Biden for President
On Meet the Press this morning, Biden did everything but announce his candidacy for President in 2008. He's realistic about the difficulty of beating Clinton for the nomination but he seems to be seriously interested in trying. I've always liked Biden, he articulates the fundamentals of the Democratic party philosophy in a clear manner that the average American can understand and relate to.
Biden and Santorum agreed that they would both fight Bush on his plans to drop Amtrak subsidies. It's lucky for Americans that many Senators understand the environmental and economic necessity of a nationally subsidized rail system. The alternative is 6 lane highways and more cars. I'm not sure how that would help with the Greenhouse effect or our dependence on mid-east oil.
Also on MTP, Maureen Dowd hesitated when Russert asked whether in retrospect Iraq was a good idea. Her response that the American people were lied to was a little lame. I'm not as excited by progress in Iraq as everyone else seems to be. I'm still skeptical that we can win the "war of ideas" and "bring democracy to the middle-east". A Dawa lead Iraq brings terrorist ties to the government. The idea that Jafari will embrace Kurds and Sunnis has a similar resonance to Bush saying he would work with Democrats in 2000. Let's wait and see.
Biden and Santorum agreed that they would both fight Bush on his plans to drop Amtrak subsidies. It's lucky for Americans that many Senators understand the environmental and economic necessity of a nationally subsidized rail system. The alternative is 6 lane highways and more cars. I'm not sure how that would help with the Greenhouse effect or our dependence on mid-east oil.
Also on MTP, Maureen Dowd hesitated when Russert asked whether in retrospect Iraq was a good idea. Her response that the American people were lied to was a little lame. I'm not as excited by progress in Iraq as everyone else seems to be. I'm still skeptical that we can win the "war of ideas" and "bring democracy to the middle-east". A Dawa lead Iraq brings terrorist ties to the government. The idea that Jafari will embrace Kurds and Sunnis has a similar resonance to Bush saying he would work with Democrats in 2000. Let's wait and see.
posted by mochi at 11:02 AM
2 Comments:
Good God! Biden for president. Any liberal who fancies that for a millisecond needs a history lesson. Biden was one of the scariest fascists of the 1980's.
And Bush was doing lines of cocaine, so what?
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