a small dose of reality

This is the first honest thing said or written by a demlib in a long time.  Jim Leyland has more intellectual honesty than a 25 man roster of demlibs.  Why bother with facts and specifics when ambiguous innuendo filled criticism works.  Sounds nazi like to me.  Stir the pot.  Criticize a plan while not having one.  The demlibs are AFRAID to even say they have a strategy because they have NO ANSWERS if they would be asked questions.  Chickenshits.

Republicans have taken a battering over Iraq, but it's not because voters believe Democrats have a clear strategy for ending the conflict and bringing American soldiers home.

"If you ask people out on the street what the message is, they wouldn't know," said Joan Lowery, a 60-year-old insurance company manager, at a recent Democratic fund-raiser in Cincinnati.

Lowery is not alone. Only a quarter of Americans think Democrats in the Congress have a clear plan for Iraq, far less than the 36 percent who believe the president has one, a USA Today/Gallup poll in mid-September found.

Ambiguity has been part of the Democratic strategy on Iraq all along and has worked quite well, they said.

"For a lot of Democrats it is a very successful strategy to simply mirror the voters' underlying discontent with the war, but not to offer specifics that make them a vulnerable target," said Matthew Woessner, an assistant professor of public policy at Pennsylvania State University.

He cited the Pennsylvania race for the U.S. Senate as an example. The Democratic challenger, Bob Casey, running against Republican incumbent Rick Santorum, has opposed the status quo but been vague about what to do about Iraq.

"For Casey it has been a very effective strategy, because Casey knows that he is in a position to capitalize on the president's weakness on Iraq, without giving Santorum specific targets to fire at," Woessner said.

When Democratic politicians like Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania offered detailed plans, they gave Republicans the opportunity to expose them to public scrutiny.

"It is when they become specific," Woessner said, "that they ... open themselves up to criticism."

"It is fear that keeps them from having a clear position," said Paulette Meier, 55, after a meeting of religious liberals in Cincinnati. "They are afraid of being seen as cut and run."

demlib chickens create policy

copywrite 2006 - Barry G.

In a clearly shocking development, Amnesty International took a logical and sensibile position.  Is the sky falling in?  Did Humpty Dumpty fall off the wall again?  Odds, it will change its mind.

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 Amnesty International on Thursday accused Hezbollah forces of war crimes and “serious violations of international humanitarian law” during the Lebanon war, including indiscriminate rocket attacks and “deliberate attacks on civilians and civilian objects.”  Amnesty said its assessment of Hezbollah was based on “firsthand information from visits to Israel and Lebanon, interviews with dozens of victims, official statements, discussions with Israeli and Lebanese military and government officials as well as senior Hezbollah officials, information from nongovernment groups and media reports.”

copywrite 2006 - Barry G.

When any islam islamo islamist nazi muslim terrorist attacks one American, every United States citizen is attacked.  Below are just some of the parts of the country most deeply affected by casualties.  Please notice that America's enemy is surrounded. The is no place to go besides the usual dishonorable death for the sworn enemy of the United States. This is symbolical of what the United States will continue to do until the menace is totally gone. 

THIS MENACE WILL END.  THE UNITED STATES WILL DESTROY EACH AND EVERY TERRORIST, MEMBER, LEADER, SUPPORTER, SYCHOPHANT AND TOADIE IF NECESSARY AND WILL NOT STOP UNTIL THE JOB IS DONE.  THERE IS NO ESCAPE.     

copywrite 2006 - Barry G.

Imagine the spying dollars saved by the bunch of creeps.  And some of other are stupid enough to finance it.  Not me.  Never have never will.

A nationwide boycott of this withering dinosaur may be the final step in addition to technology, the internet and alternative media to shut it down for good.  Centuries of holier than thou biased preached rather than news reporting has done incalcuable damage to the United States.  The Constitution protects the NYT.  Economics can eliminate the NYT.  Speak with your dollars and tell your uninformed or too lazy to cancel friends.

Fortunately the next generation already knows better and the NYT is on it's way out finally.  Readership is declining.  It's desperation is beginning to parallel Dan Rather's.  Goodbye and good riddance NYT.

Who is America's most dangerous traitor?  Jane Fonda, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, the New York Times, Benedict Arnold, Dan Rather, Star Jones or Barbara Walters?

With a year to go before it even touches the water, the Navy's amphibious assault ship USS New York has already made history. It was built with 24 tons of scrap steel from the World Trade Center.

USS New York is about 45 percent complete and should be ready for launch in mid-2007. Katrina disrupted construction when it pounded the Gulf Coast last summer, but the 684-foot vessel escaped serious damage, and workers were back at the yard near New Orleans two weeks after the storm.

It is the fifth in a new class of warship - designed for missions that include special operations against terrorists. It will carry a crew of 360 sailors and 700 combat-ready Marines to be delivered ashore by helicopters and assault craft.

"It would be fitting if the first mission this ship would go on is to make sure that bin Laden is taken out, his terrorist organization is taken out," said Glenn Clement, a paint foreman. "He came in through the back door and knocked our towers down and (the New York) is coming right through the front door, and we want them to know that."