The Democrats' starless wars

Watching the Democratic presidential debate this week on CNN, I was reminded of the famous line spoken by Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Star Wars" when he approached the Mos Eisley Spaceport with young Luke Skywalker and two droids.

"You won't ever find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy," he said.

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There they were: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich and Bill Richardson – clueless, shameless, principle-less, truthless.

The contest within this hive of scum and villainy is of modest interest to Americans only because the current occupant of the White House has done almost nothing right in eight years – including the way he has waged the war in Iraq.

So all eight of the jokers in this deck focused their attacks on a man the winner of this race will not face – George W. Bush. He is an easy target. Yet, none one of them actually came close to a bull's-eye, because their ideas are worse even than Bush policies.

"This is George Bush's war," said Clinton.

She wasn't talking about her challenge of the president. She was referring to the war on the al-Qaida terrorist network currently being conducted half-heartedly in Iraq.

She and Obama both recently voted to cut off all funds to American troops in that conflict.

But that treacherous act was condemned by Edwards, not because it would mean waving a white flag to the foreign enemy who hit America Sept. 11, 2001, in the most devastating attack on our soil in the history of our country. His beef is that they did not announce their surrender position soon enough.

"Senator Clinton and Senator Obama did not say anything about how they were going to vote until they appeared on the floor of the Senate and voted," he said. "They were among the last people to vote."

Obama had an interesting retort.

"It is not easy to vote for cutting off funding, because the fact is there are troops on the ground," he said.

No one asked why it wouldn't be easy if it were truly the right thing to do.

Then the lunatic fringe of this cartel of utter madness and moral depravity had their say.

"This war belongs to the Democratic Party because the Democrats were put in charge by the people in the last election with the thought that they were going to end the war," said Kucinich.

Gravel suggested anyone who had voted to authorize the conflict in the first place – as did Edwards and Clinton – should be disqualified from being president.

It occurred to me that all eight of these rejects should be disqualified from holding American passports.

Clinton criticized Edwards for saying the war on terror is nothing but a bumper sticker.

"I have seen firsthand the terrible damage that can be inflicted on our country," she said.

But Americans haven't seen anything yet if one of these clowns is elected president.

The good news is I'm not at all sure any of them will. In fact, I'm not even sure any of them will be the Democratic Party nominee.

It is my considered opinion that just as we are likely to see Fred Thompson and Newt Gingrich enter the race for the Republican nomination in the coming weeks, it is also likely we will witness a surprise announcement from the Democratic candidate who won the popular vote in 2000.

Al Gore has been biding his time. Having persuaded a significant percentage of Americans the greatest threat they face is from an imaginary problem, I expect him to sweep into the race by calling for a major shift of priorities – from fighting Islamo-fascists who have killed thousands of Americans to combating catastrophic, man-made climate change.

When Gore enters the race, Obi-Wan Kenobi's prophecy will have been proven wrong. We will have found a hive of scum and villainy more wretched than Mos Eisley Spaceport. Indeed, we will have found one even more wretched than the one we witnessed on CNN this week.

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