Howard Dean has shown himself to be unfit for the Presidency several times this week. First up, announcing that he'd break up Fox because they are ideologically opposed to him. The gobsmacking hubris of this is just beyond the pale. Don't try and tell me he was joking, he wasn't. I saw the tape.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/1000254.asp?cp1=1
[i]MATTHEWS: Well, would you break up GE?
(APPLAUSE)
DEAN: I can`t -- you...
MATTHEWS: GE just buys Universal. Would you do something there about that? Would you stop that from happening?
DEAN: You can`t say -- you can`t ask me right now and get an answer, would I break up X corp... ...[/i]
[GE owns NBC and MSNBC. But a little later: ]
[i]Matthews continued:
"Would you break up Fox?"
(LAUGHTER)
MATTHEWS: I`m serious.
DEAN: I`m keeping a...
MATTHEWS: Would you break it up? Rupert Murdoch has "The Weekly Standard." It has got a lot of other interests. It has got "The New York Post." Would you break it up?
DEAN: On ideological grounds, absolutely yes, but...
(LAUGHTER)
MATTHEWS: No, seriously. As a public policy, would you bring industrial policy to bear and break up these conglomerations of power?
DEAN: I don`t want to answer whether I would break up Fox or not, because, obviously (crosstalk).[/i]
Second, he seems unaware that the Soviet Union ceased to exist some 13 years ago. He meant Russia but said Soviet Union, not once but FOUR TIMES. If this had been Bush the left in this country would have had apoplexy.
[i]".. the key, I believe, to Iran is pressure through the [b]Soviet Union[/b]. The [b]Soviet Union[/b] is supplying much of the equipment that Iran, I believe, most likely is using to set itself along the path of developing nuclear weapons. We need to use that leverage with the [b]Soviet Union[/b] and it may require us to buying the equipment the [b]Soviet Union[/b] was ultimately going to sell to Iran to prevent Iran from them developing nuclear weapons.[/i]
Next, when asked by a caller on a radio show that the theory that Bush was warned in advance that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were going to happen is, in fact, plausible:
[i]"The most interesting theory that I've heard so far – which is nothing more than a theory, it can't be proved – is that he was warned ahead of time by the Saudis," Dean told a caller to Washington, D.C's "Diane Rehm Show," according to a transcript obtained by Opinion Journal.com.
"Now, who knows what the real situation is?" the presidential conspiracy theorist cautioned. He then added, "But the trouble is, by suppressing that kind of information, you lead to those kinds of theories, whether they have any truth to them or not."
[/i]
That little disclaimer at the end does nothing to allow him to wiggle out of this one.
Lastly, Dean doesn't think it matters whether bin Laden or Saddam should be tried in US court or International Court:
[i]DEAN: Again, we are allowing the Bosnian war criminals to be tried at The International Court in The Hague. That suits me fine. As long as they’re brought to justice and tried, and so far we haven’t had to have that discussion because the president has not been able to find either one of them.[/i]
Anyone willing to cede soverignty to international bodies so easily over something so crutial to our nation is a dangerous person to elect presdient.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/1000254.asp?cp1=1
[i]MATTHEWS: Well, would you break up GE?
(APPLAUSE)
DEAN: I can`t -- you...
MATTHEWS: GE just buys Universal. Would you do something there about that? Would you stop that from happening?
DEAN: You can`t say -- you can`t ask me right now and get an answer, would I break up X corp... ...[/i]
[GE owns NBC and MSNBC. But a little later: ]
[i]Matthews continued:
"Would you break up Fox?"
(LAUGHTER)
MATTHEWS: I`m serious.
DEAN: I`m keeping a...
MATTHEWS: Would you break it up? Rupert Murdoch has "The Weekly Standard." It has got a lot of other interests. It has got "The New York Post." Would you break it up?
DEAN: On ideological grounds, absolutely yes, but...
(LAUGHTER)
MATTHEWS: No, seriously. As a public policy, would you bring industrial policy to bear and break up these conglomerations of power?
DEAN: I don`t want to answer whether I would break up Fox or not, because, obviously (crosstalk).[/i]
Second, he seems unaware that the Soviet Union ceased to exist some 13 years ago. He meant Russia but said Soviet Union, not once but FOUR TIMES. If this had been Bush the left in this country would have had apoplexy.
[i]".. the key, I believe, to Iran is pressure through the [b]Soviet Union[/b]. The [b]Soviet Union[/b] is supplying much of the equipment that Iran, I believe, most likely is using to set itself along the path of developing nuclear weapons. We need to use that leverage with the [b]Soviet Union[/b] and it may require us to buying the equipment the [b]Soviet Union[/b] was ultimately going to sell to Iran to prevent Iran from them developing nuclear weapons.[/i]
Next, when asked by a caller on a radio show that the theory that Bush was warned in advance that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were going to happen is, in fact, plausible:
[i]"The most interesting theory that I've heard so far – which is nothing more than a theory, it can't be proved – is that he was warned ahead of time by the Saudis," Dean told a caller to Washington, D.C's "Diane Rehm Show," according to a transcript obtained by Opinion Journal.com.
"Now, who knows what the real situation is?" the presidential conspiracy theorist cautioned. He then added, "But the trouble is, by suppressing that kind of information, you lead to those kinds of theories, whether they have any truth to them or not."
[/i]
That little disclaimer at the end does nothing to allow him to wiggle out of this one.
Lastly, Dean doesn't think it matters whether bin Laden or Saddam should be tried in US court or International Court:
[i]DEAN: Again, we are allowing the Bosnian war criminals to be tried at The International Court in The Hague. That suits me fine. As long as they’re brought to justice and tried, and so far we haven’t had to have that discussion because the president has not been able to find either one of them.[/i]
Anyone willing to cede soverignty to international bodies so easily over something so crutial to our nation is a dangerous person to elect presdient.
Comments