posted on June 3, 2004 11:03:36 PM new
Kerry just finished listening to the audio Cliff Notes version of the book he had Moore make for him.
Kerry's comments were "I still don't understand", did I vote for or against it or both.
"The Secret Service has announced it is doubling its protection for John Kerry. You can understand why — with two positions on every issue, he has twice as many people mad at him." —Jay Leno
As soon as I read the title of this thread, I knew that someone would come up with a pic like that. Good one!
True Americans do not exclude anybody. They recognize that everyone should have the same rights. Bigotry, intolerance and hatred are cancers of the mind.
However, I disagree. Everyone SHOULD have the same rights and the vast majority of us DO - a few whine constantly about NOT having them, but MOST ALL do.
Bigotry, intolerance and hatred are NOT cancers of the mind - they are a state of mind, a state any "TRUE AMERICAN" is entitled to. We can all think whatever we please.
That includes you who are obviously intolerant of those who are intolerant, bigoted or hateful.
posted on June 4, 2004 09:41:47 AM new
Let's not forget the Bush flip flops:
WASHINGTON -- This story contains corrected material, published June 3, 2004.
President Bush's presidential campaign team has been having jolly good fun lampooning their presumptive Democratic opponent John Kerry as a flip-flopper. A
The Bush campaign's Web site has a page devoted to "Kerry flip-flops," some closer look reveals that the president flip-flops too, sometimes on his own, sometimes with assistance.real, some exaggerated. Kerry's easy prey. After all, he has spent 20 years haggling and debating in the U.S. Senate while other people were out, say, drilling for oil or running baseball teams. Spend enough time in the Senate and you, too, might sound like you have been debating with yourself, especially when skilled political strategists start gathering your old quotes for negative campaign ads.
But, when it comes to position-changing, Kerry's hardly alone in this race. Bush famously shifted from "anti" to "pro" on "nation-building," a Department of Homeland Security, an anti-gay marriage amendment and negotiating with North Korea over its nuclear weapons program (this sentence as published has been corrected).
More recently, Bush sometimes seems to hold two positions at once with the use of Team Bush surrogates. While he resolutely proclaims one position somebody else in his administration says something else.
Item: On May 19, for example, the White House Office of Management and Budget sent a memo to all government agencies notifying them of possible spending cuts in the 2006 budget in domestic programs like education, health care and veterans' benefits if Bush is re-elected.
This notice came after two months of Bush flying around the country and boasting on the campaign trail about how much his administration had increased spending for these very popular programs--a 40 percent increase in veterans' benefits, for example, and a 60 percent increase in education for his "No Child Left Behind" program.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan played down the projections as "speculation" and stressed that no "decision" has been made. The proposed budget, he said, is simply to "make sure you're funding your priorities while looking at other areas and holding the line on spending." But is the setting of "priorities" not a significant decision in itself, especially when this memo explicitly instructs the agencies to hold spending at 2005 levels? Any increase in one program or line item "must be offset within your agency" by cutting something else, it says.
Meanwhile, Bush gets to have it both ways politically. Honest budget hawks announce their cuts and justify them. Bush brags about spending more on popular domestic programs while quietly asking his agency heads to hold the line on those same programs or bring out the budget ax.
Item: Iraq has become sort of a "Flip-Flop Land" on Team Bush's map. Gone are the manly boasts to "kill or capture" Moqtada Sadr, for example. Arrest orders for the anti-American Shiite firebrand have been suspended in return for Sadr's agreement to pull his fighters off the street, allowing American troops to patrol without being fired upon quite as much.
For now, we're leaving Sadr's arrest up to the Iraqis, which they unfortunately have been very reluctant to carry out. Interestingly, Team Bush turned down a similar deal in mid-April.
But things change.
Speaking of changes, Ahmad Chalabi, the controversial Iraqi Governing Council member who used to be a White House darling, slipped a few rungs in Bush's Tuesday news conference into the hardly-knew-him status of Enron's Kenneth Lay, another former Bush pal.
"My meetings with him were very brief," Bush said of Chalabi. Bush said he may have met with him while "working the rope line" or at the State of the Union address in January or at the United Nations when Bush spoke there last year. Not mentioned by Bush was how Chalabi was an honored guest at both events, how he was a favorite of neo-conservatives from Vice President Dick Cheney on down, or of how the Pentagon paid Chalabi's political party millions of dollars a month for intelligence that now looks largely bogus. Chalabi? Baloney.
