I don't think John Kerry understands what it means to be president.
While Bush has been campaigning as the best candidate to deter terrorists and protect the nation, Kerry portrayed him as out of touch with the situation in Iraq.Do you think it's possible that President Bush has better sources of information than CBS and the New York Times?"With all due respect to the president, has he turned on the evening news lately? Does he read the newspapers?" Kerry said. "Does he really know what's happening? Is he talking about the same war that the rest of us are talking about?"
Meanwhile, House minority leader Nancy "Pansy" Pelosi wants us to surrender to whomever is handy.
"It's clear that this administration didn't know what it was getting into, or else they grossly misrepresented the facts to the American people," said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California. "In either case, staying the course is not an option."Would it be possible for the Democrats to undermine our foreign relations any more than they're already doing?
You're not voting for Kerry. We get it already.
Bush's happy-gas on Iraq is significant. Basically, everyone who isn't a wholly-owned subsidiary of (Re-)Elect the President, Inc. (and I mean _everyone_, from government intelligence analysists to military leaders of all political stripes to ranking Republicans in the House and Senate and, oh yes, insane liberals like me) now admits that the situation for the US in Iraq is steadily worsening. Meanwhile, Bush keeps insisting that things are getting better.
As he has demonstrated throughout his presidency (actually, throughout his life), Bush has a propensity for 1) screwing up spectacularly, and then 2) brazening his way out of it by denying responsibility and letting others pick up the pieces. Iraq is no different.
The storyline between now and the election is clear: no matter what happens on the ground in Iraq, Bush will insist that things are going great over there. Just as middle America supported the Vietnam War well into the 1000-deaths-a-month phase, Bush hopes that a sufficient number of people, blinded by partisanship or just not very well-informed, will believe the fantasies he's peddling. At least long enough to return him to office.
He may be right about that. In which case, we can look forward to Four More Years of his kind of incompetence. Yay.
Are you counting all the Iraqi bloggers who say things are getting better as being "wholly-owned subsidiaries of (Re-)Elect the President, Inc.", John?
I don't know without seeing their writings. Which Iraqi bloggers are those?
Um, I'm a government intelligence analyst, and I think things are going pretty well in Iraq, better than we could have hoped, and better than other liberations/reformations have gone in the past. I have both support and opposition within my office.
What does that do to your point, Mr. Callender?
Can you point to some credible published source making that case? Rather than joe-random-weblog-commenter asserting that he's an intelligence analyst? That would constitute a stronger challenge to my point, I think.
Clearly, with your credentials, it shouldn't be hard to come up with some sources.