Puhleeeeze can I have another 5 bucks Teresa? I put on that color of lipstick you like!
Posted on 03/03/2004 5:11:05 AM PST by BigWaveBetty
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:35:34 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Debra was understanding and thought there should be a reminder in the president's messages.
Monica groaned on about how ironic GWB would use images of 9/11 considering he was in a classroom reading to children.
GWB has yet to answer to the 9/11 commission.
Neither he nor Vice President Cheney have agreed to meet with the commission, the entire commission to give under oath testimony about what they knew on and before 9/11 regarding the state of national security.
Gabreille goes on for quite a time repeating Bush/Cheney are ignoring the commission. The commission, the commission, the commission.
Then Monica Gabriel messes up....
MATTHEWS: So just to try to help the audience understand, your complaint here, it‘s not at the ads, that he‘s using 9/11 in the ads. Your complaint is he won‘t—he hasn‘t been forthcoming as to the details of what his policy was before 9/11 and his preparedness.
GABRIELLE: I disagree. I also find the ads tasteless. I don‘t want to see 9/11 used in a political forum as a platform for the Republicans to promote.
But WAIT! There's more.
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you—Let me ask you a tough question. Are you a Democrat or a Republican?
GABRIELLE: Politics doesn‘t have anything to do with it.
MATTHEWS: What are you?
GABRIELLE: Independent. I don‘t...
MATTHEWS: Did you vote for Bush in 2000?
GABRIELLE: You know what? To be honest with you, I don‘t even recall.
I very well might have. But that‘s not the issue here.
Monica doesn't remember who she voted for in the first presidential election in history that lasted for over a month. Riiiight.
Puhleeeeze can I have another 5 bucks Teresa? I put on that color of lipstick you like!
U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) drives Mexico's President Vicente Fox (news - web sites) in his truck upon his arrival at Bush's ranch Friday, March 5, 2004 in Crawford, Texas. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Here's Monica Gabrielle's letter to the editor in the NY Times last August 3rd:
Echoes of 9/11 are with me every day as I try to deal not only with the murder of my husband, Rich, but also with ensuring that the truth about that day is revealed and that accountability is achieved at the city, state and federal levels.Amazing Chrissy Matthews couldn't find this...it took me all of 3 minutes.Lest we forget, the responsibility of our leaders is to protect our citizens from harm. On Sept. 11, 2001, our leaders failed miserably. The reason for the failures has yet to be fully determined.
Our recovery will not be enhanced simply because the Republican Convention will be held near ground zero. Whatever President Bush and his administration may think, the one important point to remember is this: Since 9/11, they have stonewalled and prevented a transparent investigation of that horrific day.
This is the echo that should be reverberating throughout our country.
MONICA GABRIELLE
Burlingame was articulate and a stark contrast to the hate that was all over Monica's face.
I became curious about these 9/11 victims criticizing Bush's ads. So I spent all of one hour on Google and found out quite a lot about their politics...information that was never mentioned in articles and interviews. Surely your reporters have better search resources than I do.I know he reads his email....wait-and-see time.Paul Fahri's WashPost article sympathetically quoted Rita Lazar and Kelly Campbell. Would readers have been interested to know that both women were arrested, with other 9/11 family members, at an anti-war, anti-Bush rally in Washington in March,'03? The Post reported their arrests.
Lazar appears on a website called "Republicans Not Welcome" whose purpose is to organize protests at the RNC convention in New York. Both women are active in "Peaceful Tomorrows", a politically active 9/11 group with funding ties to the Heinz Foundation through the Tides Center for Western Pennsylvania.
Lastly, in Paul Fahri's article he described the political button the 9/11 families wore at last year's protest: "They wear U.N.-blue peace-sign buttons with the vertical line of the peace symbol rendered as the twin towers".
An unbiased press might at least have been curious enough to do the basic research I did. Especially when the info is in its own archives.
What's reverberating throughout this country is the hypocrisy and lies of the left. Someone tell these idiots that the attacks of 9/11/01 wouldn't have happened had Bill Clinton bothered to lift a finger against terrorists sometime between 1993-2001. Too busy torching American citizens in Texas and forcibly repatriating Cuban refugees, apparently.
U.S. Education Secretary Rod Paige - in hot water for calling the National Education Association a "terrorist" organization last month - received a standing ovation yesterday from nearly 1,000 members of the Black Alliance for Education Options in Milwaukee. The Black Alliance - which supports charter schools, home schooling and other educational reforms aimed at helping black youth - remained on its feet for five minutes after Paige was introduced, one participant told Post State Editor Fredric U. Dicker, adding, "Everyone I talked to agreed with him that the NEA is an obstacle to education reform. So when a man tells the truth, he needs to be supported." (PageSix)
And in other news:
Rosie O'Donnell was seeing red yesterday after the conviction of her pal Martha Stewart. "This is unbelievable," O'Donnell said in a statement. "I am outraged and beside myself. [Yikes, does that mean she's twice as wide?] This is a travesty. Shame on the federal government." [For enforcing the laws? Now if only a few states would enforce those marriage laws ...]
O'Donnell was one of a string of celebrities who dropped in on Stewart's seven-week trial. She even jokingly offered a prosecutor a bag of M&M's as a bribe to drop the charges. rest of story
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