Kerry Can't Even Order Lunch, Let Alone Prosecute A War On Terror
(BracePundit via NY Times) "Everybody told me, 'God, if you're coming to Canonsburg, you've got to find time to go to Toy's, and he'll take care of you,'" Mr. Kerry said, dropping the name of a restaurant his motorcade had passed on the way in. "I understand it's my kind of place, because you don't have to - you know, when they give you the menu, I'm always struggling: Ah, what do you want?
"He just gives you what he's got, right?" Mr. Kerry added, continuing steadily off a gangplank of his own making: "And you don't have to worry, it's whatever he's cooked up that day. And I think that's the way it ought to work, for confused people like me who can't make up our minds."
Talk about clueless. Bush should head back to Washington now and let Kerry continue to commit campaign suicide. I mean, who can make John Kerry look worse than John Kerry?
The Dems are getting what they deserve. They were so desperate to stop Howard Dean that they turned to Kerry without stopping to think if he was a viable national candidate. He's not and now their stuck with him, thankfully.
You will be hearing lots about this in the coming days
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - U.S. military deaths in the Iraq campaign passed 1,000 Tuesday, an Associated Press tally showed, as a spike in fighting with both Sunni and Shiite insurgents killed seven Americans in scattered clashes in the Baghdad area.
Unlike Democrats who argue that these brave men and women died for an unjust, lost cause, we know better. They gave everything to defend this country and the free world from these abhorrent savages who seek to destroy our way of life. God bless them and their families for making the ultimate sacrifice.
Here is some interesting perspective from StrategyPage that we should keep in mind as the Democrats try to exploit the 1,000 number for political gain in the coming days. Thanks to Instapundit for pointing this out.
"American combat losses continue at a historically low level. Since March, 2003, American troops have suffered 7,900 casualties (including 976 dead.) This is an unprecedented killed to wounded ratio of 1:8. In past wars, the ration had been 1:4 or 1:5. American combat deaths over the Summer were 42 in June, 54 in July and 66 in August. There are the equivalent of three American combat divisions in Iraq, each running several hundred patrols and other combat operations each day. Never have combat divisions, operating in hostile territory, kept their casualties this low. The news media, concentrating on any losses as the story have generally missed the historical significance of the low casualties. The American armed forces have developed new equipment, weapons and tactics that have transformed combat operations in an unprecedented way. This is recognized within the military, but is generally ignored, or misunderstood, by the general media."
Does this make it any less devastating to the families, of course not. But it does offer perspective on the enormity of our undertaking and the skill and precision in which it is being conducted by our brave troops.
Please take a minute to honor those that have made the ultimate sacrifice by reading THE LIST.
Thanks to Don Luskin at Poor and Stupid
Job Numbers Just Released: Unemployment at 5.4%; 144,000 new jobs created in August. If you take out workers under 20 years old from the numbers, the unemployment number is below 5%.
1.4 million jobs created this year.
Could things be better, sure. Are they bad. No way. Are they pretty damn good all things considered (recession, stock bubble and 9/11). Absolutely.
BREAKING NEWS: Kerry To Have Midnight Rally After Bush's Speech. An unprecedented, obvious desperation move...
Zell Miller's Speech Wasn't So Tough;
Compared To His Smackdown of Chris Matthews
Tim Blair says, "Actually, compared to the themes routinely hauled up by the anti-Bushites - Hail to the Thief, Halliburton, Bush Lied, Bush Knew, BusHitler, etc. - Miller's speech was an exercise in elegant restraint. Maybe Zell should've punched it up a little."
How much longer will NBC put up with his garbage?
Ralph Peters is a retired Army officer and a regular New York Post contributor.
"A Kerry defeat would be the welcome-home parade we never had."
YESTERDAY, in front of the American Legion's National Convention, John Kerry made his most disgraceful speech since he lied about atrocities to Congress three decades ago. By making promises he doesn't mean and can't keep, he tried to buy the votes of American veterans.
Had he offered each vet a $5 bill and a shot of whisky for their support, his performance could not have been shabbier.
John Kerry was in Florida last week. He was asked about his position towards Cuba.
Here is the Miami Herald account,
As the presumptive Democratic nominee, Kerry was ready with the bravado appropriate for a challenger who knows that every answer carries magnified importance in the state that put President Bush into office by just 537 votes.
''I'm pretty tough on Castro, because I think he's running one of the last vestiges of a Stalinist secret police government in the world,'' Kerry told WPLG-ABC 10 reporter Michael Putney in an interview to be aired at 11:30 this morning.
Then, reaching back eight years to one of the more significant efforts to toughen sanctions on the communist island, Kerry volunteered: ``And I voted for the Helms-Burton legislation to be tough on companies that deal with him.''
There is only one problem: Kerry voted against it.
