Posted on 02/21/2006 7:22:24 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
To explain in part her opposition to the UAE port deal, Barbara Boxer just declared on Scarborough Country:
"Two of the 9/11 hijackers were from the UAE."
Wha-t-t-t-t?
Did Barbara Boxer just play the guilt-by-association card? Did she propose the most blatant kind of ethnic profiling?
I swear it was only the fact that Scarborough and Boxer were in different studios that kept them from falling into each others arms, as Scarborough declared that the port deal "makes no sense at all" and is "a terrible, terrible idea."
Scarborough urged viewers to call the White House and their congressmen to voice their opposition.
Look, I don't like the sound of this arrangement. But hearing Boxer and Scarborough gush at each other almost makes me want to run out and support it.
In any case, Boxer's hypocrisy is breathtaking. For example, imagine that if President Bush had tried to justify warrantless surveillance of a UAE citizen on the basis that "two of the 9/11 hijackers were from the UAE." Can you imagine the wails of outrage that would have emanated from Boxer's direction?
It's hard to believe that our President Bush, who commanded invading two countries (regardless of what the rest of the world thought), would knowingly allow a situation that would jepordize our securties.
I'm sure he knows most Americans feel like...
Bush has bent over backward to not profile
And now they are the ones screaming for profiling
Hmmmmmmm..There is no way this could be a rope a dope could it? Something isn't right but this makes the Dems according to CAIR racists? Remember Clinton and Schmucky came out against this first. To say I'm very confused is an understatement.
You may have to change your tagline...
I am usually pretty optomistic about the END result of a dem smear on Bush....
But, there are so many Republicans jumping ship...that, unless this company withdraws the offer...I just see weeks and weeks of the dems mainly...but also Reps. preening for the cameras..
But, I would like them to answer the question...why now? why not in November, December, January???
'They' is a very general term.
Are you referring to the company who's making the purchase, the country U.A.E., or just muslims in general?
Their comments and responses will come back to bite them hard
Their comments and responses will come back to bite them hard
And that's what has me confused, why profile when they are so against it? Why guilt by association,look, they say Harry Reid is clean even though he took money from Abramoff, but to them it ISN'T guilt by association. This and Corzine have my head spinning.
Having said all that I have about the dems...
I don't think it will work if the "supporters" of this use the tack...that the dems believe in profiling...because it is just too "easy"...
However, if they persist in this...perhaps President Bush could use this to get them to back off on the NSA independent commission and such...
If they are THIS upset about this sale...because of their fear, then surely they couldn't complain that phone calls are tapped..
I do know that Bush CANNOT count on his public relations team to help him out...they never have.
add in that fact they knew since Novemeber
My head hurts trying to figure our exactly what they are up to
According to terpfen, whom I think knowledgeable and trustworthy:
"The ports will continue to be administrated by the British who are there now, and operations will be carried out by Customs, DHS, and the Coast Guard, American citizens all, and operating under US federal law and union rules."
it's a 30 year lease .. how long will the Brits be in charge?
Liberty Lee called into Mark Levin's show today...he works in the ports doing something...and he was trying to explain to Mark how everything that is done is strictly scrutinized by Homeland Security...and a lot of other reassuring things..
but, Mark wasn't buying...
You know what's really upsetting me? That the administration didn't seem to know how badly this would go over, didn't prepare the public or explain it well, letting the most radical leftists get to the right of George W. Bush (unbelievable) AND has the added disadvantage of making the very Arabs we already don't trust even more angry with us listening to the arguments against this.
Honest to Pete. It couldn't have been handled worse politically.
I apologize for the posting wherein I neglected to ping you and give you your due credit. I had cut and pasted your comment and went back to get your name correctly, and the thing posted. I corrected my error in the very next post.
That's fine. Knowledge ain't copyrighted, and if it were, I'm not the RIAA. :)
It certainly could've been explained better. Seems like a purposeful highlighting to discredit the administration (surprise, surprise).
Love the American Flag with the rainbow on your homepage. Hope you don't mind if I borrow it.
I think for now I'm going to take a step back and see how this plays out. I'm so confused by the whole thing I'm not thinking straight.
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