Huckabee Pulls Dobson’s Card
Given that James Dobson offered his show as a forum for the rehabilitation of serial adulterer Newt Gingrich’s culture war credentials, I take Mike Huckabee’s comments as a slam of his boy:
“If Republicans in this election vote in such a way as to say a candidate’s personal life and personal conduct in office doesn’t matter, then a lot of Christian evangelical leaders owe Bill Clinton a public apology.â€
They Also Kill Puppies
MC Karl Rove was ostensibly joking when he remarked that he enjoys “tear[ing] the tops off small animals.” But Judith Giuliani’s role in an operation that gratuitously butchered dogs is no laughing matter:
Judith Giuliani once demonstrated surgical products for a controversial medical-supply company that used dogs – which were later killed – in operations whose only purpose was to sell equipment to doctors, The Post has learned.
“It was a horribly cruel, outrageous program,” Friends of Animals President Priscilla Feral said about the demonstrations of medical staplers on dogs conducted by U.S. Surgical Corp. employees during Giuliani’s tenure there in the late 1970s.
Feral said U.S. Surgical’s demonstrations on hundreds of dogs each year through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s were done to boost sales, not for medical re search or testing.
The dogs were “either put to death following the sales demonstrations because they can’t re cover from them, or they die during them,” Feral said.
I suppose there was an animal sadism void in the Republican field after the cat killer Bill Frist dropped out.
Obama = Hillary?
On substantive questions of foreign policy, one Barack Obama’s most effective — and only — means of distinguishing himself from Hillary Clinton has been touting his opposition to the invasion of Iraq. Though Obama’s opposition was expressed in a twenty minute speech on the floor of the Illinois state legislature, the credibility his anti-war stand has granted him is well-deserved, and it should remain a central issue in the primaries.
Given the way Obama has voted on Iraq-related bills since his arrival to Congress, however, any attempt by the junior senator to cast himself as a genuine anti-war candidate would be disingenous. Greg Sargent and Eric Kleefeld have compiled a side-by-side study of Obama and Hillary’s votes on Iraq-related bills and what they found is startling.
Of 69 votes related to Iraq, Obama differed with Hillary on only one: He voted for the confirmation of Gen. George Casey and she voted against it. In no way does Sargent and Kleefeld’s study negate the importance of Obama’s oppositon to invading Iraq, but it does add some nuance to an otherwise simplistic debate.
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