I suppose it was bound to raise eyebrows when, in the midst of the YearlyKos convention, John Edwards said, “We’re about to enter the seventh year of this phony war…and we’re losing.”<\/p>\n
What’s more, Fox News is bound to play up remarks from Barack Obama, who noted that a black male in Detroit is more likely to go to prison than graduate from high school — and the GOP doesn’t care. “How can we tolerate systems more likely to send young Americans to prison than college?” Obama asked. “Republicans have this maniacally dumb idea of Red versus Blue. They say, Detroit is a blue place, so we’re not going to go there.”<\/p>\n
Chris Dodd, meanwhile, will no doubt get hammered by the right for arguing that instead of the current counter-terrorism strategy, we should focus on energy independence. “We have to have a national energy strategy, which basically says to the Saudis, ‘We’re not going to rely on you.'”<\/p>\n
And Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, took the opportunity to blast the Republican Party’s basic approach to government. “Republican political doctrine has been a failure,” she said. “Look at New Orleans. How can you say that was a success? Look at Baghdad… I don’t think you can look around and say that was a great success.”<\/p>\n
Wait, did I say Democrats at YearlyKos? Actually, all of these comments came from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich<\/a>, during a speech<\/a> at the Young America’s Foundation National Conservative Student Conference in DC.<\/p>\n My mistake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I suppose it was bound to raise eyebrows when, in the midst of the YearlyKos convention, John Edwards said, “We’re about to enter the seventh year of this phony war…and we’re losing.” What’s more, Fox News is bound to play up remarks from Barack Obama, who noted that a black male in Detroit is more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}