Do We Detect a Pattern Here? [Katie got HER talking points]

Opinion Journal - Best of the Web Today ^ | Tuesday, July 15 | JAMES TARANTO

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

BY JAMES TARANTO
Tuesday, July 15

Do We Detect a Pattern Here?

"Several candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination spoke out yesterday. Rep. Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.) said Bush's 'factual lapse' cannot be easily dismissed 'as an intelligence failure.' He said the president 'has a pattern of using excessive language in his speeches and off-the-cuff remarks' which 'represents a failure of presidential leadership.' "--Associated Press

"Amid questions about the president's justification for war against Iraq, [John Kerry] the Massachusetts senator [who by the way served in jail] plans to question Bush's credibility next week by citing a pattern of deception on national security and domestic issues, aides said."--Associated Press

"What troubles me is not that single episode, but the broader pattern of dishonesty and delusion that helped get us into the Iraq mess."--Nicholas Kristof, New York Times

"The case of the bogus uranium purchases wasn't an isolated instance. It was part of a broad pattern of politicized, corrupted intelligence."--former Enron adviser Paul Krugman, New York Times

"I think the American people are aware this administration has engaged in a pattern of deceit."--Dennis Kucinich

[concerned about politics]

I thought I saw that poll too and now others are saying he is down in the 50's! I find that hard to believe.

I also heard 59% due to the trouble in Iraq, but nothing having to do with Democrat attacks.
I really don't think people care about the Democrats right now. That's why they're in overdrive. People have lives, and hate political campains that slash and burn 24/7. It gets old real quick.
Bush should stay out of it. Let them cut their own throats. They're doing just fine at it.

[GranpaVet]

Yes. Don't watch much TV but the little I saw on Fox...well, it was wrong what they were doing.

[nopardons]

This is the silly season ... SUMMER ... when most people don't pay any attention to politics. But, that being said, this is only the dress rehersal of what is to soon follow.

[GranpaVet]

I think you are right. It is the drip drip of stories about soldiers in Iraq getting attacked that is doing this erosion. Not for that then this would be over with.Maybe we need to send these reporters back and embed them again and see what a fine and difficult job our troops are doing under extreme conditions.

[GranpaVet]

Yep. 1988. Remember it well. What a yawn. At least we don't have him going on all the time anymore.

[concerned about politics]

FOX is comming around to reporting the whole story. It just took time to cut through all the Democrats Marxist propaganda.
Hang on.
Help is on the way.
The truth will set us free.
This too shall pass.
Bush said the British had intel reports, and they did. It's no big deal to those who are paying any attention. Even Democrat ex-Mayor Cotch from NY ( BIG Democrat) said he believes Bush and will vote for Bush in 2004! He says he's brilliant when it comes to foreign policy and the safty of the American people.

[PhiKapMom]

It actually made our local Fox News Channel that came on after the All-Star Game with the local News. Last time I watch them! They had the RAT spin down! They are about to get an email from me tonight!

[concerned about politics]

They are about to get an email from me tonight!

Yeh. Me too. It's all getting too boring. I had TV on for a while, but got bored with the Democrats trying to lie their way through the rats nest they weaved for themselves. BORING.

[Libertina]

LOL I was getting a kick out of listening to this garbage in the radio today. The words are (I believe) actually taken from our side when we said that clinton followed a "pattern of lying". Unfortunately for the rats, GW Bush does NOT lie and has no such pattern. The liberals are trying like mad to turn this around on us and will probably fail. Good grief, they can't even come up with their own phrases much less their own political policies.

[Grampa Dave]

There is so much of their own data to bury them plus the good outside data that you just noted.

[CyberAnt]

"5500 metric tons of uranium"

I think that's right!

[hellinahandcart]

Thanks for the explanation, sorry for the assumption. I admit I was surprised to see *you* apparently doing it.

I'm just so sick of the excerpts presented here every minute and hour by newbie posters that I don't even click on links anymore. It is truly wearying.

[ChadGore]

The only "pattern" of democrats loosing.

[zip]

DON'T FORGET - Lies repeated often enough become truth to the sheeple."

No bias in the media, right?

[MEG33]

Just heard"faulty intelligence" again on MSNBC said as fact.Teddy was pontificating also.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

No problem. Sometimes a pertinent quote or paragraph is worthy of a thread and the original headline of an article doesn't fit the excerpt. I'm trying to simplify - quotes and talking points get through the info overload these days. Dems follow Madison Avenue. War and terrorism don't fit into handy 15 second sound bites - especially when you care about truth.

My two favorite 'subject lines' for e-mail these days:

4 years? Dems. can't handle 4 MONTHS of important, dangerous, GOOD works and BAD guys taken out by our fine military DAILY in Iraq.

Our patriotic troops are NO one's "victims".

For some reason, members of the vast left wing press regularly ask me to remove their names from my 'list'. Heh. Convenient, that.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

You are spot on about the troops and the press. Many Americans know - through blogs and e-mail home, net forums. Here's a bit of reality from the war front, yesterday's L.T. Smash:

Meanwhile, another group of soldiers were ambushed outside Baghdad.

"Our unit was making its way out of the ammunitions dump when we were ambushed. Our Bradleys (fighting vehicles) fought back and we killed five attackers," Captain Mark Miller, the commander of the company involved, told Reuters.

There were no U.S. casualties.

Bring it on.

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