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Kennedy drinking
Kennedy and the bottle - Truth Serum Works in Speech to Democrats
This story comes from the
Reliable Source's Lloyd Grove in the Washington Post on RI Rep. Patrick Kennedy.
As sometimes happens with Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), he let his mouth race ahead of his brain Wednesday night at a gathering of Young Democrats at the Washington nightspot Acropolis. After presidential candidate Howard Dean spoke, Kennedy delivered an impassioned peroration against President Bush's tax cut. We hear that Kennedy told the crowd: "I don't need Bush's tax cut. I have never worked a [bleeping] day in my life." With that he got the audience's attention -- the dropping-jaws kind. "He droned on and on, frequently mentioning how much better the candidates would sound the more we drank," a witness told us. "Finally, he had to be stopped by a DNC volunteer." Kennedy's spokesman, Ernesto Anguilla, told us yesterday: "He was talking to the crowd; it was a rally-the-troops kind of speech about the tax cut. He was energizing the crowd and got caught up in it and used an unfortunate word, which he regrets using. . . . And no one pulled him off the stage."
Dean for President
Howard Dean - The George McGovern of 2004
Beer, Country Clubs and break-ins.
Comments from our future nominee...
"They'll come around once they get to know me. It's a bit of a club down there. The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, I mean, they all know each other. They all move in the same circles. What I'm doing is breaking into the country club."
From Rush's site:
"Everyone's mouths fell open, because Dean's 17-year-old son Paul was cited only a few days ago for breaking into a country club and stealing beer! Yes, Dean's son drove the getaway car laden with stolen brew."
Full Story via the
Associated Press
Too funny.
Iran and the future
Revolution Day coming soon to Tehran
Historical perspective on Iran, the US and supporting democratic ideals and freedom...
Ravenna Blog and Scott Forbes.
Eagle at Jefferson Park
Tommy the Eagle
Played nine holes at
Jefferson Park this morning with friend Chris Walz. It was the good, bad and ugly out on this dog track of a public course. Jefferson has taken a beating the past two months rain wise, but we still managed to get around the course in good time. I will be back to play here again soon after "eagling" the ninth. Par 4, 238 yard hole. Hit 3 wood to within 6 feet of the cup...then knocked in putt. First eagle of my life and possibly last.
Via Instapundit -
Victor Davis Hanson in NRO explains where we stand in the Middle East...link
For all the doom and gloom we are making amazing progress. If on the evening of September 11th, an outside observer had predicted that the following would transpire in two years, he would have been considered unhinged: Saddam Hussein gone with the wind; democratic birth pangs in Iraq; the Taliban finished and Mr. Karzai attempting to create constitutional government; Yasser Arafat ostracized by the American government and lord of a dilapidated compound; bin Laden either dead or leading a troglodyte existence; all troops slated to leave Saudi Arabia — and by our own volition, not theirs; Iran and Syria apprehensive rather than boastful about their own promotion of terror; and the Middle East worried that the United States is both unpredictable in its righteous anger and masterful in its use of arms, rather than customarily irresolute and reactive.
Finally, do not expect to read headlines like "85% of Baghdad's Power Restored," "Afghan Women Enroll in Schools by the Millions," or "Americans Put an End to Secret Police and Arbitrary Executions in Iraq." It is not the nature of the present generation of our elites — so unlike our own forefathers in postwar Japan or Germany — to express confidence in our culture, much less in the moral nature of our struggle to end the conditions that caused this war.
President Bush showing gravitas?
Rich Galen's
Mullings compares world opinion from two years ago on the Commander in Chief to present day and finds a far different perception and world. He expresses mostly awe at what history has wrougth in the last two years and the Presidents standing. International Polling has recently shown approval of US down significantly compared to five or ten years prior. We know that relations flucuate over time, but most detractors have respect, grudgingly, when questioned deeper.
Who is the voice of Europe on issues on Terror, Road Map, AIDS? Crickets.. That guy from Crawford is leading the way...
A touch of Galen here....
The leaders of the Old Europe have a problem in common with the Democratic Party in the US: No one has the standing to speak for all of them.
In two short years, nearly to the day, American President George W. Bush - whom the European press, if not the European political leadership, had written off as a "a shallow, arrogant, gun-loving, abortion-hating, Christian fundamentalist Texan buffoon" [Time Magazine, June 13, 2001] - walked into the G-8 summit in France with no one - not the press nor the political leaders - caring what any other person said or what any other person did.
It was George W. Bush's show and George W. Bush showed 'em.
For starters, President Bush dropped $15 Billion to fight AIDS in Africa on the European Union boys, and they blinked. They blinked to the tune of coming up some $13 Billion short of the US commitment. So much for parity.
Too early for high-fiving
I too am encouraged by President Bushs trip to the Mid East and the aura of optimism floating around talks. Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon are making early concessions, Abbas agreeing to hold Hamas and other terror groups in check while Sharon calling for the removal of unauthorized outposts. Yassir Arafat is no where to be found at these talks but casts a shadow over a possible history making event. While a Road Map to Peace is still in draft mode, Abbas appears sincere so far and that is a good sign.
Charles Krauthammer tosses cold water reality here:
There was some hope for change when Mahmoud Abbas became Palestinian prime minister and spoke of ending the violence and accepting Israel. But as of now, Abbas has done nothing. And just this week Yasser Arafat demonstrated who is the real boss of the Palestinians when he deliberately forced a postponement of a summit meeting between Abbas and Ariel Sharon. Until Abbas is in control, the president's visit will constitute a reward for nothing more than cosmetic reform.
The only logic of Bush's visit is that perhaps a photo op with the president of the United States will elevate Abbas and give him the authority to do what he has to do. But the premise of the president's Middle East policy, announced last year on June 24, was that the United States would help the Palestinians achieve statehood in response to real Palestinian reform, not just words.
To read entire article click
here.
Safire - On Target about WMD
Always a voice of sobriety and reason, Columnist William Safire dispels and rebukes the Anti-War Crowd and claims of "being lied" to.
No; the opponents of this genocidal maniac's removal now accuse President Bush and Prime Minister Blair of a colossal hoax. Because Saddam didn't use germs or gas on our troops, they say, that proves Iraq never had them. If we cannot find them right away, they don't exist. They believe Saddam sacrificed tens of billions in oil revenues for no reason at all.
A strong majority of Americans believe he did have a dangerous program running, as he did before. Long before the C.I.A. dispatched agents to northern Iraq, Kurdish sources were quoted in this space about terrorist operations of Ansar al-Islam, whose 600 members included about 150 "Afghan Arabs" trained by Al Qaeda; after our belated bombing, some escaped to Iran.
Here is the whole
thing.
