The Democratic Platform for 2008 is clearly:
1. Surrender to Radical Islam
2. Talk, talk, talk...
Posted on 10/01/2005 11:21:57 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
(Defends timetable)
MANCHESTER, N.H. - The presence of American troops in Iraq with no plan for withdrawing them makes it easier for terrorists to train recruits to fight what they see as the U.S. occupation, Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold said Friday.
Feingold, a Democrat who may be exploring a possible run for president, came to Manchester to support Mayor Bob Baines, who is running for re-election. But he took questions on national and international issues after a downtown stroll.
Feingold said it's too early to talk about a presidential run, but he said he wants someone to run who will offer a progressive alternative to Republicans and even Democratic centrists - including ending the war.
Feingold's demand for a timetable has been criticized by retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark, a fellow Democrat, as giving insurgents information they could use against U.S. soldiers. Feingold, on Friday, called that a weak argument.
"The Iraqis are going to have to stand on their own at some point," he said. He called it a formula for disaster if Iraqis get the idea Americans will remain indefinitely.
"That is going to hurt us. It's going to hurt Iraq and most importantly it's going to help the terrorist elements that use the idea of an unending American occupation as a recruiting tool," he said.
Feingold, co-author of the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law, also talked about the need for continuing reforms, predicting an overhaul will be needed at least every 10 years.
"Stopping corruption anywhere in government and especially in Washington is a permanent task," he said, announcing he would propose new legislation with Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona and other lawmakers to shore up the earlier law.
"Someone is always trying to game it," he said.
Feingold lent his support to New Hampshire's status as the first-in-the-nation presidential primary state.
"This is the ultimate laboratory of democracy when it comes to presidential campaigns. It's a very special thing. It's hard for me to imagine it not being first," he said.
I don't even want you as MY Senator. Bleck.
The democrat fringe should love him but I would up date my life insurance Russ, the beast may want to feed.
Hear hear!! What you said!!
Seconded.Any damn thing for a vote doesn't cut it around here either.
Is the man deaf?
Bugs Bunny: "Ha haha, what a ignoranimus!"
FMCDH(BITS)
Let's not forget that in addition to being a cut-and-run liberal Feingold did more to negate the First Amendment with Campaign Finance Reform than has ever been previously accomplished. Mark Levin has an excellent section on this outrageous law (which Bush signed!) in his book "Men in Black".
What an absolute and complete moron/idiot/fool!!!
KEEP THE PROMISE TO IRAQ
COMPLETE THE MISSION!
The one thing I'll say for Feingold is he usually breaks from the liberals in his party to vote for Bush's nominees, like John Ashcroft and John Roberts. He's a nutty lefty, for sure, but I think he really believes what he does.
END Feingold.
I didn't know we were at war with New Hampshire!!! When did that happen?
I hearby delegate Russ Feingold to go to Waziristan and sue for peace in our time with Osama Bin Laden.
Good luck, Russ. I know we can count on you...but please, find another foxhole.
Wisconsin has had territorial ambitions in New Hampshire for decades. It is a well-known fact that Wisconsinites have declared Cheese-had against the Granite State infidels.
Depending on how things go in Iraq and the WOT, Feingold has a chance to give 'ol Fat-Shanks a run 'fer her money.
End the war? Better get the word out to those who started it, and that would require learning Arabic.
"End War, Feingold (D, WI) Says in N.H."
Oh, right...why didn't I think of that?
"I didn't know we were at war with New Hampshire!!! When did that happen?"
LOL! I heard NH stole some of our cheese! If that's not a reason to press the "shiney red candy-like button," I don't know WHAT is! ;)
Sorry to drag up an old thread, but I'm pinging you here, as I can't start a new topic using this source, because of copyright complaint. Feingold continues to be absolutely CLUELESS!
