[Torie]

I guess Walter is a Dean voter. Did Walter move to Utah? :)

[Revolting cat!]

Deep! Is there anything worse than an old fool? I wonder, why did he leave out mom and apple pie?

[Revolting cat!]

Seriously, this is a provocative article. Provocative, in the sense that it illustrates how triteness, for lack of a better word on a Sunday evening, passes for wisdom, for political science, for philosphy in our country on this day. What he writes is embarassing, it is laughable and it will be received as something deep. Where the heck is my exit visa out of here?!

[thtr]

Walter has finally lost his marbles.

” 9. That in the pursuit of a cleaner environment and a more rational economy, the government will undertake the massive program required to develop substitute fuels that will relieve our dependence on foreign oil and diminish the environmental danger from the byproducts of fossil fuels. “

Do you mean like those windmills off the cost of Martha’s Vineyard that YOU have opposed????

[HP8753]

Walter...It is time to change the depends...Your eyes are turning brown...

The DEMONCRATIC party has a political philosophy.

It can be found by reading the Communist Manifesto.

[thoughtomator]

In the last presidential and congressional elections, many voters and perhaps even more nonvoters complained that they found no political philosophy, no idealistic glue that held the Democratic Party together.

Actually the idealistic glue that holds the Democratic Party together is crystal clear to any student of political history or philosophy. The problem is, it simply doesn't sell in post-Cold War America.

[Choose Ye This Day]

Aren't propositions #3 and #4 contradictory? How are we going to avoid deficit spending while at the same time guarantee every American not just free health care, but the best care available?

Oh yeah. Just jack up the taxes on the wealthy. Let's punish success.

[BerniesFriend]

ok..beat me silly with a wet noodle..but why is cronkite dishing advice for the democrats????...I know he is retired..but doesn't this just clinch the fact that he was and is a water carrier for the dems????

[swilhelm73]

So, to break this down into plain english;

1) Claim we will act like the Republicans on foreign policy, unlike us, they know what they are doing. Then when elected...go back to the same old same old.

2) Take from the US taxpayer and give to third world kleptocrats.

3) Raise taxes...alot. But well running claim you are only going to tax the rich ala Clinton in 92.

4) Don't reform SS and keep demonizing anyone who tries to. When the system fails blame the Republicans.

5) Talk alot about diversity and such, and then enforce quotas on those who think differently than we do. Also, as we all know all blacks think differently then whites, and those that claim differently aren't really black.

6) Give more money to the teacher's unions, and they'll give us more money. Don't allow any education reforms. Ignorant voters vote for us!

7) Make alot of meaningless campaign slogans, "for the children". Continue to make sure infanticide is legal.

8) Speaking of special interests, keep funding big green. Their rampant scare tactics and occasional terrorism are good for us, if not the country.

9) As that great thinker, Algore noted, the internal combustion engine is truly the greatest threat to mankind. Ban it for the plebians, I want to be able to drive my stretch SUV limo to environmental conferences without dealing with yokels driving their familes around.

10) Continue to tell realists to get lost, we can reinvent reality when we need to.

[eggman]

Let's restate these in plain English.

1. The military should only be used as the UN dictates.

2. We must give money to dictators that oppress their people and want to destroy the US in an attempt to buy peace.

3. Raise taxes on the rich. (Aren't all of the 9 dwarfs already saying this?)

4. Resurrect Hillary's failed health care plan and Al Gore's lockbox.

5. All citizens will be treated equally except in the case of Affirmative Action and hate crimes and elected officials where some are more equal than others.

6. Pay the teachers more so that the union can give the Democrats more. Who cares if they can't pass the same tests the children are failing.

7. It's for the children (even though the Clinton years left plenty of children behind).

8. When it comes to the environment, the only special interest we care about is the enviro-nazis.

9. Kyoto is only the beginning of the damage we will do to the economy.

10. We're stupid if we think we can win on this platform but we think the voters are even more stupid.