Posted on 01/22/2002 7:20:46 AM PST by Mia T
Richard Gephardt knows. And what he knows scares him. In a speech at the winter gathering of Democratic Party bigwigs, Gephardt struggled to reclaim some lost ground: "We've got to stand together against terrorism," he exhorted. "This is no partisan issue. These young people in Afghanistan are not fighting for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. They're fighting for the greatest country that has ever existed on earth. That's the United States of America." Gephardt knows he has to make this pitch because his colleagues in the leadership of the national party have dug a deep, deep hole, and the polling numbers are showing it. Bill Clinton is understood to have booted the war on terrorism, and the congressional Democrats are seen as obstructers and posers. Four specifics dog the Democrats and make "me too" speeches like Gephardt's mandatory fare for the next few months. First, the Washington Post peeled back the sorry record of the Clinton administration's paralysis in the face of a growing body of evidence that Osama bin Laden would target our homeland.
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Had George Will written Sleaze, the sequel (the "sequel" is, of course, hillary) after 9-11-01, I suspect that he would have had to forgo the above conceit, as the doubt expressed in the setup phrase was, from that day forward, no longer operational. Indeed, assessing the clinton presidency an abject failure is not inconsistent with commentary coming from the left, most recently the LA Times: "Clinton Let Bin Laden Slip Away and Metastasize." When the clintons left office, I predicted that the country would eventually learn--sadly, the hard way--that this depraved, self-absorbed and inept pair had placed America (and the world) in mortal danger. But I was thinking years, not months. It is very significant that hillary clinton didn't deny clinton culpability for the terrorism. (Meet the Press, 12-09-01), notwithstanding tired tactics (if you can't pass the buck, spread the blame) and chronic "KnowNothing Victim Clinton" self-exclusion. If leftist pandering keeps the disenfranchized down in perpetuity, clinton pandering,("it's the economy, stupid"), kept the middle and upper classes wilfully ignorant for eight years. And ironically, both results (leftist social policy and the clinton economy) are equally illusory, fraudulent. It is becoming increasingly clear that clinton assiduously avoided essential actions that would have negatively impacted the economy--the ultimate source of his continued power--actions like, say, going after the terrorists. It is critically important that hillary clinton fail in her grasp for power; read Peggy Noonan's little book, 'The Case Against Hillary Clinton' and Barbara Olson's two books; it is critical that the West de-clintonize, but that will be automatic once it is understood that the clintons risked civilization itself in order to gain and retain power. It shouldn't take books, however, to see that a leader is a dangerous, self-absorbed sicko. People should be able to figure that out for themselves. The electorate must be taught to think, to reason. It must be able to spot spin, especially in this age of the electronic demagogue. I am not hopeful. As Bertrand Russell noted, "Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. " *George Will continues: There is reason to believe that he is a rapist ("You better get some ice on that," Juanita Broaddrick says he told her concerning her bit lip), and that he bombed a country to distract attention from legal difficulties arising from his glandular life, and that. ... Furthermore, the bargain that he and his wife call a marriage refutes the axiom that opposites attract. Rather, she, as much as he, perhaps even more so, incarnates Clintonism
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I can clearly see Willyboy shouldn't have p*ssed YOU off! lol
Great posts!
LOL, they are a "Must Have!" in my opinion.
I love these. I'm glad you're on our side! :-)
A memoriam was posted here for Ed Zehr(Nov--2001)..would like to find it again!
Jen
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