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More Dumb Democrats

by John Cole|  July 16, 20038:08 am| 3 Comments

This post is in: Democratic Stupidity

Our next nominee for stupid pandering Democrat Presidential candidate is Dennis Kucinich, who had this to say over the weekend, while speaking to the Human Rights Campaign:

On other matters, all of the candidates at the forum said they support overturning the ban on gays in the military, and expressed no reluctance to appointing gays and lesbians to top cabinet posts or to fill Supreme Court vacancies.

“I would appoint any gay or lesbian or transgender person to the Supreme Court,” Kucinich said, drawing a laugh. “As long as they were willing to uphold Roe vs. Wade.”

Let’s ignore the obvious hypocrisy regarding the fact that Kucinich has been a VOCAL opponent of abortion for his ENTIRE career (until he decided to run for President). The question I have is why a homosexual lobby would care about abortion? Certainly this is not a top priority.

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Good Day For Democrat Candidates

by John Cole|  July 16, 20038:01 am| 2 Comments

This post is in: Democratic Stupidity

Here is a nice comparison made by Al Sharpton in a CBS interview with Bob Schieffer. IN a discussion about Fidel Castro, Schieffer noted that Sharpton had the following to say about the tyrant:

“He’s brilliant. I’ve never met anyone with a more rapid mind. He’s reasonable and intelligent.”

The discussion then went as follows:

SCHIEFFER: Well, Reverend Sharpton, if I may, you describe Castro as `awesome,’ and if you’re talking about leadership qualities, the reason that Fidel Castro has outlasted nine American presidents is because he doesn’t allow his people to have elections. And when he has political opponents, he puts them in jail. Why would you cite that as a…

SHARPTON: And if that is so…

SCHIEFFER: Why would you cite that as a leadership quality?

SHARPTON: No, well, first of all, I think that Winston Churchill was an imperialist. I think Ronald Reagan turned the country backwards. I think Fidel Castro has done a lot wrong.

When I talk about qualities of a personality, it does not at all support, condone or endorse their policies. And I think that clearly you must be able to divorce the character of people, in terms of their personality traits, from policy so that you can say to people ‘This is how good attributes can be used wrongly.’ Electricity can be good or bad.

SCHIEFFER: But…

SHARPTON: So me to observe someone’s awesome personality doesn’t mean they’re using it in a positive way and that’s what that chapter was about. But I’m glad you read the book.

SCHIEFFER: So you don’t admire him putting his political opponents in jail. You don’t consider that awesome.

SHARPTON: I don’t admire him — I don’t admire him putting his political opponents in jail anymore than I admire the Bush administration for locking us up for protesting in Vieques. I think people should have the right…

SCHIEFFER: Now…

SHARPTON: …to protest in Cuba and in the United States.

SCHIEFFER: Now, Mr. Sharpton, you’re not going to sit here and compare President Bush to Fidel Castro, are you?

SHARPTON: Absolutely not.

Castro and Bush- why they are just the same to the Democrats. Except they admire Castro.

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Uranium Nonsense

by John Cole|  July 16, 20037:46 am| 5 Comments

This post is in: General Stupidity

Here is the Daily Howler on the Bush SOTU address:

It isn

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More Hearings

by John Cole|  July 15, 20038:31 pm| 5 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs

Another threat:

Former defense secretary William Perry warned that the United States and North Korea are drifting toward war, perhaps as early as this year, in an increasingly dangerous standoff that also could result in terrorists being able to purchase a North Korean nuclear device and plant it in a U.S. city.

“I think we are losing control” of the situation, said Perry, who believes North Korea soon will have enough nuclear warheads to begin exploding them in tests and exporting them to terrorists and other U.S. adversaries. “The nuclear program now underway in North Korea poses an imminent danger of nuclear weapons being detonated in American cities,” he said in an interview.

If it turns out that North Korea is lying, does that mean Rep. Waxman (D-CA) will call Bush a liar again and call for more hearings?

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Quick To Judge

by John Cole|  July 15, 20038:04 pm| 7 Comments

This post is in: Democratic Stupidity

From the mouth of known murderer Teddy Chappaquiddick:

The Bush administration has acknowledged its error in using the Niger allegations in Bush’s speech, despite serious doubts expressed by the intelligence community.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., appearing on NBC’s “Today” show Tuesday, said “there is a broader issue, and that is the failed policy toward Iraq.”

So, several months is time enough to declare Iraq a failure. I guess they really did think it would be a cakewalk.

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Nothing to Offer But Fear Itself

by John Cole|  July 15, 20032:36 pm| 7 Comments

This post is in: Politics

More for the “They Just Don’t Get It” file. Gov. Dean, the Democrat frontrunner, IMHO, is guest blogging on Lawrence Lessig’s blog:

It

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How Out of Touch Are They?

by John Cole|  July 15, 20032:28 pm| 1 Comment

This post is in: General Stupidity

The latest word salad to come from Gail Collins and the crew:

Not everything in life has to mean something. Some things are just for the fun of it. The people who run baseball, including Commissioner Bud Selig, have yet to learn that little lesson. They keep trying to give the annual midseason festival known as the All-Star Game “significance,” with a capital S. It can’t be done. Tonight’s game is an exhibition, no more, no less, and baseball ought to live with it.

Nonsense, you nitwits. The game means a lot to a lot of people. In the past, it was very significant, because the players selected really were honored, and they did their damndest to win. They hustled, sacrificig their bodies for pride.

And although I disagree with the game being used as the determining factor for home field advantage (the team with the best regular season record should get it- that is why they played 160+ games, right?), the game should and does mean something. But not to shallow nitwits who have never met a tradition they didn’t want to shatter.

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