LIVE THREAD: PRESIDENT BUSH'S PRESS CONFERENCE - 5 P.M.

ALL CABLE CHANNELS | 7/8/02 | Wait4Truth

[Wait4Truth]

DON'T WATCH CNN UNLESS YOU ARE A TRUE BUSH-HATER. THEY ARE RIPPING THE PRESIDENT APART AND HAVE BEEN FOR THE LAST HOUR - WITHOUT STOPPING.

[olliemb]

I really wish he says that congress needs to get rid of their stock and put it in a blind trust. My understanding is that they get to keep their stock while the president and his administration need to get rid of theirs.

[Mo1]

Liberals have the advantage again.
They're used to this

Oh Gee .. my favorite liberal cheerleader .. where ya been lately??

[olliemb]

Correct me if you know differently, but I think that Fritz Hollings was the biggest benefactor from Worldcom. I guess he was sleeping with the corporation.

[TLBSHOW]

high light everyone so we can all tell your liberal spew in the post cause it does stand out! LOL

[Mo1]

My understanding is that they get to keep their stock while the president and his administration need to get rid of theirs.

If I recall Joe Lieberman's wife has a nice little stock portfolio and not Holy Joe

Kind of like how Joe didn't receive money from Enron ..but that fund he started and benefits from did ..

Shoot .. what was the name of it .. I'm going brain dead

[olliemb]

Did you and CArenot get a pass from the hospital? What rantings and ravings? And to think I am reading your comments instead of doing my homework.

[terilyn]

One of the biggest beneficiaries of WorldCom's political largess is South Carolina's U.S. Senator Fritz Hollings, the powerful chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. In the past ten years, Hollings has received over $32 thousand in contributions from WorldCom and it is anybody's guess how much the South Carolina Democratic Party has received from WorldCom in soft money due to Holling's influence. On July 27, 2002, the Chicago Tribune described Hollings as, "One of the companies most important friends....who shares WorldCom's antipathy to regional phone companies." Hollings is considered to be the political go-to-man in the tremendously competitive telecom industry which is a risky business as many regular phone services are being supplanted by inter-net services.

http://www.zmag.org/content/sh owarticle.cfm?SectionID=10& ;ItemID=2055

[olliemb]

BobbyD, Hi, nice to hear from you. I need to get directions to our meeting place. If you know them can you freepmail? Thanks, See ya got to get more writing in.

[terilyn]

However...

WorldCom has been most generous to lawmakers from its corporate home state of Mississippi. Rep. Chip Pickering (R-Miss.) and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) both rank near the top of the list of contributions from WorldCom, as do dozens of members of the House and Senate Commerce Committees who deal regularly with legislation that would affect WorldCom’s bottom line. President Bush raised $41,601 from the company during the 2000 election cycle.

http://216.239.37.100/search?q =cache:CaaASlkC3mUC:www.opense crets.org/news/worldcom/index. asp+worldcom+political+contrib utions+senate&hl=en&ie =UTF-8

[olliemb]

The Tauzin vote came up at Meet the Press as well. Tauzin said he thought there was not enough proof then and now his committee was to investigate SEC and its work from 1993 to now. That is when Levitt said there was no need. I am surprised that no one seems to have any comments on this Meet the Press. It was good--no one wants to be left with the impression that they had anything to do wrong with these rules of the corporations.

[olliemb]

Granny then needs to see Pelosi's doctor. Perhaps if her wrinkles were removed she wouldn't be so negative.

[terilyn]

WorldCom Contributions
to Current Members of the House, 1989-2002*

http://www.opensecrets.org/new s/worldcom/house.asp

WorldCom Contributions
to Current Members of the Senate, 1989-2002*

http://www.opensecrets.org/new s/worldcom/senate.asp

WorldCom Contributions
to Members of the Bush Administration*

http://www.opensecrets.org/new s/worldcom/pres.asp

[habs4ever]

Is your point that you just don't the use of the word 'War"?

Parse, baby, parse...what you do best.

It's a War, on a global scale, and it is whether you like the verbiage used or not.

Once again, exodus, I don't give a damn what bugs you.

I bet you'd make a fine university proff, sitting in a stuffy, cloistered common room, debating about angels dancing on heads of pins, and all that....

Keep running away from reality....

[QuestionBureaucracy]

IMHO you are right, there will be many more cooked book (non)surprises coming out every day between now and the election. GWB needs to go nuclear and drop a few of his own...RUDY, RUDY, RUDY!.. GWB needs to get Rudy Guiliani on board pronto as some sort of chief prosecutor/committe chair/tiger team honcho whatever so that next to every new scandal article in the papers is an article with a list of indictees, arrests, convictions, whatever. Rudy cut his teeth on white collar crime prosecutions, now is the time for him to step forward to save Our Nation's Markets!

[exodus]

"Does that mean that Bush believes Clinton did a good job? "
- exodus

To: exodus
No means that Clinton had nothing to do with the fiasco.

The question was not if Clinton did a good job.
# 624 by olliemb
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You're right, olliemb.

Thanks to deport's posting of the transcript at # 513,
I see that Bush was asked if Clinton's antics
might have encouraged corporate misbehavior.

Q
You weren't President then; Bill Clinton was President.
Do you think in some way he contributed to that, set a moral tone in any way?

THE PRESIDENT:
No.

Bush's answer of "No" to this question in no way implies support of Clinton's crimes.

[Mo1]

Oh I think the markets will be fine and I also expect them to eventually go up and be strong again .. they just need a little house cleaning

[Freee-dame]

...for EIGHT LONG YEARS, we waited and hoped for those same reporters to ask CLINTON about whichever scandal of the month it currently happened to be. They never did.

If they ever did venture anywhere near a tough question, they got a non answer and moved to another topic. Once Brit Hume asked a tough question with a follow-up. Soon after he was gone from his network.

[Mo1]

Bush's answer of "No" to this question in no way implies support of Clinton's crimes.

Oh Give it up ...

[exodus]

"It will be nice when he reveals it to us common folk.
I don't think he knows. If he don't, why not? "
- carenot

To: carenot
Let's see--a bomb hits a body--body parts fly all over Afghanistan.
If OBL was killed by air attack--I suspect he is a good example of dust to dust-----
bits in Iran, bits in Lebanon, bits in Kabul.
# 636 by olliemb
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No body would explain why there's no official conformation.

I would expect our intelligent community to have a very good idea whether ben Laden is alive are not. If not our intelligence agencies, for sure Israel would have a good idea.

I would like to know one way or the other, but if ben Laden is alive I can see advantages in acting like we don't know, in order to make him overconfident.

[exodus]

To: exodus
Hey exodus, I am a granny, too.
If carenot doesn't like my comment, then she can speak up.
I should have flagged her on that comment, which was an error on my part. However, I stand by my comment.
# 637 by Miss Marple

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And I stand by my comment, you are no gentleman.

Unlike you, Miss Marple, carenot is gracious and polite.
She sticks to the issues, and tries to have a good time.

She would never attack you.