[summer]

Carol Braun Mosley just said GW "ruined this economy" and is an "unelected president."

[summer]

Lieberman is now quoting the Bible, saying this debate "sends an uncertain message."

[CounterCounterCulture]

Didn't we just do this 3.5 years ago? ;-)

I've watched it since the start but didn't have time to start a live thread.

[just me]

The Federal government is not responsible for health insurance of the American people... haven't these guys read the Constitution they took an oath to uphold?

[GOP_Lady]

Has Kucinich said anything stupid yet? :-)

[mykdsmom]

CMB.....people are dissapearing in this country..? HUH?

[bradactor]

I just woke up from a nap and saw this thread. Here the cable service I have plays some Catholic only channel during certain hours so CSpan is not shown unless I watch it online. Thanks for your comments so I got some drift of it. Again, this debate is pale in comparison to seeing President Bush on that carrier the other day and being shown in his flight suit lol.

[EaglesUpForever]

Dean was attacked for wanting to make America a 2nd rate military power. ...

Wow! What an accusation! I can see how that would offend the Democrats. The average Democrat candidate wants America to be a 7th or 8th rate military power. Dean must be considered a real hawk...

[TomGuy]

Sharpton on gun registration: "I was the victim of a stabbing, so yes, I think guns should be registered."

duh!

[need_a_screen_name]

I'm watching the Dixie Chicks on Austin City Limits right now... bound to be better than the Dem debate... lol

[EGPWS]

So far Kerry has been accused by one Dem of hating gays, and Dean was attacked for wanting to make America a 2nd rate military power. ...

One thing the Lib's have to learn, when it comes to running for office HONESTY will be their demise!

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

All a guise to usher in Queen Hitlery.

[The Great Satan]

Our initial assessment is that they will all lose!

[TomGuy]

The dims are in a dilemma, similar to the Pubs in 1996:

GWB will probably win, so we need a throw-away candidate, but, just in case we do happen to win, we need someone who can sort of be a President.

[The South Texan]

Was this an audition for the bar scence for the next Star Wars movie? Could havefooled me.

[jackbill]

I understand that someone is making a movie about the Dem Presidential candidates. It's tentatively titled "Dead Men Talking".

[TLBSHOW]

Times like this, I am glad I don't have TV.

[Congressman Billybob]

I watched the first 20 minutes of this debate, which was as much as I could stand. The sad part is that all nine of these "candidates" believe that he/she should be taken seriously in running for President, including the one who is the dumbest of the lot (against stiff competition), Carol Mosley-Braun.

This was the equivalent of a mental demolition derby, with junker cars running into each other for the amusement of a mouth-breathing crowd. Even George Stuffit, posing as a newsman/interlocutor played it for crash and dash -- cutting issues short and urging the participants to attempt to cave in each other's radiators.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, now up on UPI and FR, "All-American Arrogance"

Latest article, now up on UPI and FR, "The Iraqi Constitution"

[ChadGore]

[Mia T]

 

 

hyperlinked images of shame
copyright Mia T 2003.

by Mia T, 4.6.03

 

If Act I was a thinly veiled allegory about naked clintonism, then Act II is a parable about the plan for world domination by the Establishment, aged hippies in pinstripes all, with their infantile, solipsistic world view amazingly untouched by time.

 

Mia T, THE ALIENS

 

Al From is sounding the alarm. "Unless we convince Americans that Democrats are strong on national security," he warns his party, "Democrats will continue to lose elections."

Helloooo? That the Democrats have to be spoon-fed what should be axiomatic post-9/11 is, in and of itself, incontrovertible proof that From's advice is insufficient to solve their problem.

From's failure to fully lay out the nature of the Democrats' problem is not surprising: he is the guy who helped seal his party's fate. It was his Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) that institutionalized the proximate cause of the problem, clintonism, and legitimized its two eponymic provincial operators on the national stage. The "Third Way" and "triangulation" don't come from the same Latin root for no reason.

That "convince" is From's operative word underscores the Democrats' dilemma. Nine-eleven was transformative. It is no longer sufficient merely to convince. One must demonstrate, demonstrate convincingly, if you will… which means both in real time and historically.

When it comes to national security, Americans will no longer take any chances. Turning the turn of phrase back on itself, the era of the Placebo President is over. (Incidentally, the oft-quote out-of-context sentence fragment alluded to here transformed meaningless clinton triangulation into a meaningful if deceptive soundbite.)

Although From is loath to admit it -- the terror in his eyes belies his facile solution -- the Democratic party's problem transcends its anti-war contingent.

With a philosophy that relinquishes our national sovereignty -- and relinquishes it reflexively… and to the UN no less -- the Democratic party is, by definition, the party of national insecurity.

With policy ruled by pathologic self-interest -- witness the "Lieberman Paradigm," Kerry's "regime change" bon mot (gone bad), Edwards' and the clintons' brazen echoes thereof (or, alternatively, Pelosi's less strident wartime non-putdown putdown)… and, of course, the clincher -- eight years of the clintons' infantilism, grotesquerie and utter failure -- the Democratic party is, historically and in real time, the party of national insecurity.

The Democrats used to be able to wallpaper their national insecurity with dollars and demogoguery. But that was before 9/11.

[Mia T]

Carol Braun Mosley just said GW "ruined this economy" and is an "unelected president."

^{Q ERTY8} The Curious Candidacy of Carol Moseley-Braun bump

The REAL "Living History" -- clintoplasmodial slime