Joe Klein dissing Dean

[pasadenaboy]

Paula Zahn had Joe Klein on who said Dean was lying when he said that he would reduce American Troops in Iraq by bringing in more international troops.

Klein said there were 20,000 troops available from Asia, but none from Europe. He missed Dean's entire point which was if you forged decent relationships with Europe, they would provide troops. But since Bush is such an a-hole, they won't deal with him.

Why is he so anti-Dean?

[Cha]

1. I don't know why he so "anti-Dean" but in my opinion it's probably

a good thing! :-)

[gully]

2. Ok, who's Joe Klein...??? And what's the significance of a Dean bash from

said Mr. Klein?

[pasadenaboy]

5. Joe Klien

is a columnist for Time magazine, and anonymously wrote "Primary Colors" about Bill Clinton.

[depakid]

7. He's just another shameless media whore

who writes for Time Magazine. You may also recall that he wrote the book Primary colors. Lately, the man seems to have had a hemmorage in that part of the brain where journalistic integrity resides. I wouldn't be surprised at anything he says anymore... unless it happened to run against his own monetary self interest.

[Cha]

10. LOL!

[haymaker]

3. Who's Joe Klein?

And why is he such a tool?

[alcuno]

4. I saw it and could only think about the administration's

change of positions. WMD's anyone? Oh yeah, now we went to war to remove Saddam, to attrack terrorists, to liberate the Iraqi people, etc..

[Pavlovs DiOgie]

6. Don't know why he's so anti-Dean

but Dean nailed that interview. Point blank: we need a president who hasn't humiliated our allies to mend our relationships. I loved how he said that W's dad managed to get enormous amounts of international troops for the first Gulf War, so it's far from impossible to do. I wanted Dean to say "It's called diplomacy, you moron!!"

[gully]

9. Some info here....

http://www.americanreview.us/truecols.htm

[Khephra]

8. Alterman on pg 10 of "What Liberal Media?" calls Klein a

"soft, DLC neo-conservative"

That's good enough for me. Alterman is gold when it comes to backing up his accusations.

[gully]

11. aaaahhh, Thanks Kephra! N/T

[Cha]

12. THen my instinct on Post # 1 was right!

:-)

[GCP]

14. How very true

I tried to read "The Natural" by Klein, a short biography of Clinton, and couldn't take his left-bashing any more than about 20 pages.

He is firmly in the DLC camp and obviously hates anybody to the left of the DLC.

[quilp]

13. Klein dissed Dean on Tweeties Sunday show

He said Dean was "arrogant and uninformed". I was surprised, and wondered why myself.

[Cha]

15. And klein sounds like a fucking know it all!

[Clete]

16. How does he know anything that Dean is doing?

Does Dean phone him on a daily basis to keep him reprised? I think not. I am tired of these asses twisting things to suit their attacks on the candidates.

[blm]

19. Actually, Klein has spent alot of time with Dean

over the months. I think they even did a live forum together awhile ago, too.

btw...one of my favorite bumper stickers is: What Would Xena Do? ;))))

[gully]

17. Who does Joe Klein endorse? n/t

[dolstein]

18. Yes, I assumed Dean was talking out his ass when he said that

Dean has made statements prior to the debate that he was committed to the rebuilding of Iraq -- that he believed the U.S. couldn't afford to lose the peace. Obviously, that means he's prepared to maintain, or even increase U.S. troop levels if he is unable to obtain commitments from other nations.

Of course, that kind of sentiment wouldn't earn him any brownie points among the debate audience. So naturally he embraced the "bring the boys back home" rhetoric of pacifist Dennis Kucinich.

[w4rma]

20. dolstein, Dean has had the same position on the occupation for months

He hasn't changed one whit.

He's always been trying to get more international troops into Iraq. He's never endorsed more U.S. troops into Iraq.

The only Democratic candidate who endorsed more U.S. troops is the Democratic PNACer himself, Sen. Lieberman.