa, Gen Clark has even worked to win the support of Hollywood figures who, during the summer, had declared an interest in Mr Dean.
Norman Lear, the creators of some of America's most famous sitcoms, gave Mr Dean a $2,000 campaign contribution last April. Last week, he was at Gen Clark's Eagles concert, having declared: "I'm inclined to the general."
A lunch with Mr Spielberg has also taken place. According to Mr Spielberg's spokesman, Andrew Spahn: "Gen Clark was a very bright articulate guy. We talked about Iraq, North Korea, foreign policy and tax cuts."
Mr Dean may be winning the early battles in Iowa and New Hampshire, but Gen Clark has taken the lead in Hollywood's unofficial "primary". In a Democratic race constantly criticised as lacklustre, an injection of star quality on the side of the General may yet prove a tactical masterstroke.
I just heard Lieberman say on FOX News that "if we don't stop the radical Islamists in Iraq, we'll have a global religious war on our hands". I agree with him on that. When asked what his plan was - he went into a spin. So typical. The Dopefulls have NO agenda. He's Done!
2004 Is Now for Bush's Campaign
Early Advantage in Funds, Voters Sought
By Dan Balz and Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, November 30, 2003; Page A01
President Bush's reelection team, anticipating another close election, has begun to assemble one of the largest grass-roots organizations of any modern presidential campaign, using enormous financial resources and lack of primary opposition to seize an early advantage over the Democrats in the battle to mobilize voters in 2004.
Bush's campaign Web site already has signed up 6 million supporters, 10 times the number that Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean has, and the Bush operation is in the middle of an unprecedented drive to register 3 million new Republican voters. The campaign has set county vote targets in some states and has begun training thousands of volunteers who will recruit an army of door-to-door canvassers for the final days of the election next November.
The entire project, which includes complementary efforts by the Republican National Committee (RNC) and state Republican parties, is designed to tip the balance in a dozen-and-a-half states that both sides believe will determine the winner in 2004.
"I've never seen grass roots like this," said a veteran GOP operative in one of the battleground states.
Dean, a former governor of Vermont, has made major strides in organizing a grass roots-based campaign in a bid for his party's nomination. His advisers say it is the largest in the history of presidential politics.
While saying he is not familiar with all the details of Dean's grass-roots and Internet efforts, Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman said, "Our goal is for the largest grass-roots effort ever."
Organization alone cannot elect Bush to a second term. Given the reality that the president's campaign team cannot control such potentially decisive factors as the economy or events in Iraq, officials are determined to maximize their advantage in areas they can control. Rarely has a reelection committee begun organizing so early or intensively -- or with the kind of determination to hold state party and campaign officials, and their volunteers, accountable for meeting the goals of the Bush team.
In Ohio, for example, more than 70 elected officials and volunteer workers dial into a conference call every other Wednesday at 7 p.m. to report on their efforts to recruit leaders and voters, and to hear updates from Bush's campaign headquarters in Arlington. Roll is called, which initially surprised participants used to less regimented political operations.
The massive ground war now in the early stages underscores the latest turn in political campaigns, in which there is renewed interest in applying the shoe-leather techniques of an earlier era, enhanced with advances in technology. Campaigns, both Democratic and Republican, have rediscovered the importance of putting people back into politics, after years of focusing on television commercials.
"We live at a time of the greatest proliferation of communications technology in history, and in an ironic way that technology has taken us back to the politics of an earlier time," said Ralph Reed, former Georgia GOP chairman and now a regional official in Bush's reelection campaign.
Having the biggest presidential campaign treasury ever -- more than $105 million raised already and heading toward $170 million -- and no primary opposition gives Bush the luxury of focusing now on general-election organizing. The RNC and the Bush team have begun planning across a wide range of fronts, even including an analysis of which supporters are likely targets for absentee ballots or early voting, an increasingly critical aspect of turning out the vote.
The Bush campaign not only has started early, but also has set deadlines for developing its organization. In Ohio, there is a Dec. 1 deadline for recruiting county chairmen in the state's 88 counties. In Florida, the first three of a dozen planned training sessions have been held, and two campaign staffers are working out of an office in Tallahassee; county offices -- complete with plenty of lines for phone banks -- are scheduled to open shortly after Jan. 1.
In Iowa, the campaign's state chairman, David M. Roederer, said volunteers have been identified in all 99 counties, and they are working to expand their rosters down to the precinct level.
The Bush team hopes to build on techniques first employed in 2000 and honed in 2002 through what is called the "72-hour project," which is shorthand for mobilization operations during the final days before the election. Democrats acknowledge these techniques proved highly effective as a counter to their mobilization efforts in earlier campaigns.
