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01-20-2010, 06:22 PM
While the talk on the healthcare situation seems to dominate, I have started a few threads on here regarding national security, which is a big big issue not talked about much.
Seems that this election in Mass had other things stewing that most are not talking about...
"It was health care that nationalized the special election for what we now know is the people’s Senate seat. But it was national security that put real distance between Scott Brown and Martha Coakley. “People talk about the potency of the health-care issue,” Brown’s top strategist, Eric Fehrnstrom, told National Review’s Robert Costa, “but from our own internal polling, the more potent issue here in Massachusetts was terrorism and the treatment of enemy combatants.” There is a powerful lesson here for Republicans, and here’s hoping they learn it."
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZTAyNjJiMGZmMWU4NGQ2MDZlZjRlNDkyYTE0OGJlNGE=#mo re
When you add this quote AND ARTICLE to the one I cited on the Mort Zuckerman column (thread titled "A DISASTER") which was as follows...
"He’s improved America’s image in the world. He absolutely did. But you have to translate that into something. Let me tell you what a major leader said to me recently. “We are convinced,” he said, “that he is not strong enough to confront his enemy. We are concerned,” he said “that he is not strong to support his friends.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-19/hes-done-everything-wrong/?cid=bs:archive3
It does not give you a very comfortable feeling. Those on the left will be thinking how they always say....dont live in fear...I dont, BUT I am a realist !
Seems that this election in Mass had other things stewing that most are not talking about...
"It was health care that nationalized the special election for what we now know is the people’s Senate seat. But it was national security that put real distance between Scott Brown and Martha Coakley. “People talk about the potency of the health-care issue,” Brown’s top strategist, Eric Fehrnstrom, told National Review’s Robert Costa, “but from our own internal polling, the more potent issue here in Massachusetts was terrorism and the treatment of enemy combatants.” There is a powerful lesson here for Republicans, and here’s hoping they learn it."
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZTAyNjJiMGZmMWU4NGQ2MDZlZjRlNDkyYTE0OGJlNGE=#mo re
When you add this quote AND ARTICLE to the one I cited on the Mort Zuckerman column (thread titled "A DISASTER") which was as follows...
"He’s improved America’s image in the world. He absolutely did. But you have to translate that into something. Let me tell you what a major leader said to me recently. “We are convinced,” he said, “that he is not strong enough to confront his enemy. We are concerned,” he said “that he is not strong to support his friends.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-19/hes-done-everything-wrong/?cid=bs:archive3
It does not give you a very comfortable feeling. Those on the left will be thinking how they always say....dont live in fear...I dont, BUT I am a realist !