Bill Bennett: Proposed 2008 Platform

Bill Bennett's Morning in America ^ | January 2007 | Bill Bennett

[Tolik]

1. Global War Against Islamic Terror--call the war right and fight it right.

2. Publicly commit to regime change in Iran.

3. Fund and deploy a fully operational missile defense system.

4. Cease coddling Saudi Arabia & other states and organizations with ties to terror.................

5. Explore new and alternative sources of energy; reward hybrid technology

6. Immunize federal authorities for good-faith terrorist profiling.

7. Start a United Democratic Nations.

8. Stop and punish national security leaks.

9. Immigration: build the fence, stop the flow, get tough on violators.

10. Create choice in education with federal money.

11. End racial and ethnic classifications.

12. Flatten the federal tax.

13. Sunshine the budget earmarks.

14. Reduce abortions.

15. Judicial reform.

 

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[cgk]

Bennett ping!

[Michael.SF.]

Bill Bennett President?

Don't bet on it.

But I do like the platform he is promoting.

[Fiji Hill]

End racial and ethnic classifications

Amen! Preach on, brother!

[showme_the_Glory]

ILLEGAL immigration #9 on the list. Gotta be way higher than that.

[backtothestreets]

One day when our leaders awaken items 1 and 4 will be more closely tied and properly worded.

Global War Against Islam including Saudi Arabia & other states and organizations with ties to terror.................

Islam is the greatest threat to world peace. How we are responding is our greatest error.

[dangus]

Moral clarity, my ass. His abortion plank is the same as Shillary's. F*** "reducing abortion." That was people who want to teach 8-year-old kids how to pet each other and how to condoms on bananas say. END abortion.

[Laserman]

16. Tort Reform

[Mr. Jeeves]

Too complex: 5 and 12 would effectively make all of the others happen.

[SueRae]

I love this guy..plain speaking and to the point. Can he run? If not, he'd be ghreat on another Presidnetial Cabinet.

[paulat]

Where is:

16. Slot machines, 24/7!!!

[gdani]

16) Free room & buffet comps for every $500 gambled

[paulat]

I love this guy..plain speaking and to the point. Can he run? If not, he'd be ghreat on another Presidnetial Cabinet.

You'd want a guy who gambled away $8 million on slot machines???

[Graymatter]

"Immunize federal authorities for good-faith terrorist profiling."

What does this mean?

[WhiteGuy]

Bill Bennett: Proposed 2008 Platform


For whom?

For what?

[Tolik]

He spent his own money. And repented.

Do you believe in forgiveness?

And no, I don't want him as a Pres, but he makes a lot of sense. One does not have to be perfect to be good.

[Little Ray]

Sounds nice. I'd vote for it, but I'm sure somebody will be along to tell us why its totally unelectable.

[Little Ray]

17. School vouchers (with no "strings" on 'em).

[Little Ray]

Means that a TSA officer or other Federale can't be sued for civil rights violations for profiling Muslims as terrorists or certain racial groups as drug dealers, gang-bangers, or illegal aliens.

[jwparkerjr]

The more I think about it the more I come to believe our problem is not with Islamofascists or governments like Saudi Arabia or others that tolerate or openly condone, Iran, terrorists, but rather our dependence on oil. I know a lot of readers are thinking I'm daft, but think about it for a moment! Everything we do, everything we are depends on energy, and much of oil and much of that coming from the very countries that support and/or encourage terror. It's the height of denial when we spend billions and billions of dollars to buy oil from them when we know full well much of that money goes to further the goals of those who would destroy us.

Every year for thirty years now we have promised ourselves THIS would be the year we lessened our dependence on foreign oil, but every year our dependence has gone up not down.

If it weren't for our insatiable appetite for importing energy we could have long ago told the Saudis, just to mention one country, to take a hike.

Even when we had the presidency and both houses of Congress we couldn't even find a way to look for and drill for oil on our own soil. Not in the thousands of miles of Alaskan wilderness or out of sight off our coasts.

We are kidding ourselves and we will go on kidding ourselves for as long as we can.

I support this proposed platform 100%, but until we find a way to break the cycle of paying for our own destruction no platform is going to save us.

Sigh.

[cgk]

He spent his own money. And repented.

