Re: When Will the Democrats Wake Up?

"Mitchell Holman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Dallas Morning News
> 11/11/03
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> 'When will the Democrats wake up?'
>
> The Bush-bashing by the Democrats is heating up as we
> draw closer to the 2004 elections. Yet, in spite of
> this, two more Republican governors - one in Kentucky,
> and another in Mississippi ­- were elected last week.
>
> This proves that Democrats just don't really understand
> what's important to the average American who remembers
> how bad things were four years ago.
>
> Sure, the Bush administration is creating a debt (even
> larger than Ronald Reagan's) that will take generations
> of Americans to pay off. And it's true that things appear
> to be getting worse - not better - in Iraq and are beginning
> to have a somewhat Vietnamesque appearance with American
> soldiers dying at an alarming rate. Oh, and yeah. No weapons
> of mass destruction found yet.
>
> And it is true that warlords control all of Afghanistan
> except for Kabul and some major highways. And it's also
> true that NATO and the United Nations are now less effective
> due to our mostly unilateral military intervention into Iraq,
> which lessens stability worldwide. And, OK, the much-touted
> Bush plan for $15 billion in AIDS assistance for Africa in
> the end will really only amount to a fraction of that being
> delivered. And, yes, it's a fact that the Bush administration
> wants to starve Amtrak out of existence (though it carried a
> record number of Americans this year), while $87 billion is
> just the tip of what's needed in Iraq and Afghanistan in the
> future.
>
> And, of course, I concede that the Bush administration did
> manage to convert all the worldwide good will following Sept.
> 11 into a general distrust, if not outright hatred of the
> United States throughout the globe. Yes, all these things are
> unfortunate.
>
> But, as Democrats seem to forget, all of these things remain
> inconsequential in comparison to President Clinton's sexual
> relations with Monica (even though it was two consenting adults).
> When will the Democrats wake up?
>
> Mark W. Meyer, Haltom City, Texas

   Good one.

John