Right Voices

He reminds me of a one hit wonder in the entertainment industry.  They never really made it yet feel that did.  So why would we be hearing about this? : 

Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean has been meeting with world leaders to repair “the extraordinary damage” that the Bush administration has done to America’s image and to prepare the way for a new Democratic president.”I am trying to build relationships with other governments in preparation for a Democratic takeover,” Dean told me. “I want to make clear that there is an opposition in America and that we are ready to take power and that when we do, we are going to have much better relationships with them.”…

“During the Cold War, we certainly had people who didn’t like us, but they respected us,” Dean said. “Now, unfortunately, they don’t like us and they don’t respect us. And that needs to be fixed. And I consider one of my informal jobs to help fix it with like-minded world leaders so we do have some relationships.”

Allah feels:

It’s the sort of thing that usually involves Waffles, not Dean, and tends to happen in front of crowds, not behind closed doors, but it comes from the same not-in-my-name impulse that’s tying the Dems in knots now over their withdrawal plans. They’re looking for a way to take control of the war without “owning” it, ownership being reserved for Bush alone. Same with foreign policy: it’s not America’s, it’s his, which is why Dean can be so casual in admitting to having flouted it and Hillary can be so cavalier about the prospect of ethnic cleansing in Iraq. Why should she have to worry about that as president? That’s Bush’s mess, not America’s.

I don’t know what’s more alienating, the fact that they care so unduly what “the world” thinks of them or that disclaiming allegiance to the Chimperor is so mainstream that Ace could float a joke like this with perfect confidence that everyone would get it.

The Princess:

For some reason, it always escapes people that the rest of the world existed in a complex diplomatic relationship with the United States for two hundred years before George Bush took office. From the time of our inception, we’ve been wielding different powers at different times, but we’ve always wielded them in strict opposition to Europe, at least in the context of international law, problem solving, conflict resolution. The only time the rest of the world has tolerated us was when we were doing their bidding, something even Wesley Clark can tell you was a mistake. But never mind that, Howard Dean has a super-secret plan that is going to change our two century old conflict with the rest of the world, bring peace to the land, and perhaps he might just even build us a brand new United Nations where we can all live under the same demagogic leadership.

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