“The French will always do exactly the opposite on what the United States wants regardless of what happens, so we’re never going to have a consistent policy,” – Howard Dean, 1998, arguing against exactly the kind of foreign policy he is now advocating.
QUOTE OF THE DAY II: “If he truly believes the capture of this evil man has not made America safer, then Howard Dean has put himself in his own spider hole of denial. I fear that the American people will wonder if they will be safer with him as president.” – Joe Lieberman, finally taking the gloves off. And why shouldn’t Lieberman go for broke with an unabashed pro-war appeal to a largely anti-war primary electorate? It’s what he believes. It distinguishes him. He’s losing anyway. And it’s good for the Democrats to have a serious pro-war candidate (alongside Gephardt). Lieberman now needs a strong, simple ad on this theme – and fast.
YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP: Fresh from Howard Dean’s raising of the question of whether president Bush had been tipped off in advance by the Saudis about 9/11 comes Democrat Jim McDermott, not exactly a stranger to conspiracy theories. He tells a radio show in Seattle that
the U.S. military could have found the former Iraqi dictator “a long time ago if they wanted.” Asked if he thought the weekend capture was timed to help Bush, McDermott chuckled and said, “Yeah. Oh, yeah.” He added, “There’s too much by happenstance for it to be just a coincidental thing.” When the interviewer asked again if he meant to imply the Bush administration timed the capture for political reasons, McDermott said: “I don’t know that it was definitely planned on this weekend, but I know they’ve been in contact with people all along who knew basically where he was. It was just a matter of time till they’d find him.”
You begin to wonder if some Democrats have gone nuts – politically as well as psychologically.
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