Posted on 10/11/2004 12:12:35 AM PDT by igoramus987
WALLACE: Senator, the numbers don't add up... Well, I want to follow up on precisely that point, because in Friday's debate, Senator Kerry said that he would cut the deficit in half during his first term, he would cut taxes for the middle class, but he also had all these new spending programs.
Are you saying right here and now that if the numbers, when you get into office, don't add up, that it's the spending programs that go first?
EDWARDS: Yes...
WALLACE: But again, just to clear it up, I just want to make clear that you're saying that even Kerry's cherished health-care plan, he would cut that back before he would add to the deficit or raise taxes on the middle class?
EDWARDS: We will not raise taxes on the middle class, as John said clearly. And we will cut back -- we will cut back on our programs if it's necessary to make sure that that happens.
WALLACE: ...you attended just three of 36 meetings of the Judiciary Committee, the worst record of any member of that panel, and you attended just four of 13 public meetings of the Intelligence Committee.
For someone who's been in the Senate less than a full term, isn't that a problem?
EDWARDS: No, I'll tell you exactly what happened. I was in -- the first several years I was in the Senate, I had almost a perfect attendance record. And then I watched what was happening under this administration... but at that point, I came to the conclusion that the only real solution to this was to get George Bush out of the White House. And that's when I decided to run for president, and that's the period of time that they're talking about.
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What other job can you take, then after a year, go for a promotion and never do the job you were hired to do in the first place and still get paid for it.
Up late again?
I couldn't bear to watch Edwards today,
on any of the Sunday shows, and I understand
he was on every dang one of 'em.
bttt
In your debate last week with Vice President Cheney, he attacked your record in the Senate. But what got all the attention was the question of whether or not the two of you had met.
But there's another part of what he said that I want to ask you about. According to the news reports, you attended just three of 36 meetings of the Judiciary Committee, the worst record of any member of that panel, and you attended just four of 13 public meetings of the Intelligence Committee.
For someone who's been in the Senate less than a full term, isn't that a problem?
EDWARDS: No, I'll tell you exactly what happened. I was in -- the first several years I was in the Senate, I had almost a perfect attendance record. And then I watched what was happening under this administration.
I mean, I had to fight this administration tooth and nail in their efforts to roll back our clean air laws. John McCain and Senator Kennedy and I wrote the patients' bill of rights, got it passed in the Senate. They blocked it. We fought to make sure we did something about drug company advertising on television. They blocked it.
I helped write the laws after September the 11th to keep this country safe, but at that point, I came to the conclusion that the only real solution to this was to get George Bush out of the White House. And that's when I decided to run for president, and that's the period of time that they're talking about.
I don't see an answer to Wallace's question in there, do you?
Oh yes, I've often times decided I wanted a promotion and so then decided not to show up for work and continued to get paid. Works like a charm.
I say they start clocking in and out, just like the union folk that support them.
No, he rarely answers the question posed.
He's a slick, sick, lying lawyer who has
been absent most of his term in the senate
running for VP.
His selection was Kerry's biggest mistake.
Edwards won't carry one Southern state!
So...his dismal attendance record is (drum roll, please)...Bush's fault. Why, of course! [Hits self in head.]
Kerry has a record for pushing for raising taxes.
So Edwards only looks like a fool when he claims that they would cut spending.
THE ONLY SPENDING THEY WOULD CUT WOULD BE NATIONAL SECURITY.
Last time I checked....welfare had not done squat to stop terrorists and other enemies of our country.
AS for Edwards pathetic way to spin his Senate NO SHOW record.....he looked like a bigger fool on that issue.
Looking at his record, one could assume that if he were to be elected VP, he's be absent over 75 percent of the time; running for POTUS, no doubt.
So his excuse is that he started running for President starting his first year in the Senate?!
Gotta wonder what folks in his state think about that.
I'd go for that, except 50% attendance is way too low.
LOL!
Yeah, I reckon he'd use the time to run for
POTUS... Kerry has had prostrate cancer, so
Edwards could always "hope" for a relapse.
Wonder where that joker keeps his head?
[Isn't that a polyp on his lip?]
Didn't know they were contageous.
Tuesday November 2nd is election day; not the 3rd.
Anyone notice that they already realize they are making promises they know they can't keep, i.e. won't do something if have to raise taxes etc.
We won't see much of Edwards after Nov. 2. At about eight p.m., he and Nuancyboy will both become nonpersons. The only RATs worth talking to will be Hill and Bill, just the way she likes it.
