July 16, 2006

Gingrich and Biden Do Meet the Press

Two presidential candidates were on TV with Tim Russert this morning (as was Bob Novak - oy, Russert is such a pompous, dishonest tool). I find Biden's bid laughable, but some are taking Gingrich's bid seriously. Or they were. After these comments I'd really hope people wouldn't want to make this man president. His analysis of the present state of world politics and our involvement in the Middle East is ... well, I'll just be REALLY nice and call it peculiar.

Posted by armand at July 16, 2006 08:22 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics


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I read a couple pages of the interview, and I'm not sure it's obvious to all of us what you're suggesting is the crazy talk. I mean I don't agree with giving North Korea assurances about their security as a reward for bad behavior, but what in particular was your concern?

Posted by: Morris at July 16, 2006 11:36 PM | PERMALINK

Uh, he's equating things that have nothing to do with each other, he's hyping the non-threat of those idiots in Miami, he seems to be suggesting the US should be fighting side by side with the Israelis (or at least the hopelessly inept and friendly with bad guys Lebanese) in Lebanon, he seems to think Israeli unlateralism will bring peace, he almost seems to think that US and Israeli interests are always the same thing (we should consider an attack on Israel an attack on the US? aside from the bad policy implications of that the bad political implications of just saying it out loud are huge), he thinks we are in "World War III, he has the nerve to blame our bureaucracies for what he sees as our poor success rate in Iraq instead of the White House (and to the degree one US bureaucracy deserves great blame it's the Pentagon, which he doesn't mention - all this is highly questionable.

Posted by: Armand at July 17, 2006 09:40 AM | PERMALINK

. . . and he seems to think we can walk into NK, pull the plug on an ICBM on the launchpad, and walk back out, turning the lights out as we go.

Posted by: moon at July 17, 2006 10:10 AM | PERMALINK
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