Krauthammer: Our alliances not in disarray Someone better tell Democrats

Boston Herald ^ | November 16, 2007 | Charles Krauthammer

[Puzzleman]

When the Democratic presidential candidates pause from beating Hillary with a stick, they join in unison to pronounce the Democratic pieties, chief among which is that George Bush has left our alliances in ruins. As Clinton puts it, we have “alienated our friends,” must “rebuild our alliances” and “restore our standing in the world.” That’s mild. The others describe Bush as having a scorched-earth foreign policy that has left us reviled and isolated in the world.

The Democrats are living in what Bob Woodward would call a state of denial. Do they not notice anything?

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And it makes the point that the Bush critics have missed - that the strength of alliances is heavily dependent on the objective balance of global forces, and has very little to do with the syntax of the U.S. president or the disdain in which he might be held by a country’s cultural elites...

[Puzzleman]

Krauthammer at his best!

[MNJohnnie]

When the Democratic presidential candidates pause from beating Hillary with a stick

So now failure to roll over and play dead for Queen Hillary's anointing is "beating her with a stick"?

Charles please. If Hillary cannot take answering ANY serious questions from these milk toast limp wristed Democrats and their lackey media, how in the world is she ever going to deal with the awesome, unimaginable pressures a President faces every day? Hillary has neither the mental, nor the emotional, discipline to be President.

[Puzzleman]

This article appears also in today's Washington Post under the title "Alliance in Ruins?" Here is the link.

[lonestar]

Did you read past the first paragraph? The article is NOT about Hillary.

[dawn53]

I listened to the debate last night. I want to know when the Democrats will realize that Bush isn’t running in the 2008 election. Almost every answer makes it sound like they’re running against GWB.

[syriacus]

I get a kick out from knowing that this clear-headed column is appearing in lib papers in Boston and DC. :-)

Thanks for posting it.

[syriacus]

kick out from

[Former Proud Canadian]

And, on a related note: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926597/posts

[Aristotelian]

Germany and then France elected more conservative, pro-American gov’ts. The UK’s new PM Gordon Brown has reaffirmed the US-British alliance, and our ties with Japan are strong. Question is, would these gov’t get along with a lib president as well as they are with Bush? I don’t think so.

The Dems are living in a time warp. Iraq is going bad, the economy is bad, our alliances are bad. Baloney! Trouble is, the press never takes the Dems to task on their misrepresentations.

[Flintlock]

Shut up!
QUIET!
Let that there SLEEPING DOG lie, you idiot!
DO NOT wake up those D’s— on pain of HILLARY!

[MNJohnnie]

When the Democratic presidential candidates pause from beating Hillary with a stick

Did you bother reading the very first sentence of the article?

[logic]

I listened to the debate last night. I want to know when the Democrats will realize that Bush isn’t running in the 2008 election. Almost every answer makes it sound like they’re running against GWB.

Shhhhhh... It's a secret so their nominee will be thrown off balance in the debates against the republican nominee when it's not GWB....

[rightinthemiddle]

This article appears also in today’s Washington Post under the title “Alliance in Ruins?”

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So, the Liberal Dirtbag headline writer/editorial page editor at the Washington Post changes/fabricates a headline for those just “scanning the headlines.”

Liberals control the media...and the most dangerous are the not the publisher and editors.

The website designers, webmasters, radio news writers, CG operators (graphics on TV), headline/caption writers, photographers, etc...most of them are young, idealistic and naive. They do the biased “little things” that affect the middle of the road voters who don’t pay much attention to the news.

Those voters scan headlines in newspapers and on the net, maybe catch a “news break” on the radio or see some CNN Headline news at the coffee shop. That’s how they form opinions and make voting decisions, unfortunately.

[Cacique]

On the money, countries like people in the end act out of self interest. They don't have to like us, they just have to have a common goal of survival.

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[Marysecretary]

All this must really P’O the democrats. How sweet it is! America is actually gaining ground instead of being a ‘quagmire.’