If Hillary and Obama criticize too hard, they can run risk of their words being construed as being anti-military, thus anti-patriotic which is completely counter-intuitive if a real patriot like Jefferson were still alive. But the reality is that this kind of negative talk will not bode well to capture all those voters that live in the middle of the country and love that them there military.
Instead, they talk out of both sides of their mouth. They are mute about the military, but will say that since we have created some much instability in the gulf and this has contributed to high gas prices, we need more alternatives sources of energy, like ethanol, which those people in the middle of the country love to hear (Conrad, you are right about the ethanol, I am done trying to drink that koolaid). So, a safe statement like, "This drawn out confusing war has shown America that we cannot depend on the middle east to supply our energy needs, so we need to create better alternatives at home."
Side note: Like I said a year ago at the coffee shop when we talked about this, if Bush wants support for this war and was actually a good politician, gas prices should be at a $1.50 a gallon. Please note that a good politician does not mean a good person.
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Date: 2007-05-24 11:46 pm (UTC)Instead, they talk out of both sides of their mouth. They are mute about the military, but will say that since we have created some much instability in the gulf and this has contributed to high gas prices, we need more alternatives sources of energy, like ethanol, which those people in the middle of the country love to hear (Conrad, you are right about the ethanol, I am done trying to drink that koolaid). So, a safe statement like, "This drawn out confusing war has shown America that we cannot depend on the middle east to supply our energy needs, so we need to create better alternatives at home."
Side note:
Like I said a year ago at the coffee shop when we talked about this, if Bush wants support for this war and was actually a good politician, gas prices should be at a $1.50 a gallon. Please note that a good politician does not mean a good person.