Posted on 09/04/2004 1:44:34 PM PDT by vanburen
For the better part of 18 months, John Kerry has bitterly denounced the Bush administration's, Over and over he has pronounced his unsparing indictment: "George Bush has pursued the most arrogant, inept, reckless, and ideological HURRICANE policy in the modern history of this country."
Since this appears to be your own article, it would be advisable to post it in its entirety here, rather than pimp for hits on your site. Common courtesy.
I'm sick of spammers and trolls. Feed him to the Viking Kitties.
Amen. I'm really beginning to despise the whole Blog concept.
Reminds me of the old saw about scholarly writing: "Any fool can publish, and most of 'em do."
For the better part of 18 months, John Kerry has bitterly denounced the Bush administration's, Over and over he has pronounced his unsparing indictment: "George Bush has pursued the most arrogant, inept, reckless, and ideological HURRICANE policy in the modern history of this country."
That is remarkably hostile language for a presidential challenger. No major party candidate for the White House in modern times has so thoroughly abandoned the principle that politics stops at the water's edge.
Here is a representative excerpt from Kerry's replies:
"We need a new president . . . to re-establish credibility with the rest of the world. . . . Here is the bottom line: Number one, you cannot bring other nations to the table through the back door. You cannot have America run the recovery, make all the reconstruction decisions, make the decisions of the kind of government aid that will be needed, and pretend to bring other nations to the table.
In effect, he's transferred to the US Government the decision about what aid will go into Florida. But he won't transfer to the UN the real authority for determining how the aid will be distributed. How we will do the reconstruction of Florida without the UN, Germany and France.. . . .
"If I'm president, I will not only personally go to the UN, I will go to other capitals. . . . I will immediately reach out to other nations in a very different way from this administration. I will return to the UN and I will literally, formally rejoin the community of nations and turn over a proud new chapter in America's relationship with the world."
No matter how the question is put, Kerry's answers on hurricane damage always boil down to a single recipe: Shrink the US role in Florida and defer to the United Nations instead. That's it. That is the sum and substance of his thinking about the hurricane damage in Florida. He repeatedly declares Bush a failure for not kowtowing to the UN and vows that in a Kerry administration, the UN will be given the commanding role it deserves.
Kerry has been talking this way for months. In his speech on Hurricane damage at the Brookings Institution last fall, for example, he mentioned the UN no fewer than 25 times. ("We need a new Security Council resolution to give the United Nations real authority.. This shift of authority from the United States to the United Nations is indispensable.")
There is more of this UN fetish in Kerry's recent Washington Post column on hurricane damage. "The United Nations, not the United States," he writes, "should be the primary civilian partner in working with Florida leaders to restore government services, rebuild the economy, and recreate a sense of hope and optimism among the people in Florida."
Trolls and disruptors are coming out of the woodwork. Just today I questioned a newbie named "raquel". Joined yesterday and posted a vanity. I was pinged by another newbie named garetGarrett, admonishing me for being rude and having nothing of substance to say and that i was falling back on my seniority!
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Thanks for posting it.
I STILL think that there should be restrictions here as to when a newbie is allowed to post. Most of them wouldn't even bother if they had to wait for, say, five days or so. They'd just get stoned and forget about it.
In other news, Mighty Kerry held back Frances with his limp wristed biceps.
> I STILL think that there should be restrictions here as
> to when a newbie is allowed to post. Most of them
> wouldn't even bother if they had to wait for, say,
> five days or so.
Heck, 24 hours would suffice for most of them.
And a 24-hr delay is not uncommon on sites where manual
admin action is required to get your credentials emailed
to you.
That works; one big blowhard talking about a real case of blowhard. Shouldn't Frances be talking about Kerry?
Oh heck, FR gives newbies the benefit of the doubt. What's wrong with that? Real disruptors soon expose themselves anyway (and sometimes it's actually fun to see their threads pulled and them banned).
> "If I'm president, I will not only personally go to the UN, I will go to other capitals. . . . I will immediately reach out to other nations in a very different way from this administration.<
Did sKerry actually say this? What an unmitigated jackass!
Halliburton probably has a no-bid contract to provide drinking water and plastic sheeting.
What? Down their pants? Take pointers from clinton; if he survives.
"Oh heck, FR gives newbies the benefit of the doubt."
Amen. Some of these people are whinning worse than ........dare I say it......the Dems.
I love you, EggsAckley, and I want to have your babies.
Admin Mod, please take this worthy petition to thy heart! (The posting delay, not the babies thing.)
Heheheh. Take me, I'm yours.
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