Politics: Where we struggle to kneel in the muck.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
1) You're the only one on here saying the criticism was "unpatriotic". The truth of the matter is that the comments were wholly irresponsible and politically unjustifiable.

2) What the people say in the streets and what the would-be leader of the US say and do are 2 separate things. If you see no distinction, you're insane.

3) To argue the truth is shitty and low? As you may say, so fucking what?

1. "Irresponsible" and "politically unjustifiable"? Jesus, man, do you think I've never been introduced to the concept of "wiggle words"? Consciously or unconsciously, the message Lockghart's criticism was intended to convey was that Kerry's comments were unpatriotic and endangering American soldiers. You can massage that message all you like to avoid getting broadsided like Lockhart. In that case, assume my criticism is directed at Lockhart, not you. You're absolved, you semantic dandy...

2. Bullshit. The GOP have a ten foot erection for "straight talkers" at the moment. Everybody's yammering about how Bush "tells it like it is." Kerry told it like it is. Bush's people just don't like being assfucked with their own favorite rhetorical device.

3. Exactly.

I will give you this... the Dem's present campagin of villifying Cheney and Bush for accusing Kerry of being AQ's favorite candidate is just as ludicrous as Lockhart's whining about Kerry's comments on Allawi. It is entirely proper for Bush to say that Kerry would put us in peril - national defense is a huge issue this election. That said, Bush is dead wrong factually. AQ is PRAYING for a Bush re-election. The LAST thing they want is Kerry playing nice and trying to take away the moral authority they've accumulated in the muslim world as a result of Bush's pre-emption doctrine. Bush will bring the war they want - if AQ could, they'd probably donate to Bush's campaign.