LA Times calls BUSH a COWARD.....finally it is out.....

[msongs]

The lead editorial in the LA Times today (Tues. Sept. 28) said Bush is a coward! finally the word is out of the box. now let's use it.

"How Dare Kerry Speak up" slams the repub concept and promotion that terrorists support Kerry. In the lead sentence of the last paragraph, a summary of the editorial, the Times says "Compared with Kerry, George W. Bush is a coward." Nice to see the LA Times has the external male gonads to do what the dems are afraid to do....tell the truth and use the correct word.


"compared with Kerry, George W Bush is a coward."

Posted this on the Kerry blog and not one person commented. Oh well.

Msongs
Riverside CA

[cheshire]

1. I love straight talk call a turd a turd. Of chicken turd.

[rndmprsn]

2. Link

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-kerry28sep28,1,1565112.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials

great op/ed!

This attempt to delegitimize criticism rather than rebut it comes as part three of a three-part Republican strategy. (At least we hope there are only three parts.) Part one was the first wave of Swift boat ads (and the ridiculous hoo-ha around them), raising questions about Kerry's Vietnam service. From there it was an easy leap to part two, the second Swift boat wave and the accompanying fuss about Kerry's leadership of the Vietnam antiwar movement. Part three drives it all home: As during Vietnam, so during Iraq. The guy is still at it, disloyally attacking his own country in wartime and giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

As this page noted during the second Swift boat attack, the Vietnam antiwar movement (or at least the part of it Kerry was associated with) was the essence of patriotism, trying to rescue our country from a terrible mistake and to prevent the waste of any more young lives. Those who attack Kerry today for opposing the war back then overlook the fact that the country came to agree with him. If Kerry and others had refrained from criticism out of a crude notion of patriotism and a misguided "respect" for American troops, many more of those troops would be long dead today.

Kerry's position on Iraq is not a model of clarity and consistency. His critique of the Bush policy has the tang of opportunism. But he is more right than wrong, certainly more right than Bush, and in any event more within his rights to make the argument than Bush is in trying to suppress it. And, as with Vietnam, the nation's policy is gradually shifting Kerry's way. Would Bush have made even the halfhearted efforts of recent weeks to share the burden and direction of the war with the United Nations if he hadn't been looking over his shoulder at the Democratic candidate for his job? To accuse Kerry of aiding the enemy while taking his advice is despicable.

[rockymountaindem]

3. Today in my French class the professor asked what we thought of Bush.

I'm in Canada, so Bush isn't mr. popular here ;)

I replied that "Il est un cobard qui envoie les autres a ses morts."

It means "he is a coward who sends others to their deaths". My prof, who is a Russian American, gave quite the uneasy smile. He's on our side, though.

[yardwork]

6. He is a coward who sends others to their deaths.

That is nothing but the truth. The same is true of Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, and Rice.

[Carla in Ca]

7. Yardwork, you forgot to mention one thing

"He is a coward who sends others to their deaths" and then makes jokes.

[WilliamPitt]

4. "Posted this on the Kerry blog and not one person commented."

They're out working.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

5. Put the statement in its context:

This editorial closes:

"Compared with Kerry, George W. Bush is a coward. This is not a reference to their respective activities during Vietnam. It refers to the current election campaign. Bush happily benefits from the slime his supporters are spreading but refuses to take responsibility for it or to call point-blank for it to stop. He got away with this when the prime mover was the shadowy Swift boats group. Will he get away with it when the accusers are his own vice president, high officials of his own administration (Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage) and members of Congress from his own party (House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert or Sen. Orrin Hatch)? The answer is yes: Based on recent experience, he probably will get away with it."

This truth needs to become common knowledge. Everyone knows it. Everyone needs to see it.

[AmerDem]

8. Wow, if this was posted at DU today

I totally missed it. Thanks for the post!

[progressivebydesign]

9. Fabulous!! It's been a good KERRY DAY!!

Between that and the utter deliciousness of the Crawford newspaper endorsement of Kerry.. it's all good. Our local paper, in a HEAVY military area, ran a scathing wire story about Bush's true ANG duty. It was all there, warts and all... very cool.

[DeepModem Mom]

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