Nancy Soderberg on C-SPAN explaining her comments on Jon Stewart's show

C-SPAN video ^ | March 3, 2005 | Self transcribed

[Ooh-Ah]

Thank you very much because I saw that late last night and encourage people to actually look at the tape of the show and what the context of what that is.

This is a comedy show. We were joking about the dilemma of Jon Stewart having criticized the Bush administration over the last 4 years. What does he do now. And we were joking back and forth.

Um, I think anyone who follows the Democratic party knows that they want America to succeed and the President Bush to succeed. Um, it 's a completely a.. a... a ... mixed conte.... a miscontext that the article from the Wall Street Journal Editorial page. (But as an American . . .' )

And I of course welcome the opportunity to rebut that.

There's nothing better the Democrats would like than to see peace in the Middle East, nonproliferation.

What I argue in the book is that the last 4 years of the Bush Administration had failed to advance those agendas and I welcome what appears to be a shift in the administration right now to take those issues on with more realistic policies.

And of course I want them to succeed.

So thank you for that question.

[Deetes]

Sure she does . Her and 80% of the Rats are hoping President Bush fails. I wonder what her DU screen name is?

[Vaquero]

Rush show-cased this in the first hour today....She want America to loose otherwise its bad for the Dims...thats more than the jist of it...that was it...

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"Um, I think anyone who follows the Democratic party knows that they want America to succeed and the President Bush to succeed."

Really? I read what all prominent Democrats have to say nearly every day. I must not be getting the memos on this particular point? *Scratches Head*

This is nothing more than Damage Control. Sorry. Too late. Your book is gonna tank, Sweetie! See ya in the Remainder Bin.

[Ooh-Ah]

I saw the interview on the Jon Stewart show. She was not trying to be funny, if that's what she is now saying.

Taranto's piece in the Wall Street Journal did NOT take it out of context!

[highlandbreeze]

Thanks to you both, too!

Pretty revealing, and I'm a little speechless. How could she expect to explain this away?

[dannyboy72]

and I love how they are all now starting to stay, "we welcome this change is this administrations policies", as if Bush has changed a damn thing. Once they figure out that all of the things they've thrown at Bush won't stick, this will be their new line

"...Bush is now following the policies we've encouraged all along" Ahhh the part of Dean & Kerry at it's best...

[Political Junkie Too]

There's nothing better the Democrats would like than to see peace in the Middle East, nonproliferation. What I argue in the book is that the last 4 years of the Bush Administration had failed to advance those agendas and I welcome what appears to be a shift in the administration right now to take those issues on with more realistic policies.

One doesn't just speak softly, one has to also wield the big stick occasionally. I disagree that the administration failed to advance the agenda during the past four years. They used the stick when the Democrats preferred the speech.

-PJ

[Chieftain]

You know the DNC pulled the C-SPAN schedulers strings to make sure she got on the air ASAP in the damage control mode!!

Dang these Demoncraps are too much!! ROFLMAO!!

[HardStarboard]

>>>Um, I think anyone who follows the Democratic party knows that they want America to succeed and the President Bush to succeed.<<<

Use another bucket to bail Nancy. That one ain't holding water!

[Chieftain]

gotta check this out!

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

"I welcome what appears to be a shift in the administration right now to take those issues on with more realistic policies. And of course I want them to succeed."

Shift? What shift? We don't need no stinkin shift!

This is an on going liberal mantra I've noticed lately.

When W's policy appears to be working libs say: "He's changed his policy", "He finally saw the light", "he's starting to take our advice", "He's learned his lesson" etc., etc., yada, yada, yada.

W has been consistent and focused like a laser beam. The Dims on the other hand are flipping and flopping all over the map.

President Bush is a man of courage and conviction. A trait severely lacking amoung Dims.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Sir Winston Churchill

[highlandbreeze]

Or,"well this would have happened anyway" or some such nonsense.

[nikos1121]

"I must be out of the loop, but what did she say?"

Read the interview from Taranto, "but as an American."

I think Stewart made her looks silly. She came out basically saying that the Democrats still have Iran and North Korea left for Bush and the republicans to screw up. In essence stating we want the USA to fail because it will help the democrats.

When I read through it however, I think she is impressed with what it happening in the middle east as all of us are, but she is really struggling to give Bush any credit. It's really very funny.

nick

[exDem from Miami]

Praise the Lord, this dunce was supposed to be President Kerry's national security advisor.

[highlandbreeze]

Thanks, I did finally read it. I was funny. I only have one gripe with this Jon Stewart saying 'if he had just told the truth about what might happen'(paraphrasing), didn't he try to say this but they just kept harping on WMD? (Pres. Bush, I mean)

[cyncooper]

Yes--and on one of the threads about this yesterday I linked but one reference from early 2002 where the Bush doctrine was being described in one conservative column as seeking to spread liberty in order to make the world more secure.

[Deb]

She's hawking (hocking) a book.

[highlandbreeze]

Thank you, I thought I'd heard it before.

=0)

[Deb]

Ms. Soderberg and the Democrat-Press party are annoyed that the President would presume to revisit the Middle East problem when Clinton already fixed it. He also fixed the Irish vs. English problem, the Crips vs Bloods problem and brought peace to the Hatfields vs McCoys.

[YaYa123]

Sosoderberg might be hawking a book, but why bother reading? Her bio makes clear her position on any subject.

http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/whm/bio/soderberg_n.htm