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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Friday, September 24, 2004

Mixed messages

Senator John Edwards released the following statement today:

“The administration’s credibility on Iraq collapsed today. Over the past 24 hours, the President, the Vice President, the Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of State have all contradicted each other on elections in Iraq.

“For a President who is fond of saying we should not send mixed messages – you need a scorecard today to keep up with all the different and contradictory statements from the White House.

“The President also talked about the need to support Prime Minister Allawi. The best lesson for any fledgling democracy is that leaders should tell the truth, to always be straight with the people. Prime Minister Allawi’s trip to the United States was filled with all the wrong lessons, lessons from an administration that just can’t seem to tell the truth when it comes to Iraq.”

You can see their mixed messages at the link above. This is a campaign on defense, and they can't seem to pull it together. Democrats on message have knocked the Republicans off. I like it. I like it alot.