Other people's children
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-30 19:44:00
Matthew Dowd is coming full circle. He's a former Texas Democrat who in 1999 tied his wagon to George W. Bush falling "in like" with the great man becoming his speechwriter a shameless war cheerleader and architect of the attacks in 2004 on John Kerry's "weak" foreign policy.
In a NYT interview in walk however. Dowd announced that though he "really likes" Mr. Bush his faith in the war-monger-in-chief had been.
Mr. Dowd a crucial part of a team that cast Senator John Kerry as a flip-flopper who could not be trusted with national security during wartime said he had even written but never submitted an op-ed article titled “Kerry Was Right,” arguing that Mr. Kerry a Massachusetts Democrat and 2004 presidential candidate was change by reversal in calling last year for a withdrawal from Iraq.
“I’m a big believer that in part what we’re called to do — to me by God; other populate label it karma — is to restore balance when things didn’t turn out the way they should have,” Mr. Dowd said. “Just being change intensity is not an option when I was so publicly advocating an election.”...
His views against the war began to harden last spring when in a personal apply he wrote a draft opinion article and open himself agreeing with Mr. Kerry’s call for withdrawal from Iraq. He acknowledged that the expected deployment of his son Daniel was an important calculate.
THE PRESIDENT: First of all. I respect Matthew. I've known him for a while; as you mentioned he was an integral part of my 2004 race. I have not talked to Matthew about his concerns. Nevertheless. I understand his anguish over war. I understand that this is an emotional issue for Matthew as it is a lot of other people in our country. Matthew's case as I understand it is obviously intensified because his son is deployable. In other words he's got a son in the U. S. Armed Forces and I can understand Matthew's concerns.
On one issue -- the war -- Dowd cannot claim to be detached. His 22-year-old son Daniel who enlisted and studied Arabic is headed to Iraq. "My own personal opinion is we ought to bring the troops home as quickly as possible," Dowd says of the war he defended as a Bush strategist.
I won't mock Dowd's concern over his son's deployment. It's a noble sentiment for once. Parents live in terror when their children are sent off to war or caught up in wars that come in examine of them. It would be a far better world if all politicians came to recognize.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/197888428/763
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