Posted on 10/09/2004 5:49:15 AM PDT by Salty Cobra
John K. Fairy? Columnist Maggie Gallagher has an amusing take on last week's presidential debate:
What got to Bush? Here's what I think: It was not the brilliance of Kerry's debating tactics but the absurdity of the essence of the new Kerry position: The war on Iraq is an easy thing. The reason bad things are happening is Bush is bungling.
Give that man a wand and slap a pair of wings on his back: John Kerry is running for fairy godmother! Our allies are opposed to the war? A swoosh of the Kerry wand and President Kerry will have the French and Germans rushing to our rescue in no time. Iraq needs a new army to defend itself? Zap bing--the Kerry touch will make training an Iraqi army faster and easier. Al-Qaida and other terrorists are pouring over the border to join the fight? When Kerry is elected, the guerrilla insurgency will magically disappear. A summit? How brilliant! Why didn't President Bush think of that?
The problem, as we noted yesterday, was that the "allies" whose approval Kerry would seek were actually part of Saddam Hussein's coalition of the bribed. The almost certain result of Kerry's "diplomacy" would have been Saddam's continued defiance of U.N. resolutions. The U.N.--and, more important, the U.S.--would have suffered an enormous loss of credibility, as threats of force proved empty.
Beirut's Daily Star notes that last month the U.N. Security Council passed Resolution 1559, calling for an end to the Syrian occupation of Lebanon. The paper speculates that the U.S. at some point may make good on the U.N.'s demands:
Arch political strategist Hafez Assad is no longer at the Syrian helm, and we are living in a post-9/11 world in which the United States is bent on imposing its will on the Middle East. There is little room for error in political maneuvering when it comes to UN 1559, which should be regarded as a ticking time bomb by those in power in Damascus and Beirut: Washington's wrath could know no bounds if the wrong buttons are pressed. In the context of the murky world of Syrian-Lebanese politics, the power brokers here simply cannot afford to see these events through the prism of local politics. Intelligent, constructive responses to the challenges of 1559 are required. The alternative could be disaster.
If John Kerry becomes president, however, it's far likelier that the Syrian regime would get away with flouting the U.N.'s demands.
The San Francisco Chronicle weighs in with a survey of European attitudes toward Kerry, which includes this telling quote from Rosemary Hollis, a British think tanker: "Kerry would be less inclined to claim an American victory in Iraq and could look at anything that will sort the place out." Being less inclined to claim victory is supposed to be an advantage, mind you.
Une Catastrophe Américaine! "French President Jacques Chirac warned Thursday of a 'catastrophe' for global diversity if the United States' cultural hegemony goes unchallenged," Agence France-Presse reports from communist Hanoi:
Speaking at a French cultural centre in Hanoi ahead of Friday's opening of a summit of European and Asian leaders, Chirac said France was right to stand up for cultural and linguistic diversity.
The outspoken French president warned that the world's different cultures could be "choked" by US values.
This, he said, would lead to a "general world sub-culture" based around the English language, which would be "a real ecological catastrophe."
AFP notes that although the French colonized Vietnam, only 375,000 of its 81 million people, or less than 0.5%, speak French. "English is considered by most people a far more valuable and practical second language." Sacre bleu!
What's really odd about this story, though, is that it involves an anti-American Frenchman in Vietnam of all places, yet it never mentions John Kerry.
John Kerry was painted as a liberal last night, one who was really against the war, before he voted for it; one who was for the military spending bill, before he voted against it;One who is for cutting taxes, after over 20 years in the senate voting for tax increases.
Is there any chance that the Saddam who bribed French politicians and journalists also bribed American politicians and journalists (bribery being a main tactic, or THE main tactic, of Arab politics).
Naaah. We are too pure for that.
English is the language of business and aviation, world-wide. Get over it.
French is the language of swill wine and fraud (UN oil for food).
In last nights debate Kerry said he would roll back the tax cuts, but positively absolutely would not raise taxes. That is a flip flop. A roll back is a tax increase.
From Kerry's point of view, the remedy is also easy: Restore Saddam to power and withdraw coalition troops.
Someone should ask Kerry if this is what he intends to do, inasmuch as the entire liberation of Iraq was a "mistake".
I watched the whole thing with my brother who is pretty much undecided like that audience, and he said Kerry came across as "your anal retentive Grandfather" lol!! Bush mopped the floor with that idiot, freggin` great.
Um, didn't Saddam and CNN have an understanding....?
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Senator Kerry, would you be willing to look directly into the camera and, using simple and unequivocal language, give the American people your solemn pledge not to sign any legislation that will increase the tax burden on families earning less than $200,000 a year during your first term?
KERRY: Absolutely. Yes. Right into the camera. Yes. I am not going to raise taxes.
I have a tax cut. And here's my tax cut.
I raise the child-care credit by $1,000 for families to help them be able to take care of their kids.
I have a $4,000 tuition tax credit that goes to parents -- and kids, if they're earning for themselves -- to be able to pay for college."http://www.thebostonchannel.com/politics/3797513/detail.html
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I do not think you were listening to the same debate.
As MeSpikeLibs observed and Rush repeated, if we had not occupied Iraq, we would never have known about and consequently prevented the Breslan-type takeover of American schools planned by IslamoNazi terrorists.
Obviously Kerry and his supporters would much rather seize power and bash Bush than prevent a Breslan in American schools.
Why yes, I think they did.
Exactly!
I knew a Freeper could hunt this down. Probably still in PJ's.
Priceless.
And also the language of surrender....
John Kerry's magic wand is simple: it is surrender.John Kerry was a Quisling in 1971, and he's a Quisling now.
President Bush doesn't want this election to hinge on his being able to frontally assault our
journalistsPropaganda Ministry, so he declines to tell that particular truth. But it is a truth, nonetheless, and it ill serves the Republic if that trouth cannot be said.
(Eddie Murphy laugh)
This girl has talent.. real writing talent... Mark Styne is devastating in his screeds but a little more hyperbole and he would be much more accurate.. I suppose that will happen as he gets more and more pissed off.. as it should be.
Take any articulate and poised TV personality and he would be as effective a candidate as Kerry. All Kerry presents is words, promises and blather; there is no substance!
The only thing that can be said of Kerry that will influence many voters, stupid voters influenced by people of no substance, is that Kerry is not Bush!
ROTFLMAO. Great line!
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