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Subject: So, Bart, please show me
I’m afraid your crush on Hillary is muddling your thinking. You wrote:
> Quotes
> "John, the fact is, I opposed this war from
the start.
> So you are about 4 1/2 years
late on leadership on this issue."
> -- Obama, after
Edwards accused him of lacking leadership,
> Meanwhile, She was acting presidential,
watching those two fight.
She may have been acting presidential, but she
was also making it very clear to me that her
only problem with the Bush Doctrine is its flawed
execution. Here are the two quotes:
“Bush has made us safer, but not safe enough.”
That tells me she thinks Bush has done a good
job on defense so far and she will continue to do what
he’s been doing, only better. It also tells me
that she is comfortable being part of the whole fear-fear-fear
-there-are-terrorists-around-every-corner propaganda
machine. I do not want a president who will
make me safe; I want a president who will make
me free. (Again)
I think she was talking to Republicans and moderates
there.
She's telling the centrist voters who will pick
the next president that she's not a wild-eyed liberal
who sees Bush as the anti-Christ who's come to
kill us all - he's just a flawed president.
You might criticize her for assuming she's got
the race wrapped up. You might say
it's too soon to start courting the middle, but
maybe she knows what she's doing.
And the president who will make you feel free
again - who is that?
Of all the people with a chance to win, who can
win the nomination, then the
general election and then after taking power,
make you feel safe again?
“The troops did
their job; they deposed Saddam. The Iraqis have
failed to take
advantage of the opportunity we gave them.”
She appears to be totally OK with the concept
of invading and occupying a sovereign nation to
deliver democracy—US democracy—at gunpoint. Is
it the Iraqis’ fault their country lays in ruins?
Her comment sounds like if those Iraqis had just
greeted their new overlords with flowers and
chocolates like they were supposed to, none of
this shit would have happened.
I'm not hearing that at all. I'm hearing, "We
can't stay there forever. Either the Iraqis
stand up or we're leaving and what
happens yet you can handle on your own."
So, Bart, please show me what different conclusion you could reach from those two quotes.
Hopefully, I just did.
Keep in mind that I would vote for any Democrat
over any Republican
I’m becoming more and more disillusioned with
the candidates. (And I’m really put off
by the recent attempt on the part of all the
Dem candidates to out-Christian each other.)
Bart's Law Number One
- people want to be lied to.
They're telling the voters in the middle that
they have a home with us Democrats.
Although Clinton would be a damn sight better
than any Republican out there,
I think it’s time for you to admit that she is
not the anti-Bush.
Keep ‘r’ swingin’ bud.
MindPilot
Compared to the Giggling Murder Monkey, even JEB is the anti-Bush.
You and I heard completely different things in the same words.
I wonder what the voters in the middle heard?
If you heard, "I'm just like Bush, but smarter
and more compassionate,"
maybe that's what the voters in the middle heard, too.
Could be a recipe for victory.