Tuesday, April 27, 2004
Who's unfit?
Dick "Captain Halliburton" Cheney is now saying that John Kerry -- recipient of three Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star and a Silver Star -- is unfit to lead the nation on matters of national security.
And George Bush is?
Bush can't even testify before the 9/11 commission without Cheney there to help him. John Kerry may have said some rash things in front of the Senate after returning from Vietnam 35 years ago, but at least he was able to sit there and do it by himself.
Seems to us that George Bush has had other people fighting for him, speaking for him, and bailing him out of trouble his whole life. Let's face it: whether it's Cheney -- there to hold Bush's hand at the commission hearings and attack Bush's likely opponent Kerry in the press -- or any of the other helpful souls willing to help Bush get into (and out of) the National Guard, fall all over themselves "clarifying" his often inane remarks to the press, or toil away at right-wing think tanks creating his administration's policies, there is very little record of George Bush having to do anything himself -- ever.
Consider for a moment the idea of a president Kerry being called to testify before a bipartisan commission. Do you think he'd need his vice-president to babysit him? Of course not.
201k has not yet endorsed a candidate for president, but Dick Cheney's remarks prompt us to make this observation: when it comes to national security, we'd much prefer a man with a proven record of speaking for and acting on his own to a man whose only attribute seems to be access to his father's rolodex.
And George Bush is?
Bush can't even testify before the 9/11 commission without Cheney there to help him. John Kerry may have said some rash things in front of the Senate after returning from Vietnam 35 years ago, but at least he was able to sit there and do it by himself.
Seems to us that George Bush has had other people fighting for him, speaking for him, and bailing him out of trouble his whole life. Let's face it: whether it's Cheney -- there to hold Bush's hand at the commission hearings and attack Bush's likely opponent Kerry in the press -- or any of the other helpful souls willing to help Bush get into (and out of) the National Guard, fall all over themselves "clarifying" his often inane remarks to the press, or toil away at right-wing think tanks creating his administration's policies, there is very little record of George Bush having to do anything himself -- ever.
Consider for a moment the idea of a president Kerry being called to testify before a bipartisan commission. Do you think he'd need his vice-president to babysit him? Of course not.
201k has not yet endorsed a candidate for president, but Dick Cheney's remarks prompt us to make this observation: when it comes to national security, we'd much prefer a man with a proven record of speaking for and acting on his own to a man whose only attribute seems to be access to his father's rolodex.
