Senate Confirms Rice As Secretary of State (85-13)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 1/26/05 | Barry Schweid - AP

[farmfriend]

"Oh Lord it's hard to be humble, when you're perfect in every way!!!"

Ain't it though? Did you see what Ernest called me? her Excellency Farmfriend. And someone agreed with him. Hard to keep my head up it's getting so big and heavy.

[SierraWasp]

You've just GOT to stop engaging in Self-Amusment! If you don't stop it you'll go blind!! (but we'll let you do it till you need thick glasses for a regular monthly royalty)

[SierraWasp]

"her Excellency Farmfriend"

Dat's berry, berry gud!!!

Dat Ernesto is berry, berry smart dude!!!

[Seadog Bytes]

Oh, it's really not that I don't 'like' John McCain. He's probably a nice guy. He may even MEAN well. I just don't TRUST him to consistently do the right thing.

As to Kerry, he DID have a huge impact on the war in Vietnam. Much greater than I think you believe. NOT by what he did in Vietnam, but by what he did here in the states after he got back.

The peacepukes in Berzerkeley and other leftist hotbeds around the nation were just a rag-tag bunch of Communist-incited hippies, who everyone was pretty much ignoring (...hoping they'd just GO AWAY) until Jane Fonda and John Kerry came along. Fonda's name-recognition and Kerry's apparent status as a supposed 'decorated war-hero' finally gave that bunch of losers, and their looney-left, blame-America-First supporters, and their chicken-little message, a bit of credibility with middle-America, not to mention the MEDIA attention, which they had not sucessfully captured before. That was the beginning of the end.

The war in Vietnam was not lost by our military in the jungles of Southeast Asia. It was lost on the streets of America, with people like Kerry and Fonda leading the (enemy) 'troops'. Why else do you think Kerry's picture is actually hung in a place of honor in the 'Viet Cong Hall of Fame' or whatever they call it???

...and why else do you think Kerry and Fonda are held in such low esteem (hated?) by most Vietnam Vets?

[NorCalRepub]

actually I have no problem with what you said but the poeple sometimes mentioned don't oppose the "majority" of the platform.....they really don't.....go look at the records.....the only ones close are Spector, Snow,Chaffee and maybe Collins.....McCain whether you like him or not does not deviate a majority of the time..........but it seems like it cause the media likes to show him more when he is a maverick which I don't deny......my problem is that people take media events only and attach that stigma

[NorCalRepub]

I have no disagreement with anything you say and am well aware of Kerry's escapades and I know the military (from my ROTC military history) actually didn't lose one single major battle but the tide turned mainly after the Tet offensive which we actually won but Walter Cronkite then went on TV to say we lost and started the downhill spiral and that is when alot of those hippie types in Berkeley and Columbia where it really started go it going even worse. The so called peace movement started in Berkeley, i was only in grade school but lived in Oakland, was mainly started against "the man" and not the Vietnam war which you said........but then what liberal won't latch on to a good thing when they see it

[YaYa123]

More on Bayh's vote against Condi: (if I weren't so lazy, I'd post this)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6871426/

[cyncooper]

Thanks for the link. Very interesting...including the part about Gonzales heading to confirmation.

Saw Sec. Rice arrive at the State Dept today and address the employees. It was marvelous.

[95 Bravo]

Thanks! I was wondering who the Dumbocrat scumbags were that we need to defeat. I think we can whittle that list down come election time, don't you?

[HoosierFather]

I would think that vote would not help him in the least with regard to any aspirations he has in '08.


Bayh sits on the right side of the DIM party. He actually sells as a fiscal conservative/social moderate in the state of Indiana. While this makes him wildly popular in Hoosierland (even by many Republicans), it does not sell with the activist lefties of the DIM party. These are the folks who choose the DIM nominee for POTUS. A vote against Condi does not hurt him (cause not many people pay ttention) in Indiana, but his opposition helps with the anti-war leftist crowd. This is Bayh's first real movement to the left and may signal a presidential bid. And, if Bayh falls short, Hillary would be wise to put him on the ticket. This would help her in the Midwest. If Indiana had gone DIM in '04, we would be talking about President Kerry today!