Posted on 12/30/2007 7:36:10 AM PST by PurpleMountains
On an earlier post, I made the comment that Benazir Bhuttos assassination should remind voters that we still live in a very dangerous world, and we need a grown-up as president with the wisdom and the strength of character to utilize our military to protect our interests and our citizens. I went on to say that this rules out all Democrat candidates.
Since some either do not understand what this means (or PRETEND not to understand), lets explore this further. All through the 1990s, a Democrat administration dealt with Islamic terrorism as if it were a problem for the civilian criminal justice system to handle, and refused to deal with Osama Bin Laden.
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“..we need a grown-up as president with the wisdom and the strength of character to utilize our military to protect our interests and our citizens.”
And don’t leave out Congress where we also have a lot of teenagers who pretend to be statesmen.
Statesmen is the operative word here. We have very few statesmen in government and should set upon voting some in. All we have is a bunch of posturing peacocks who think they are above the public - not interested in serving their country only bringing home just enough pork to their constituents to get them reelected.
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