To Be Announced...

TOM HARKIN IS A FOOL

If I said that on the floor of the UN, would I get applause like Hugo Chavez did when he called the President of the United States "the devil"...?

In a revealing answer to why Senator Tom Harkin rarely conducts interviews unless he gets the questions in advance, the Iowa Senator and former Presidential candidate seemed to agree with what the Venezuelan dictator had to say about George W Bush. Some Democrats have issued statements criticizing the speech - or at least attempting to distance their own comments of the past from the thug who called the President "the devil" on the floor of that great and hallowed hall of civility, the UN General Assembly.

Hugo Chavez at the UN (Breitbart.com):

"Yesterday, the devil came here," Chavez said, referring to Bush's address before the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday. "Right here. Right here. And it smells of sulfur still today, this table that I am now standing in front of."

He then made the sign of the cross, brought his hands together as if praying and looked up at the ceiling.

"Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world," Chavez said.

Chavez's words drew tentative giggles at times from the audience, but also applause at the end of the speech and when he called Bush the devil _ a word he used no fewer than eight times.

Radio Iowa was included in a conference call with reporters in Iowa...as their blog points out:

Bob Fisher, news director at KLSS/KRIB in Mason City, asked this question: "Morning senator. I was wondering if you could give us some reaction to Venezula's president, Hugo Chavez's comments about President Bush yesterday at the U.N."

Harkin's answer: "Well, I didn't see 'em all. I just read a few exerpts that were in the paper this morning. That's all I know. I thought they were incendiary comments, certainly. Uh, he asked us to read some book. I don't know what book it was. He asked us to read a book by Noam Chomsky. I heard that but I don't know what book it is. Um, let me put it this way. I can understand, I can understand the frustration and the, and the anger of certain people around the world because of George Bush's policies. Bush came to office, as you may remember, saying he wanted a new, uh, what was it, humble or humility in foreign policy and reaching out to other countries? I forget exactly how he said it. I thought, well, that might be pretty good but what is is it's just been a very heavy-handed, um, we're going to do it our way and to heck with everybody else, so I can understand the frustration and the anger..."

Imagine our own frustration and anger after having to deal and speak humbly to people like Hugo Chavez. The idea that we would act in humility and humbleness vanished on September 11th, you dope. How do you act humble in the face of something like that? Anyway...Harkin continues to fumble around for his staff to give him something to say...

I mean, I've sensed it myself as I've traveled, as I've met with world leaders and parliamentarians around the world. I mean, after 9/11, think about this, after 9/11 every country in the world was on our side, including Venezula I might add. We tend to forget that two days after 9/11 thousands, thousands of Iranians marched in a candelight procession in Tehran in support of the United States. Every Muslim country, basically, was on our side...."

They were? I seem to remember differently, Senator...I seem to remember rejoicing and celebration. I don't think Afghanistan was on our side...

Just think in five years President Bush has squandered all of that. Just totally, totally squandered it all. Uh, so I can understand the anger and the frustration of a lot of poor people around the world who see us, the richest country in the world, putting $350 billion now in a war, unnecessary, unnecessary, unprovoked war in Iraq and yet they can't get clean water. They can't get medical care, a lack of opportunity in education in so many areas.

I guess in a President Harkin (shudder) world, after being attacked like we were, we should just start handing out cash to everyone as an apology, eh? What an idiot.

"oh...we're sorry you attacked us...um, here's some money to give you better water and medical care, and opportunity for education...please don't do it again..."

Senator Harkin's problem with spending $350 billion dollars to free 28-million people from regimes that don't allow women to appear in public and cut the heads off people who blaspheme Islam isn't about the money...it should have gone into water, health care, and education projects instead. So the Taliban would have much better water to use in washing off the blood from the chopping blocks they set up in stadiums. My God...sensible people in IOWA continue to vote for this idiot...he continues...

These are the things that America could be doing undercut people like Cesar Chavez and others and yet we're not doing it. If anything, George Bush is just fanning the flames of a Cesar Chavez. Huh? Oh, Hugo Chavez. What did I say? Cesar Chavez? Hugo Chavez. Where did I get Cesar. Oh, my gosh, memory banks. Farm Workers Union. But you get what I mean."

Yes...we get what you mean. Imagine the looks on the faces of his staff when he says Cesar Chavez instead. Yes, President Harkin would certainly do well on the national stage. Kind of makes Bush's Texas-pronunciation of "nuke-you-ler" easier to take, doesn't it?

(Full Audio of Harkin's comments HERE)

So, Harkin understands why people think the President of the United States is the devil. One would think he probably understands why people would want to fly planes into buildings just as well.

Realizing he was in a bit of trouble...Harkin's staff sent out a clarification...

"Yesterday's comments by President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela were incendiary and unworthy of a nation's leader. While I understand the frustrations of many in the international community because of George W. Bush's policies, I do not believe that gives them the right to come to our country and personally insult and attack the President of the United States. This is especially inappropriate at a forum such as the United Nations, dedicated to civil and peaceful dialogue among nations."

Yeah...leave the insults and incendiary unworthy comments to people like Harkin. The headline of the story at Radio Iowa was - "Harkin defends Venezuelan President's U-N speech against Bush"

Naturally, Harkin's staff asked that the headline of the story be censored...er...changed. Thankfully, Radio Iowa refused...especially after the story was linked by the DrudgeReport.

No word on what Harkin thought of the Iranian goofball's comments at the same civil and peaceful dialogue headquarters called the UN...

Ahmadinejad's Special Little Prayer - "I am emphatically declare that today's world more than ever before longs for just and righteous people with love for all humanity, and above all longs for the perfect, righteous human being and the real savior who has been promised to all peoples and who will establish justice, peace and brotherhood on the planet. [The Twelfth Imam] Oh Almighty God, all men and women are your creatures and you have ordained their guidance and salvation. Bestow upon humanity that thirst for justice, the perfect human being promised to all by you, and make us among his followers among those who strive for his return and his cause."

He's praying at the UN...(ACLU GASP!!!)...praying for a war to end the world according to the belief in the 12th Imam.

Not much humility there, Senator.

Too bad most Iowan's won't remember this behind the voting curtain. They didn't remember the last time an Iowa Senator got chummy with a previous South American dictator, Daniel Ortega:



Harkin is a true moron...and so are the people who continue to vote for him.