DOUBLE-CROSSING PARTY LINES
May 21st, 2008, 9:51 am · Post a Comment · posted by Dan Lehr
An interesting pair of twists & turns today.
Connecticut Senator & former Democratic vice-presidential candidate Joe Lieberman (I) writes an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal criticizing the foreign policy of Barack Obama:
“There are of course times when it makes sense to engage in tough diplomacy with hostile governments. Yet what Mr. Obama has proposed is not selective engagement, but a blanket policy of meeting personally as president, without preconditions, in his first year in office, with the leaders of the most vicious, anti-American regimes on the planet.
Mr. Obama has said that in proposing this, he is following in the footsteps of Reagan and JFK. But Kennedy never met with Castro, and Reagan never met with Khomeini. And can anyone imagine Presidents Kennedy or Reagan sitting down unconditionally with Ahmadinejad or Chavez? I certainly cannot.”
& Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel (R) spoke out yesterday to criticize John McCain:
“I’m very upset with John with some of the things he’s been saying. And I can’t get into the psychoanalysis of it. But I believe that John is smarter than some of the things he is saying. He is, he understands it more. John is a man who reads a lot, he’s been around the world. I want him to get above that and maybe when he gets into the general election, and becomes the general election candidate he will have a higher-level discourse on these things.”
Guys, just switch parties already!
What do you think?