Bennett haters on FR don't care. They were delighted to see him "busted" for legal gambling and watching him lose his shirt, family, house, life, kids' futures, etc.

Oh wait, none of that happened.

[colorado tanker]

Moral clarity, my ass. His abortion plank is the same as Shillary's. F*** "reducing abortion." That was people who want to teach 8-year-old kids how to pet each other and how to condoms on bananas say. END abortion.

A President can't "end abortion," he can only promote policies that reduce it, like ending partial birth abortions, full disclosure laws, parental notification and the like. Only the Supreme Court or a constitutional amendment can overturn Roe, which would return the issue to the States, where a President still couldn't "end abortion."

[gdani]

They were delighted to see him "busted" for legal gambling and watching him lose his shirt, family, house, life, kids' futures, etc.

Oh wait, none of that happened.

Likewise, the overwhelming majority of people who have smoked a little pot in their lives have not lost their shirts, families, homes, or destroyed their kids' futures.

But did that matter to Bennett while he was drug czar?

[napscoordinator]

Do you believe in forgiveness?




I didn't forgive him because I don't think that there is anything to forgive. He spent his money on entertainment and had a good time sometimes. I say good for him. I would have told those who questioned him to f off!!!! I get so sick of people wanting to know everyone's business. Now if he embezzled the money and then gambled it that would be one thing...

[backtothestreets]

I can't disagree with you. Within the foreign oil dependency are also the many oil companies reaping profits right along with the Islamic states that fund activities meant to bring about our downfall. That's actually the tougher nut to crack. It seems so much of our efforts to develop alternative fuel sources are being made to keep the oil companies from suffering. A case in point are tax benefits given oil companies to develop alternatives. A better free market approach would have made those benefits to anyone that developed viable alternatives.

If a point is ever reached where Islam itself is viewed as the problem, and our government takes strong measures to address it, then the oil companies might be barred from trading with them. It wouldn't be much different than measures put in place to stop trade with Nazi Germany. Those measures actually came to help our nation by forcing us to develop better technology.

[paulat]

Bennett haters on FR don't care.

I don't hate the man. I just know he blew $8 million on the slots.

[paulat]

He spent his own money. And repented.

Where? I thought the news stories were remarkable in that he DIDN'T repent.

If I missed the contrition, please enlighten me.

[JRios1968]

I just know he blew $8 million on the slots.

I hate to say this, but...Big Deal! It was HIS money, and HE spent it however HE wanted! Did he hurt anyone by doing so?

[hinckley buzzard]

Bill Bennett President? Don't bet on it.

He's not running. But have you heard his morning show? It's excellent.

[hinckley buzzard]

END abortion

Brilliant. As a practical matter we have seen how far that approach has gotten.

[Non-Sequitur]

This is the conservative agenda? Multiple planks interfering in other countries. Massive government give-away. Nothing in reducing government spending. Nothing on reducing the size of government. Amazing.

[jwparkerjr]

It is pretty frightening how similar our situation is today with what we faced with Nazi Germany 70 years ago. And it's even more frightening when you compare Europe and their response to the threats from Germany and today's threats from Islamofascists.

The big difference between now and the 30's is that we weren't getting our very lifeblood from Germany. We had no where near the voracious appetite for energy and were in a better position to get do without imported sources.

I don't think any of us realize how quickly our lives would grind to a halt with even a moderate disruption in the flow of oil from around the world. Not only our lives, but those of the other big energy users. There are several scenarios whereby we could find ourselves suddenly facing economic disaster as a result of a disruption in our energy supplies, and most of them would hit other oil dependent economies just has hard, harder in some instances. That is one reason why countries like N. Korea and China having nuclear weapons is so dangerous. It's not very likely we will wake up one day soon and find that China has decided to come after us with a military campaign because they think they can take us over. But the results would be just the same if we were contending with them for a severely restricted supply of energy.

I have said here several times the only thing that keeps countries like Iran from shutting off our oil supply is that they need our money as badly as we need their oil, and they need to import refined oil products. But any number of events could cut energy exports from the mideast and put us in one hell of a hole. And several of these events have nothing to do with the ill will of any of those countries on whom we depend. One small nuclear device detonated in the oil fields of Iran or Saudi Arabia would send the entire world's energy market into chaos.

