I’m not kidding — the Tennessee Senate race has now made news in Australia.\n<\/p>\n
Entitled “Australia ‘a nuclear threat’,” the article<\/a> cites Harold Ford Jr. as a threat to that country:<\/p>\n [I]f Mr Ford, already a US congressman, wins his bid to become a more powerful senator, Australia had better watch out.<\/p>\n Because according to Mr Ford, Australia has an interest in nuclear weapons and is part of the broader nuclear threat to the US.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n My parents are on their way home from Australia as we speak — it will be good to have them home again. They always seem to go on foreign vacations when the world is least stable.<\/p>\n The article really made me step back and think: the premise of the Democratic takeover is that, in theory, Republicans haven’t handled international relations very well. So, Democrats who inflame friendly nations are going to promote something better? <\/p>\n I understand the “throw the bums out” mentality, only in my case, it’s “throw the extremists out” — the ones from the far ends of both parties. Put in some closer to the middle, who can work together on the things that really matter to most people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m not kidding — the Tennessee Senate race has now made news in Australia. Entitled “Australia ‘a nuclear threat’,” the article cites Harold Ford Jr. as a threat to that country: [I]f Mr Ford, already a US congressman, wins his … Continue reading \n