Asked Friday to explain the discrepancy, Kerry aides said the senator cast one of the 22 nays that day in 1996 because he disagreed with some of the final technical aspects. But, said spokesman David Wade, Kerry supported the legislation in its purer form -- and voted for it months earlier.
Democrat Outrage Continues Over Attacks On Kerry's War Record
They Would Never Engage In Such Cheap, Dishonorable Tactics....
Except when they did it in 1992 against George Bush Sr. and again in 1996 against Bob Dole.
Other than that, they are aghast at these dirty, despicable tricks.
It seems as though Bob Dole has not forgotten,
"I think this can hurt Kerry more than all the medal controversy. I mean, one day he's saying that we were shooting civilians, cutting off their ears, cutting off their heads, throwing away his medals or his ribbons. The next day he's standing there, "I want to be president because I'm a Vietnam veteran." And I think he's -- I said months ago, "John, don't go too far." And I think he's got himself into this wicket now where he can't extricate himself because not every one of these people can be Republican liars. There's got to be some truth to the charges. But this is on tape. This is on television. This is before the Senate committee......Maybe he should apologize to all the other 2.5 million veterans who served. He wasn't the only one in Vietnam. And here's, you know, a good guy, good friend. I respect his record. But three Purple Hearts and never bled that I know of. I mean, they're all superficial wounds. Three Purple Hearts and you're out. "
Blogs for Bush has put this visual together, well done. Check out founder Matt Margolis' personal blog here.
What is happening in Najaf? Glen G. Butler is a major in the Marines and he has an op-ed in the New York Times today which is a must read for all.
When critics of the war say their advocacy is on behalf of those of us risking our lives here, it's a type of false patriotism. I believe that when Americans say they "support our troops," it should include supporting our mission, not just sending us care packages. They don't have to believe in the cause as I do; but they should not denigrate it. That only aids the enemy in defeating us strategically.
James Taranto's Best of the Web is a must read every day. He has several great observations today including this one,
Going
for Bloke
Not surprisingly, the controversy over John Kerry's Vietnam service has Josh
Marshall in a blogging frenzy. It's mostly what you'd expect, but this
passage, in which Marshall faults President Bush for remaining above the fray,
made us laugh out loud:
President Bush isn't even man enough to answer a straight question about these Swift Boat ads. (You'll have to pardon my antiquated and gendered language. But I'm not sure English has any more presentable way to convey the same meaning.)
This wonderfully encapsulates the dilemma of the Liberal Man, who can't decide if he's a schoolyard bully or a politically correct postgraduate Sitzpinkler--neither of which, we'd say, is much of a masculine ideal. It's also hard to see how President Bush's refusal to protect Kerry from his critics calls Bush's manhood into question. After all, Kerry, who by the way served in Vietnam, isn't exactly a damsel in distress.
John Kerry: Champion of the Middle Class
"We have to bring back an America that values work and honors working people, day in and day out."
(ABC.com) But the exotic nature of some of the sports he plays (say, kite-surfing in Nantucket) and the great lengths he goes in order to play them (say, flying from Idaho to Oregon to windsurf), can have the unintended effect of making him seem out of touch with the hard-pressed middle class whose cares he says have been his concern.
As his plane was flying from Oregon to Idaho on Saturday, Kerry defended his taste in sports, saying, "The guys who do it are all local guys -- plumbers, construction workers."
Asked if these regular folks fly from one state to another, the husband of the condiment heiress downplayed the cost, saying, "What? 250 bucks for a ticket?"
and then there is this...
KERRY FLIES D.C. HAIRDRESSER TO OREGON FOR TOUCH-UP
(NY Daily News) But when every campaign stop is a photo op, even a man of the people needs a high-quality haircut. I hear that when Kerry was in Portland, Ore., last weekend preparing to windsurf on the Columbia River Gorge, he flew his Washington-based hairstylist, Isabelle Goetz, across the country to give him a camera-ready trim.
A knowledgeable source told me that the French-born Goetz - who tends the Massachusetts senator's mane while also caring for Sen. Hillary Clinton's coiffure - caught up with the candidate in Portland on Friday (after flying commercial, I'm told), trimmed his luxuriant salt-and-pepper locks and then returned to Washington the same night.
Two America's Indeed.
W. TRUMPS KERRY WITH TROOP MOVE
(By John Podhoretz) Kerry wants the American people to believe that he will bring soldiers home from Iraq in a year. But he doesn't want to appear weak, so he won't say how he's going to do it other than that he will mystically convince foreign leaders who oppose the U.S. presence there to fight the war for us.
The president has beaten Kerry at his own game. The hawk of hawks has found a way to tell America that he is bringing soldiers home, even as he vows to stand firm and tough on Iraq until the job is done. What's more, unlike Kerry, Bush has offered specifics, and by doing so has made it clear he is not acting precipitously.
