Comments on: Edwards Trying To Fill His Foreign Policy Gap

By: Kahn

Kahn — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 05:46:47 +0000

Wellll, I see Doug in the Army didn’t reply. So – I guess his MOS is 0101 Lying piece of liberal crap.

By the way – what was FDR or Trummans previous foreign experience? Truth is – We are not talking about 2000 Bush we are talking about 2004 Bush. And, he’s quite a lot of experience actually.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 02:49:28 +0000

Now I know everybody will hate on me, but I really love Ralph Nader’s analogy of politics to baseball. People don’t focus as much on the rhetoric of baseball as they do on the stats and the actions of the players in the game. Nader believes that people interested in politics could learn a lot from that approach. You can’t deny that politics would be better if we all could just focus on what each politician does and how they vote, not where they were when they were supposed to be in Texas, who did what with the medals, or who owns what pickle company. Its ridicules and nonsensical, and I hope that eventually if enough of us fight for it, we can bring it back down to the raw levels that it needs to be on and stop focusing more on the TV than the actual facts.

By: Matt Margolis

Matt Margolis — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 02:36:26 +0000

it be great to have this be able issues only, but the reality is, when you get attacked, you have to respond. people ask me occasionaly why B4B attacks kerry and/or edwards.. well, they’ve all been attack Bush since before Bush fired up his own campaign.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 02:13:05 +0000

To follow up, I guess I just wish that we would keep up discourse which wasn’t just hating on each other. Every side claims to want to hit the issues but instead they just end up bashing the other guy. It’s really stupid to me.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 02:10:41 +0000

Well, I agree with your overall idea in the debate. I disagree with line about not winning a fight by just blocking though if I may digress a bit. I am a fan of the non-violence movement myself and a fan of Gandhi. I’ll hold off just a bit though after this comment to see if I get attacked with any Mark Noonanish anti-war slams. It just feels cheap to me to attack the character of people like you’ve hated them forever just because they are popular now. I agree with you though a little more after you explained yourself.

As for the Dem primaries, I went grassroots for Kucinich. I couldn’t stand the amount of time spent on attacking Bush instead of hitting the issues. Look where it got them. They are choosing the Dem who is weakest on the issues. Don’t think I’m in love with those stupid assholes. I’m not a fan of either branch of the Business Party.

By: Matt Margolis

Matt Margolis — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 01:22:36 +0000

Adam, if you expect Kerry and Edwards to throw punches at Bush and no punches are going to be thrown back then you’re a fool. You don’t win a fight just by blocking.

Secondly, with Edwards now on the ticket, for anyone to ignore him because he wasn’t previously a target because he had no chance of getting the nomination is also stupid.

You target those who target you.

I could ask you the question why during the primaries so much time was spent by all 9 of the dems attacking Bush, as opposed to genuine debate amongst themselves so that Dem voters could pick the best Dem (if there such a thing) as opposed to the strongest bush hater.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 23:57:16 +0000

Come on Matt. I liked it better when you ranted about Air America. Neither you nor Blogs For Bush cared much about Edwards until he became the DNC’s VP choice. Why is it that all you wrote about was Dean before Kerry took over and now Edwards is taking most of your heat? It doesn’t feel like you care either way. You just want to trash the big faces in the Democratic party not because they are bad people but instead because they are popular in the news. It just seems so cheap.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 23:10:47 +0000

He’s a politicion. Photo-ops are a way of life to them.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 21:36:55 +0000

Whether Bush had the requisite number of trips to qualify or not, it is a certainty that one trip to Iraq will do zilch to bolster Edwards’ experience. It’s a photo-op, pure and simple, and a strange one at that. Maybe they’ll let him ride in a tank …

By: todd

todd — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 21:33:02 +0000

I’m referring to the non-public briefing the President gave the congressmen and senators about the scary Iraqi drones that could fly across the ocean and hit the shores of the US with chemical weapons. The weapons that never existed. So Edwards loyally trusted his President’s words.