Their complete unwillingness to use force in foreign affairs makes the present election milestone in Iraq an embarrassment to the party. But Scoop Jackson is dead and buried, Sam Nunn is in private life, and it seems there are no Democrat hawks in Congress who will speak up. They do have one member who speaks incessantly about his service in Vietnam, though he hardly seems much help.
Furthermore, the huge erosion of credibility suffered by the mainstream American media over roughly the last 15 years threatens an unelected Democratic stronghold. As a party they have little to say, and few leaders who can articulate a vision effectively. Now they must communicate through a media that is rapidly becoming far more decentralized and therefore more ideologically diverse than the concentrated hothouse of friendly enablers who have helped them so effectively in the past. The clumsy forgeries offered as late campaign news by CBS last September would have devastated a Republican candidate ten or even five years ago. It has always been the case that “in time the truth will out”, but today the outing takes far less time. There are far more ordinary people taking digital photographs, tapping away on keyboards, taking notes on the behavior of their elected officials, and examining local polling records than ever before. And much of this effort then appears on the Internet where it is sucked into Google’s massive databank and made available to millions for collaboration or rebuttal.
Even the slumber of Democrats might be disturbed by nightmares of Condi Rice as the ghost of elections to come. They are right to worry.
From Squaring the Boston Globe
Article comments
1 - NancyGail
Don't worry, next year is election for members of Congress. And Pres Bush still needs a certain number of votes for a bill to pass.
2 - 4Q2
Others (Democratic leaders)have suggested that support for gay marriage is a needless losing proposition.
What you say...somebody should inform the *gay* guns that their support is eroding.
3 - Jim Carruthers
Actually, most of us in the rest of the world don't give a flying fuck at a donut what what retarded son of a bush had to say.
In the rest of the world, we are concerned about peace, development and prosperity. None of what that smirking asshat had to say.
So fuck GW Bush, fuck the USA, and fuck you for supporting a system which only seems to exist to attack the rest of the world.
4 - DrPat
Thanks for a reasoned approach to the positioning woes faced by Democrats in the US, Harry. (Although it looks like Jim's teenaged brat got access to his keyboard again! [grin])
5 - HW Saxton
Carruthers... Tsk,tsk.As self proclaimed
spokesperson for the ENTIRE planet, you
may want to check yourself on the over-
usage of curse words. Just in case there
are kids reading this,ya know? That and
it kills any shock value they might have
left in them.
6 - Diet Doc
Jim Carruthers writes:
"In the rest of the world, we are concerned about peace, development and prosperity."
Thank you, Koffi Annan...sorry, Jim. I am so pleased we have the "Spokesman for the World" on board with this post.
BTW, as previously suggested by another (Mr. Saxton), and as per your "U.N. Manual on Communication Skills Between People," you might be much more effective with a better command of the English language; it allows you to express your obvious outrage without slang profanity.
Cheers,
Ron
7 - DrPat
...the huge erosion of credibility suffered by the mainstream American media over roughly the last 15 years threatens an unelected Democratic stronghold.
Particularly cogent observation.
8 - HW Saxton
Does anyone other than myself get the
feeling that, if Mr. Carruthers lived in
N. Carolina he would probably constantly
bash S.Carolina?