September 9, 2003
Posted on 09/10/2003 8:53:47 AM PDT by PhiKapMom
September 9, 2003
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DEAN: Iraq Is “Battle Created By President.” “This is a battle for terrorism all right. It's a battle created by the President of the United States who ignored the greater danger in Iran and North Korea and al Qaeda at home to do it. This was a mistake, this war, and the President has gotten into it, now we're going to have to get out of it.” (Democrat Candidates Debate, Baltimore, MD, 9/9/03)
KERRY: President Was Negligent By Rushing To War. “This president rushed to war against the advice of many in this country. He clearly didn't plan for the peace. And it's extraordinary, it's an act of negligence of remarkable proportions.” (Democrat Candidates Debate, Baltimore, MD, 9/9/03)
GEPHARDT: President “Needs To Get Help.” “This President’s foreign policy is a miserable failure. He has failed the American people and he’s failing the people in Iraq. He needs to get help. We’ve got our young people over there being hurt. We’ve got people over there being injured and killed.” (Democrat Candidates Debate, Baltimore, MD, 9/9/03)
GRAHAM: President “Intentionally Misled” Americans. Ed Gordon: “[I]n your heart, do you believe that the President intentionally misled the American people?” Graham: “Yes. I was a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee for 10 years, chairman the last two years during the investigation into 9-11. The President knew or should have known, for instance, that the materials that he alleged were going to be used to rebuild Iraq’s nuclear weaponry …” (Democrat Candidates Debate, Baltimore, MD, 9/9/03)
DEAN: President Took “18-Month Holiday” From Peace Process. “If we want peace in the Middle East, we need first not to do what this President did, which is to give this whole matter an 18-month holiday and pay no attention at all for the first 18 months of his term.” (Democrat Candidates Debate, Baltimore, MD, 9/9/03)
KERRY: “Serious Suspicions” On President’s Involvement In Policy Formation. “There are serious suspicions about the level to which this President really was involved in asking the questions that he should have.” (Democrat Candidates Debate, Baltimore, MD, 9/9/03)
GEPHARDT: Bush’s Performance In Iraq Is “Abomination.” “It is an abomination that he has not gotten our country and our troops the help that we need.” (Democrat Candidates Debate, Baltimore, MD, 9/9/03)
GEPHARDT: Bush Has One Idea, “Tax Cuts For The Wealthiest Americans.” “[The President] only has one idea in his head -- tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, followed by tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, followed by tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.” (Democrat Candidates Debate, Baltimore, MD, 9/9/03)
EDWARDS: President Is Leaving “Kids Behind.” “This ‘No Child Left Behind’? This President is leaving millions of kids behind every single day.” (Democrat Candidates Debate, Baltimore, MD, 9/9/03)
KERRY: Bush “Walked Away” From African-Americans. “We have a President who’s walked away from them [African-American children], broken his promise and refused to fund ‘No Child Left Behind’.” (Democrat Candidates Debate, Baltimore, MD, 9/9/03)
LIEBERMAN: Bush Is “Most Fiscally Irresponsible President” Ever. “[L]et me state it straight out. George Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of the United States of America.” (Democrat Candidates Debate, Baltimore, MD, 9/9/03)
LIEBERMAN: African-American Community Suffered Because Of Bush. “No community has suffered more from the fiscal irresponsibility of George W. Bush than the African-American community. Hey, it began before he was President. In the denial his team carried out in Florida for African-American voters who were trying to go to the polls and help elect Al Gore and me.” (Democrat Candidates Debate, Baltimore, MD, 9/9/03)
EDWARDS: The President Is “Hazardous To Your Health.” “This President … is cutting funding, every single day for programs like prescription drug benefit. This is a President who says we can’t do anything about the healthcare crisis in America. This is a President who blocked the patients’ bill of rights. Here’s what we ought to do. We ought to go over to the White House and hang a big warning sign on the door of the White House that says, ‘this President is hazardous to your health.’ that’s what we ought to do.” (Democrat Candidates Debate, Baltimore, MD, 9/9/03)
KERRY: Bush’s Economic Development Program Is In Baghdad. “I’m glad the President finally found an economic development program. I’m just sad that it’s only in Baghdad.” (Democrat Candidates Debate, Baltimore, MD, 9/9/03)
DEAN: Bush “Played Race Card.”
