Kucinich: "..White House rodeo cowboy has gone dangerously too far.."

[G_j]

Kucinich Charges President Has Gone 'Too Far' and 'Too Close' to Igniting War


WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- By raising the specter of a possible World War III predicated on Iran's nuclear energy ambitions, "the White House rodeo cowboy has gone dangerously too far and precipitously too close to igniting the war he claims to be trying to avoid," Ohio Congressman and Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich said today.

"You can worry about the Apocalypse, or, you can ensure it by manipulating intelligence and, with pre-meditation, put your finger on the trigger that will make Iran the next deadly domino in the President's irresponsible and irrational approach to the complex and sensitive political issues that make the region a more volatile tinder box than ever before," Kucinich said.

"The President told the media yesterday that this wasn't his first rodeo," Kucinich said. "It's also not the first time he's invoked the potential of another world war to bolster support for his monumentally failed foreign policy. Any leader who, either off the cuff or intentionally, conjures up rodeo analogies to defend himself is far beyond colorful, albeit inarticulate aphorisms. Those horsemen he pridefully alludes to are not from a rodeo, they are the horsemen of the Apocalypse. And he must be stopped before unleashing them."

Kucinich continued, "If the President continues policies that fuel the extremists in Iraq because of our continued occupation, and if he continues rallying support in Congress for possible aggression against Iran, he is purposely fulfilling his own prophesy and sentencing this nation and its brave sons and daughters to a war that never ends and a newer, bigger war that will be even more horrific."


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[hobbit709]

1. "this wasn't his first rodeo"

What a comment from someone scared of horses.

[TomInTib]

2. "rodeo cowboy" Oooo, that's gonna piss 'em off. KnR nt

[youthere]

9. "cowboy poser" would have been more accurate...

rodeo cowboys can actually ride horses.

[SammyWinstonJack]

12. Pickles calls george a "windshield" cowboy.

:rofl: :rofl:

[backscatter712]

21. All hat and no cattle!

[shanti]

22. it was vicente fox

who said that....but it's true all the same!

[gateley]

3. You tell him, Dennis! Excellent! nt

[C_U_L8R]

4. he's no cowboy that's for sure

cowpie is more like it

[Golden Raisin]

5. Bless Kucinich for saying it.

No one else has the balls to say it. Certainly not Pelosi nor any of the Democratic candidates for president. They're all to busy being professional "pols" while our country is going down the goddamn toilet. But it's an insult to rodeo cowboys.

[XOKCowboy]

6. Bush couldn't pick up a real cowboy's saddle..

Someone who swaggers like that back in Texas with nothing to back it up usually gets his ass handed to him pretty quickly. Unless he's got Secret Service protection and is really a Connecticutan.

[Amonester]

7. For "the rest of the free world" today, Mr. Kucinich is the only one...

For "the rest of the free world" today, Mr. Kucinich is the only one who can represent the true values a President of the United States or America has to have. His words reminds them the words of President John F. Kennedy, no less.

It's a horrendous tragedy to observe "the good ol' U.S.A." being gradually - on a daily basis - taken over by a "criminal system" that brings back the horrible memories of the world's most barbaric fascist regimes, and the thought of having nobody else (who work for the Democratic Party's nomination) than these great people (i.e., Mr. Kucinich, and the people who support his values) do their best, with so little financing, to try to stop that illegal and immoral "criminal system" is absolutely frightening.

The majority of all the good people in free world is truly appalled.

It's a terrifying tragedy.

[DavidDvorkin]

8. Rodeo cowboys have real skills

Not to mention impressive horseriding ability.

So the phrase is catchy at first, but something else is needed, something nasty, a real put down. Rhinestone cowboy, maybe.

[youthere]

10. I like "cowboy poser"

[DavidDvorkin]

11. That's good, too

[youthere]

13. How about a "cowboy cantbe"

[hootinholler]

16. How about he's AFRAID OF FUCKING HORSES?

The irony of a rodeo reference when 1: He's an equinophobe and 2: His wife accused him of "milking a stallion" in public is just, well, some of my brains just leaked into my ears contemplating it.

-Hoot

On Edit: CowBoi occurred to me.

[youthere]

17. I believe he's afraid of horses because....

he positively self-identifies when he stands behind them.

[LWolf]

14. I wonder what his previous rodeo experience IS?

He doesn't have the courage to be the clown, he's too scared of horses to be the cowboy. Exactly what part did he play?



The "rodeo cowboy" comment refers to yesterday's press conference:

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Mr. Bush's thinly veiled threats, including rattling the sabre of pre-emptive U.S. air strikes to destroy Iran's deeply buried nuclear sites, have stiffened resistance in both Beijing and Moscow.

But while Mr. Bush steadfastly refuses to rule out military force against Iran to keep it from building nuclear weapons, he wouldn't be drawn to comment yesterday on whether he endorsed Israeli air strikes last month against a purported nuclear site in Syria.

Despite repeated questioning and an effort to draw parallels with Israel's 1982 bombing of an Iraqi reactor that set back that country's nuclear weapons effort, Mr. Bush refused to answer.

"This is not my first rodeo," he said, in mock frustration.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20071018.BUSH18/TPStory/TPInternational/Asia/

I hope that comment was not supposed to reassure anyone.

[Swamp Rat]

15. I love Dennis Kucinich!

:loveya:

:kick:

[RiverStone]

18. Dennis rocks on! big KICK!

[grannylib]

19. Way to tell it like it is. The Unelected Imbecile is a phony EVERYTHING.

Phony compassionate conservative
Phony soldier
Phony human being

He's never had the sense God gave a goat, and he's hell bent on singing John McCain's pathetic version of Beach Boy tunes.
Heaven help us.

[shanti]

20. you rawk, dennis!

tell the truth and shame the devil!

[goforit]

23. As Americans sit back and watch the boob-tube..Do they really give a ph**k?