Kerry on Fox New Sunday (Video): Bush “Living in a World of Make-Believe"

[kerrygoddess]

Kerry on Fox New Sunday (Video): Bush Administration “Living in a World of Make-Believe”
October 15th, 2006 @ 1:48 pm

John Kerry was on Fox News Sunday this morning for an interview with Chris Wallace. Off the top, Kerry and Wallace discussed North Korea who the U.N. just voted to impose sanctions on yesterday. It comes as no surprise that the wingnuts are trying to pin the blame on North Korea’s nuke test on the Clinton administration, but as Kerry points out in the interview their claims are all wet.

Watch the interview here.



The following is a partial transcript of the interview on “FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace”:

HOST OF “FOX NEWS SUNDAY” CHRIS WALLACE: Joining us now, not by cable line, fiber line, from Camp David, but here in the studio with us is the 2004 candidate for president, Senator John Kerry.

And, Senator, welcome back to “FOX News Sunday”.

SENATOR JOHN KERRY: Glad to be with you.

WALLACE: Let’s start with North Korea. What effect do you think that the U.N. resolution is going to have on North Korea and its effectiveness in trying to stop their nuclear program, and what would you do?

KERRY: Well, let me begin by saying that North Korea is a renegade nation and it’s a nation we all understand does threaten.

That said, I think the administration — and just listening to what I could hear — I couldn’t hear all of it — of the secretary’s comments, they’re living in a world of make-believe, Chris. They’re living in a complete fantasy with respect to the foreign policy they put in place.

It is a failure. It’s a failure in Afghanistan where they have a sort of cut-and-run policy of not completing the job. We have seven times the troops in Iraq.

WALLACE: Well, forgive me.

KERRY: Well, I want to comment, because it’s all tied together.

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[C_U_L8R]

1. Hilarious.. Wallace is such a putz

trying to grill Kerry with questions
he doesn't dare ask the administration.
That's lame journalism... in fact it's not
journalism at all... it's bag carrying
and deflecting for Bush.

And once again ..Kerry proves to
have a firm grasp on the throat
of fascism. Nice going John.

[kerrygoddess]

2. lame journalism is right

Kerry slapped him back Great interview.

[Webster Green]

3. Chris Wallace is such a weenie...

What a chimp-licking little asshole.

Send him to boot camp, then to Iraq.

[kerrygoddess]

4. Send * too! N/T

[kerrygoddess]

5. Good interview with Woodward today too

An Eye on ‘08 - Bob Woodward: A Conversation With John Kerry
October 15th, 2006 @ 11:37 am

The Sunday WaPo has excerpts from an interview that Bob Woodward did with John Kerry some time ago. It’s timely in regards to Kerry throwing down the gauntlet in NH on Friday night during his speech at the NH Jefferson Jackson dinner. In an interview before the speech Friday night, Kerry told reporters:

“This war is utterly disastrous,” he said. “It’s without parallel in modern American foreign policy history in the incompetence and in the lack of effort to bring elders of both parties together and create an atmosphere of solving it. And I am incensed that young Americans are losing their lives because these guys are arrogant and incompetent.”

Dan Balz of the WaPo said of Kerry’s speech Friday night, “Thirty-two minutes and 14 standing ovations later, the man who lost the 2004 presidential campaign left little doubt that if he runs again in 2008, he intends to be the chief prosecutor of the record of the Bush presidency.” Kerry was relentless in his critique of Bush and his administration — Keep it coming John…

Below are the excerpts from Bob Woodward’s interview with John Kerry:

ON PLANNING FOR WAR

John Kerry: Let me start at the beginning, because if I were president and we had been attacked as we were attacked on 9/11, I would have, first of all, created a kind of war cabinet similar to what other presidents have done historically, going back to Roosevelt and others. . . .

