Posted on 07/14/2004 10:52:50 AM PDT by smonk
John Kerry is trying to inoculate John Edwards against the charge that he's a greenhorn when it comes to foreign affairs. Edwards, he said on CBS' "60 Minutes," "is eight years older than Jack Kennedy was when he became president." Edwards, he added, is "more qualified" to become president than George W. Bush was four years ago.
He's right. Edwards, 51, is getting a bum rap. His involvement in foreign policy vastly outstrips candidate Bush's in 2000.
The real problem is not lack of experience; it's that the experience he does have is marked by intellectual slovenliness and opportunism.
Edwards, elected to the Senate five years ago, has been on the Senate Intelligence Committee since 2001. But what has he made of it? When PBS' Margaret Warner asked Edwards on May 16, 2002, whether the committee had been briefed before Sept. 11 on possible hijackings and on Osama bin Laden's role, Edwards responded: "We're just responsible for sort of broad oversight." Warner pressed harder: "So you don't really remember?" Kerry replied: "I don't remember the specifics of what we were told about this."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
If not murder, John F. Kerry and John Edwards have accused President Bush of something close to criminally negligent homicide in Iraq. "They were wrong and soldiers died because they were wrong," Kerry said of the Bush administration over the weekend.
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The trouble is, both Sens. Kerry and Edwards voted yes on the resolution authorizing the war in Iraq. And now they refuse to say whether they would have supported the resolution if they had known what they know today. Both say they can't be bothered with "hypothetical questions."
But whether it is a hypothetical question depends on how you phrase it. Do they regret these votes? Were their votes a mistake? These are not hypothetical questions. And they are questions the Democratic candidates for president and vice president cannot duck if they wish to attack Bush on Iraq in such morally charged language.
"is eight years older than Jack Kennedy... "
But you're not JFK, mister !
In sum, the LAT's prob is that Edwards is not Dean. They're damning him from the hard, "Bush lied" left. But practically speaking, at least they're damning him. It shows the Dem ticket hasn't an intellectual/moral leg to stand on.
known far and wide for "intellectual slovenliness and opportunism."
And we got the Cuban Missile Crisis out of that presidency, as I recall.
Treason 1 and Treason 2
"The LA Times is playin' hardball. Basically, it accuses Edwards of being an empty suit."
well, they may be a liberal paper, but I grant they can grasp the obvious quite well!
Yeah, but they can only endorse Ralph Nader now.
That'll work! ;)
Now all we need is a long line of "usefull idiots" following behind them.
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