Friday, March 14, 2008

I don't want to, but I will ...

"I don't want to disparage anyone because of their race, their ethnicity, their name -- whatever their religion their father might have been," he said. "I'll just say this: When you think about the optics of a Barack Obama potentially getting elected President of the United States -- I mean, what does this look like to the rest of the world? What does it look like to the world of Islam?"

"I will tell you that, if he is elected president, then the radical Islamists, the al-Qaida, the radical Islamists and their supporters, will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11 because they will declare victory in this War on Terror."

"Additionally, his middle name (Hussein) does matter. It matters because they read a meaning into that in the rest of the world. That has a special meaning to them. They will be dancing in the streets because of his middle name. They will be dancing in the streets because of who his father was and because of his posture that says: Pull out of the Middle East and pull out of this conflict."

-- Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King

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My comment:

Those who cannot win on the strength of their arguments seem to always resort to personal invective and ad hominem attacks. Here's a guy who doesn't have a have a positive idea about how to deal with the issues that confront the country; the bogus war in Iraq when the focus should be on the terrorists in Afghanistan, an economy circling the bowl and a nation divided by fear, lies and misdirections. He wears his prejudices - the same kind of prejudices and bigotry that are at the root of the Sunni-Shiite violence unleashed in Iraq - with such pride and conviction. Perhaps he represents his party better than some of us would like to admit.

It's also an interesting hypocracy to read his statement of what he doesn't want to do ... just before he does what he just said didn't want to do. Do these people ever actually listen to themselves?

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