Dean Under Fire for Comments on Saddam

AP ^ | 12/17/2003

[squidly]

There's a good chance Dean can ride the wackytrain all the way to the nomination. He can't ride it to the White House though.

[ChadGore]

[I got the rope]

[07055]

Nowhere in this story is there any mention of the polls for a general election between Bush and Dean. When Clinton was in office, we heard of nothing but polls "proving" how popular Clinton was. Any who dared to criticize Clinton was portrayed as "going against the will of the American people." Now, we never hear of polls unless they show Bush dropping by one percentage point.

[Paul Atreides]

Are you implying that the media is - gasp!- biased?!

[Tempest]

Is it just me or did anyone else get the impression that the author of this article was apologizing for Dean's idiocy at every corner. And in some instances glorifying it, as if absolute ignorance is a wonderfully bold thing?! Although I guess it is when your preaching to a choir of Democrats. =^D

[Happy2BMe]

"When he used the Confederate flag to talk about courting Southern white Democrats, party leaders said the gaffe would knock him from his perch. Instead, he changed the subject by nailing down two surprise union endorsements."

[Billthedrill]

It's a nice dodge, actually, trying to restrict the subject to the capture of Saddam when the real subject in question was what danger he constituted when he was in power. It is that, after all, that Dean has been questioning - the fact that Saddam hadn't been apprehended yet was a popular Democrat taunt, but nowhere near as dangerous as leaving him in power (as Dean's policies would clearly prefer), would have been. But the game here is a little transparent - sneer that it was important that he hadn't been caught when that was advantageous, and sneer that it wasn't important when he had been caught and it ceased to be advantageous. This doesn't rise to the level of hypocrisy, it is simply blatantly two-faced.

The topic is, and ought to be, whether Americans are safer with Saddam out of power than they were with him in power. Given his known linkages with a spectrum of terrorists, his history of bloody invasions of two of his neighbors, and his track record in employing chemical weaponry, I don't honestly think that anyone not in a serious state of denial for ulterior reasons could say that Americans are not safer now. Iraqis certainly are.

[Guillermo]

Thats the measure now..."Since Saddam was captured, do YOU feel any safer?" "Well, no? then, it was a failure!"

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

``Dean is saying what a whole lot of people think, and that is a guy running from hole to hole is not a major threat to our country,''

Therefore, Osama bin Laden is not a major threat to our country.

[genghis]

fortunately for us, this will not be the last stupid thing that man says.
So far, he has not gone 3 days without making some huge gaffe.

[InvisibleChurch]

this is the same man who supports the slaughter of 35,000,000+ Americans

[eddie willers]

[metalboy]

Did you just read Drudge? Sharpton is ahead of Kerry and Edwards in the polls! Say what?? Al Sharpton is ahead of two SENATORS?? Mannn, if that doesn`t say it all about that party. Just the party of wack jobs, one big sicko cult. Maybe they should bring in Marion Barry as well, after all they re-elected that dude Mayor him after he was caught smoking crack. "Yeah, he`s our man!"

[randog]

Nowhere in this story is there any mention of the polls for a general election between Bush and Dean.

Of course not. It would just point out the obvious--that Dean is popular with the extremists in his party and would lose in a landslide if the election were held today. The dem nomination runoff is all about picking the best chihuahua to run in the upcoming greyhound race.

[Happy2BMe]

That's a KEEPER!

[LongsforReagan]

Aside from labor union support, homosexuals, partial birth abortion supporters, does anyone really care about Dean?

Lets see-

In the last two years, the US has won 2 wars and liberated two countries.

There havent been any attacks in the US in that time.

The majority of Iraqis want us to stay and finish the job. In fact the Iraqi PM criticized the UN today for delaying action there and preventing Hussein from being removed years ago.

The economy is booming by any measure, GDP growth , employment is rebounding, manufacturing, durable goods, consumer confidence etc.

Saddam Hussein has been captured.

The Bush tax cuts are fueling growth and will cut deficits once employment rebounds (tax receipts go up under full employment and jobless benefits shrink). These tax cuts are very significant.

Of course theres that realistic Democrat view-

"We are losing the war on terror"

We need to repeal the Bush tax cuts and raise taxes significantly on anyone (including families) making over 87K a year (Howard Dean).

Bush and Cheney knew about 9/11. They are profiting from Haliburtons involvement with the imaginary no bid contracts that have been in place for a few years.

I'll tell you what. Silly Demorats keep going to your Deanie baby meet ups on the internet and keep rolling up your shirt sleeves. We'll just keep those checks coming and smoke your ass 40 states to 10 next November.

[randog]

...smoke your ass 40 states to 10 next November.

My money's on 46-4.

[Izzy Dunne]

a guy running from hole to hole is not a major threat to our country,'' said Jeff Link, an adviser to Sen. Tom Harkin

I suppose we should all chip in and buy this clown a clue:

THE REASON HE'S NOT A THREAT TO THIS COUNTRY IS BECAUSE HE'S RUNNING FROM HOLE TO HOLE!