Do you notice anything strange about Haward Dean's comments on Hardball last night?
JOSEPH NYE, DEAN, KENNEDY SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT: Governor, let me take you back to foreign policy. ...Perhaps Dr. Dean can inform me as to the location of this Soviet Union he refers to. I seem to remember an empire by that name, but it was defeated last century.NYE: In Iran?
DEAN: Iran is a more complex problem because the problem support as clearly verifiable as it is in North Korea. Also, we have less-fewer levers much the key, I believe, to Iran is pressure through the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is supplying much of the equipment that Iran, I believe, most likely is using to set itself along the path of developing nuclear weapons. We need to use that leverage with the Soviet Union and it may require us to buying the equipment the Soviet Union was ultimately going to sell to Iran to prevent Iran from them developing nuclear weapons. That is also a country that must not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons much the key to all this is foresight. Let’s act now so we don’t have to have a confrontation which may result in force, which would be very disastrous in the case of North Korea and might be disastrous in the case of Iran.
If President Bush had made this error, you would have read it on the front page of the NY Times.
Plus, his proposed Iran policy is moronic. America is supposed to cough up money to buy all the nuclear materials the world can produce to potentially sell to Iran? Please. Such a policy would create a whole new market for nuclear materials, and give poor nations an even greater incentive to develop the technology.
(HT: Rush on the radio.)
This ranks right up there with Gerald Ford asserting that Poland was not a member of the East Bloc.
Isn't it more or less an unwritten rule that if you want to be president you should be able to form a coherent sentence when someone asks you a question?
Well, extemporaneous speech isn't the same as the written word. It's the "Soviet Union" mistake more than any grammatical errors that amuses me.
extemporaneous speech isn't the same as the written word
Yet another breakdown in society, Michael. When I went to school they had classes in extemporaneous speaking and, yes, you were expected to speak in complete sentences. Besides, nothing he said made any sense at all.
It is mostly myth that the media is kinder to Democrats than Republicans. Jimmy Carter certainly didn't benefit from postive press coverage, nor did Bill Clinton. In the 2000 presidential race, reporters on the whole were kinder to Bush than they were to Gore.
S3: Look, I wasn't defending his speaking or whatever. Most people I know don't speak in complete sentences in casual conversation, but if I were on TV I'd try to. I agree with you in theory, I just didn't want to pillory the guy over it.
Joel: Uh, well, I think you're wrong. There is actual data that indicates the mainstream media is liberally biased.