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 ...
Short of giving the LA Slimes a hit, I'll take your word for it. And offer.....HUZZAH! At least SOMEONE there is getting it.
Do either Edwards or Kerry ever actually vote or attend congress. It sounds like they are the 2 most absent senators on capital hill. Not that I am complaining about the liberals being out a couple of votes mind you.
Why should we expect anything else from a man with his resume?
****rushing out to buy popcorn****
Any generic logins out there for la slimes?
LA Times, scathing.
This morning, Perky Katie was scathing.
[Who isn't speaking at the Convention? Hell hath no fury like Hillary scorned. Are her minions and useful-media-idiots helping her clear the path to 2008?]
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I just saw on CNN Edwards screetch to a crowd that Kerry will stand up to you all as he did to the men in Vietnam. I had to switch it off.
smack..smack...crunch...
Lawyers look to milk the government for big pay days!!
Edwards will cost America dearly.
Two pro-Bush pieces in two days...what's going on out there in LaLa land? Ron Silver was on O'Reilly last night doing a pro-Bush piece...is the Hollywood Conservative crowd finally getting a set?
There is a story around North Carolina about a bill Edwards introduced to help the people down east after Hurricane Floyd. Once the DNC realized it wasn't beneficial for them, Daschle got Edwards to vote against his OWN bill -- and, needless to say, his own constituents.
So, he introduced the bill BEFORE he voted against it. It's the thought that counts, I guess.
I think this is going to be a very entertaining election season.
How is it that the L.A. Times is sticking it to a Democrat?
By helping the john & john traveling circussss show go over the cliff in November is about the only way she'll get a shot in 2008.
I'm getting into my tin foil uniform now.
Or is the Clinton Cabal getting in its licks?
Oh, don't worry about that...the RINO's in the Senate more than make up for it.
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