. . . to what end?

Washington Times ^ | 3/23/04 | Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.

[kattracks]

For months, Democratic partisans have made one thing perfectly clear: While they hoped to run for, and win, the White House based on domestic issues, to defeat George W. Bush they must diminish public confidence in the president's wartime leadership. Nothing would appear better suited to advance this agenda than the highly publicized defection this weekend of one of Mr. Bush's former senior national security staffers, Richard Clarke.

[MEG33]

Well,Mr Gaffney,your friend may have performed honorable service for years,but the look on his face and the venom in his voice as he described the President's request right after 911 to look into a possible Iraq connection shows a bitter man out to justify himself.

He said the President did not imply he should make up such a connection but he felt undue pressure to find one.He "felt" ...

[meenie]

A debate on the issues would be exceedingly unusual in the election. One thing that guarantees that there will be no debate, is that neither candidate has a lock on any original issue of substance. The debate has to be engaged in personalities and degree of stupidity of the other. Both are liberals, interventionists, big spenders, with varying views of how rapidly the nation should advance toward complete socialism. Neither has had the capacity to see the results that have made most socialist nations fall by the wayside. The candidates are a reflection of the pool of voters that support them. I am not encouraged by this fact alone.

[Fledermaus]

Typical inside Washington BS. These insiders just can't stand anyone being shown as the opportunists and self-centered jerks most of them are.

They go to cocktail parties and dinner together and they just can't stand calling a spade a spade lest it gets them off the A-list of invitations to trumped up affairs where they sit around and pat themselves on the back for being so clever and in power.

Face it Frank, he's a pinhead and a total suck up and self-centered moron that cares only about his legacy in DC amongst you phonies.

There has to be a special place in Hell for these pretend adversaries, commentators and so-called journalists.

[MEG33]

I am very proud to support President Bush,though some policies do give me pause.

I believe Kerry would sell us out completely to the UN/socialists and leave us more vulnerable to attack.

[Ronin]

Well you missed one point. He is going to sell a lot of books.

That, in itself, is sufficient to anyone who sells books for profit.

No doubt he is a scumbag. But a scumbag of the more usual kind.

[William McKinley]

So, too, is his ill-concealed contempt for those who were concerned before and after September 11 about links between Osama bin Laden's terrorist network and a weapon of mass destruction-equipped state-sponsor of terror like Saddam

Those who were concerned before September 11 about links between bin Laden and WMD state sponsors.

Those like Clarke.