June 25, 2004

The Beginning of the End of the Democratic Party

By Matthew May
Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe believes that President George W. Bush sent American troops into battle in Afghanistan at the behest of the Unocal Oil Corporation, so that it would be able to build a pipeline there to carry oil from Caspian Sea wells drilled by Dick Cheney's Halliburton. Michael Moore told him so, in his new movie, Farenheit 9/11. We learn about McAuliffe's epiphany in Byron York's June 24 article on National Review Online. McAuliffe tells York, 'I believe it after seeing that.' Oh? If Moore had made a film chasing Neil Armstrong around with a camera and microphone, positing that Apollo 11 landed in a desert rather than the surface of the moon, would McAuliffe believe that, too? McAuliffe added to York that citizens who see the movie would be convinced that Bush is not fit to be President. Is this really what has become of the Democratic Party? Is Michael Moore the arbiter of the truth for these people? Senators such as Tom Daschle,...(Read Full Article)