However, not very deep in his black heart is the spectacle of defeat in November.
Kerry the first war-hero candidate since Kennedy?What the hell were George Bush and Bob Dole? Chopped liver?
Is that like what the Clintoonistas did all summer long before the 96 election, to Bob Dole who had no funds to fight back with, until after the convention.
Yea it's those evil Republicans, they're the lowlifes.
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Free markets are not arbitrary. Economics is not a "crap shoot." The laws of economics function more surely than any written by a legislature.
Let us not forget that Howell Raines is a disgraced former editor who got fired for being unable to detect fraud under his nose -- that is, he was unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy. He obviously is just as clueless about economics.
Raines is the typical liberal Southerner gobe north. Hre refuses to see that the Democratic Party represents not the people but the northeastern elite who hate Bush because he consciously chose not to be one of them. In other words, they regard him a traitor to his class.
What an enlightening glimpse into the dark mind of a condescending, prevaricating elitist...
Advice from the guy who thought it was a good idea to hire Jayson Blair, promote him way beyond his level of competence, shield him and keep him on -- and wound up getting canned for his good idea.
This was my favorite quote:
"As matters now stand, Kerry has assured the DLC, "I am not a redistributionist Democrat."
That's actually a good start. Using that promise as disinformation, he must now figure out a creative way to become a redistributionist Democrat."
Raines' blithe attitude toward lying in order to take the public's money is downright scary...
It also creeped me out that he is so filled with venom that he is able to state that Kerry is the first war hero candidate since Kennedy; I can only think his hatred has blinded him from remembering the names Bush (#41) and Dole.
Howell Raines is a morally bankrupt, lying sack of snit.
Examples of this are everywhere in this piece. In the last paragraph, for example, Raines implies that "Someone (beside Kerry) in Kerry's campaign can figure out a way for him (to be trained like a poodle) to say, "Here's my plan (although I didn't think of it) for getting us out of Iraq and defeating terrorism," and "Here's my plan ( they told me to say ) for making sure you're not sick and poor in your old age." And then make him say it ( even if Kerry doesn't want to say it or understand it, as his handler you should MAKE HIM SAY IT ) over and over again, no matter what question is asked of him. Kerry has to face the fact ... (President Bush) going to win unless Kerry comes up with something to say (which obviously Kerry lacks the ability to do ). To stay "on message", you have to have one, (and Kerry doesn't have a message of his own )."
I think Raines is fundamentally correct in his assessment of Kerry's innate ability. I bet someone else in Kerry's campaign had to figure out for Kerry that not accepting the nomination in Boston was a dumb idea.
On the other hand, its Bush bashing statements make it a bit of a hit piece.
However, the journalist did get one thing right, he, too, thinks Kerry looks like Lurch.
The TV camera is an x-ray for picking up attitudinal truths, and Kerry's lantern jaw and Addams Family face
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"White House strategists are betting that leaving Iraq in 30 days - no matter what chaos ensues in that country - will leave them time to revise history between now and election day and, more importantly, get on with the work of destroying Kerry's image."
We're leaving? WHO KNEW???!!!
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Clear evidence of their lying ways.
Actually, I don't know that. My understanding is that there was a wait list to enlist in the Air Guard, but not for pilots. Most people know what mediots don't, that driving jet fighters is dangerous, whether you're at home or in Vietnam.
There's hardly an American who doesn't know that Cheney used graduate-school deferments to beat the draft.
I don't know that either. Cheney didn't "beat the draft" - he was never drafted. Why would he voluntarily enlist when he was married with children, had a family to support? When most deferments were abolished and the lottery was started, the guys with high numbers weren't call draft dodgers, they just weren't drafted.
What I do know is that Kerry was turned down for a deferment for further schooling, and only then joined the Navy. I do know lots of guys who joined the Navy and Air Force to avoid being drafted for ground duty by the Army or Marines. I betcha Kerry's odds of ending up on river patrol duty when he enlisted were less than Bush's odds of ending up in an aviation accident as a pilot.