Inbox, Outbook, 4/25
COLUMBIA -- Let's take a breath to catch up with the day in politics.
1. John McCain announces. His speech is lauded. This is the key message:
“You can’t sell me on hopelessness. You can’t convince me our problems are insurmountable. Our challenges are an opportunity to write another chapter of American greatness. We must seize it, and those of us privileged to lead America must remember the principles that made us great, have the faith to stand by them, the integrity to honor our public trust, and the courage to keep our promise to put the nation’s interests before our own. Don’t tell me what we can’t do. Don’t tell me we can’t make our country stronger, and the world safer. We can. We must. And when I’m President we will.
There's a tiny dig at Rudy Giuliani in there. Right?
They won't accept that firemen and policemen are unable to communicate with each other in an emergency because they don't have the same radio frequency.
2. Christian groups are gloating that Rosie O'Donnell is leaving The View.
3. John Edwards responds to Rudy's 9/11 comments:
"Rudy Giuliani's suggestion that there is some superior 'Republican' way to fight terrorism is both divisive and plain wrong. He knows better. That's not the kind of leadership he offered in the days immediately after 9/11, and it's not the kind of leadership any American should be offering now."As far as the facts are concerned, the current Republican administration led us into a war in Iraq that has made us less safe and undermined the fight against al Qaeda. If that's the 'Republican' way to fight terror, Giuliani should know that the American people are looking for a better plan. That's just one more reason why this election is so important; we need to elect a Democratic president who will end the disastrous diversion of the war in Iraq."
4. The Draft Fred Thompson Committee signs up Bush pioneer and ex-TN GOP chair Beth Harwell.
McCain speech is lauded? Are you sure we were watching the same speech. As a staunch Republican who previously supported McCain against Bush, I found his speech rather dull, flat and uninspirational, much like his current campaign for the White House.
McCain was awful on Daily Show last night. Jon Stewart destroyed any credibility that was left of McCain last night. McCain came up with his phony Bushie styled talking points and Jon destroyed them one by one. At some points McCain was seething in anger internally. McCain was trying to defend the indefensible.
McCain has only one platform left and that is keep on escalating war in Iraq.
After watching McCain's speech, I think the GOP has to be very very worried come 2008. They really have a mediocre group of candidates this cycle.
This is Barack Obama's response to Giuliani's comments:
Rudy Giuliani today has taken the politics of fear to a new low and I believe Americans are ready to reject those kind of politics. America's mayor should know that when it comes to 9/11 and fighting terrorists, America is united. We know we can win this war based on shared purpose, not the same divisive politics that question your patriotism if you dare to question failed policies that have made us less secure. I think we should focus on strengthening our intelligence, working with local authorities and doing all the things we haven't yet done to keep Americans safe. The threat we face is real, and deserves better than to be the punchline of another political attack.