Healthcare Reform: Brought to you by John Edwards & The Trial Lawyers
Edwards'
malpractice suits leave bitter taste
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The American Medical Association lists North Carolina's current health care situation as a "crisis" and blames it on medical-malpractice lawsuits such as the ones that made Democratic vice-presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards a millionaire many times over.
During his 20 years of suing doctors and hospitals, he pioneered the art of blaming psychiatrists for patients who commit suicide and blaming doctors for delivering babies with cerebral palsy, according to doctors, fellow lawyers and legal observers who followed Mr. Edwards' career in North Carolina.
"The John Edwards we know crushed [obstetrics, gynecology] and neurosurgery in North Carolina," said Dr. Craig VanDerVeer, a Charlotte neurosurgeon. "As a result, thousands of patients lost their health care."
Through a spokeswoman, Mr. Edwards declined to comment beyond e-mailing his and John Kerry's "real plan for medical-malpractice reform."
What is he smoking?
For many months on the campaign trial John Kerry has been telling audiences the sad story of a cancer patient who had to work through Chemo in order to keep her insurance. The problem is, that is not true at all. What does this say about Kerry, and his campaign? Did they think nobody would check? Talk about amateur hour. Talk about a credibility problem.
The Mary Ann myth: NEXT TIME John Kerry accuses President Bush of misleading the American
people, remember Mary Ann Knowles.
Knowles is the Hudson woman whose battle with breast cancer Kerry has turned
into a campaign anecdote. Here is what Kerry said about Knowles during his
acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention on July 29:
“What does it mean when Mary Ann Knowles, a woman with breast cancer I met
in New Hampshire, had to keep working day after day right through her
chemotherapy, no matter how sick she felt, because she was terrified of losing
her family’s health insurance? America can do better. And help is on the
way.”
What it means is that John Kerry is fibbing. As Union Leader correspondent
Scott Brooks reported on Sunday, Mary Ann Knowles did not have to work through
her chemotherapy for fear of losing her health insurance. Employed by
Elderhostel, the Boston-based non-profit travel organization for people 55 and
older, Mary Ann had 26 weeks of paid disability at her disposal. More was
available for a long-term illness. She did not have to work through her
chemotherapy. She chose to.
Knowles would have lost some income had she taken the disability leave, said
her husband, who is unemployed. But she would not have lost her health
insurance, as Kerry has repeatedly misstated.
Kerry
falsifies NH woman’s story
Isn't John Kerry A Senator?
Kerry's 20 years in the Senate are being eclipsed by his 12 weeks in Vietnam.
If Kerry is the guy to reform the intelligence community, why then did he author a bill cutting the intelligence budget by $7 Billion AFTER the first World Trade Center bombing? Even his fellow Democrat Senators were outraged by his proposed cuts to the intelligence budget.
The last thing Kerry wants is an examination of his record. Get off this Vietnam BS and focus on the record. That is who John Kerry is and it is not very flattering.
On the economy
Kerry Has Voted At Least 350 Times For Higher Taxes
Kerry Voted Against President Bush’s Historic 2001 And 2003 Tax Cuts
Kerry Has Voted Against Major Tax Relief At Least 29 Times
Social Issues
Kerry Voted At Least Six Times Against Banning Partial-Birth Abortions.
Kerry Has Voted At Least Three Times Against Requiring Parental Consent/Notification For Minor’s Abortion.
Just how liberal is John Kerry?
On Key Votes, Kerry Voted 100% Of The Time With Senator Kennedy In 2001, 1999, 1998, 1993, 1992, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, and 1985. Over the course of his Senate career, Kerry has sided with Senator Kennedy 94% of the time for key votes.
In 2003, Kerry Voted With Kennedy 93% Of The Time
In 2003, Kerry Voted AGAINST President Bush More Often Than Ted Kennedy
Kerry’s Lifetime Liberal Vote Rating From Americans For Democratic Action Is Two Points Higher Than That Of Ted Kennedy.
Kerry Named Most Liberal Senator On Economic Issues. National Journal’s most recent scores gave Kerry a 95/100 liberal score on economic issues – the highest in the Senate. In fact, Kerry’s score tied with only 4 other Senators: Boxer (D-CA), Clinton (D-NY), Reed (D-RI), and the late Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-MN).
Received A 35 Percent Lifetime Rating From U.S. Chamber Of Commerce
National Taxpayers Union Foundation Ranked Kerry Below Congress’ Only Self-Proclaimed Socialist. Between 1992 and 2003, Sen. John Kerry racked up an 18.75 percent average rating from the National Taxpayers Union Foundation. Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) had an average rating of 25.4 during the same time period.
