Posted on 05/24/2004 3:40:03 PM PDT by Howlin
Speech begins at 8:00 P.M. EDT; carried on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, and CSPAN.
Albright is the poster child of state department failure and incompetence. The state department needs a purging on the level of the formation of homeland security.
If anything, the new Iraqi statelite US embasies should ONLY HAVE BUSH APPOINTEES Anyone who has been at the state department more than 3 years has to be left out of the loop. (especially powel)
Everyone is tailoring their message to fit ideological "slots" and muscle airtime. Buncha whores.
Astute description. BUMP
Prairie
I remember too .. and imo is what sunk any chance McCain might have had
"Real people aren't paying attention right now. This speech was for the folks in the political class, here and abroad.
Seriously, nobody was hanging on the relative success of this speech but the ruling and media elites and a few of us groupies.
The election begins after Labor Day."
THANK YOU so much for saying that. I needed a dose after the Biden "sky is falling" speech. You're 100% right.
If you've ever seen the percentages of people who vote, you'd know that the spinmeisters like Morris don't know diddly about motivating their voters to vote for candidates- what they know is how to keep the other guy's voters from being motivated enough to vote at all.
I agree I found it amazing the media chatty cathys failed to pick up what was the central theme of the speech.
Iraq ruled by Iraqis, without a UN side-structure or peacekeeping force.
I'm taking bets that Tom Friedman will be the first to point this out.
Woodward on LKL just said he doesn't think Iraq was a political decision but rather the president thought it was important to the war on terror and thought Iraq was a threat.
Woodward further says he doesn't buy Former Secy. O'Neill's assertion that Iraq was always on the table (in terms of going to war with them).
Woodward says he looked at all the intel and notes and he does not believe that Pres. Bush was just looking for a reason to go to war with Iraq.
Nothing new for an informed citizen, for the uniformed a plethora of information, perhaps too much.
I think the plan is to continue to bypass the press and go to the people on Iraq right up until turnover time. Good idea, I'm sick of Lugar, Hagel, Biden and the 93% of the media that is not self identified as conservative.
Thanks, ohio! I want to get that book, too!
Yes, he did announce that the prison would be demolished as soon as a new one could be constructed.
Ah, but then they will also have to point at Brahimi, wont they?
I certainly think she did. I guess she knows her career is over anyway, so it's better to claim complete ignorance than to admit knowing something fishy was going on, and doing nothing about it.
***Well, Joe Biden is officially "disppointed" on MSNBC; didn't hear anything new.***
Biden started out by saying that the President had mislead the American people. At that point I yelled, "You America hating traitor,'" and I turned off the TV.
What happened to "moderate', which meant strong on defense, slightly liberal socially.
I think the term is used more to define a Jewish conservative and that is not a good thing.
What Hillary is supposed to be and what she REALLY is,are two completely different things. :-)
Sounds pedestrian. Did Bush say anything newsworthy at all?
morris' predictions about hitlary's senate race were off. (she will drop out, she will not win, etc)
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