Now, you may have an executive committee within that . . . like President Kennedy did. But your war cabinet itself needs to be especially plugged in . . . so the right questions are on the table and the right questions are asked and the right discussion takes place. I mean, if you go back and look at Eisenhower, Eisenhower is smart in that he played less than fully briefed, so to speak, and he would let the staff fight it out in front of him and not let on what he believed or where he wanted to go. I think it’s particularly important presidentially not to indicate your policy right up front unless there’s such a clarity to it. For instance, in response to 9/11, there’s clarity. We’ve got to go kill al-Qaeda. . . . In fact, I would have thought about starting that war differently.

Bob Woodward: In what way?

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[Canuckistanian]

8. "In what way?"

Yeah, right.

It's what we've been saying for years. Afghanistan must first be tamed (Hello, anyone heard of the Taliban?), then search out the causes and supporters of Al Qaeda.

Iraq was a meaningless sideline, a futile battle to do what? Eradicate a regime that never either implicitly or overtly threatened the US.

Back to school, Bob.

[kerrygoddess]

14. What more can we expect from Woodward

Kerry's responses were great - would have liked to have read the whole transcript of the entire interview.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

6. K&R

[GETPLANING]

7. Chris Wallace lacks the intelligence

to try and ambush a seasoned debater like John Kerry. He got his clock cleaned as usual.

[kerrygoddess]

10. Yep... he's not too bright. N/T

[benny05]

9. Oh, I missed this

Thanks!

[kerrygoddess]

11. My pleasure!

Great interview.

[benny05]

12. I confess I was watching meet the pumpkinhead

And the debate between the two candidates for the MN senate race...Kerry would have been a bit more interesting as Amy smacked her opponent good!

[kerrygoddess]

13. Meet the pumkinhead

LOL! Just in time for Halloween.

[Stinky The Clown]

15. Some of our other Dems media darlings need to watch this one like

the football teams watch the game films. Kerry was determined to stay on message and he did. He didn't let WeenieWallace knock him off his points.

He wasn't an asshole like the rightwingers usually are. Instead he was measured but insistent. I think he made his points and did very well.

My only question .... how did he come off to the Republics who watched? I saw a smart man making points about the here and now and explaining things from the past (the swiftboaters and admitting it was a mistake not to challenge them). I was impressed, but then, I was predisposed to be impressed. Did this convince anyone who wasn't so predisposed?

I really don't know.

[kerrygoddess]

16. The wingnuts haven't said much

that I can tell. Surprisingly.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

17. IMO, every on-air Democrat needs THIS ammo from Kerry, giving

the before (1-2 bombs worth), during (24-hour VIDEO SURVEILLANCE of unprocessed plutonium), and after (1-2 bombs worth) of Clinton's control over NK nuclear proliferation:

From http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=4469 :

"KERRY: Let me go back in time. Bill Clinton was in office for eight years. When he started out in office, there was enough fuel for bombs for about one to two bombs. They were members â " North Korea was a member of the non-proliferation treaty and North Korea had not tested.

At the end of Bill Clinton¡s term, they had enough fuel for one to two bombs, they were members of the non-proliferation treaty, and they had not tested.

Now they have enough fuel for nine to 10 bombs. They say they¡re going to build â " get enough for five to six more. They¡ve pulled out of the non-proliferation treaty. We no longer have cameras in the reactor. We no longer have inspectors in the reactor. We no longer know where the fuel rods are. We know that they have now tested.

The United States of America is less safe, and the six-party talks have been a cover to get away from the idea, because George Bush and Dick Cheney decided ideologically in 2002 they would break off the oil trade, they would not build the nuclear reactors, they would not keep the framework that had been agreed on, and from that moment on, it¡s been downhill with North Korea.

[karynnj]

18. Isn't it telling that this - the substanitive description of Kerry's

interview on FOX has few comments, but there was a humongous thread yesterday on his answers to an 08 run - where the answer is the same one he's given for a year and a half.

Kerry's answers to this set of RW framed questions are very good.