Spirit of Debate

in the early morning on Wednesday, the 15th of September 2004 by Chad

Used to be a democrat would just end an argument with either: “Baby Killer” or “Hitler/Nazi” when they had no logic for thier situation. At least their vocabulary has now increased a bit.
Captain’s Quarters now reports on the Kerry/Edwards campaign using the utterly brilliant closing line: “VietNam, I was there, you weren’t, nyah nyah”

Vice President Dick Cheney turned Sen. John Kerry's own words against him Tuesday while criticizing the Democrat for calling the war in Iraq "the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time." In an echo of a charge President Bush leveled at Kerry last week, Cheney contended that Kerry's position was held early in the primary campaign by Democratic presidential rival Howard Dean. "Sen. Kerry said, and I quote, 'Those who doubted whether Iraq or the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein and those who believe today that we are not safer with his capture, don't have the judgment to be president or the credibility to be elected president,'" Cheney said. "In the spirit of bipartisanship, that's one position of Sen. Kerry's that I do agree with," he said.

Like it or not, that’s political debate, and pointing out inconsistencies in an opponent’s publicly stated positions is not only fair game, but very germane to the election. In response, one would normally expect the Kerry campaign to present examples of Cheney or Bush switching positions or a clarification of the nuance behind the seeming contradiction that Cheney points out. One would expect that kind of response from adults. This is what we get from the shrill adolescents at the Kerry/Edwards campaign:

Mark Kitchens, a spokesman for the Kerry-Edwards campaign, called Cheney's criticism an insult. "Cheney's attacks come from a man who took five deferments from Vietnam and are disingenuous at best. His attacks are an insult to all of us who have ever worn the uniform," Kitchens said. "George Bush and Dick Cheney like to blame others for their failures but they fail to see that the buck stops at their desks at the White House."

In a way, I do wish the UN had a pair. Can you imagine these thin-skinned debutantes actually getting criticized for something, by, lets say, France?
“Ze US eez arrogant!”
“Waaaaah! The North VietNamese didn’t call us arrogant! You are so mean! You weren’t in VietNam! oh, you were? Dien Ben what?”