[neverdem]

Not ready for prime time.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Barber's extensive public commentary also bristles with comments that will probably strike voters as unusual. He insists that "the global spread of markets and democracy is a principal, aggravating cause of group hatred and ethnic violence throughout the non-Western world."

Sounds like two-thirds of the posters on the DU boards, doesn't it...? :)

[Leroy S. Mort]

"A president who thought we needed 'permission' from the U.N. to do anything about Iraq?" the staffer, a longtime Democrat, asked incredulously. "And who thought apparently we would only join a multilateral force if asked to by the U.N. rather than trying to nudge the U.N. to do it? Acquiescence not leadership? This is something to be filed jointly under 'Karl Rove will eat this guy alive' and 'not ready for primetime.'"

We can hope that the other candidates stay close enough to read Doc Dean's license plate between now and the election. They're producing great stuff and paying for it with Dem dollars - doesn't get much better than that.

Once Doc thinks he's got it wrapped up, he'll swing the Titanic to the middle and all the DemRats will start paddling in his direction.

I don't know how much longer this can last, but I'm lovin' it. ;-)

[.cnI redruM]

"A president who thought we needed 'permission' from the U.N. to do anything about Iraq?"

Great opening for a campaign ad. Then we go into a long list of other campaigns where we had no UN permission.

[Cicero]

Well, Rice is more famous for telling the Sudanese that we didn't want them to hand bin Ladin over to us.

[expatpat]

The unfortunately named Stan Crock wrote in BusinessWeek on August 14, 2000 that "Since his son has enlisted many of his dad's foreign-policy advisers, including Richard B. Cheney, Colin L. Powell, and Condoleezza Rice — and will no doubt get an earful from his dad — it's a good bet a Bush II administration would take a similar pragmatic approach."

This is one of the reasons the lefties are so angry. They had been assured by their pundits that it would be business as usual in the 43 administration.

[eleni121]

We see Islamic societies today that have negotiated it well — Bangladesh, Iran, Morocco, and Turkey."

Millions of Iranians would disagree. And Turkey---once Muslim Turks wiped out 3 milion Christians and left a few tokens around for the sake of phony "secularism" and have reaped and conned the billions from the west during the cold war phase - yeah...the Turks "negotiated" well...

The McProfessor is an honorary dufus and is well placed in Nikita Dean's entourage.

[samtheman]

Morton H. Halperin is the very definition of a Democratic-party foreign-policy veteran. He quit his job on the National Security Council staff to protest the 1970 U.S. invasion of Cambodia, and spent the following decades criticizing the Vietnam War, advocating deep cuts in nuclear weapons and opposing covert military operations abroad.

As Sean Hannity says: "The same crowd that was pushing for a nuclear freeze against the Soviets are now against the war in Iraq."

[goldstategop]

Amen. Nikita Dean's foreign policy/national security team appears to be filled with Carter and Clinton Era holdovers. The same folks who brought us 9-11. And while one is at it, this notion of Dean's we need UN permission to defend ourselves comes straight from Kooksville. But its par for the course for his supporters, who hate America as much as they loathe President Bush.