This is frickin' unbelievable: The Associated Press Updated: 8:25 p.m. ET Oct. 15, 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry said Friday that there was “great potential” for a new military draft to replace overextended U.S. troops in Iraq if President Bush won a second term, despite Bush’s repeated ple
TW - sweet. Cheers, Daiwa
Bungy - I also seem to remember Kerry saying something at the time to the effect that he was beside himself on being given the news, unable to think or do anything for 45 minutes or something. So we should take the whole brouhaha over the 5/7 minutes as the meaningless cheap shot that it was. Cheers, Daiwa
For awhile there, I thought you'd had an epiphany, blogic, but I should have known better. You conveniently mischaracterize what is happening in Iraq, as well as what was intended. Making Iraq a colony, which is what the neo-conservative goal you impute to them amounts to, was never part of the plan. Creating a sufficiently stable & safe environment for the Iraqis themselves to establish and develop a sovereign and democratic government is a
Wouldn't it be amazing if Bush were to win the popular vote and lose the EC? Wonder if the Dems would protest the results this time. Cheers, Daiwa
worried and concerned are syns. Sandy, sometimes I wonder if you can read. The key word is THAT - as well as the remainder of his comments that conveniently got lopped off in the replay of the sound bite. Not that any of this would influence you. Cheers, Daiwa
COL - This is your big campaign closer? Spouting all these old, false, discredited allegations for which no shred of objective evidence exists, and denigrating the electorate of the State of Texas? Nice. It appears the left's ammo has truly been exhausted. Bush has McCain's vote. And your definition of "facts" appears to be open to debate. Cheers, Daiwa
How does what Kerry said about Cheney's daughter differ from the remark Edwards made in the VP debate? Not much. Just as calculatedly crass. And it was in the VP debate, which few people cared much about. Cheers, Daiwa
###Foreign Policy should not be based on ignorance and arrogance### Nor should it be based on naivete and stupidity. Cheers, Daiwa
It was premeditated, gratuitous and targeted. Kerry's defenders' BS about the outrage revealing homophobia is pathetically lame and dodges the questions of what her (known) sexual orientation had to do with the question and why, of all the possible people to cite as an example (if one was needed, which it wasn't) Mary Cheney was the first and only person to pop into his mind. I am a social liberal. I respect the freedom of consenting
So it's down to this for you, blogic: Bush is uglier. How sad. Cheers, Daiwa
Steve, this doesn't look right - did you really write this? This dovetails nicely with the Kerry's pander, pander, pander rhetoric - Scare, Scare, Scare. Things are scary enough, Steve - we can all make up our own minds about what to fear without all the sky-is-gonna-fall stuff. Cheers, Daiwa
That Kerry discharge business is very interesting, Drag, particularly the article by Beldar. For what it's worth, when I resigned from the Naval Reserve one year after being separated from active duty, I simply submitted a letter of resignation and received in return a letter from the Secretary of the Navy (John Lehman at the time) referencing only my resignation and accepting it, a First Endorsement from the CO of the Naval Reserve Personnel
Careful now, you know your going to hear a lot of flack for this. It's OK, I'm a grown-up (unless you ask my wife!). Cheers, Daiwa
I'm as conservative as most (well, center-right, how's that?) but all this "sky is falling" stuff about the current deficit is kind of silly. For most of my lifetime, we've run a deficit. It'll come around; our economy is stronger than the people with a vested interest in it being bad (Kerry, et al) admit. One of the interesting ironies to me is that the Dems like to harp on how "Clinton" & the courageous Kerry opposed their own party to bal
intentionally trying to block the power of federal judges and the states in favor of the power of the Bush family. Huh? What? You gotta be kidding me - the proposed amendment would make Bush King for Life? Guess you're glad he has only daughters. Sandy, your arguments would be so much more p
where he said to the moderator: "need wood?" He actually said that while facing Kerry, as I recall, so I think the comment was directed at him. The only part of your article worthy of a reply. Cheers, Daiwa
Thank goodness, no one dignified the "joke." Cheers, Daiwa
I made one for reasons I'm voting for Kerry. I was attacked. So I guess I'm not allowed to make a list of the reasons to vote for kerry... just against Bush.. and when I do that I am shouted down too. Wow, I love JU. Whoa, Sandy. Don't even think about being intimidated by being "shouted down" on JU.
I think a lot of the discussion here, even from Andrew Sullivan, largely misses the point. In answering the question posed, Kerry could have chosen any number of gay/lesbian individuals in public life to use as a representative example (if any example were needed at all to answer that question & I would pose that no such example was remotely needed), but he chose to talk about Mary Cheney. Of all the examples of fine human beings who happen t
Sandy, I'm sorry, but this post shows how pitifully uninformed you are and how you're just regurgitating DNC talking points. And for cripes sake, the Dems, trumpeting it every chance they get, want us to believe every other country backs Kerry, so how can the U.S. supporting Karzai be a problem? The U.S. is not meddling in or rigging their election. Cheers, Daiwa
Admittedly this is somewhat over the top, but I think it reflects the inner feelings of many troops over there. Agreed, over the top. Especially the part about you thinking you know the inner feelings of our troops over there. That is reaching, to be kind, Steve. Cheers, Daiwa
Before the third debate, only 29 percent of the same voters said Kerry had clear positions . Did you mean that literally, blogic? They actually polled the same people? Cheers, Daiwa
Clicked on this headline in a sidebar and just knew it was blogic's. He just loves flash debate polls. Course ABC's flash poll says draw & time will tell whether the debates had any lasting impact. Cheers, Daiwa
You must be upset, Steve. You're not usually this stridently irrational and selective with your facts. There is a lot that can be better about the pharmaceutical companies but you gloss over the fact that many of the biggest are not even U.S. companies, but multinationals based in Europe or Japan, where a lot of the actual manufacturing is done as well. One can argue that that's one of the problems, but the whole issue is much more complicat
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