10.01.2004
Hugh highlights wide wedge issue
Last night, Kerry (standing tall in his dark blue suit) said:
What he said is: I want to take this option away from future presidents. I am the anti-nuclear weapons candidate. That is my record for the past 20 years. I danced when they sang '99 Red Balloons."
Says Hugh:
Last night, Kerry (standing tall in his dark blue suit) said:
"Right now the president is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to research bunker-busting nuclear weapons. The United States is pursuing a new set of nuclear weapons. It doesn't make sense.
You talk about mixed messages. We're telling other people, "You can't have nuclear weapons," but we're pursuing a new nuclear weapon that we might even contemplate using.
Not this president. I'm going to shut that program down, and we're going to make it clear to the world we're serious about containing nuclear proliferation."
What he said is: I want to take this option away from future presidents. I am the anti-nuclear weapons candidate. That is my record for the past 20 years. I danced when they sang '99 Red Balloons."
Says Hugh:
How I wish Jim Lehrer had asked him why not. Then the authentic Kerry would have responded on the dangers of American power and American unilateralism. Notice Kerry's dismissiveness of the prospect of even using nuclear bunker busters. Does he prefer that a president of the future not have that option when confronted with a rogue nation threatening us or an ally but whose command and control facilities are buried deep in mountains or below a mile of concrete? Kerry states simply that seriousness about containing nuclear prolfieration begins with "shutting down" American weapons development. This is profoundly at odds with mainstream American defense thinking. It is a radical position, and Kerry is a radical candidate. Kerry expresses amazement that anyone can believe that America can say nukes for us but not for others, but America has been saying that since the dawn of the nuclear era, and must continue to say so. Follow Kerry's logic, and it is the iron logic of unilateral disarmament.
// posted by HunterByrd @ 5:28 PM 
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Mr. Byrd,
A little bit off topic but Hugh's statement gives me the opportunity to get something off my chest:
"How I wish Jim Lehrer had asked him why not."
The fact is old Jim was not going to ask Kerry any tough questions. Someone(s) in the Bush camp did not do their job when they let this LIBERAL act as the moderator of this debate. His questions to Bush were designed to put him on the defensive. Not so with the questions to Kerry. They were cupcake softball pitches. Goes along with all the talk I see on here about NPR. PBS with Lehrer and Moyers are right in line with NPR. Another PBS moderator coming up in a future debate.
What are Bush's people thinking?
Just my thoughts.
Ferd
A little bit off topic but Hugh's statement gives me the opportunity to get something off my chest:
"How I wish Jim Lehrer had asked him why not."
The fact is old Jim was not going to ask Kerry any tough questions. Someone(s) in the Bush camp did not do their job when they let this LIBERAL act as the moderator of this debate. His questions to Bush were designed to put him on the defensive. Not so with the questions to Kerry. They were cupcake softball pitches. Goes along with all the talk I see on here about NPR. PBS with Lehrer and Moyers are right in line with NPR. Another PBS moderator coming up in a future debate.
What are Bush's people thinking?
Just my thoughts.
Ferd
# posted by 
: 9:38 PM
: 9:38 PM
"What are Bush's people thinking?"
Excellent question! Jim Lehrer is no mystery man, that is for sure. I can't remember which big blogger recently parsed Lehrer and his questions in past debates, but the person showed, word for word, phrase by stealthy, predicated phrase what you are talking about, Ferd.
Do you think maybe its calculated to bring some sympathy for W? Maybe its calculated to resonate and seep through the pores and cracks of the mass electorate (kind of like this little thread), until conservatives and lean-toward-Bush undecideds sit around the TV screen, shaking their fists at the moderator, and yelling at the tall, smirking visage of Kerry...
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Excellent question! Jim Lehrer is no mystery man, that is for sure. I can't remember which big blogger recently parsed Lehrer and his questions in past debates, but the person showed, word for word, phrase by stealthy, predicated phrase what you are talking about, Ferd.
Do you think maybe its calculated to bring some sympathy for W? Maybe its calculated to resonate and seep through the pores and cracks of the mass electorate (kind of like this little thread), until conservatives and lean-toward-Bush undecideds sit around the TV screen, shaking their fists at the moderator, and yelling at the tall, smirking visage of Kerry...
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