DEMOCRATIC DILEMMA
It is so difficult being a Democrat. Although right on most of the issues, at least compared to the Bush misadministration, the Democrats do need backbone and cohesion.
They showed political cowardice in voting to authorize the Iraq war. As so many ordinary citizens did, most of them must have seen through the misleading hype by the Bush people. Now, they can't agree on an excuse. They do a poor job on court nominees and they fear a censure motion. Then, they chose political pander on the Dubai port issue when they could have decided to explain and support the deal, using the occasion to point out Bush’s failure to secure the ports and how his actions have so dramatically alienated the Muslim world.
And where is the leader who can fashion and articulate a coherent message? The most prominent, Hillary, is busy sounding more conservative and hasn’t led the charge. She may well be the best candidate for ’08, but her electability is questioned. Unless some one of the current contenders steps up, the party might do well to turn to a new face. As Maureen Dowd suggests in today’s NY Times column, that person may be Senator Barack Obama.
It is so difficult being a Democrat. Although right on most of the issues, at least compared to the Bush misadministration, the Democrats do need backbone and cohesion.
They showed political cowardice in voting to authorize the Iraq war. As so many ordinary citizens did, most of them must have seen through the misleading hype by the Bush people. Now, they can't agree on an excuse. They do a poor job on court nominees and they fear a censure motion. Then, they chose political pander on the Dubai port issue when they could have decided to explain and support the deal, using the occasion to point out Bush’s failure to secure the ports and how his actions have so dramatically alienated the Muslim world.
And where is the leader who can fashion and articulate a coherent message? The most prominent, Hillary, is busy sounding more conservative and hasn’t led the charge. She may well be the best candidate for ’08, but her electability is questioned. Unless some one of the current contenders steps up, the party might do well to turn to a new face. As Maureen Dowd suggests in today’s NY Times column, that person may be Senator Barack Obama.
1 Comments:
not sure the democrats showed cowardice. if WMD was a viable reason for the action (not sure that it was, relative to the larger questionable strategic issues), in october 02 we pretty much thought iraq had them.
by march, that was not the case, but the media overlooked it (and still does today) rendering kerry, "let me be clear, i am granting this authorization to the president for one reason and one reason only, to rid Iraq of WMD if we can not accomplish that through new tought weapons inspectiosn in joint concert with our allies" consistent. yet for a year democrats allowed the media to characterize him as a flip flopper on this,themselves gettig caught up in the fact that he and other democrats "authorized the war."
that said, the democrats do have problemss of cohesion,and backbone. namely, they dont know how to focus on the right things, or how to focus on them, and often think backbone is to use harsh adjective laden language against their counterparts in congress, when in fact backbone means making sure you focus on winning the battle of informatin. democrats have had the facts on their side, and have managed to lose the battle of information, because they allow repuboicans to constantly manipulate their statements.
anyway, I could write a book (and maybe should).
Carter
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