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Of Fred and silence

Of Fred and silence

posted by J-Walking | 8:16am Wednesday May 2, 2007

Will Fred or won’t Fred? Not quite poetic language, but clear – is Fred Thompson running for president? Reports are out that “opposition researchers” are out scouring for dirt on Thompson. They will certainly find something. Everyone has dirt. The question, I suppose, is whether there is enough dirt to make mud. Fine. Whatever.

My interest is this – what is Fred Thompson’s plan for helping the poor? What is his plan for the 3,000 kids who die every day of Malaria (mostly in Africa)? What does he plan on doing about the remaining horror of Katrina? What does he think is the best way to use faith-based charities to care for the poor? Is he willing to stand up and say to all of us that we need to get more involved in caring for the poor? Is he willing to say that we need to give our money and that he is going to lead the charge by giving a million bucks to a center city program?

These aren’t just Fred questions, they are Barack and Hillary and Mitt and McCain and Rudy questions as well. Let’s hear the answers please.

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Doug

posted May 2, 2007 at 6:24 pm

Well, until the last paragraph I was going to leave a comment saying these are questions that should be asked of all the candidates. Now I’m leaving a lamer comment, to wit- do we have to ask Gravel? He’s scary.

Thinker

posted May 2, 2007 at 8:55 pm

Gravel is an old guy who literally made a lot of Congress find a conscience during the Viet Nam War. Now he just looks a bit crazy, but he isn’t really. He just doesn’t lie and that scares us all.

Doug

posted May 2, 2007 at 9:22 pm

Never trust a politician who doesn’t lie, Thinker.

curiouser and curiouser...

posted May 4, 2007 at 4:36 pm

I heard/saw Gravel for the first time on Jon Stewart’s show yesterday, and instead of finding him “scary”, I found him to be a breath of fresh air. He made an eloquent comparison of the Vietnam war and the Iraq war. He defended homosexual Americans. Spoke about health care. What’s so “scary” about that?

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