With a record like that, John Kerry would prefer we, the media, and everyone in the country actually, focus on his Vietnam service. Enough with Vietnam.
FOCUS ON KERRY'S RECORD
Why Bush Will Win
Kerry's a captive of the overbearing, elitist wing of his party
(By Zev Chafets, NY Daily News) John Kerry is not a bad man. He probably wouldn't make a bad President. But he is a bad candidate in a terrible situation. He represents the wing of the Democratic Party that is imbued with a sense of its own moral, intellectual, cultural and social superiority. In short, he is the standard bearer for the unbearable.
These people don't comprise a majority of the electorate or even Democratic voters (how could they and remain an elite?), but they have convinced themselves that they and their candidate - if packaged properly - will prove irresistibly attractive to lesser Americans.
John Kerry calls this the worst economy since Herbert Hoover.
Rev.
Whitewash
Sharpton’s disingenuous soundbites
(Jonah Goldberg) It was hardly shocking that Al Sharpton was permitted to speak at the Democratic Convention. But a scandal needn't be a surprise to still be a scandal. What is stunning, however, is how his speech has been received. Business Week has hailed him as "the toast of the Democratic Establishment" and the usual nattering-chattering shows are treating him like an elder statesmen of the party. One would call it a rehabilitation, except for the fact he was never habilitated in the first place.
Sharpton's re-creation is all the more miraculous — and disgusting — because it came without an apology for the Tawana Brawley affair. Nor any serious penance for the murderous "protests" he helped inspire that resulted in four people shot and eight burned to death — all because they represented what Sharpton called "white interlopers" in Harlem (the majority of victims were actually neither white nor black).
Democrats contend this is all "ancient history" — even as the Democrats tout their nominee's war record from three decades ago. And complain though we might, Sharpton has indeed become one of the most important voices in black America. But at the end of the day his voice hasn't changed much.
Kerry Foreign Policy Team In Shambles
Edwards Hypocrisy on Taxes: Do as I say not as I do
NY Times: Tax shelter saved Edwards $591,112
Here is Edwards on the campaign trail,
"In these times of national sacrifice, we should not be asking less of the most fortunate."
and this...
"tax-free tax shelters for millionaires that are bigger than most Americans' paychecks for an entire year."
Fighting Abusive Corporate Tax Shelters (when I'm not using them myself?)
Edwards Proposes Closing Tax Loophole and Using Savings to Create Jobs (How many jobs would $591,112 create?)
and finally, this
SENATOR EDWARDS:
PRESIDENT SHOULD GET
SERIOUS ABOUT CLOSING TAX LOOPHOLES
AWESOME STORY: Passengers Give Troops First-Class Seats
DALLAS (AP) - Eight soldiers flying home from Iraq for two weeks of R&R flew in style instead of coach after first-class passengers offered to swap seats with them.
"The soldiers were very, very happy, and the whole aircraft had a different feeling," flight attendant Lorrie Gammon told The Dallas Morning News in Thursday's editions.
The June 29 seat-swap on American Airlines Flight 866 from Atlanta to Chicago started before boarding, when a businessman approached one of the soldiers and traded his seat.
When the swapping was done, "the other two first-class passengers wanted to give up their seats, too, but they couldn't find any more soldiers," Gammon said.
Another flight attendant, Candi Spradlin, said she was impressed with the acts of good will.
"If nothing else, those soldiers got a great homecoming," she said.
Boston Herald: Kerry show irks 9/11 families
Sen. John F. Kerry upset some families of 9/11 victims yesterday when he arrived - late - to a private memorial dedication in a sirened motorcade and glad-handed as though he were on the campaign trail. Press were kept away but several family members, speaking privately, said they were miffed that Kerry arrived after most other pols - such as Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Rep. Martin T. Meehan, and Attorney General Tom Reilly - had all left. And Kerry stayed much longer than the other leaders, shaking hands, posing for photos before he left with just as much commotion.
``I bet he couldn't even name anybody on that wall,'' said the wife of one 9/11 victim, who spoke on the condition her name not be used.
Others said they were disturbed that the Kerry
campaign allowed television crews to film over the Public Garden fence -
capturing video of Kerry with grieving family members in the midst of his
presidential campaign.
George Bush uses a 9/11 image in a campaign ad and the press was outraged for a week. Will John Kerry parading around a memorial service for 9/11 victims draw the same kind of criticism. Oh sure. Kerry could take a dump in the lobby and the media would not be as upset as they were about W.'s use of a 9/11 image.
The national media and Democrat Party is now learning what we Massachusetts residents have known for years. John Kerry is a pompous bore who is terrible on the stump. Have you ever heard of a national figure getting himself in trouble in an interview with Larry King, the King of the softball interview? John Kerry did by admitting that he hadn't had time for a national security briefing.
The USA Today catches on...
