Diplomacy has more to do with (credible) threats than with sweet reason. And threats from America are a lot more credible, nowadays.
Imagine what things would be like if the news media actually sided with civilization.
Let's be honest: Kerry has no idea what it is to be even a middle-class white in this country.
I can think of no better reason to vote against Obama than the prospect of an administration where any criticism of the President is treated as racism.
I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at this point, would be via self-delusion.
It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents.
Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best.
The new racism is anything that might hurt a Democrat politically.
I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf.
Democrats don't represent the taxpayers, they represent the tax-consumers.
Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general.
If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist, nowadays.
Bush is quite vulnerable if the Democrats pick the right issues. So far, though, they've shown their usual tendency to go for the capillary.
As I have said, the best Bush strategy is to put Congress on TV as often as possible.
Hmm. Petty? Yes. Ineffectual? Yes. Infuriating and off-putting? Yes. Counterproductive? Yes. It's got to be a product of the French Foreign Ministry.
With 'swift-boating' now being used by the ignorant as a synonym for false charges, it's worth remembering that it was John Kerry who had to retract his statement about his secret Christmas mission to Cambodia, despite it having allegedly been 'seared, seared' into his memory.
As my father-in-law once said, when they talk about taxes it's always for teachers, firemen, and police - but when they spend your taxes, it always seems to go to some guy in a leather chair downtown you never heard of.
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