Posted on 05/01/2003 1:57:48 AM PDT by kattracks
LET’S SEE, who to start with? How about the front-runner, Sen. John Kerry.The junior senator from Massachusetts said last month, “we need a regime change in the United States.” It was perfectly obvious that the comment, given during an April 2 Peterborough stop on Kerry’s campaign for the White House, was aimed at President Bush. That would be the same President Bush whom 70 percent of Granite Staters say is doing a good job as President, according to the latest UNH poll. Oops.
Now Sen. Kerry is backpedaling. Quoth he of the strong jaw and stunning hair, “It was not about the President and it was not about the war. It was about the election.” We all know it was about the election, but not about Bush or the war? Let’s hear the quote again, this time in full.
“What we need now is not just regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States.” Yep, still sounds like he’s talking about the war and the President.
That’s also what candidate Howard Dean of Vermont was talking about when he said, “We won’t always have the strongest military.” Kerry’s camp responded by questioning Dean’s fitness to be commander in chief, which sensible people were already questioning. Even Joe Lieberman’s campaign stepped in, saying through a spokesman, “No President should ever assume that America’s military might is going to be weakened.”
Dean is now backtracking, saying he meant that no great power has ever remained great forever and that one day the United States would cease to be a world military power. Dean forgets that history has never seen a world power quite like the United States, and that other world powers collapsed from being poorly administered. One suspects that electing Howard Dean President could be the first step in the decline of American greatness.
National greatness comes from great leaders, which is what Dick Gephardt says his father was when he hauled milk. Gephardt claimed his father, who was a Teamster while he worked as a milkman for nine years, “told me every time . . . we were at the dinner table that we had food on the table and clothes on our back because he was represented by a union that could bargain and get him fair wages for his work.”
That’s not how Dick’s brother, Don, remembers it. He told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, in a quote reported yesterday by The Hill, “My father was in the Teamsters, but that’s because he had to be to get the job. I don’t recall him talking much about the union, how great it was. He prided himself on being a Republican. He hated Harry Truman. He had the feeling you had to make it on your own, that any kind of welfare program would just raise taxes.”
Wow, even Gephardt’s own brother is slapping him around. Well, there’s always John Edwards. But wait, a poll released on Monday found that President Bush would beat Edwards in his home state of North Carolina by 58 percent to 39 percent. It also found that more North Carolinians disapprove of Edwards’ Presidential run than approve of it. What good is a Southern Presidential candidate who can’t carry the South, or even his home state? Did somebody say “Al Gore”?
Al Sharpton is a huckster, Carol Moseley Braun is a delusional left-winger who left the Senate under a cloud of scandal, and Dennis Kucinich is little more than an anti-war crank. Guess that leaves Joe Lieberman and Bob Graham. Good luck, guys!
Dean is now backtracking, saying he meant that no great power has ever remained great forever and that one day the United States would cease to be a world military power. Dean forgets that history has never seen a world power quite like the United States, and that other world powers collapsed from being poorly administered. One suspects that electing Howard Dean President could be the first step in the decline of American greatness.No, not the first step. Clinton already came before him, and Clinton said the very same thing that Dean said.
Funny thing, none of the Democrats blasting Dean over this comment said a contrary word when Clinton said it.
And once a news agency publishes some of Graham's journal entries, he's gone. The guy is a "weirdo"!
That leaves Lieberman, and his nasal, whining will not get him far..
"And then there were none."
Ah, that it were true. But the Evil Queen awaits offstage........developing...
Bring her on and watch the money flow into Republican coffers! Talk about energizing the opposing base, she would do it in spades.
What do the entries say? Wierdo? Graham?
When I moved to Florida in 1980 Bob Graham was governor and I thought he was a good governor. I voted for his re-election. Since he's been in the Senate though, I almost always disagree with his votes.
. . .and then there is Hillary. . .
Yet another reason why Lieberman is unfit for the Presidency. If you fail to recognize a potential eventuality, it is far more likely to actually happen. Joe's solution? Stick your head in the sand and pretend it couldn't happen... what a GREAT leader he would make! /sarcasm>
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