Oct 15, 2005; 6:00 AM
Feingold seeks better relations with Muslims
By Ed Culhane
Post-Crescent staff writer
NEENAH, WI — U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, speaking Friday at the Fox Valley Islamic Society, asked Wisconsin voters to support the Senate's unanimous revision of the U.S.A. Patriot Act.
Unlike the version that passed in the House of Representatives, Feingold said, the Senate version restores some of the individual freedoms, and expectations of privacy, that were eliminated after Sept. 11, 2001, in the rush for national security.
For instance, Feingold said, the current Patriot Act allows the government to examine a person's library records even if there is no hint the individual has done or plans to do anything illegal.
"In the next few weeks, we will see which side wins," Feingold said. "The freedom of all Americans is based on the belief that we can protect ourselves and our lives and still keep our freedoms. Freedom and security can work together."
Before taking questions from the approximately 50 people attending, Feingold introduced Fox Cities educator Bill O'Brien, 65, recently returned from an official trip to the Middle East where he served as one of America's first two "citizen ambassadors."
Feingold said he has been impressed with the efforts of Karen Hughes, President Bush's undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs, who is spearheading the effort to use American citizens as ambassadors of goodwill in countries where America is not well-loved.
He said Hughes has visited him in his role as a member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and is interested in the listening sessions he holds in each Wisconsin county each year, as he was doing Friday. He told her of the retired professionals he meets who were spending their time fishing and hunting.
"I said these guys have a lot more to offer. I'd bet they'd love an opportunity to spend some time in another country talking with people, helping people, showing them a positive image of America. That's my passion — that every American should be reaching out as a patriotic duty to the rest of the world in a positive way, to understand other cultures and religions and to help improve our image around the world."
A short time later, Hughes asked him to nominate the nation's first "citizen ambassador," for a delegation that was leaving in two weeks for a tour of three Middle Eastern countries.
He picked O'Brien, a standout athlete from Neenah High School, who went on to become a teacher, coach, principal and the now retired administrator of the Appleton Catholic education system. O'Brien was Feingold's debate coach at Janesville Craig High School, where he took a 100th-ranked team to the state championship.
O'Brien, a staunch Irish Catholic, was part of the official U.S. delegation that met with religious and civic leaders in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. He spoke Friday about an interfaith conference he attended in Istanbul. The concern, he said, was that after Sept. 11 terrorism was associated with religion.
"They concluded that it is not," he said. "Terrorism is associated with a state of personal condition. It is associated with a lack of education. It is associated with poverty. It is associated with hunger, and unless all countries come together to address these problems, the tip of the iceberg is about to explode … and that is Africa."
Nihal Shahbandar of Appleton, who originally is from Syria, said she too feels like an ambassador of America when she returns to her homeland. But she said returning to the United States is always a hassle because her Muslim style of clothing means she will be delayed at checkpoints while her baggage is pulled aside for special scrutiny.
"I would like if that could be handled easier," she said, "and make it easier for Muslim people who are traveling."
Feingold said he saw hundreds of Muslims, young and old, segregated at an airport after Sept. 11 because of security procedures.
"Not only is this wrong from a moral point of view and a legal point of view," Feingold said, "but to me, it's bad law enforcement."
Dr. H.A. Majid of Appleton asked how important "image" was.
"Changing the image is like doing plastic surgery," he said, "but your heart is still the same."
Feingold said that although it was important for people in the Middle East and elsewhere to meet ordinary Americans, diplomacy must be backed up by public policy decisions that are based on knowledge and respect of other nations and cultures. He said he supported the invasion of Afghanistan, an invasion that many Muslims understood.
"Afghanistan was done with Islamic support," Feingold said. "But with weak or no basis for (the invasion of) Iraq, what is this young Islamic person going to think? They are going to conclude that this is a war against Islam."
So Feingold wants to start nuking every country we suspect may have terrorist ties?? Canada's going to be upset.
The Democratic Platform for 2008 is clearly:
1. Surrender to Radical Islam
2. Talk, talk, talk...
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