A Good Line From North of the Border
In the midst of a diatribe against John "I Will Kill Them" Kerry, the Sandwich Shop includes the following paragraphs about another Democratic presidential candidate. Emphasis mine (I just loved the line):
Had the Democrats nominated Joe Lieberman, I sincerely think that National Prayer Day would be conducted in Yiddish this year. Lieberman was the silver bullet against this president. He held mostly all the same positions without the proclivity of doing doing goofy stuff, like not having enough troops to secure a country of hostile foreigners or spending all of the government's money and then some.
This was a National Security election....In a National Security election, the Democrats don't HAVE a better candidate than Lieberman. Like him or not, he's got the credentials and would have been every inch as tough as the President against the jihadists. He probably could have taken the fight to the President in the debates.
And if you are silly enough to believe that it was an "issues" campaign, then Senator Lieberman also would have been your guy. No one has screamed louder about "degrading entertainment" (which happens to be my favorite kind) than he has. Christ, you think he was spending all that time with Bill Bennett playing craps? Lieberman did everything short of give a howling address denouncing the "Hollywood Jews." Mostly because that would be too weird.
Speaking of craps, whitehouse.org skewered that little incident:
For Immediate Release - Office of the Press Secretary - May 6, 2003 - 2:07 P.M. (EST)
SAFEGUARDING AMERICA'S VIRTUOUSNESS: PRESIDENT BUSH'S STATEMENT ANNOUNCING THE APPOINTMENT OF WILLIAM J. BENNETT AS UNITED STATES SLOTS CZAR
Statement by the President
THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. Please be seated. Today it is my pleasure and honor to announce the appointment of former Secretary of Education and Book of Virtues author William J. Bennett as the United States Slots Czar. In his role overseeing the Office of National High Roller's Protection Policy, Dr. Bennett will be launching a ferocious new offensive in America's War on the House Edge in both Indian and normal-people casinos throughout the land. Let's give him a warm Player's Club welcome....
Now as a tiny minority of news nerds may have noticed, certain non-FOX, America-hating reporters have been practicing a type of yellow journalism that favors fact over flag in a shameless attempt to suggest that Bill Bennett is a gluttonous hypocrite just because he does a wee bit of harmless gambling on the side....
Yup, we are all sinners - every one of us.
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