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DEL.ICIO.USA Karl Rove, Max Cleland face-off
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Let the following serve as a lesson to organizers of the current snoozers that somehow pass for presidential debates:
First, take a controversial learning institution. Say, Regents University in Virginia, founded by evangelical politician and broadcaster Pat Robertson.
Pick two pairs of debaters. Put former U.S. senator Max Cleland and retired Army general Barry McCaffery on one side. Set up ex-White House guru Karl Rove and former Florida governor Jeb Bush opposite them.
Toss in a question: “Should America bring democracy to the world?”
Then let the feathers fly, leaving the preservation of civilization to a single moderator, PBS journalist Charlie Rose.
This will happen on Oct. 26. Witnesses will be charged $40. Splatter sheets will be provided to occupants of the first three rows.
So far as we know, this will be the first time Rove and Cleland have met. Many supporters of Cleland believe that Rove — during Cleland’s unsuccessful re-election campaign — was behind the TV ad that paired the triple-amputeed, Vietnam veteran with an image of Osama bin Laden.
Rove was asked about it as he exited the White House last month. “We’ve got better things to do than write television ads in Senate campaigns in Georgia,” President Bush’s brain said.
Comments
By Will Jones
October 16, 2007 4:59 PM | Link to this
The question is “Should we restore democracy to America?” It won’t happen until we bring Bush to justice for committing 9/11, removing the Justices who fraudulently appointed him president, and hang his father for assassinating John Kennedy, and, no doubt, Dr. King. America is in deep trouble. 90% of the problem is simply recognizing the obvious false-elite which has usurped The Republic. Trials, expropriation and banishment of the fascist plutocracy will be fairly easy once The People understand their treason.
By Anonymous
October 17, 2007 8:24 AM | Link to this
Rove should be very thankful that Cleland is in a wheelchair and has too much class to shoot him. (But maybe he could hire Dick Cheney to do it.)
As for the question: “Should we bring democracy to the world?” YES—but by example, not by force. That’s something Rove and the neocon traitors will never understand.
By Neal (that's how he spells it)
October 17, 2007 12:17 PM | Link to this
A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged.
I think we should set an example for murderers and pedophiles—not by holding them accountable for their actions—but by leading good, clean lives and asking them to do the same. Hillary will help us do just that, won’t she? Yes she will.
By SpaceyG
October 17, 2007 1:25 PM | Link to this
Wow. I’d about run over my granny to see something like that, but only if David Addington was my date for the evening.
By Sel
October 18, 2007 12:58 PM | Link to this
Max: take the gloves off! having survived Jeb as governor of Florida here’s hoping you kick both the weasel’s butts!
By George
October 23, 2007 10:50 AM | Link to this
Max will get destroyed. He will repeat the same three cliches, and comparisons to Vietnam. Jeb Bush, unlike his brother, is a policy wonk, quick on his feet, who will roll over Max with facts and statistics.
I’m a conservative Democrat who voted for Max in 1996, and I don’t like everything going on with this war, but couldn’t they put someone else up, like a Carl Levin. Max is not the brightest bulb out there and the Dems can offer someone better.
By Tommy
October 24, 2007 6:49 AM | Link to this
Cleland’s an old whine bag, who should just fade away already. He cared more about protecting unions than himself. In the end, the only veteran he cares about the day is himself.