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Posted on 04/09/2004 3:09:13 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
John Kerry has a dilemma. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee must find a way to offer an alternative to the current U.S. policy in Iraq without appearing opportunistic or unpatriotic. Excerpted--click here for full article
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Saddam diehards and holdouts are still doomed
In this hotbed of Saddam support, anger and resentment at the U.S. and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq has intensified dramatically. Fundamentally, the overwhelming majority of these people see the war in Iraq as a U.S. push to control Mideast oil, not to liberate. A ploy by U.S. corporations to rule the world. The discontent is palpable. It's more than just a negative attitude towards America. These people hate America. Intensely. With America's quick victory over Saddam, they feel humiliated. Bitter. Enraged. Vexed beyond words. They resent the U.S. incarceration of al-Qaeda at Gitmo -- reacting in horror to published pictures, accusing the U.S. of torture. Mention Saddam, and immediately tears roll down their cheeks. Memories of U.S. Marines in tanks rolling through Baghdad in triumph, heralding Saddam's collapse, are still painfully fresh one year out. They root for the Iraqi "resistance", extol the radical clerics, and salute the Jihad, but they know, in the end, America will win, the "holy war" will fail, Democracy will come to Iraq, and it pains them. Most striking, their antipathy towards the U.S. is so extreme, so vehement, so visceral that -- get this -- a majority of them even support Osama! That's the scariest part of all. Think about it. That's more than mere displeasure or disagreement with U.S. policy. Their attitude crosses into sheer malice, sheer venom against America.
These people have hate coming out of their pores! But enough on Ted Kennedy and the Democrat Party.
Speaking of Democrats, have you heard what Sen. John F. Kerry is now proposing? It's incredible. To be frank, I never thought I'd ever hear a Democrat propose such a thing. Seeking to pump new botox into his sagging campaign, Kerry, fully recovered after hurting a shoulder from reaching out too far to foreign leaders and shouldering two different positions on Iraq, proposes something so entirely new, so completely unheard of for a Democrat, that the AP says it will "reverse partisan stereotypes" completely. Once people hear Kerry's proposal, they will start thinking of Kerry as the real conservative in this campaign, Bush as nothing but a liberal. Here's the proposal: Raise taxes on the rich in order to balance the budget! Near as I can tell, the last Democrat presidential hopeful to try this was the last Democrat presidential hopeful, Al Gore. (Democrats say Gore won that election but the U.S. Supremes stole it for Bush. Democrats also say Gore lost that election, but it was Bush and Nader's fault).
Aides say Kerry's push to portray himself as a tax-hiking conservative who will soak the rich to balance the budget is a real winner. "We intend to run to President Bush's right on this" issue of the deficit, says former Clinton deputy treasury secretary Roger Altman, quoted by the AP. (On this issue of the deficit, Walter Mondale ran to the right of that other tax-cutting ultra-liberal, Ronald Reagan, with stunning results).
Kerry unveiled his proposal to raise taxes on Fat-Cat multi-Thousandaires as a means to shrink the deficit in a speech Wednesday to Fat-Cat multi-Thousandaires at Georgetown University. In cutting taxes by trillions of dollars, Bush, says Kerry, is the big-spending liberal in this campaign, not him. Right-wing Kerry proposes a return to "pay as you go" budget rules, which expired in late 2002. The formula says that when a politician has a left-wing liberal idea like cutting taxes (or increasing defense), that tax cut (or increased defense) should be paid for by tax hikes, a conservative idea, says Kerry. (The ultra-conservative Clinton administration used this formula to raise taxes and frustrate left-wing bleeding-heart Newt Gingrich and his tax-cutting schemes to balloon the deficit and destroy America!) Right-wing Kerry also proposes a shiny brand new $900 billion government-run health care system which Kerry says isn't a government-run health care system.
At the same time, Bush, who vowed a massive response to attacks from Kerry on the economy, massively responded Friday. Dropping his 'Compassionate Conservative' theme, Bush pummeled Kerry with 308,000 new payroll jobs, as reported by the Labor Dept. The report for March employment knocked the Kerry camp on its heels, pressured by growing worries over the growing economy. Even worse, reports for January and February employment were revised upward, with more than 500,000 new jobs in the first quarter. The punishing job gains fueled already widespread anxiety among Democrats. But on Monday Bush kept piling on, pummeling Kerry even harder with U.S. service industries reporting a jump in employment and orders to record levels. The ISM index for March soared to 65.8, from 60.8 the previous month. The robust activity at retail stores and small businesses across the country was blamed on Bush's tax cuts for Halliburton executives. Seizing on Bush's failed economic policies, a flood of Halliburton executives drove up sales at Wal-Mart, world's biggest retailer, almost 6 percent in March, as Halliburton executives "bought more Easter decorations and spring clothing," Bloomberg reports. With such growing momentum propelling this booming economy, the only hope for Democrats now is for Gore to endorse it.
