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| SF Chroinicle Bitch-Slaps Kerry and the Dems |
| 2004-09-29 |
| Beautiful! Severely EFL NEVER IN MY LIFETIME has a presidential campaign tried to get a candidate elected by insulting America's best allies, even as they are putting their sons' lives on the line. That's exactly what Sen. John Kerry has been doing for months now. And, as he has slid in the polls, Kerry's band of spinners has ratcheted up its ally bashing. Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi came to Washington last week to assure Congress that progress in Iraq is real, and that elections will occur as scheduled. So the reaction of Kerry campaign honcho Joe Lockhart? "The last thing you want to be seen as is a puppet of the United States, and you can almost see the hand beneath the shirt today moving the lips," he said. *snip* U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, who is training Iraqi forces, wrote in the Washington Post this weekend that "more than 700 Iraqi force members have been killed and hundreds of Iraqis seeking to volunteer for the police and the military have been killed as well." I'm curious. Are those 700-plus Iraqis puppets, too? To the Dems? Well, yeah. *snip* "I understand how to bring those countries back to our side," Kerry has said of the countries that did not join the coalition. His formula must be: Dismiss the British, Aussies, Poles and Italians -- for gun-shy France and Germany? Au contraire, all Kerry has done is shown that he is a foreign-policy swell who hardly notices the blood spilled by America's true friends. Ouch! *snip* Asked whether it was appropriate for Kerry/Edwards to undermine Allawi, Sen. Ted Kennedy told CBS' "Face the Nation," that it was more than appropriate: "I think absolutely. I mean, it was Thomas Jefferson who said that dissent is the essential aspect of patriotism." This clown must be drunk 110% of the time. Nobody sober could say something so blindingly stupid. They could say they think the war was wrong, and leave it at that. But Kerry voted to authorize the war in Iraq. So his aides invent distinctions that make war harder for America's real allies, they make excuses for America's fair-weather friends, they advocate cutting and running from a war that has already cost more than 1,000 American lives, even though they are so smart they must be aware that a precipitous exit would make America less secure. They make it harder for Iraqis, Americans and U.S. allies to win the war. Then they call themselves patriots. They are patriots. Just not for America. |
| Posted by:Barbara Skolaut |
| #14 So then you're saying that Thomas Jefferson was a stupid drunk? That's all Kennedy did: quote Jefferson a smidge. What's your problem with the founding fathers? |
| Posted by: Floting Clanter5218 2004-10-15 10:25:04 AM |
| #13 Just think, Tony Bennett or someone like him used to call San Francisco Baghdad-by-the-Bay. That would be Herb Caen. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-09-30 12:11:13 AM |
| #12 "...Joe Lockhart? "The last thing you want to be seen as is a puppet of the United States, and you can almost see the hand beneath the shirt today moving the lips," he said." Wasn't that charge common during teh Vietnam years as well? |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-09-29 10:45:28 PM |
| #11 When I worked for the late lemented Crocker Bank in the early 1980s they sent me to the Corporate offices for seminars, etc. The Headquarters which were in the tenderloin district, right across from the Examiner offices on 5th street... It was interesting to see the bums, even then come right up to cabs (going to and from the airport) and ask for money. The funniest incident, was this cabbie who would curse at them, and the look on their face was shock... They were probably thinking, "This is San Francisco. I thought everybody loved everybody..." |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-09-29 7:28:17 PM |
| #10 SF was on its way out after my grandma died. She was a native San Franciscan who was in an orphanage that collapsed in the '06 quake. Grandma volunteered at the Irwin Memorial Blood Bank and at an elementary school for 40 years. She typified the spirit of the city, which is now lost to homeless bums on the dole, perverts who are living petri dishes, and aging 60s hippies that became city muckity-mucks (no disrespect to Mucky!). When I see what has become of that formerly beautiful city, I wish that the big employers like BOA, Transamerica, Bechtel, et al, would either put the heat on the govt or pull out and let the socialists pound sand on Ocean Beach for taxes. Makes my blood boil. Just think, Tony Bennett or someone like him used to call San Francisco Baghdad-by-the-Bay. /venting, BP returning to 122/80 |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-09-29 7:21:01 PM |
| #9 The Bay Area's a joke. SF is a small village with hideous architecture and second-rate cultural institutions that pretends it's another version of Paris. Filled with trust-fund hippies, burnt-out-effin hippies, homeless hippies, chicano gangs, a few wannabe hip yupsters and a hundred thousand or so flakes venusians pteradactyls and preverts. I couldn't leave that place fast enough. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-09-29 6:58:46 PM |
| #8 The Bay Area is a good place for conservatives to hone their skills and toughen their skin. That's which Michael Savage has such an attitude. Now, if only Lee Rodgers would go national. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-09-29 6:55:08 PM |
| #7 My Bad :p |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2004-09-29 6:23:45 PM |
| #6 Sarge : You got it wrong! LA Times = Pravda SF Cronicle = Beijing People's Daily hehehe |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-09-29 5:32:46 PM |
| #5 Pravda (aka SF Chronicle) has a couple of Conservative columnists that they run once a week. Think of it as window dressing, nothing more. The vast majority of the editorial staff is still waiting to see if those documents that CBS came up with are real. They also cling to the hope that many Expats will tip the scales for Kerry. Finally they also think that people in California favor Gay marriage and oppose three strikes. Contrary to the ballot "poll" conducted for each of these issues. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2004-09-29 2:42:13 PM |
| #4 title is wrong - should be "SFChronicle OP Ed..." the Chronicle itself is deeply into "peace, love and jihad" |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-09-29 2:21:59 PM |
| #3 BigEd - I know she is. I just think it's notable that this was published in Pyongyang-America, of all places. Hope she's got bodyguards. ;-p She at least must have a great sense of humor to survive there. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-09-29 2:11:22 PM |
| #2 Typical. Someone questions Kerry's competence and sense in his hearing, and The Last Kennedy starts fulminating about attacks on Kerry's patriotism. The old saw is true - patriotism really is the last refuge of the scoundrel. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2004-09-29 2:09:33 PM |
| #1 Barbara S- Hate to disappoint you, but Debra Saunders is on our side, and always has been. It must be tough for her in the environment in SF, with all those "loonies" storming the Chronicle, with torches and a rope, asking for her head all the time... |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-09-29 1:38:21 PM |