Kerry gives foes a few openings
Amid a series of feel-good events that would have made Cecil B. DeMille proud, Kerry said on national TV that he hadn't had time for a national security briefing on a new al-Qaeda threat. He praised celebrities who had made nasty, vulgar remarks about President Bush. His wife offered feminist musings at the North Carolina finale of the new ticket's "mainstream values" tour. And while voters wondered about John Edwards' experience and foreign policy credentials, the Kerrys talked about his good looks.
And then there is this...
Edwards Makes Little Difference in Polls
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Of 'Lies' and WMD
The Senate vindicates President Bush
and exposes Joe Wilson as a partisan fraud.
Democrats Chose Smile Over Substance
America's Most Underrated Columnist, Victor Davis Hanson, has a must read today,
Civilization vs. Trivia
Sometimes life’s choices are simple.
For over a year now, we have witnessed a level of invective not seen since the summer of 1864 — much of it the result of a dying 60's generation's last gasps of lost self-importance. Instead of the "innocent" Rosenbergs and "framed" Alger Hiss we now get the whisk-the-bin-Laden-family-out-of-the-country conspiracy. Michael Moore is a poor substitute for the upfront buffoonery of Abbie Hoffman.
This war — like all wars — is a terrible thing; but far, far worse are the mass murder of 3,000 innocents and the explosion of a city block in Manhattan, a ghoulish Islamic fascism and unfettered global terrorism, and 30 years of unchecked Baathist mass murder. So for myself, I prefer to be on the side of people like the Kurds, Elie Wiesel, Hamid Karzai, and Iyad Allawi rather than the idiotocrats like Jacques Chirac, Ralph (the Israelis are "puppeteers") Nader, Michael Moore, and Billy Crystal.
Sometimes life's choices really are that simple.
Is Iraq The Disaster That Democrats Claim (Hope?)
What is the connection?
And how about John Kerry's Enron connection?
Another 'Bush Lied' Lie
Has Been Exposed As Bogus
Try to keep up, the list grows longer by the day...
Last week, Joe Wilson's lie about Bush exaggerating intelligence that Iraq tried to obtain nuclear material from Africa was proven to be wrong. We covered that here.
We have also covered the "no connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda" lie several times, most recently here.
And we covered the report debunking the lie that Iraq was no threat to America. Russia's President Putin warned the US several times that Iraq was planning attacks on America. If you hadn't heard about that, we're not surprised. You can learn more here
This week's Bush Lied lie is the "Bush administration pressured CIA to manipulate intelligence". The purveyors of this myth typically point the finger at Dick Cheney and Doug Feith. Here is how the excellent Belgravia Dispatch covered the NY Times burial of this piece of blockbuster information,
Buried Lede Watch
The unanimous report by the panel will say there is no evidence that intelligence officials were subjected to pressure to reach particular conclusions about Iraq. That issue had been an early focus of Democrats, but none of the more than 200 intelligence officials interviewed by the panel made such a claim, and the Democrats have recently focused criticism on the question of whether the intelligence was misused. [emphasis added]
This, er, little piece of news is buried in Graf 5 of this Douglas Jehl NYT piece.
Imagine, God forbid, if it had gone the other way!
Say, for kicks, just one of the two hundred plus analysts said Doug Feith bullied him to death on his analysis of the intel.
What would the lede be then?
And where would the Times place the story?
Yeah, those are rhetorical Qs.
Washington Post Anti-War Bias
Exposed By US Marine
(By ERIC M. JOHNSON) Part of the explanation is Rajiv Chandrasekaran, the Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Post. Chandrasekaran's crew generates a relentlessly negative stream of articles from Iraq. Last week, he had a Pulitzer-bait series called "Promises Unkept: The U.S. Occupation of Iraq."
The grizzled foreign-desk veteran — who until 2000 was covering dot-com companies — now sits in judgment over a world-shaking issue, in a court whose rulings echo throughout the media landscape.
He finds the Bush administration guilty. Such a surprise. Before major combat operations were over, Chandrasekaran was already quoting Iraqis proclaiming the U.S. operation a failure.
Reading his dispatches from April 2003, you can already see his meta-narrative take shape: Basically, that the Americans are clumsy fools who don't know what they're doing, and Iraqis hate them. This meta-narrative informs his coverage and the coverage of the reporters he supervises, who rotate in and out of Iraq.
How do I know this? Because my fellow Marines and I witnessed it with our own eyes.
Hillary Finally Comes Out of the Closet
As A Socialist
Webster's Dictionary Definition of Socialism: A theory or system of social reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society, with a more just and equitable distribution of property and labor.
