Posted on 07/07/2004 6:07:24 AM PDT by yoe
Good for John Kerry. By picking John Edwards he has given the voters a real choice. The conventional wisdom in Washington held that Kerry would be smart to pick someone who underscored his national security credentials. Picking a Wesley Clark or even a Dick Gephardt would signal that Kerry wasn't going to let the Bush team out-hawk him on the war on terror and foreign policy.
By picking Edwards, Kerry has made it clear that he doesn't think this election should be framed on Bush's terms and that he wants to make a very different case to the American people.
Simply put, if Kerry really thought the war on terror was as big a deal as Bush does, there's no way he would pick John Edwards. Edwards is simply not qualified to be one heartbeat from the presidency in the world George Bush describes. Indeed, during the primaries even Kerry asked his aides about Edwards, "What makes him think he can be president?"
Clearly, Kerry has answered that question to his own satisfaction. And that answer has to be that the war on terror isn't that big a deal. We've had hints to this effect for a while. Several times he's suggested that he considers the war on terrorism a "law enforcement issue." And, in February, Kerry was asked at the Minnesota Democratic debate if he considered himself a "war president" the way Bush does. Kerry responded: "I'd see myself first of all as a jobs president, as a health care president, as an education president and also an environmental president. So I would see myself as a very different kind of global leader than George Bush."
Around that time he also noted that he was much more qualified to be president than John Edwards because "I think that the world is looking for leadership that is tested and sure. And I think that George Bush has proven that this is not a time for inexperience in the White House."
Factor in the relatively miniscule attention Kerry paid to foreign policy when he announced Edwards as his running mate, and you get the sense that Kerry is now committed to the view that Bush is simply making too big a fuss about the war on terror and the need to stick it out in Iraq. The only appearance of the word "terrorism" was a glancing reference to Edwards' collaboration with Kerry on "bioterrorism." And twice Kerry mentioned the need to "build strong alliances" as the central priority of his foreign policy, so "young Americans are never put in harm's way because we insisted on going it alone." Let's leave it to another to ask what Kerry would do if we needed to go it alone to protect all Americans, not just young ones in uniform.
Now, I'm really not being facetious here. Especially in the wake of the mishaps of the Iraq war - no WMD, a wobbly reconstruction only now picking up steam - this country could use a really good debate about foreign policy. John Kerry thinks mending fences with France and the UN is his first foreign policy priority. He thinks "jobs" - whatever the heck that means - and education and the environment and "energy independence" are his job(s) number one.
Kerry's vice presidential pick reinforces all of that. Kerry is the most liberal Senator in the U.S. Senate, according to the respected National Journal, and in 2003 Edwards was the fourth most liberal. Edwards also voted against the $87 billion Iraqi reconstruction bill even though he voted for the war. Clearly, Kerry doesn't want to "balance" his ticket with a moderate, he wants to reinforce it with another liberal who can sell Kerry's message.
Indeed, as my colleague Byron York notes, Edwards' "Two Americas" speech, which earned him so much popularity among the Democratic base and which in turn bought him the nod from Kerry, does not mention terrorism at all. It was a crowd-pleasing speech for a party that wanted the whole issue of foreign policy just to go away. In fact, both Kerry and Edwards constantly appeal to the nostalgia of voters - "let America be America again" is Kerry's motto - for an imagined time when there were no serious challenges in the world, be it the 1990s or John Edward's childhood.
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Its even lower than marrying a widow who's dead husband earned millions and using his money against what he stood for. Or is it?
I find Kerry's obsession with Hugh's to be nauseating. Wonder if he read Hugh's tripe on the Swift boat?
Somebody wrote on the NC Freeper board that we now have two "Chasers" on the Dem ticket; widows and ambulances!
They don't really believe this, but want the electorate to swallow it.
DEMOCRATS - The political party of National suicide.
UGH! I cannot stand Geragos!
Langston Hughes:
One result was his firm turn to the far left in politics. During a year (1932-1933) spent in the Soviet Union, he wrote his most radical verse. A year in Carmel, California, led to a collection of short stories, The Ways of White Folks (1934). This volume is marked by pessimism about race relations, as well as a sardonic realism.
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/life.htm
that quote is from Langston Hughes, a communist poet
This commenting from Communist sends chills up my back. The two of them are the most liberal pair to run for the White House and that word needs out if we have to shout it from the rooftops because it is obvious the liberal media will not report the TRUTH!
Thankfully, our side is pointing that out (when they get the opportunity to speak).
I think Mondale/Ferraro would give them a run for their money in terms of pure Socialism...MUD
The line comes from a poem written by a commie
A Combat Veteran with 30 years experience?????
"Hanoi John!!"
(To be sung to Neil Young's "Farmer John")
Hanoi John, I'm opposed to yer Power!! Ohahhohh...
Ashamed of you...an yer goddamned LIES!! Ohahhohh...
I loathe the way you flop, I loathe Left's sissy-talk!!
I loathe the way RATS wriggle...Left snickers and it mocks!!
Hanoi John...ohahhohh...I think you are a Coward!!
Yeah, yer scum... damn yer VietNam LIES!! Ooahhohh...
(Little guitar jammin')
Ohhahhhhohhhhh!!
Hanoi John, what makes yer heart sooo purple?!
Ohahhohh...
Yer "injuries"...were just gutless LIES!!
I loathe the way Left mocks...and all their sissy-talk!!
I want the righteous Truth...RAT-fools, you are losing...LOSING!!
Hanoi John, I'm opposed to yer Power!!
Ohahhohh...ohahhohh..
We object...to yer campaign LIES!!
(More guitar jammin')
Hanoi John...Cowards don't win elections!!
Ohahhohh...ohahhohh...ohahhohh...
(You) don't deserve...yer three Purple Hearts!!
Mudboy Slim
I know exactly what he means .. My father died of cancer and my mother raised 7 kids herself .. we were poor, but we never thought we were
And we weren't a charity case .. we worked hard for what we had and we were PROUD OF IT!
Mine too. We had better pay attention, they use gay and other special interest issues as pawns to attack, divide and then marginalize the right. But the kings and queens of this thinking have no more interest in gay marriage than they do traditional marriage, they have bigger fish to destroy, like capitalism.
Edwards: "Your mouthwash just ain't cuttin' it!!"
On the first date I had w/my husband to be, I asked him why he had majored in textiles at Clemson when he had never worked in a mill before. His reply was that he wanted to continue living in the South and that seemed the way to go.
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