Mechelle Poling – 4/1/07

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Democrats are blowing it; Mechelle Poling; Beaver County Times; April 1, 2008.

In an April 2007 letter entitled “Congress must end the war,” Ms. Poling asserted, “Congress needs to declare war on the Bush administration.” As I wrote in my critique of that letter, “I love it when people like Ms. Poling make their positions clear. President Bush is the enemy, not the Islamofascists trying to kill us.”

In a rambling, run-on comment (Sunday August 26, 2007 at 09:05 AM EST) in response to one I made on the Times website regarding “Paging Al Gore,” Ms. Poling wrote, “Bush and his administration are nothing but a bunch of war mongrel lying thieves.” I believe this comment tells us far more about Ms. Poling than it does anyone else.

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“The Democrats have never had a better chance of a landslide presidential election since 1964 when Lyndon Johnson won 61.1 percent of the nation.

“Leave it to the Democrats to fumble the ball when everything is going their way.

“How utterly stupid, not to mention shameful.

“Each day Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama spend consumed with negative campaigns using cannibalism tactics slaughtering each other is a day that moves Republican John McCain closer to the White House.”

[RWC] This appears to be a bit of hypocrisy on the part of Ms. Poling. Read her letters and online comments and you find these are the tactics Ms. Poling uses herself.

“Some Democrats fear Clinton is determined that if she is not going to the White House, nor will her Democratic rival.”

[RWC] Back in August Ms. Poling was hoping Al Gore would run for president.

“In a recent poll of independent voters, McCain lead [sic] by a 20 percent margin. Billary and Hillary need to back off and start uniting the Democratic Party before August.

“If not, the chance of an Obama-Clinton dream ticket will never happen, and we are stuck with McCain — who is clueless about our economy and pledges to keep U.S. troops in Iraq for 100 years — as president.”

[RWC] I thought Al Gore was Ms. Poling’s idea of a “dream ticket.” For whom is an Obama/Clinton or vice versa a “dream ticket?” I’m reasonably sure both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama would consider it to be a nightmare.

Regarding the “clueless about the economy” comment, I addressed this myth in my critique of a Nikola Drobac letter.

Regarding the “pledges to keep U.S. troops in Iraq for 100 years” comment, Ms. Poling and her fellow partisans would like us to believe Mr. McCain was talking about 100 years of war, but that’s not true. Here’s how CNN reported Mr. McCain’s comment: “Last month, at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, a crowd member asked McCain about a Bush statement that troops could stay in Iraq for 50 years. ‘Maybe 100,’ McCain replied. ‘As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, it’s fine with me and I hope it would be fine with you if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al Qaeda is training, recruiting, equipping and motivating people every single day.’” As we all know, this is exactly the same strategy we followed at the end of World War II and the Korean War and we still have troops stationed in Germany, Japan, and South Korea.

“God help our country if this be the case.”

[RWC] “God help our country” regardless of whom we elect.

I do have to give Ms. Poling credit for one thing. So far she hasn’t blamed the Democrat meltdown on Republicans, yet.