Hillary Clinton at a San Francisco fundraiser for Senator Barbara Boxer
earlier this week,
"Many of you are well enough off that ... the tax cuts may have helped you," Sen. Clinton said. "We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
Get the economy back on track? Did the Federal Reserve raise interest rates yesterday because the economy needs to get back on track or did they do it because economic growth is so strong? Everyone with an ounce of common sense knows the answer. They can talk down the economy all they want but the numbers tell a completely different story. What does that make Hillary and John Kerry, liars? Complete frauds? Manipulative politicians? All of the above.
Andrew Sullivan on John Kerry
Can you bore your way to the most powerful job
on the planet?
The minute Kerry starts to speak, you can hear the life drain out of a room.
When he appears on television, the right hand gravitates almost instinctively
toward the remote. The word 'pomposity' doesn't quite capture the condescension
of the man. Think Clinton's ambition matched with Gore's endlessly self-callibrating
mind. Now remove all charm whatsoever. There's a reason he went un-noticed in
the primary campaign. No sane human being would ever want to notice him. He's a
human anti-histamine. He's Botox for the brain.
Alternate Clinton Book Covers
Classic Clinton
He Inadvertently Admits To Perjury In New Book
To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental. To describe it as an exercise in facile crowd-pleasing would be too obvious. Fahrenheit 9/11 is a sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness. It is also a spectacle of abject political cowardice masking itself as a demonstration of "dissenting" bravery.
It Must be True! Not because George W. Bush said so, but because Bill Clinton said so!
In the 1998 indictment of Osama Bin Laden, Bill Clinton's Justice Departments said,
"Additionally, the indictment states
that Al Qaeda reached an agreement
with Iraq not to work against the regime of Saddam Hussein and that
they would work cooperatively with Iraq, particularly in weapons
development."
How the Press Spins The 9/11 Commission Report
I'm sure you are sick of hearing about this story. The media's incessant coverage of these WMD discoveries is really tiresome...
UN weapons
experts have found 20 engines used in Iraq's banned Al Samoud 2 missiles in a
scrapyard in Jordan along with other equipment which could be used to produce
weapons of mass destruction, the acting chief UN inspector said.
Liberals are so convinced that there were no WMDs that it doesn't matter what we
find, even if a gallon of Sarin
Gas explodes at the feet of US soldiers. The shame of it is that the
general public is woefully ignorant of the whole story.
Do you prefer the law enforcement approach of John Kerry
or the war footing of President Bush?
JOHN KERRY during the South Carolina Primary Debate: "The War
on Terror is . . . primarily an intelligence and law-enforcement operation."
We were wrong. He's not the most bitter man in history
Diagnosis: Narcissistic Personality Disorder
There are important things and there are really important things.
I received this e-mail today...
Attached is a picture of one of my best friends in the Army, Mike McNaughton.
We were privates together in 1990-1994. He stepped on a landmine in Afghanistan Christmas 2002. President Bush came to visit the wounded in the hospital. He told Mike that when he could run a mile, they would go on a run together. True to his word, he called Mike every month or so to see how he was doing. Well, last week they went on the run, 1 mile with the president. Not something you'll see in the news, but seeing the president taking the time to say thank you to the wounded and to give hope to one of my best friends was one of the greatest/best things I have seen in my life. It almost sounds like a corny email chain letter, but God bless him.
Justin
CPT Justin P. Dodge, MD Flight Surgeon, 1-2 AVN RGT Medical Corps, U.S. Army
(except the gallon of Sarin gas that exploded at the feet of US soldiers and that Mustard Gas we found a few weeks ago)
Click here to see how the Democrats are contributing to our political discourse.
To know him is to dislike him
The Real W.
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'This girl lost her mom in the World Trade Center on 9-11'
John Kerry's Cookie Caper
Did he steal another man's cookie business?
Is Iraq A Distraction In The War On Terror? Democrats say yes. We say no.
Hillary Clinton: Encouraging terrorists,
hurting our troops
Hillary Clinton gave an interview this week with an Arab newspaper in London. Her comments were promptly disseminated throughout the Muslim world. Here is what the future President had to say to the Arab world, according to the Tehran Times
``If I'm president,'' Kerry said, ``I will not only personally go to the U.N., I will go to other capitals.''
The next time John Kerry starts waxing poetic about how wonderful the UN is, remember this...
Oil-for-Terror
U.N. Iraq money may have ended up in accounts tied to
al
Qaeda and the Taliban.
BY CLAUDIA ROSETT
It's looking more and more as if one of the best reasons to get rid of Saddam Hussein was that it was probably the only way to get rid of Oil-for-Food. The problem wasn't simply that this huge United Nations relief program for Iraq became a gala of graft, theft, fraud, palace-building and global influence-peddling--though all that was quite bad enough. The picture now emerging is that under U.N. management the Oil-for-Food program, which ran from 1996-2003, served as a cover not only for Saddam's regime to cheat the Iraqi people, but to set up a vast and intricate global network of illicit finance.
