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Monday, June 23, 2003
Dick Gephardt's campaign for president is over. Not in the sense that he's quit yet, but in the sense that he's said something which will keep him from ever getting elected, any time. Instapundit has the details, and quotes Gephardt:When I'm president, we'll do executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day. The only way a guy could overcome that to become president would be if his opposition were DOA in an even worse way...it's hard to imagine how that could ever be.
When you check out the video (at about 45:40) and read the article, it becomes plainly obvious that he's only talking about cases of affirmative action, but that only narrows the area in which he's proven he is currently totally incapable of serving as president. I never thought the guy had a chance; now it seems almost a matter of fact that he doesn't.
He says he's agreeing with Dennis Kucinich, but Kucinich's answer says he'd pass executive orders to "enshrine" affirmative action; I don't know what that means, if it's meant to be the same as what Gephardt said, but it doesn't sound as though it has to be interpreted as being as stupid as what Gephardt said.
It's a pity nobody else answered the question, so as to separate the wheat from the chaff with this statement.
Steven I. Weiss 10:37:00 PM
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