NationStates Jolt Archive

LCD = lowest common denominator

for US leading presidential candidates, the lowest common denominator is "I can be tougher than you".. or "I'll go to war before you"

Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton were ``recklessly irresponsible'' and acting like ``cowboys'' for rejecting calls for direct talks with Iran over its nuclear program, charged Senator Chuck Hagel, a top Republican lawmaker.

Hagel, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee who supports talks, was critical of Giuliani, the top Republican contender, and Clinton, a New York senator and leader of the Democratic field, for lambasting presidential rival Barack Obama, who proposed such discussions.

When world leaders ``hear leading presidential candidates talk like cowboys with the lowest common denominator being `I can be tougher than you, I'll go to war before you or we aren't going to talk to anybody,' that's recklessly irresponsible,'' Hagel said in an interview on Bloomberg Television's ``Political Capital with Al Hunt,'' scheduled to air today. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=a0h8abc0d1tM&refer=home

And so we begin to return to the Wild West, and America comes full circle.

I think Hagle should apologize for his bigoted, stereotypical and discriminatory, comments about Cowboys. :eek: Not all cowboys are like that. And them there two New York City Yankees wouldn't know a real cowboy if they tripped over him. :mad: :D:D

I think Hagle should apologize for his bigoted, stereotypical and discriminatory, comments about Cowboys. ..I agree.
not all cowboys are like that.

Well we have to expect this from Guiliani whose whole platform is "9/11."