January 27, 2004
I Have a Scream
The more I think about it, I just didn't see the big issue with Dean's speech in Iowa. I read Charles Krauthammer's column on the subject in the local paper, and he reported that observers on the ground and
in the room didn't think it was out of place either.
Admittedly, I'm writing this a bit late, but I smell a replay of the Nixon-Kennedy 1960 debates, where television and radio audiences came away with completely different views of the outcome. People who listened thought RN mopped the floor with Kennedy. People who watched thought Kennedy vigah-ed his way through past RN. History demonstrates that the image outweighed the substance, and of course Kennedy would go on to be the President.
I pretty much understand the circumstances (in the abstract) which would lead to this, and I can see myself as a campaign manager telling a candidate that "Look, you've got to do something. Get out there and work the crowd, even though we took a beating. Go! Fire them up, do something; I don't care what you do!"
Oddly enough, it was Al Sharpton (religious post not noted due to the fact that I don't know a) what denomination he's from and b) where his home church is) that made this clear, albeit indirectly. He noted something on the order of "if I'd spent all that money and come in third, I'd be hootin' and hollerin' too", and I realized that Dean was doing damage control. Yes, it backfired, but damage control can be like that sometimes.
I remain inclined to give him a pass on the issue. He was doing what he had to do, i.e. deflect attention away from the result. Mission accomplished, but I doubt it was in the fashion that Joe Trippi intended. Maybe I'm just jaded, but I really don't care if Governor Dean lets out a bellow or two. Sure it sounded strange, but hey, TV's like that.
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Actually, it's very becoming of a conservative to point out that there's one Jewish person he actually would vote for! As in, "Why, some of my best friends are..."
Don't look now, but the religious right is trying to form an unholy alliance with conservatives of any dogma. Me, I preferred Lowell Weicker. BTW, Disraeli was a conservative.
Posted by: Philip at January 28, 2004 10:15 PM (OttLq)
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Actually, there's another Jewish dude that conservatives vote for, here in Virginia. His name is Eric Cantor, and he's the member of the House of Representatives for somewhere around the City of Richmond/Henrico County area. If memory serves, he's on his second term, contributing to Virginia's Republican congressional delegation.
I didn't like Lowell Weicker, for a variety of reasons, primarily his role on the Ervin committee back about thirty years ago.
Yes, Mr. Disraeli was a Conservative. He's also the source of one of the funnier quotes from politics, the one where he quips in response to criticism of his religion by an Irishman named Daniel O'Connell, "Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine
were priests in the temple of Solomon."
Hee hee. Judah P. Benjamin, future Confederate Secretary of State, reportedly also had something along this line, being quoted prior to 1861 as saying, "The gentleman will please remember that when his half-civilized ancestors were hunting the wild boar in the forests of Silesia, mine were the princes of the earth."
Gotta love that sense of humor. The above quotes and circumstances were shamelessly copied from the archives of "Mendele: Yiddish literature and language, Volume 3.234", dating from 13 February 1994.
Posted by: The Country Pundit at January 29, 2004 12:50 AM (vzFeT)
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