[Argus]

He said President Bush and Cheney are "running scared because John Kerry has a war record and they don't."

A former Defense Secretary during the first Gulf War and the Commander in Chief who overthrew two tyrannies in back to back victorious campaigns don't have a "war record" to match that of a guy who was a lieutenant junior grade in the Navy 35 years ago and has spent the years since doing exactly nothing?

Only on Planet Liberal.

[rushmom]

Well said.

[Wolfstar]

Perhaps Harkin has forgotten that it was Vice President Cheney who stayed put in the White House situation room, coordinating things in DC and keeping the President informed on 9/11/01. In the meantime, the entire Congress of the United states scattered in all directions like so many hens in a barnyard, then came back to the Capital steps when the worst was over to sing a lame, self-serving rendition of "God Bless America."

Perhaps Harkin didn't hear Kerry's own statement that he and other Dem senators sat around for more than a half-hour unable to think. In the meantime, Dick Cheney, in his calm, sober way, was making life-and-death decisions just a few blocks away.

Thank God — thank GOD! — that the experienced, steady Dick Cheney was Vice President on that terrible day. John Kerry wants to replace that kind of leadership with the empty, useless John Edwards — which tells me all I need to know about Kerry's brand of "leadership."