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)
The ratings game, You are right, Fox probably sacrificed long term gains. This debate deserved to be associated with CNN, right in the gutter!
The Dems. have gone too far. I will not listen to them anymore, but simply respond with facts, numbers, thank you letters from Iraq and Goebbels propaganda archives - that match so closely the divisive rhetoric used by this anti-American party today.
A worthy sacrifice if so, IMHO. Many new eyes and ears were exposed to the odious dwarves as a result of this being on FOX, whose audience is more conservative, middle-of-the-road or fly-over-country-traditionalist. The lefties who tuned in would tend to already be committed activists. Thus more Republicans than Dims will be energized. A miscalculation by the CBC here, as others have argued.
It really is an incredibly striking resemblance, isn't it ?? LOL ! ...On a different topic, here's another one. Cruz Bustamante and Mr. Spacely ...
i had another pic (a BETTER one) of mr. spacely that i borrowed,
but now that website is under construction, dog gone it ...
BUMP!
Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT): "Governor Dean is a major candidate and he has to be held accountable for what he has to say. That's why I challenged him. He's done a lot of flip-flopping. Tonight, we talked about the Middle East... he's flip-flopped on NAFTA, which he used to be for, now he seems to be against." (NBC's "First Read," http://www.msnbc.com/news/924508.asp, 9/10/03)
One can never have too much chum on a shark trip.
LOL ! Good one ...
My pleasure. Thanks back to YOU for all the hard work in
putting these threads together ! :O)
I've heard, third hand (does anyone have a quote or something more direct) that Dean has threatened to clean the clintonistas out of the DNC, starting with McAwful, if he gets the nomination. IOW he has (so I hear) directly threatened the Clinton power base.
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