Much criticism, few proposals
I just had to share this, it's taken from OpinionJournal's Best of the Web.
Howard Dean's Flying Circus
The Democratic Party's official blog features excerpts from a speech chairman Howard Dean delivered the other day to the Jewish Council for Public Affairs:
The Democrats have a better idea. First we will conclude the negotiations with the Chinese and the North Koreans to disarm North Korea. Secondly, under no circumstances will a Democratic Administration ever allow Iran to become a nuclear power. Three, we will kill or capture Osama bin Laden and four, the authority and the control of the ports of the United States must be retained by American companies.
Dean seems to be lifting material from "Monty Python's Flying Circus." This is from a sketch called "How to Rid the World of All Known Diseases":
Alan (John Cleese): Well, last week we showed you how to become a gynecologist. And this week on "How to Do It" we're going to show you how to play the flute, how to split an atom, how to construct a box girder bridge, how to irrigate the Sahara Desert and make vast new areas of land cultivatable, but first, here's Jackie to tell you all how to rid the world of all known diseases.
Jackie (Eric Idle): Hello, Alan.
Alan: Hello, Jackie.
Jackie: Well, first of all become a doctor and discover a marvelous cure for something, and then, when the medical profession really starts to take notice of you, you can jolly well tell them what to do and make sure they get everything right so there'll never be any diseases ever again.
Alan: Thanks, Jackie. Great idea.
Back in 1988, Joe Biden's presidential campaign ended in scandal when he was found to have plagiarized material from the speeches of British pol Neil Kinnock. Now it seems the same is going to happen to Dean. To coin a phrase, those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.
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