Is it any wonder why the UN wanted no part in the liberation of Iraq? Maybe it wasn't a "failure of diplomacy" after all?
Kerry Struggles To Explain His Post Vietnam "Activism"
John Kerry's worldview. Is this an asset?
Kerry Campaign Has No African-Americans In Senior Positions
He may not hire any, but he will pander to them.
"President Clinton was often known as the first black president," Senator Kerry recently told a radio interviewer. "I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second."
At least his wife is an African-American
Kerry's inner circle lacks color
(CNN) Seizing on the nation's diversity -- the country is almost one-third non-white -- Bush has appointed African-Americans, Asians, Latinos and women to senior and non-stereotypical roles: Secretary of State, national security adviser, Transportation Secretary, White House Counsel.
Unlike Al Gore whose campaign manager, political director and finance director were African-American, the Kerry campaign, as of yet, has no one of color in the innermost circle, including Kerry's campaign manager, campaign chairperson, media adviser, policy director, foreign policy adviser, general election manager, convention planner, national finance chairman, and head of VP search team.
Some of the best
sources of information on the war are from the people actually fighting it--and
their blogs.
Come to your own opinion about the war in Iraq. Take the media out of the equation by going directly to the source. It is amazing to have such real-time access to information from those doing the fighting. You really get a sense of what they are going through. Reading these blogs is incredibly informative and very humbling. We highly recommend it.
Iraq Isn't Vietnam-And Saying It Is Hurts U.S. Troops
By Mort Kondracke
Before someone claims I'm impugning their patriotism - it's
standard practice for Democrats to claim their loyalty is being questioned - I'm
not. I'm questioning their timing, their discretion and their good judgment.
Both of them seem to hate Bush so much that they couldn't restrain themselves
from comments that, when broadcast to the Middle East, could only demoralize
U.S. troops and embolden Iraqi insurgents.
Ted Kennedy Fallout Continues...
Great Moments in Double Standards
Click here to see John Kerry's secret to snowboarding success
Via Instapundit, "OKAY, I HAVEN'T SEEN ALL THE OFFICIAL BUSH CAMPAIGN ADS -- but this freelance effort is better than all the official ads that I have seen."
This is fantastic!
Kerry's Infidelity, click here for details
John Kerry: Just a regular guy
Flipper Alert!!
Kerry's shifting position on Cuba
Everything you need to know about John Kerry in a single sentence...
"I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it"
"Americans are in the middle of a war. They want a guy who knows what it means to throw high and inside, not a guy who says he voted for the $87 billion for the troops before he voted against it."
By Michael Barone
Kerry’s voting pattern on the Iraq war can be seen as a response to political circumstances. In fall 2002 his vote for the war protected him for the general election. But in fall 2003, on the supplemental appropriation, he was clearly appealing to primary voters. The fact that Democrats are split has pushed Kerry into taking both sides of issues. He is like the politician who says, "Some of my friends are for the bill, and some of my friends are against the bill, and I’m always with my friends."
That’s not a posture that serves him well in the general election. But it is one that he was practically obliged to take to win the Democratic nomination. When a party is badly split on issues it pays a price.
Ouch!
Tanks for the Memories
Next to John Kerry, Michael Dukakis was
a hawk
By Brendan Miniter
John Kerry is right about one thing: He's no Michael Dukakis. A look at the record shows that in his bid for the White House in 1988, Massachusetts' then-governor ran to Mr. Kerry's right on national defense.
Kerry Campaign Whopper: Foreign leaders back me
"It's an easy charge, an easy assertion to make. But if he feels it is that important an assertion to make, he ought to list some names. If he can't list names, then perhaps he should find something else to talk about."
It was a war for oil! Just ask France
KausFiles: Your one-stop center for doubts about JFK2.
I admit, I'm allergic to Kerry. Something in the vibration of that deep, pompous tone he adopts--the lugubrious, narcissistic fake gravity--grates on me. Others, bizarrely, say they don't have this problem. But few would argue that Kerry has formed a special bond with any large group of voters other than veterans. If he wins it's likely to be because voters see him as an acceptable alternative to an unacceptable incumbent, not because he's inspired them. It doesn't help that Kerry has a tendency to play the voters for fools--letting them think he's Irish (when he's not) or letting them think he's cleaner, in the campaign contribution department, than he really is (e.g., saying he takes no PAC money but accepting unlimited "soft money" contributions to his Citizen Soldier Fund).
Or letting them think he gave up his own medals. ....
All this means is that when President Kerry gets into trouble--when his first big proposals stall in Congress, when malaise or scandal arrives--he won't necessarily have the ability to go to the public and dig himself out. He'll be through, over.