Gosh I sound like Chicken Little, even to myself, but the flow of energy from the source to the refineries to the distributors to our gas tanks is absolutely critical to our way of life. Look at what happened when Katrina and a couple of other storms reduced not the world's energy supply but just a few percentage points of the small portion of oil we get from the Gulf of Mexico.

There are those in the Islamofascist world who are absolutely devoted to starting "The Big One", believing that's the way they will get to paradise. These guys are cannons loose on deck and answer to no one in the Muslim world. You have a tough row to hoe when your enemy sees his death as a necessary part of moving on to paradise.

The entire world is pretty delicately balanced right now between good and evil. It wouldn't take much to tip it either way. As powerful as we are we have made some very serious mistakes in letting ourselves get so dependent on others for our energy. Anyone, be it country, religious sect, rogue government or mentally ill tin pot dictator or tyrant could light the fuse.

Time is running out and the answer is not to handle each and every threat as it arises, but to render those who would do us harm if they could unable to do that harm.

I remember an example from the cold war days when someone said it's like we're sitting in a room, up to our knees in gasoline, and both sides have matches, but we're arguing over whether we have 10 matches to their 12 matches. It doesn't matter. One match is all will take. And that's where we are today. Thank God, literally, George Bush recognizes the danger we face and is willing to stand up to those who either fail to recognize the danger or choose to ignore it. Here we are, up to our knees in gasoline, at least a dozen matches out there and Nancy Pelosi, et al are going to Iraq to 'discuss' the situation.

[Cincinna]

Sounds good to me. It would prevent this from coming back to the White House:

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[hinckley buzzard]

the many oil companies reaping profits right along with the Islamic states

I'm all for energy independence but just to keep the record straight, of the top five foreign sources for oil imports, only one (saudi) is moslem and/or in the middle east. Three are in the Americas. One is in Africa and largely Christian.

[Doninnj]

Who's 8 million was it?

Was it yours?

[Paperdoll]

Let the generals advise and run the war, not Congress for political purposes.

Walls can be tunneled under unless guarded by patrols with loaded weapons. Remove rules which restrict the Border Patrol from doing their job efficiently.

No Constitutional rights for illegal aliens!

(Frankly, I tune in on Bennett in the Morning to get me back to sleep. Soooo boring!)

[x]

There's some good things there, especially at the bottom of the list, and some really questionable things. Bennett might generate some needed debate, but I won't be voting for him if he runs. He's more of an opinionator than an administrator.

[paulat]

Who's 8 million was it?

Was it yours?

Nope...but it's my respect to give...and he gets nada....

[annalex]

14. Reduce abortions.

Pathetic. Especially when exploring new and alternative source of energy is #5.

And where is marriage amendment?

It is a springboard for Guiliani.

[Paperdoll]

>He spent his own money.<

Oh, it wasn't also his wife's money? There is a gambler in my family, and believe me, it is a more serious addiction than people realize. It adversely affects as many people as alchoholism does.

[backtothestreets]

A better example from history to cite was Imperial Japan. In conquering Asia it had cut most of our rubber supply. It was an absolutely necessary component for our transportation industry, made more crucial when war came knocking at our door. We were forced to develop alternatives to natural rubber, and we succeeded.

Yes, we are in a very similar situation today. Oil and natural gas are even more crucial as it not only powers our economy, but heats our homes.

Yours is a good analysis built upon legitimate concerns. Nothing Chicken Little about it.

[Caravaggio]

Moral clarity, my ass....END abortion.

Many peopole feel ending abortion is an unattainable goal so they settle for "reduce abortions". Trouble is, this ain't gonna happen if we take this defeatist attitude.

We need to start with a goal of ENDING ABORTION and a result would be REDUCING abortions.

[SueRae]

Whatever.

[paulat]

Whatever.

Wow...that's your reaction to gambling away $8 million?

[SueRae]

No, that's my reaction to your response to my original post.

I like the man and would take him over ANY member of the Clinton family. In a New York second.

I'd enter politics if I could but I haven't been a saint since the age of five.

[paulat]

Okie-doke!

[narses]

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[Rodney King]

10. Create choice in education with federal money.

No thanks. The Feds need to get out of education altogether.