Item: Bush reiterated Tuesday that "Yes, we're going to pass full sovereignty" to the Iraqi people on June 30." But, when asked whether that "sovereignty" means a full pullout of U.S. troops, he fell back on his usual sloganeering, "Well, whatever it takes to get the mission done." But he also offered this dose of reality: "As you know, circumstances change on the ground. I have told the American people and our commanders that we will be flexible as needs arise."
That's a relief. Flexibility is a virtue in the face of changing realities. Coming from an administration that prides itself on resoluteness to the point of stubbornness, Bush's nod to flexibility sounds rare, but refreshing. Still, he has to watch himself. In the political world, one person's flexibility is somebody else's flip-flop. Kerry knows. Bush is finding out.
Re-defeat Bush
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In the words from Cher:
We’re gonna love one another ’til morning comes
Sweet salvation for what we’ve done
Give up resisting one by one one by one
posted on June 4, 2004 10:10:32 AM new
Can never please the liberals....no matter what.
First they say we're running the country into outrageous debt, then they complain we're not spending enough on the programs. Then when a budget SUGGESTION is given...they still complain. At WHAT??? The fact that he's suggesting the deficit be reigned in?
Then in the war....belly-aching about how many innocents are going to die....now belly-aching that he decided to put more emphasis on the June 30th transfer of power so that the Iraqi's can decided and handle the hot spots themselves....with the help of the U.S. Armed Forces.
never happy.....always complaining about something even when he does something - doesn't do something they were asking for themselves. LOL
That's just one reason a democratic president shouldn't be elected....they can't make up their minds what it is they DO want.
posted on June 4, 2004 10:48:23 AM new
When the remedial version comes out, Kerry can have his butler/man servant read it to him.
"The Secret Service has announced it is doubling its protection for John Kerry. You can understand why — with two positions on every issue, he has twice as many people mad at him." —Jay Leno
posted on June 4, 2004 11:19:02 AM new
I wouldn't know, dave, because I don't see things the same way the complainers do.
I don't find it as outrageous as some here do...BECAUSE I can see that after 9-11, two wars, a recession which started BEFORE clinton left office, HomeLand Security, more funding given than was given under the clinton administration to so many of the programs the liberals complain don't get enough [under Bush].....are the reasons we have gone into such debt.
What I'm saying is that while the liberals complain all the time about how much has been spent....they only need to look to kerry and most dems who only want to spend MORE.
And the good news is our economy has turned around to the point that our national debt is going down....because things are improving. The Bush tax cuts have worked.
MSNBC -
[i]Federal deficit seen $100 billion lower
Tax receipts pare Treasury borrowing
By By Jonathan Weisman
Smaller-than-expected tax refunds and rising individual tax receipts will pare back federal borrowing significantly for the first half of this year and could reduce the $521 billion deficit projected for the fiscal year by as much as $100 billion, Treasury and congressional budget officials said yesterday.
The Treasury Department's borrowing estimates may prove to be more good news for President Bush on the economic front, as opponents attempt to make his fiscal stewardship a campaign issue. The $184 billion the government is now expected to borrow through June is a 27 percent improvement from Treasury's February projection of $252 billion, the department said.
G. William Hoagland, a senior economic aide to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), said he dashed off a memo to GOP leadership predicting the 2004 deficit could be trimmed to $420 billion, a record in dollar terms but considerably lower than the White House's $521 billion projection.
"This is better than what everybody expected," Hoagland said.
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That's the way it works, kiara. The better the economy gets...the faster the debt is paid down....JUST like it always happens. And the economy IS getting better.
But...should kerry be elected we'll only see those numbers on our national debt continue to drastically rise. He's made promises to every special interest group in the US - giving them more benefits....AND his proposed health care program was estimated to further add an additional $100 Billion dollars to it.
Of course, while promising the world for all these new and expanded benefits......he has yet to mention how he thinks he's going to pay for them....LET ALONE reduce our deficit by 1/2 that he's also promising. Maybe he knows the economy IS on the rebound and will take care of itself....like it always has.
