[CHARLITE]

Ping!

[SmithL]

That's one thing about THIS President. He may not be a smooth talker, but you never have to worry what is is.

[nmh]

Bump for later read.

[Peach]

What a great read!

[Mr. Mojo]

.....while the few Democrats too decent to lie – the Joe Liebermans and Dick Gephardts, for example – find themselves with less support among the party faithful than did Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat.

Ain't that the truth.

[Stellar Dendrite]

Great column.

BTW, did anyone watch MTP today? Howard Dean was hilarious.....

[Chgogal]

Bingo! Thanks.

[Hardastarboard]

the few Democrats too decent to lie – the Joe Liebermans and Dick Gephardts, for example – find themselves with less support among the party faithful than did Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat.

Boy, you can say that again. They HATE Joe Lieberman over at DU. Not sure how the author includes Dick Gephardt in the non-lying Democrat category, though.

[rhema]

Ping

[listenhillary]

marked - too good to let slip away

[lowbridge]

bump

[Mo1]

So why do Democrats lie? Well, for one thing, they have to. Democrats recognize that the vast majority of the American people reject their basic philosophy – as they did resoundingly in the last presidential and congressional elections – which says that all domestic problems can be solved with forced confiscation and redistribution of income, all social issues can be resolved by more and more government control over the citizenry, and all international questions can be answered by ceding American sovereignty to corrupt foreign powers like France and corrupt organizations like the United Nations.

The Dems are scared to death to be called what they really are ..

Socialists

[jjmcgo]

"hearing the Vietnamese "sing Christmas carols" (the Vietnamese are Buddhists and don't celebrate Christmas)"

Vietnamese Catholicism was the reason for the war. Catholic missionaries had great success in the 16th and 17th Centuries. The French invaded to protect Catholics in 1847 and remained there.
The South Vietnamese leadership was predominantly Catholic. Cardinal Spellman financed Dr. Dooley's operations there and strongly lobbied President Kennedy for intervention. Dooley's books stirred American Catholic passions.
American Catholics were strongly stirred up by the clergy about the atrocities committed against Catholics and became the strongest support group for entering the war and remaining there.
The Domino Theory was the stated reason but American Catholic furor was the strongest driving force.

[DeepRed]

So true! Bush does not lie or fake evidence like sKerry does. He is a straight-shooter.

[TAdams8591]

Well done! Thank you for the post!

[ProudGOP]

" After all, how much credence can one given Franken when he had to testify in a court of law – to save himself from a mountain of libel suits – that his book was never intended to be taken seriously?

Never heard about this? Anyone got a link? I did quick google search but didn't find anything.

[thombo]

Great article.I couldn't understand why Leiberman did so poorly with Dem voters.He ran a good campaign,and in my opinion he was easily the most intelligent of the bunch.I assumed the majority of dems were more "moderate" like JL.Apparently i was wrong.

[Nick Danger]

Nice rant.

[pulaskibush]

Socialism has always depended on lies. Communism is just a dream of equality for the poor to choose socialism over whatever government they have. Hitler used his powerful charisma, dreams of revenge for WWI, and racism to establish socialism in Germany.

Of course, if lies don't work, socialist then use violence intimidation, and other means of force.

[Iam1ru1-2]

I Think that this person should stop beating around the bush and tell it like it is, ya know!