“[T]he President of the United States essentially played the race card when he described the University of Michigan affirmative action program. And for that reason alone he deserves a one-way bus ticket back to Crawford, Texas.” (Democrat Candidates Debate, Baltimore, MD, 9/9/03)
LIEBERMAN: Bush “Compromised” American Dream. “I said when I declared my candidacy for President that I was running to keep the American dream alive, the dream that has been compromised by George W. Bush so badly …” (Democrat Candidates Debate, Baltimore, MD, 9/9/03)
LIEBERMAN: African-Americans Not Allowed To Vote In Florida. “It pains me to look back to 2000 and realize that though we eliminated the laws that stopped African-Americans from voting, [but] they still were not allowed to vote in the state of Florida.” (Democrat Candidates Debate, Baltimore, MD, 9/9/03)
GEPHARDT: “Like Father, Like Son, Four Years And He’s Done.” “We need to beat George Bush. You know, I have a saying these days, ‘Like father, like son, four years and he’s done.’ We’re going to get rid of George Bush.” (Democrat Candidates Debate, Baltimore, MD, 9/9/03)
KERRY: Bush “Behaves Like Jefferson Davis.” “This is the biggest say-one-thing-do-another Administration in all time. The President says one thing about children, does another, one thing about taxes, does another, about housing, about the war, about--goes to Goree Island, spends a few minutes, behaves like Abraham Lincoln, goes to South Carolina, behaves like Jefferson Davis on the Confederate flag. We deserve a president of the United States who will write laws for all Americans, not for campaign contributors.” (Democrat Candidates Debate, Baltimore, MD, 9/9/03)
LIEBERMAN: Bush Is “Worse Nightmare.” “The Presidency of Bush has been a worse nightmare than even Al and I warned America about.” (Democrat Candidates Debate, Baltimore, MD, 9/9/03)
Dean was scary-good last night. I fear what he'll be like if he gets the nomination and can run down the middle. I think he's the only Dem who can beat Bush.
I'm just having nightmare flashbacks to another small-state liberal who ran against an incumbent Bush-President.
This time, though, our side has learned its lessons. We got beat twice by Clinton. We're not going to be beaten by Clinton-lite (I hope).
"A presidential executive order issued during the Clinton
administration hamstrung the FBI so badly that bureau
lawyers decided it would be illegal to infiltrate Osama bin
Laden's terrorist training camps in Afghanistan, a senior
FBI official during the Clinton administration said Saturday."
(June 1, 2002)
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The comments make the former vice president, who served under President Bush's father from 1989 to 1993, the highest ranking former U.S. official to suggest that the Clinton administration should get the lion's share of the blame for not preventing the 9-11 attacks.
I know what you mean. I have this weird feeling that Sharpton's a good cook and knows some really funny dirty jokes. Lieberman seems like a decent-enough guy who you can kick back and have a beer with.
But, geez, imagine being stuck on a boat with Kerry and Dean. One's boring, the other's a raging jackass.
Funniest comments of the night came from Al Sharpton, though, when he
threatened to sic some of his homeboys on the LaRouche disruptors.Hey, I'm votin' for ole Al, I tell ya !! ...
"If I can slap this donkey I can make it kick George Bush
out of the White House."--Al Sharpton
... not !!! :O)
Hey, I'm not stalking you, really! You're just hitting
on some of my favorite subjects today on this thread ...
Above is the REAL Frankenstein!
Click HERE to see the DNC's Bushenstein
(Barf Alert!)http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2002/07/20020703_a_main.asp
Listen
Howard Dean
Howard Dean says he's running for President, and on paper he's quite a candidate.
He's the longest-serving Democratic governor. He signed the first law in the country to allow gay unions. And, he's got the endorsement of America's favorite president-that-isn't: Martin Sheen.
In real life, most Americans would pass Howard Dean on the street without a second glance. Can a candidate with just about zero national name-recognition actually make a viable run for the nation's highest office? Tonight, Howard Dean, the invisible candidate.
You missed a group of lying, pandering blithering idiots! This debate was a Bush bash set up by the black caucus, using Britt Hume in a cheap attempt to add some semblance of credibility. You missed nothing.
IMHO The dims shot themselves in the foot, by putting on display, their anti-american blathering!!
It is remarkable, just stunning really, that the Dim candidates, and many other Dim Congress critters, just have no compunction or hesitation at all about telling flat-out, unequivocal lies. They even lie about the President lying by lying about what the President said, i.e. a triple lie.
In this example (but one of many) it is, first of all, CONGRESS (of which Kerry is a member!) that does the funding, not the President. Secondly, though I don't have the exact figures to hand, "leave no child behind" HAS been funded, to the tune of BILLIONS of dollars. To say it hasn't been funded, or that anyone "has refused" to fund it, is a lie. I'm not saying that it might be a lie, or there are interpretations under which it might be considered a lie; it is IN FACT a lie. There is no ambiguity at all that it is a lie. Kerry surely knows what funding has been approved (by CONGRESS!) on the matter, and he has consciously chosen to lie about it.
What Kerry apparently means (if I have this clear) is that the money appropriated in the budget did not reach the maximum amount that the bill, now law, allowed. Again, I don't remember the exact figures, but it was something along the line of the bill allowing, say, 16 billion dollars, and only 12 billion being appropriated.
All Kerry had to do was say "fully fund," which still would have been deeply misleading, but would not have been a bald, outright lie. Kerry chose to lie, and the press will never call him on it. The press repeatedly treats these unequivocal lies as if they were just matters of interpretation, or point to counterpoint. IT'S MADDENING!!!
You got it. I still remember how Gore was going to be "trounced" in the first hour of election day, and how Hillary would "never stand a chance" at the Senate. We cannot afford to underestimate Dean and the Dems, nor the sheer stupidity, gullibility, and gimme-ness of too many voters. Whenever I see predictions of a Reaganesque landslide in '04, I get very uncomfortable.
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