Dean, Dean, the Debating Machine
As you may have heard, newly minted DNC Chairman Howard Dean went toe-to-toe with Richard Perle in a debate on foreign policy on Thursday. Everyone, of course, has been talking about the protester who threw their shoe at him during the event, but I'm more interested in this little tidbit:
Howard Dean - February 17th, 2005 Defense is a lot broader than swaggering around saying you're going to kick Saddam's butt," Dean said Thursday, drawing cheers from the crowd in this city that overwhelmingly voted Democratic last November.
Now, if you were to read this quote without being told who the speaker was, and your short-term memory functioned on a level anywhere above that of Leonard Shelby's, wouldn't you expect that the speaker was referring to the Clinton administration? After all, they were the ones who were merely "saying" they were going to go after Saddam (they even did so formally, in the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998).
Couple this with Clinton's claims that Social Security was "in crisis," and the recent controversy over Dubya's similar claim, and it becomes quite clear that many politicians are willing to support something just as long as nobody goes out and does it.
» February 19th, 2005
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