Haunted by the Past: MAUREEN DOWD - Electing a Novice;The Taxi Driver: THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN+

OP-ED COLUMNIST
Haunted by the Past
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: November 1, 2006


Many Republicans have been tut-tutting about the author of “The Audacity of Hope” having the audacity to hope.

“I think people might want a little more experience than that, given the nature of the times we live in,” Dick Cheney told Sean Hannity.

Charles Krauthammer wrote that, despite Senator Barack Obama’s charms, he could not win in ’08: “The reason is Sept. 11, 2001. The country will simply not elect a novice in wartime.”

But if there’s one thing W.’s reign proves beyond a shadow of a doubt, it is this: Experience, like affectations, can be dangerous.

They will fill up history books with all the myopic misjudgments made by a war council with a couple of centuries of experience, blunders that undermined America’s security and integrity, wrecked Iraq, loosed Osama, and made the world more dangerous.
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Kerry - w/ CONTEXT (transcript & Video of ENTIRE speech)
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Army Specialist Killed Self Rather than Be a Torturer
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Top conservative pundit: Bush abandoned a U.S. soldier behind enemy lines
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GOP Rep Sweeney's Wife Told Police He Was "Knocking Her Around"
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WH -Tied Company Floods Competitive Districts With Phone Calls Meant To Suppress Voter Turnout
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OP-ED COLUMNIST
The Taxi Driver
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: November 1, 2006


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