August 13, 2004
OVERSENSITIVE:
GOP Assails Kerry's Call for 'Sensitive' War: Bush, Cheney Remarks Escalate Conflict With Democrats Over Combating Terrorism (Dan Balz and Mark Leibovich, August 13, 2004, Washington Post)
Cheney picked up on a comment by Kerry last week in which he said he would fight a "more sensitive" war on terrorism. "America has been in too many wars for any of our wishes, but not a one of them was won by being sensitive," Cheney said in Dayton. "President Lincoln and General Grant did not wage sensitive warfare -- nor did President Roosevelt, nor Generals Eisenhower and MacArthur. A 'sensitive war' will not destroy the evil men who killed 3,000 Americans and who seek the chemical, nuclear and biological weapons to kill hundreds of thousands more."Cheney went on to question whether Kerry's worldview had been reshaped by the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, as Bush regularly tells his audiences the attacks did for him. "I listened to what Senator Kerry had to say in Boston, and, with all due respect to the senator, he views the world as if we had never been attacked on September 11th," Cheney said. "The job of the commander in chief, as he sees it, is to use America's military strength to respond to attacks. But September 11th showed us, as surely as anything can, that we must act against gathering dangers -- not wait for to be attacked."
Kerry advisers quickly fired back at Cheney and the president, seeking to prevent the Republicans from keeping the Democratic nominee on the defensive. Retired Army Gen. Wesley K. Clark, speaking for the campaign, called Cheney's comments "outrageous"...
How's your campaign looking when quoting the candidate is an outrage?
Posted by Orrin Judd at August 13, 2004 11:20 AM
I dunno, MacArthur was a pretty *sensitive* guy, if you catch my meaning. A domineering mother will do that.
Posted by: Governor Breck at August 13, 2004 11:25 AMIt is ridiculous when the Dems scream outrage and libel when all Bush and the GOP are doing is qouting them or pointing out their votes.
I still maintain that without the main media running cover for him Kerry would be polling below 40%.
Without the media, Kerry would poll below Al Sharpton in any poll, except among wealthy widows looking for a cabana boy, as Orrin likes to call the Cambodia Confabulator.
Posted by: Peter at August 13, 2004 11:46 AMIt is because of the media that Bush even stands a ghost of a chance. Bush has said the same f***ing thing. From Kevin Drum, Bush said the following:
"We help fulfill that promise not by lecturing the world, but by leading it. Precisely because America is powerful, we must be sensitive about expressing our power and influence."
Of course this blog and the idiotic commenters on this site are too obtuse to recognize Bush has said the same f***ing thing. But what is worse, is that the press does not report it AT ALL. (Oh that Liberal media!!!!)
But then dumbsh** Peter gets even more stupid. He claims that the press is on Kerry's side. GOD!!!! (This is me screaming.) Pull your head out of your f***ing ass. Stop being stupid. NOW!!
mkulta,
"same thing", they used the same word in different contexts, that is it (unless you consider "expressing our power and influence" to equate to and only mean the WOT). and you must be living under a rock if you don't think (much) of the press is for Kerry, when there are journalists on record admitting it.
Posted by: Mark at August 13, 2004 4:19 PMThanks though for lowering the level of discourse.
Posted by: oj at August 13, 2004 4:23 PMThere is no liberal media.
There is no liberal media.
There is no liberal media.
[clicks heels of ruby slippers three times and returns to Kansas].
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at August 13, 2004 5:27 PMOf course, I believe the Bush quote is from before Sep 11, and so what "being sensitive" means in relation to overarching national priorities has slightly altered since then. Kerry is among those for whom Sep 11 appears to have changed nothing.
Posted by: brian at August 13, 2004 6:19 PMWhy is anyone still quoting Wesley Clark (the stalking prion)?
Posted by: jim hamlen at August 14, 2004 10:32 AM