Gary Hart: Who has courage to say "No more?"
Former Sen. Gary Hart challenges Democrats to speak out on Iraq, in a Washington Post op ed.
George McGovern's 1972 campaign, which Hart managed, suffered a crushing defeat, for a variety of reasons -- but not because of his principled stand against the Vietnam War. Sen. Russ Feingold, whose call for a target date for withdrawal is actually pretty moderate, is on the cutting edge of the Democratic Party on the issue, virtually all alone. Right now, the answer to the question Hart poses below is Russ Feingold.
From Hart's column:
No Democrat, especially one now silent, should expect election by default. The public trust must be earned, and speaking clearly, candidly and forcefully now about the mess in Iraq is the place to begin.
The real defeatists today are not those protesting the war. The real defeatists are those in power and their silent supporters in the opposition party who are reduced to repeating "Stay the course" even when the course, whatever it now is, is light years away from the one originally undertaken. The truth is we're way off course. We've stumbled into a hornet's nest. We've weakened ourselves at home and in the world. We are less secure today than before this war began.
Who now has the courage to say this?
posted by xoff @ 8:20 AM
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3 Comments:
Gary Hart? Really? As a dog returns to it's own vomit, the Democrats have to trot out their tired, used and obliterated figures to make their point.
I'm a free speech advocate and not afraid to take criticism. I don't want to start censoring comments. But your early morning comments -- there were 11 overnight last night -- get worse and worse as the hour gets later.
After midnight, when whatever you're ingesting takes hold of you, try thinking twice before posting something that compares a former US Senator to dog vomit.
This is the kind of comment that will lead me to edit, delete or turn them off.
Fair warning.
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