If you want to know what the Democratic presidential candidates and the Democratic Party believe, the debates, often derided as intellectually inconsequential, reveal a great deal. The problem is that news media almost never report the most important statements the candidates make.
That is Dennis Prager the other day .at Townhall.com.
From this point he goes on to list all of the various candidates, and at least one flaw in each of their positions. Here’s a few:
John Edwards on Americans going hungry: “Thirty-five million Americans last year went hungry. . . .This [election] is about those 35 million people who are hungry every single year.”
There is no truth to this charge against America. The only basis for it is a U.S. Department of Agriculture Report saying that about 35 million Americans experienced “household food insecurity” in 2006. That term does not, the USDA emphasized, mean hunger, but being forced to reduce “variety in their diets” or eat a “few basic foods” at various times of the year. If a country could sue for libel, America would have cause to sue Mr. Edwards.
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Dennis Kucinich on giving driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants: “I take issue with your description of people being illegal immigrants. There aren’t any illegal human beings, that’s number one.”
Who ever said anything about “illegal human beings”? “Illegal immigrant” describes one’s immigration status, not one’s humanity. Such a statement embarrasses public discourse.
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Hillary Clinton (discussing Pakistan) on the link between democracy in an Islamic country and American security: “There’s absolutely a connection between a democratic regime and heightened security for the United States.”Isn’t that precisely what President Bush has been saying for years about Iraq? And isn’t that idea exactly what Democrats have held in contempt?
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You get the idea, I suspect. It’s a worthy read which I commend to you today. hefty yet been reading, though, I’d like you think about something; there are merely the presidential candidates. Can you imagine what the Congress critters of the Democratic Party are saying? What kind of nonsense are they laying on the voter?
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