John Kerry is Number One
KERRY RANKED 'MOST LIBERAL' IN SENATE ROLL CALL
VOTES, TOPS KENNEDY, CLINTON
NATIONAL JOURNAL recently claimed Democrat
frontrunner John Kerry has the "most liberal" voting record in the Senate.
The results of Senate vote ratings show that Kerry was the most liberal senator
in 2003, with a composite liberal score of 96.5 -- far ahead of such Democrat
stalwarts as Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton.
NATIONAL JOURNAL's scores, which have been compiled each year since 1981, are
based on lawmakers' votes in three areas: economic policy, social policy, and
foreign policy.
Kerry Voting Record Is A Legit Issue
"No one is going to question my commitment to the defense of our nation." -John Kerry
Are we at war or not?
This is the fundamental issue in this election. Democrat primary voters across the country have consistently ranked terrorism third or fourth on their list of priorities. The Democrat presidential candidates say they favor a more Clintonian policy of treating the war on terror as primarily as a law enforcement issue.
John Edwards is accusing George W. Bush of hyping the terrorist threat to scare the American people. JOHN KERRY said during the South Carolina Debate, "The War on Terror is . . . primarily an intelligence and law-enforcement operation."
After Bush appeared on Meet the Press and stated the obvious, that he was a war president, John Kerry was asked the following, "If you were elected, would you see yourself as a war president?"
Legal Disputes Over Hunt Paralyzed Clinton's Aides
The Washington Post, hardly a member of the vast right-wing conspiracy, describes what a weak and ineffective response to the terror threat the Clinton administration had.
Between 1998 and 2000, the CIA and President Bill Clinton's national security team were caught up in paralyzing policy disputes as they secretly debated the legal permissions for covert operations against Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.
Can we afford a return to this policy?
Charles Krauthammer on The Democrats' Smear Race
Kerry prefers to preempt any examination of his record by warning in advance of a coming Republican "smear campaign."
Why Do Dems Call Bush a Liar?
They endanger the country by
personalizing the Iraq issue
(Daniel Henninger, WSJ) The Democrats--and especially John Kerry, if he is serious about succeeding to this office--need to get on-issue and off George Bush personally because the course they are on diverts the electorate from the seriousness of what's at stake. It also reduces the authority of the country's leadership at a dangerous moment and diminishes one other national institution: the Democratic Party.
"The great thing about being John Kerry is that you can always be consistent with something you've said."
-Kerry supporter and liberal media critic Dan Kennedy
If that's what your friends say, what will the critics say?
Equivocating politicians are sometimes accused of trying to be "all things to all people," but few have taken the practice of expedience and shifty opportunism to Kerry's level. Massachusetts residents have known this about their junior senator for a long time. Now the rest of the country is going to find out.
Kerry Classic: John Kerry was sending out letters to constituents taking opposite positions on the first Gulf War. Unfortunately for Kerry, one constituent received both letters within nine days. At least he knew where Kerry stood.
The issue: Liberation of Kuwait.
The Letters: 13 years ago Kerry letter to constituent, Newton Centre, MA.
Jan. 22, 1991:"Thank you for contacting me to express your opposition . . . to the early use of military force by the US against Iraq. I share your concerns. On January 11, I voted in favor of a resolution that would have insisted that economic sanctions be given more time to work and against a resolution giving the president the immediate authority to go to war."
Jan. 31, 1991:"Thank you very much for contacting me to express your support for the actions of President Bush in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. From the outset of the invasion, I have strongly and unequivocally supported President Bush's response to the crisis and the policy goals he has established with our military deployment in the Persian Gulf."
When you hear Democrats saying Bush lied and manipulated intelligence, remember who said what.
Saddam's Evil Empire? This explains a lot
This
story struck a chord. Jack Fowler, writing on National Review's "The
Corner" blog,
"Following up Rick Brookhiser’s recounting his meeting with an NR biker fan on the Mass Pike, allow me to share my public encounter with an NR hater, the Shrew of Metro North (the commuter train line from Connecticut into NYC). On a recent Sunday, my son James and I were heading into the City via the train to catch the Yankees playing the Red Sox. As the train pulled into Grand Central Station, we got up and walked to the door, next to which was an aging hippie and Cruella Deville look-alike who gasped upon seeing my “NATIONAL REVIEW” shirt and hat. She conniptioned: “How could anyone have the nerve except Buckley to wear that,” etc. “Gee mam,” I respond, hoping to give her a greater reason to hate me, “I not only wear the clothes, I work there too.” “You’re intolerant” she hisses intolerantly. I smiled, tipped my cap, and said: “Have a wonderful weekend.” The doors open before she could light up her molotov cocktail. Any regrets? Just one: I should have shown her my National Review underpants. By the way, the Yankees won, and I caught a Derek Jeter foul ball! What a day!"
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