Kerry is right, foreign leaders want Bush beaten

[jbfam4]

http://www.thehill.com/marshall/031704.aspx
Kerry is right, foreign leaders want Bush beaten



White House surrogates have spent several days pressing Sen. Kerry (D-Mass.) to name names. And yesterday, White House press secretary Scott McClellan upped the ante by claiming Kerry was lying. “Either is straightforward and states who they are, or the only conclusion one can draw is that he is making it up to attack the president,” McClellan intoned.


Then a slightly less breathless Vice President Dick Cheney demanded that Kerry tell Americans what he’d promised to those foreign leaders to make them so supportive of his candidacy.



Indeed, up until the White House glommed onto this recent line of attack, the administration’s contempt for the views of foreigners has been something it had been proud of and boasted of often. Remember the president’s cocky boasts about not needing anybody’s “permission” to launch the Iraq war?


The record of foreign elections over the last two and a half years is telling. It is difficult, if not impossible, to find a foreign leader who has supported Bush in any high-profile way and then survived a national election. True, it’s hard to find many examples beside Jose Maria Aznar. But that’s because it’s hard to find any foreign heads of state who have been supporters of the president.


As Fareed Zakaria — hardly a lefty or a Bush-hater — noted a year ago, the president’s policies have “alienated friends and delighted enemies. Having traveled around the world and met with senior government officials in dozens of countries over the past year, I can report that with the exception of Britain and Israel, every country the administration has dealt with feels humiliated by it.”

[wryter2000]

1. I'm LMAO

This is soooo stoopid of them. They'd get somewhere by crying, "He's selling us out to furriners." This is only going to hurt them.

[slor]

2. We need to stop...

perpetuating this lie...he said "more leaders". It may be true that foreign leaders want * gone, but Kerry did not say it! The Democrats are dropping the ball on this big time. He cannot name names because he did not say it.

[Gasolinedream]

3. I'd love...

to start seeing people come out in support of Kerry from other nations. THat would just crack me up. Stupid A-hole chimp!!!! Sorry, needed to get that out.

[MissMarple]

4. "VP Winds Up Crowd With Disputed Pitch" headline in the Denver Post.

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~64~2022244,00.html

This article pokes gentle fun at Cheney, but it is somewhat ambiguous regarding Kerry. However, Kerry's spokeswoman makes the cogent point with which I think we all agree, that "leaders" want Bush gone.

Ironically, the headline just above this one on the Post's front page reads "Allies wary of standing with Bush, Poll taken before Madrid bombings shows anti-U.S. sentiment growing". So if someone wants to know which leaders, I say just check out the daily news. This was the major headline in the print edition.

http://denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E23827%257E2022250,00.html

Also in the entertainment section is an article on a book written by former Delaware Republican Governor Russell W. Peterson. He writes, "Today is a frightening time in America". In an interview he states, "I think what they are doing is evil, It's absolutely painful. My country is being ruined by those characters."

And we know who those "characters" are. Needless to say Delaware Republican Party leaders are not happy with the truth talking governor. His self published book is "Patriots, Stand Up! This Land Is Our Land; Fight to Take It Back". He also has a summer home near Ward, Colorado.
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~45~2021124,00.html