"They've proven they can do it," said Gina Glantz, of the Service Employees International Union, who will join the Dean campaign as a senior adviser next month.
The absence of unlimited "soft money" donations to parties and tighter rules on coordination between a presidential campaign, the national committee and state parties -- all part of the new campaign finance law -- make this organizing more difficult and put a premium on volunteer labor. Mehlman said that, despite those challenges, "we want to take it a step further in this campaign" than in 2002.
Republican officials say these efforts are necessary to counteract voter mobilization by Democrats and their allies in organized labor and liberal interest groups, who plan to spend substantially more than $100 million on get-out-the-vote efforts.
Although Republicans have their own network of outside groups, from the National Rifle Association and the National Federation of Independent Business to the Christian Coalition, GOP strategists say privately none of them comes close to matching the resources, sophistication or fealty of organized labor and liberal groups.
"This party has no infrastructure," one Bush adviser said. "We have to build it from the ground up."
Both parties have rediscovered the importance of communicating personally with people, rather than assuming that television ads or direct-mail brochures will motivate someone to vote. From their analysis of previous contests, including this month's gubernatorial elections in Mississippi and Kentucky, GOP officials said someone who votes only infrequently is four times more likely to go to the polls after having a face-to-face conversation with a campaign volunteer about a candidate than after receiving a phone call or direct-mail brochure.
Thus, the Bush team is trying to build an army of millions of volunteers to go door-to-door next year to talk to potential voters. Officials have concluded that old-fashioned literature drops should be replaced by in-person contact with voters whenever possible, and they are trying to change old habits among veteran GOP workers in the states.
The Bush campaign will devote a portion of the estimated $170 million it will raise during the primary season to grass-roots organizing, although spending on television ads will still outstrip expenditures for the ground war. Any excess money in the Bush account can be given to the RNC at the time of the national convention next summer for get-out-the-vote efforts for Election Day in November.
The Bush campaign is focused now on building its state organizations, while the national committee is working on a variety of organizing efforts, including voter registration. Registration is important because, at a time when Bush enjoys about 90 percent support from self-identified Republicans, GOP officials believe there is no surer way of producing votes than getting more people registered with the party. The party is registering voters at NASCAR events and naturalization ceremonies, on college campuses and in targeted precincts.
The RNC has set state-by-state goals for registering voters, based on a formula that attempts to determine Bush's maximum potential vote percentage, all with an eye toward turning states that he narrowly lost or won in 2000 into winners next year.
In Oregon, which Bush lost to Al Gore by about 7,000 votes in 2000, the national committee's goal is to register 45,000 GOP voters by next year, enough to provide a cushion in a close election.
Republicans are using several techniques to reach and register voters. In New Hampshire, new homebuyers receive a postcard from the state GOP welcoming them to their neighborhood, explaining the party's historic opposition to higher taxes and urging them to register as Republicans. Party officials follow up with phone calls, often from volunteers in the same community, and next spring will begin going door to door.
In Arkansas, RNC officials recently hosted a breakfast for nearly 100 ministers, outlining ways they can assist parishioners in registering. Party officials plan to follow up by identifying volunteer coordinators in the churches to oversee those efforts.
In Illinois, Republicans have hired field operatives who will concentrate their efforts -- by telephone and sometimes face-to-face -- to identify and register likely GOP voters.
"If you've got a precinct where 50 percent [of registered voters] are Republicans and 30 percent are independents, there's probably gold to be mined in that precinct," said Bob Kjellander, one of 11 regional chairmen for the Bush reelection committee.
The campaign has staged splashy events to announce leadership teams in 14 of its targeted states, usually featuring Mehlman or campaign chairman Marc Racicot. The campaign's ambitions are evident from the depth of the organizations being assembled.
In each county, for example, the Bush operation will include an overall chairman; chairmen for surrogates, volunteers and voter registration; and an "e-chairman," whose responsibility is to communicate with supporters registered with the campaign Web site.
Campaign officials look for specific tasks to keep people involved. Team leaders have been asked to recruit five other team leaders and sign up 10 friends to receive campaign e-mails.
The campaign Web site includes an easy way for supporters to send letters in support of Bush's policies to local newspapers and has generated 28,000 letters since August. At training sessions, campaign workers are urged to help recruit participants for coalitions the campaign plans for teachers, farmers, Hispanics, African Americans, disabled people, law enforcement officials and sportsmen.
Bush officials say they have one advantage over Democrats: Enthusiasm for the president among the GOP base makes it far easier to organize a grass-roots army.
