At least one cynic remains amid those cheering the capture

Des Moines Register ^ | 12/15/03 | ROB BORSELLINO

[Iowegian]

The phone rang about 5:30 Sunday morning. It was my friend Kim calling to let us know they'd caught Saddam Hussein. She sounded pumped, excited. Finally some good news out of Iraq.

I wasn't convinced. I hung up, turned on the TV, and the cynicism kicked in.

[Smokin' Joe]

What would have happenend to someone like that in WWII?

Compared to the WTC, at least Pearl Harbor was a military target.

[troublesome creek]

Borsellino (et al) are akin to elephants laboring only to give birth to mice. Iowans inside the Demo ghettos - i.e. the ones who keep Dungheap Harkin in office - are the only ones so deluded as to take this tripe seriously.

[vladog]

This country needs de-bugged ASAP. The woodwork is full of all sorts of vermin.

[gaspar]

Please it is the usual ultra-liberal GANNETT rag.

[Iowegian]

Yes, but he is a very useful idiot. For those who see his type for what they are.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Bobby was probably at an ecstacy party the night before.

[JimRed]

She'd thought that enough bloodshed and disaster would create a movement in this country, a demand to get our people home and save some lives.

Every Democrat since LBJ has considered military people expendable in the pursuit of political power.

[1066AD]

Hard to believe he gets paid to write this stuff.

[beezdotcom]

I said back "Man, if Gore was in office, he would have finished Clintons work by letting Monica have his baby.."
Everyone was laughing except for him.

You're a bad, bad man. Now I have to go change my pants. :)

[polemikos]

This dweeb must feel especially embarassed about the memo reported yesterday showing a 9/11 terrorist tied directly to Hussein's regime. Then again, embarassment would require some type of conscience.

And some sort of cognitive ability to process factual information.

[McGavin999]

Republicans ought to use this in their campaign literature. In no time at all, no decent Iowan would admit to being a democrat.

[tractorman]

The Limocrats are cruising down life’s highway with a blacked-out windshield, socialistic rear-view mirrors and a Shrillary squeak in the breaks.

[spodefly]

ROB BORSELLINO does not "love this country". His "feelings" that bad news, deaths, and continued turmoil will have political benefit to his favored candidates are not just cynicism, they are HATE ... plain and simple. He and his kind HATE this country. They welcome the deaths of their countrymen and they welcome any bad news that impacts people negatively so long as they will somehow benefit from it politically.

That is EVIL. They are traitors. The 'left-wing' in this country is in a war against this country, and no matter how eloquently they try to package it by calling it "cynicism", I prefer to call it what it is ... a malignancy of evil that places its own power over the lives of others.

[dead]

a friend admitted that she was actually taking comfort from the terrible news coming out of Iraq and Afghanistan… she was horrified at her own reaction, embarrassed. And she's not alone, but it's not the kind of thing people feel comfortable discussing.

Of course they’re not comfortable discussing their reaction. It reveals them as inarguably petty, disgusting and hate-filled to the point that they could probably qualify as a sociopath.

Your friend, Rob, is a sick twisted bitch who should seek therapy before she seriously hurts somebody close to her to prove a point.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Typical narcissism from the Blame America First crowd.

[Terriergal]

You forgot to put (BARF ALERT) in the title.

[cookcounty]

"I went by the various presidential campaign offices to talk with the workers, the people who have a vested interest in this kind of development".

Oooops! She spilled the beans!

[Grampa Dave]

This Hildebea$t and Dean butt kisser got excited when the Hildebea$t and Dean and the rest of the rats visited Iowa.

http://www.dmregister.com/opinion/stories/c5917686/22774605.html

Borsellino: With Iowans, Hillary takes center stage
By ROB BORSELLINO
Register Columnist
11/16/2003

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When a superstar like Hillary Clinton comes to town, she takes up a lot of space. She doesn't leave much room for anything or anyone else.

So the thinking was that having her host the Jefferson Jackson Day dinner could be a problem. It would bring in the crowds, but she'd overshadow the Democrats running for president.

And to some extent that was true.

The media - from here to Europe and on to Asia - were covering this, and they weren't talking about how Dennis Kucinich will deal with the deficit or whether John Edwards had a plan to lower unemployment. They were all going on about Hillary - going on about how she's obviously running for president and if she isn't running, what's she doing in Iowa?

She didn't do much to answer those questions or quiet the speculation.

She opened the show with a powerful speech about how the country's squandering the money her husband left in the bank and how we've blown off the international support and goodwill that followed 9/11.

She covered the stuff that needed to be covered - health care, unemployment, education. She talked about going to Walter Reed Army Hospital and seeing what those wounded solders are going through. That was the most powerful line on the war that anyone laid out last night.

And she did it all with style and with authority. She's been there - the statehouse, the White House, the Senate - and knows what goes on. Even behind closed doors.

So the next six speakers - the candidates - were covering the same ground she'd just walked on.

That was one piece of the evening. But there was something else going on last night. It wasn't just Hillary's moment. It was Iowa's moment, Des Moines' time to meet the challenge or fail.

And the folks around here milked it and got every inch of positive energy out of all that worldwide attention.

People in Tokyo got to hear the Des Moines Gay Men's Chorus singing "The Star Spangled Banner" and they heard John Lennon's "Power to the People" playing in the background when some of the candidates were introduced.

Folks in Berlin saw the governor of Iowa work up that crowd - yelling, pounding his fist in the air - getting them on their feet and cheering as he talked about the need for change in this county.

Across the United States, people saw and heard the energy coming out of all those folks - from teens to seniors - working for Kerry and Dean and Gephardt, and the rest.

They saw the hundreds of signs that went up Friday night when the Dean staff and the Kerry staff went head to head outside the auditorium, decorating the place with posters and stickers and making sure their guy's name was out front.

It wasn't all that well executed - like the Kerry sign on the garbage pail and the Dean sign over the urinal in the men's room.

But there was a lot of energy. People were jazzed, and it showed.

Jack Horowitz of Ames has been following politics around here for 42 years and says he's never seen the kind of excitement that was generated Saturday night.

He had to talk loud because "We Are Family" was playing in the background and the crowd - thousands and thousands of them - were on their feet rockin".

It was that kind of night.

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The above trash is what excites this left wing mediot!

[Gunrunner2]

>>Back in the summer, a friend admitted that she was actually taking comfort from the terrible news coming out of Iraq and Afghanistan. She'd hear about explosions, ambushes, the killing of U.N. officials, pro-American Iraqis, innocent children, and she was saddened by the deaths. But ultimately she thought it was a good thing. She'd thought that enough bloodshed and disaster would create a movement in this country, a demand to get our people home and save some lives. Maybe enough death would wake folks up to the fact that we have no business running around the globe killing people. <<

And NO mention of the lost and wounded AMERICAN soldiers in Iraq. Feels "saddened" by the havoc on the UN and Iraqis, but not a single tear for AMERICANS.

My God, have these people no soul?!

[cspackler]

This story actually got some play on Fox News last night, can't remember which segment though. Ran as part of the story and just kinda shook their heads in disbelief with that little smirk that they get that kinda says "there they go again"....

There was a story out a while back that did a study on local papers that showd the Des Moines Red Star as the most left-leaning daily paper out there. Does anyone have a link or memory of that? I believe it was one of the Washington papers....