"Someone should "pound some sense" into YOUR head!"
Is that a threat? You don't impress me pal.
"Condi will NOT be the '08 GOP presidential candidate! She has NEVER run for elected office, she has repeatedly said that she does NOT want to be president, and you are delusional, if you really believe that she can be made to run."
So what? She wouldn't be the first person who changed her mind. And polls indicate she is a good choice both among Repubs and the general public. Neither Eisenhower nor Hillery Clinton held an elected office before getting elected. Its not an issue anymore. Ask Schwarzenegger.
"The president had NOTHING whatsoever, to do with this deal."
Then he should have done the intelligent thing and disowned it instead of digging in his heels over this. But Bush II only looks intelligent when you compare him to Algore and John Kerry - and that doesn't say much, does it?
" It was a fete accompli LAST NOVEMBER! Nobody was screaming about it, back then."
Nobody knew about it back then.
"A British company has been running these ports for a very long time, yet it is only now, that the screams about a non-American company is going to ( sic) run these ports."
Probably AGAIN because nobody knew about it. I have a problem with ANY foreign company running our ports - and so do MOST Americans. They are OUR ports WE should run them. ESPECIALLY now. Having an ARAB company run them just magnified the threat.
"Brits and Americans WILL be running it, even when the UAE takes over the Brit company, and American military WILL still be running the security."
But there will be Arabs with their feet in the door of American ports - and I don't like them or their involvement here - PERIOD.
"You really believe that the Dems would allow it to "all blow away", once the president says 1,000 mea culpas, over something that was CONGRESS' venue?"
No. But they would just be blowing in the wind over something that had no more traction than the Cheny incident and it would make them look even more foolish.
"The president happens to be right about this and YOU and the rest of you hysterics, are damned dead wrong and are posting without knowing and understanding ANY of the facts."
The President is dead wrong. Our ports shouldn't be run by foreign nationals - period. and Arabs are the very worse foreign nationals to run them. I oppose the selling of America to foreigners.
And I and the majority of my fellow "hysterical" Republicans will be paying the price for the President's intransigence and dedication to internationalism in 2006 and 2008. And the majority of "hysterical" American independents will be contributing towards that price with their votes - unless the Dems are stupid enough to nominate Hillery which I don't think they are.
I may not "impress" you, but you don't "impress" anyone but yourself.
I am NOT your "pal".
Polls shmolls...........Condi isn't going to run for president and no matter what you post and/or dream about, her attitude isn't going to change.
She has never run for any elected office and would not do well running for the highest elected position of the land, on a first try! Many people would NOT vote for her because 1) she is a woman 2) she is a black GOPer 3) she has no experience at all, for such a position 4) XXXXXXXXXXXXX ( fill in the blanks with all of the anti-Condi post found on FR and then some).
The ONLY previously unelected to any office American presidents in the past 150 years, or more, have been Generals. And they weren't very good at being president.
Hillary Clinton is president? WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN?
Neither Grant nor Ike ran for elected office prior to running for president, but Grant won the Civil War ( that's how he was billed, when he ran ) and Ike won WW II. WHAT WAR DID CONDI RUN AND WHEN WAS SHE MADE A GENERAL?
The port deal happens to be a CIVIL sector, NOT a government sector deal. The CONGRESS, NOT the president, had the say so. And this went through LAST NOVEMBER without so much as a sneezed. Perhaps YOU should start wondering just WHY it's been blown out of all proportion now; ya think?
THE CONGRESS KNEW ABOUT IT, LAST NOVEMBER; SO DID MICHELLE MALKIN AND THOSE WHO READ HER COLUMN! Is that "nobody", or just you and the rest of us?
Just because YOU don't know something, doesn't mean that 1) it is a hidden fact 2) there is anything wrong with it!
Lots of American ports have been and ARE still run by foreign companies. Americans don't want to do it. I don't know why, but they don't! Perhaps it has something to do with the damned CORRUPT longshoremen union and the fact that it has been MAFIA run for close to a century.
Okay, so you "don't like it"......you don't know anything at all about it, so why should anyone care that you don't like it? Do you like the fact that the longshoremen have used these very ports, for at least the past 70 years, as their own fifedom? I don't, neither have lots of people, but that hasn't stopped it.
The Dems and GOPers who are siding with them are all doing this bloviating for political reasons and NO (!), the president bending over and caving on this, would exacerbate the situation and make things far worse for him and by extension, ALL Republicans!
Your claim that the president only looks intelligent, when compared to Kerry and Gore is quite telling. He IS an intelligent man; unlike you. And if you stay hone or vote fringe in '06 and '08, because of this tempest in a teapot, or for any other reason, then Kerry and Gore are Einsteins, compared to you!
You may be right. We very well may be paying a price on future election days, but in my opinion, only if G.W.'s actions on this are indeed perceived as "intransigence and dedication to internationalism". And if the old media has its way, that could very well be the case.
smiling....And what US group will run them?
Did you know that foreigners are already major operators in U.S. ports? Thirteen of 14 container terminal operators at the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex are foreign-owned, including companies from China, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and Denmark.
Facts, not feelings, will give you a better base to form an intelligent opinion.