Sally D. Florkiewicz of Cleveland has signed up 196 people since mid-September to serve on Bush's committee, and has a list of 225 more e-names she wants to call. "They're so surprised we're calling them this early," she said. "I tell them it's going to be a very, very close election."
Democrats Insist Republicans Pull Bush Ad
2 hours, 18 minutes ago
By JENNIFER C. KERR, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle is demanding that Republicans stop showing their first television ad of the 2004 presidential race, which he called "repulsive and outrageous."
Tom Daschle demanding anything is outrageous.
The 30-second ad, which aired in Iowa over the weekend, features clips of Bush during his State of the Union address last January. It portrays Bush as a fighter of terrorism and says his opponents "are now attacking the president for attacking the terrorists."
"It's wrong. It's erroneous, and I think that they ought to pull the ad," Daschle told NBC's "Meet the Press" program on Sunday.
Tommy has already been "pulled". Shut the frap up!
"We all want to defeat terrorism," the South Dakota senator said. But "to chastise and to question the patriotism of those who are in opposition to some of the president's plans I think is wrong."
Not true - all this coward wants is to save face. After all, he took a pretty good bitch slapping from Bush not long ago.
The Republican National Committee (news - web sites) has no plans to honor Daschle's wishes.
"We have no doubt that Sen. Daschle and others in his party who oppose the president's policy of pre-emptive self-defense believe that their national security approach is in the best interests of the country," RNC spokeswoman Christine Iverson said. "But we also have no doubt that they are wrong about that, and we will continue to highlight this critical policy difference as well as others."
Other Democrats on the Sunday talk shows joined Daschle in his criticism.
Presidential candidate Wesley Clark (news - web sites) said the ad is wrong and ought to be pulled. It violates "the pledge the president made to not exploit 9-11 for political purposes," Clark said on CBS' "Face the Nation."
Just who is exploiting 9/11 for political purposes? Give me a break. Two faced, all of 'em.
Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy called it an "attempt to stifle dissent." On ABC's "This Week," Kennedy said "dissent is a basic part of what our whole society is about."
"Ted the Swimmer" is damn close to being a card carrying Communist, and he should be in jail with his relatives"
Speaking on CNN's "Late Edition," presidential candidate and Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman (news - web sites) said the ad was misleading, nothing more than an attempt "to get the public's mind off the joblessness in America, the bad prescription Medicare drug bill ... the energy bill, which sells out to lobbyists."
Joblessness, Medicare, Energy, Lobbyists - Damn, who is misleading who? Good thing he kept his day job when he was running around with Gore.
Republicans countered that there was nothing wrong with the ad, which was airing Sunday in Iowa, the day before the Democratic presidential debate in Des Moines.
"It's portraying the president's leadership that he's displayed since Sept. 11, which I support," Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona said on ABC. "I think it's a very legitimate statement to be made in the coming presidential election."
The ad will air through Tuesday in Iowa, and then may run again in New Hampshire during the next Democratic debate in December, said the RNC's Iverson. She said the party plans to run ads in conjunction with the Democratic debates, but the decision hasn't been made whether to simply run the current ad or new ones supporting the president.
If the Democrats had an agenda, they wouldn't be so defensive and offensive.
"The next five years will determine the kind of world my children and grandchildren will live in," Miller said in an interview. And he wouldn't "trust" any of the nine Democratic presidential candidates with governing during "that crucial period," he said. "This Democrat will vote for President Bush in 2004."
This is a great analysis of the latest debate by the Democratic Dopefulls.
Excerpt:
With the exception of Lieberman and Gephardt, the foreign and defense policy of the remaining candidates was simply “cut and run.” The remaining candidates claimed to be against the Iraqi invasion or believe that they were voting for something other than an invasion of Iraq. They must have thought that the Peace Corps was going to land in Baghdad and persuade Saddam Hussein to be a nice guy.
Never mind that weapons of mass destruction do not have to be huge nuclear arsenals but can be small and equally lethal vials of deadly biological agents. What a surprise that in a country the size of California we have not found these agents. Even more outrageous, we know that France gave passports to ex-Hussein leaders to cross the border into Syria.
Most repulsive is the candidacy of Wesley Clark. Hiding behind his four stars, he berates the Administration for policies that he did, in fact, endorse until his presidential ambitions took hold of him. He has flip-flopped so many times on his assessment of the wisdom of the Iraqi invasion that he should be a contortionist in the circus rather than a candidate for President.
The fact that the Clinton administration was responsible for sleeping at the switch regarding Iraq’s violations, the growth of Al-Quaida or the development of North Korean nuclear capability was conveniently forgotten during the entire debate.
I think President Bush can rest easy given his rag-tag group of opponents. Of course, if the economy were to tank -- even the most egregious pond scum could get elected.