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Jewish World Review Sept. 20, 2007 / 8 Tishrei 5768 Fearless Fred By Dick Morris & Eileen Mc Gann
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He may be the tallest candidate in the race for president, but Fred Thompson is clearly in over his head! In both his fumbling pre-candidacy period and his hesitant, attenuated post-announcement campaign, he's given the clear impression that that he is ill-informed, inarticulate, badly briefed and downright lazy. • He refuses to take a pledge not to raise taxes;
• He lobbied for an abortion advocacy group before becoming a U.S. senator;
• He employed his son in a no-show job for $170,000 for four years at his political action committee after leaving office;
• As a lobbyist, he helped the attorney representing the Libyan terrorists who blew up Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie,
Scotland, to fight requests to extradite them to the U.K. to stand trial;
• His other lobbying clients included Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the leftist Haitian dictator who, but for a lack of oil, would have been the Hugo Chavez of the last generation;
• He skipped and is skipping the first two debates of his presidential candidacy and said he was looking forward to attending the Oct. 14 New Hampshire debate — the one that was cancelled weeks ago;
• He is taking this week off from presidential campaigning;
• He does not know enough about the details of the Terry Schiavo case to comment.;
• He is also unfamiliar with the proposal to lower soaring insurance premiums Floridians must pay for home storm coverage since the hurricanes;
• He said that Iraqis were supporting us because of al Qaeda's ban on smoking;
• He's run through three campaign managers and as many communications directors in just three months;
• He fell short in the fundraising competition, coming up with only a net of $2.8 million by the end of July;
• After leaving the Senate, he picked up his lobbying career by representing Equitas, an insurance company he helped dodge paying for asbestos/cancer claims;
• After negative publicity about his comments suggesting that Cuban immigrants were potential suicide bombers, he blamed Hillary Clinton for causing the publicity by "releasing a statement that she made trying to capitalize on something when she knew better";
• He didn't know enough about drilling in the Everglades to comment.
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© 2007, Dick Morris
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