Anyone who has seen the new jib-jab would never be able to take Edwards seriously again. Everytime I see his face now, I think of "buns". You have to see it to understand what I mean. I think I heard that they showed it on the Tonight Show. If so, millions of people saw it. It's one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
Ludicrous. "Hey, congress stinks! I don't like the way the game is played, so I'm going home....no, I'm running for president. So there. (Meanwhile, back in Chappaqua, Hill's putting champagne on ice. She'd never settle for the Supreme Court. One of nine? No way, not for Ms. Meglomaniac. Notice that she was pretty in pink again for her tv appearances the other night when GW took Kerry behind the barn and beat the living.....out of him.) And isn't it peculiar that the MSM still insists it was either a draw or that Kerry's ahead by a neck. Funny, because Terry McAuliffe and I were watching the same debate and he admitted Kerry had lost. Fox has that on tape.
Holy moley, Edwards looks just like that lead Sprocket. Every smirk in place. EEEEEK!
It looks as if Chris Wallace didn't leave Edwards a figleaf to hide behind. Guess Chris didn't read the ABC memo.
Kerry's secret polling has to show he's already headed off that cliff and even the MSM can't save him. Kerry made a fool of himself in the debate when GW backed him into the corner and he gasped, 'Yes, I won't raise taxes...'. And he gasped it, too. GW had him by the throat. Which makes the MSM's lies of 'Kerry won, Kerry won', ridiculous.
MamaT. is used to Kerry's dancing attendance all the time --this is why he's never in the senate. She couldn't adjust to his having to actually be President of the US, and let's face it, after he left office, she'd still be his meal ticket. Kerry's entire life has been spent chasing money. Anyone who thinks he'd be totally involved in being President is crazy. Happily, we don't have to worry about that nightmare. Kerry's already trying to figure out how to stay on MamaT.'s payroll after Nov. 2.
Too bad you didn't watch at least Fox News Sunday. Chris Wallace put Edwards on a skewer, then roasted him.
It was a joy to watch.
Understand Mama T. is dropping the Kerry surname after the election. Anyone else heard this?
"Gotta wonder what folks in his state think about that."
Folks in his state think he's a slime. This one does anyway.
Its doubtful he could have been re-elected, had he run.
Lets just say, he does not do this state proud.
We are 'umbly sorry.
Didnt anyone tell Kerry that you dont bring a butter knife (Edwards) to a gun fight?? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Cheney being the "gun"!
Why hasn't anyone asked Kerry why he didn't resign his seat in the Senate to run for President. The Democrats shamed Bob Dole into resigning his seat when he ran for President against Clinton. Obviously neither Kerry or Edwards is representing their constituents.
No no no, haven't you heard? Republicans vote on the 2nd. Democraps vote on the 3rd.
Little Johnny "The Breck Girl" Edwards (LIAR-NC) is a lowlife, liberal-demokkkRAT liar.
> EDWARDS: We will not raise taxes on the middle class, as John said clearly.
No, he said he would give a middle class tax CUT, clearly.
He didn't say it, but more than likely, tax cuts and defense spending would be the first to go so they could spend more money on their entitlement programs.
I agree. It is like the twilight zone. I know what I watched and I sqaw GWB kick Kerry's butt all over the floor. As soon as it was over, all I hear is that Kerry won???????
Is it me or am I crazy??????
His selection was Kerry's biggest mistake.
Selecting such a lightweight pretty boy was definetely a 910 decision.
What was Kerry thinking? Pretty boy lawyer from the south would help get him what votes?
Such a decision is scary when you realize that Kerry is unable to sense the gravity of the world we live in and that as president he would be the target of terrorists. A wise decison would have been to be sure he left the country in strong capable hands...not a Breck girl.
Hey Amelia :)
I'd rather read transcripts!
Easier on my blood pressure.
So he blames his absenteeism on the President. Kinda like Courtney Love blaming the Prez for her troubles, eh? So in a roundabout way, he acknowledges his being AWOL, but please, his intentions were noble. That excuses everything.
He started running for POTUS the second he was sworn into the Senate.
And I am in his state; he wasn't going to win re-election for the Senate anyway. His own town, you know -- the milltown -- went sold Bush/Cheney in 2000.
He's been in Iowa more than he's been here. Or in the Senate, for that matter.
As I said above, if they were to be elected, he'll be running from the second he's sworn in as VP.
Don't forget New Hampshire where he spent a good part of the year leading up to the primaries, meeting "regular" folk.
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