Posted on 07/10/2004 4:22:14 PM PDT by RobUnger
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1300&dept_id=156927&newsid=12283083&PAG=461&rfi=9
Tom Daschle telling the folks back home that this briefing is too sobering, too scary to use it for political gain. Makes Kerry look even worse for not seeing it sooner.
you go, BC Girl.
Dear God, save us from this man. What an idiot. We KNOW where his priorities are, and this would be his reaction to a terror attack:
"After the city was bombed, I hurried back to get the terror briefing. I didn't have time to do it before, because I was out pandering to the........"
I know the outsourcing issue won't play well. I'm an economist, so it bothers me more than it would some. However, protectionism is still a dangerous policy path to take, even though it might win some votes in the short run in the industrial states.
My comment has more to do with Kerry obviously not reading history books and choosing to play the guitar rather than get a briefing on national security. It reminds me of when Clinton came into office after promising a tax cut and then raised taxes, saying that he wasn't aware of how bad things were. What I heard him saying was that he wasn't truly prepared for the job. I see the same unpreparedness in Kerry. He chooses fundraisers over national security and proposes policies that any ninth grade history student could tell you wouldn't work.
Being a girl who chose to get an education and work rather than marry for money I always slightly distrust the people who do especially if they are men. The protectionism starts at home thing could be brought up whenever Kerry starts that insane nonsense about not shipping jobs overseas. I should applaud him for having a policy on anything. The Bush-Cheney website has policy tabs on the issues such as health care, the economy, education.... The Kerry-Edwards page has none. There are a couple of press releases but that's it. Again showing that Kerry might not be prepared for the job. Maybe Kerry's policies are some double-secret type of policies like the probation that the guys were on in "Animal House."
I watched the woman and her well-kept man on Larry King tonight. Of course King was kind with his questioning, but he did point out that Kerry's plan on Iraq sounds exactly like Bush's. Kerry clarified it by saying that he would convince the French that they should come out and play too, like the war on terrorism is a neighborhood game that all the kids should be playing.
Did I miss something, when have the French ever been there for us. They withdrew from NATO when there was still a real communist threat. We helped them get back into Vietnam after WW2. They decided to leave in '54 and we got to fight a huge war in that same country a little later. They only rejoined NATO in '93, conveniently after the cold war was over. Yeah, we need France. Without them think of all the fun wars and conflicts we would have missed out on.
But it's a fun time of year for US-French relations as Lance Armstrong is on pace to win their bike race again. Like the America's Cup, how about the Tour de Lance. Jerk-off frogs. If I were the type to use bumper stickers, I would have some of O'Riley's "Boycott France" stickers on all my cars.
I know I got off-topic but the interview was still fresh in my mind and I chose to complain. What type of policy is, "I agree with Bush, but we need the French." Not caring about the French could have saved a lot of lives in the past century. What if Churchill had continued Chamberlain's appeasement policies and told Hitler to go ahead and keep France. There's a thought.
The beauty of this is that people actually tuned in to watch Larry King to get an eyeful of Kerry - King beat O'Reilly in the ratings that night.
Many, many people saw this. Now Daschle is coming out and saying he is alarmed by what he heard. Kerry is supposed to be briefed tomorrow - four whole days after the fact.
Good thing he knows his priorities - rock 'n roll with Hollywood whores, eh dude?
Let me get this straight: Kerry is running for president as the candidate of the second-largest political party in the US and he passes up this briefing?
Not a smart thing to do.
Fitting cartoon:
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I watched it (Larry King) because it's easier to criticize Kerry when you hear all the BS coming out of his mouth. The news media doesn't really report his best lines of crap.
Richard Gere didn't attend the hollywood rally but he's another true idiot. I've hated him ever since that 'prostitute meets john' love story he was in. What message did Pretty Woman send to young girls. "If you can't find a good job, become a whore and maybe you will meet a rich guy." Or in Kerry's case, "If you can't find enough money, become a whore and maybe you will meet a rich widow." Or a 'prostitute meets terry' love story, or 'john meets rich widow.' Reminds me of another Gere movie, American Gigolo. Bravo, lets give the whore an Oscar, or the Presidency.
From his billionaire, Beacon Hill existence he comes down from the clouds in Boston, Grand Central Taxation, to connect with the little people. I'm really afraid of what will happen to our country if this guy gets elected.
"Here's a map of your local welfare offices where they will give you money. Now here's a map of where to go and vote for me so your checks will keep coming."
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