Many Democrats wonder, could this recovery have been prevented? Yes, of course. If Democrats had treated the Bush tax cut threat with sufficient urgency in Congress, killing it well before the recovery began, the Bush boom would not have happened. But Democrats failed to recognize the threat posed by those tax cuts.
Meanwhile, USA Today reports that Bush's TV ads in battleground Missouri are taking a heavy toll on Kerry, even worse than Dick Clarke's testimony. "Conversations with voters in this St. Louis suburb signal that the Bush campaign seems to be achieving its early goal: Define Kerry in a negative way with voters" as a tax-hiking liberal "before he has a chance to make a positive first impression" as a tax-hiking conservative, the paper reports. The Kerry camp has blasted Bush campaign ads which claim Kerry had voted 350 times to raise taxes. Kerry calls the ads false and misleading. As for those 350 votes, Kerry notes it couldn't have been him casting those votes because he was out getting botox injection during the votes.
This week, Kerry began airing a new ad, blasting Bush's tax cuts. (Kerry -- hammering and hammering away at tax cuts. Only a crazed, knuckle-dragging, wingnut Neanderthal thinks this means Kerry's a liberal who loves to raise taxes).
To prove their boss is no liberal, and no drunken sailor on spending, Kerryites on Monday trotted out Ted Kennedy, who's even more conservative than Kerry, his voting record shows. Proving that Kerry meant business when he vowed to wage a really positive campaign, Teddy, after spending month after month after month, telling LIE! after LIE!! after LIE!!! in blasting Bush's Iraq policy, turned his attention squarely on the
ailing economy crisis, the"jobless recovery" crisis, thestock market crisis, theconsumer confidence crisis, thesoaring interest rates crisis, thegalloping inflation crisisthereal estate crisis, the situation in Iraq, blasting Bush's Iraq policy. (Teddy -- always the uniter not the divider, unlike BushCo!) In almost prepared remarks before the Brookings Institute, a Washington Wishful Thinking Tank, Teddy, the Democrats' most preeminent moral authority, said Bush has "created the largest credibility gap since Richard Nixon." (He's so right! Checking to make sure, I went back, way, waaaaaay back to July, 1969, when some drunk drove off a bridge and left his young female Senate aide to drown while he swam to safety. A sleazebag, yes, but no credibility gap there. Besides, it's silly to compare murder to something as serious as giving no-bid contracts to Halliburton and tax cuts for the wealthy). Teddy, in an apparent flip-flop, called the Iraq war a Quagmire Made In Texas, reversing his long-held position that the Iraq war was a Fraud Made In Texas. He now believes the Iraq war is really happening because he saw it on TV at a bar with his close friend, Straight Bourbon. (He's right again! Just this past week, Iraq had slipped in and out of Quagmire three times! Now there's a civil war that could last 'til tomorrow, or pending the next explosive episode in the Michael Jackson case). Escalating the nuance, Teddy, who says the Iraq war has made the Great Satan unpopular with many Jihadis, slammed the Iraq war as "Bush's Vietnam!" (Reached for comment, officials in Hanoi could not confirm they were toppled from power after U.S. troops first landed). Teddy's comments, his harshest assessment on Iraq since his last harshest assessment on Iraq 3 hours before, were welcomed as a way to rev up the party faithful. The Republican Party faithful. (The Environmental Protection Agency is reportedly examining Teddy's speech for excessive rearend emissions). Reversing his position again, Teddy accused Bush of cooking up this war as a way to divert attention from Bush's horrible failures here at home, like the booming economy and the sizzling job market. (Cooking up a Vietnam-style Quagmire war to divert attention from the Bush Boom. Boy, Bush sure knows how to drum up votes! And what a liar this Bush is, eh? Who's he trying to be, Teddy Kennedy or something?)Teddy also says Bush is trying to "backdate" the recession he inherited so that Clinton gets the blame. Bush and his Halliburton buddies started this recession on Clinton's watch and they're trying to pin it all on Clinton! As a Halliburton pawn myself, I say, BACKDATE AWAY!)
In a related story, "JohnHuang2" assails Ted Kennedy for having created the largest Sobriety Gap since . . . Ted Kennedy.
;-)
To our brave fighting men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan, know that you're in our thoughts, you're in our every prayer. Not a single day goes by that we don't think of you and pray for you, and thank you for your priceless sacrifice. We are immeasurably indebted to each of you. God bless you, God bless our President and God bless the United States of America!
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"
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Notice the concern about appearances, not substance. Pathetic.
We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!
Too late for that!
I was surprised to find myself agreeing somewhat with John Podesta--I want to see Kerry offer some realistic alternatives instead of being a stupid, punk-ass liberal who can only tear down Bush rather than offer a constructive program of his own.
Of course, Sen. Robert "Foghorn" Byrd (Socialist-Spain) needs to be b****-slapped.
"Seizing on Bush's failed economic policies, a flood of Halliburton executives drove up sales at Wal-Mart, world's biggest retailer, almost 6 percent in March, as Halliburton executives "bought more Easter decorations and spring clothing..."
ROFL!!!!
John, your satire speaks more truth than 100 speeches by self-serving Democrats. God bless you.
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