Posted on 07/10/2006 8:51:32 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
July 10, 2006
Give the Ragin' Cajun credit: the man works fast. In a Today show appearance lasting only six minutes, and shared with former Bush administration official Dan Senor, Carville managed to work variations on the word 'failure' into his comments no fewer than six times.
At the same time, I defy anyone to read the transcript or watch a replay of Carville's comments on Pres. Bush''s foreign policy and find one solitary instance in which he proposes an alternative or even offers constructive criticism. His rap was utterly bereft of any notion of what the Democrats would do, and do better, if they regained power.
The occasion was this week's Time magazine cover, "The End of Cowboy Diplomacy. The segment was hosted by the even-keeled Lester Holt, who began by asking Senor: "Time magazine calls it cowboy diplomacy. By any name, is that era now over?"
Senor unapologetically defended an assertive foreign policy:
"I hope not, actually. If you look back at the president's State of the Union in January of 2002, when he talked of the Axis of Evil, many people ridiculed it, mocked it, saying regimes as diverse as North Korea and Iran don't operate in unison. And that's true, in a formal sense. . . The larger point is our dealings with one of those regimes influences the behavior of all of those regimes. When we offer direct talks and concessions to the Iranians, it was followed by provocation by the North Koreans. If you look at Moammar Khadafy who agreed to give up his weapons programs back in 2003, it was when we were being assertive."
You've already gotten the flavor of Carville's comments, but here's an excerpt that portrays just how utterly negative he was:
"I'm saying that the president's foreign policy is failed. Cowboy diplomacy is an utter failure and now he's trying some kind of engagement, trying to replace failure with something. As an American, you look around the world and see American foreign policy collapsing. Of course cowboy diplomacy is over."
Senor repeated his advocacy of a muscular policy in these terms: "The regimes that are challenging us . . follow our actions and behavior and when we're assertive they get back on their heels. And when we signal that we're not, they come at us."
Exactly. Leave it to Carville and the Dems to condemn American foreign policy for all the world to see and hear, while offering not the shadow of a suggestion of what they would do should the American people place them in charge of our country's fate.
Oh gawd. The MSM reporting on the MSM again? Have these hacks ever had an original thought?
Then they put him back in the hole and throw him down a dead muskrat as a reward.
See you in a few weeks, James!
I don't know if you watched any of the sunday shows. On Meet the Press, they had 3 clinton flunkies explaining why its Bush's fault for the NK missiles.
It was a full court press all the way around.
Yep, W is doing it all wrong.
He should have done what Klinton did, hand over the access keys to Nuclear facilities to Koreans, just like they gave them away to Chinese. Not to mention the missle Guidance technology....
911 was NOT everyone's fault. It was Klinton Carville Begala liberal bastard's fault.
When your tongue is forked you can talk twice as fast.
Carville is just another political whore spreading his butt cheeks for anyone that pays him enough money.
Carville is a partisan shill and known to make exagerated statements to smear political opponents.
I think in The War Room you can see him getting ready to smear Bush41 over campaign buttons that were made outside of the country. When Carville learned that they were designed and ordered by some unrelated vendor (who could have even been making buttons for several candidates, it's all money), he didn't care and wanted to see how he could spin that to still taint Bush41.
He has ZERO credibility.
Carville is just another Dhimmi Democrat.
Today Show/NewsBusters ping.
Are we surprised such mutterings come from Karlville?
They are just panicking because Bush works to resolve problems. They just kick the can down the road. How can one bame Bush for the continuation of a Korean war that started in 1953?
I have to give it to Mary Matlin....how she puts up with this guy at the homestead is beyond me
foreign policy for the RATS is sending madam halfbright for photo ops with ahmadinejad, assad, and the pot bellied lassie eater.
http://rankinrob.typepad.com/rankinblog/Kim-Albright-thumb.jpg
I've seen some pretty clever comments on your threads, but these two James Carville descriptions are my all time favorites:
"projectile vomiting of liberal talking points at breakneck speed.
I believe it's on his business card."
by NonValueAdded
"When your tongue is forked you can talk twice as fast"
by rhombus
For marrying this gollum, I don't trust Maitlin.
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