Posted on 08/11/2002 10:21:25 PM PDT by pittsburgh gop guy
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:46:53 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Who does Democratic National Chairman Terry McAuliffe think he is? Bill Clinton?
Only a man of Mr. Clinton's, er, self-confidence, could believe that he could get away with what Mr. McAuliffe is trying, to lead his party's charge against President Bush on the issue of business ethics. In the sermon he delivered to the Democratic National Committee summer meeting in Las Vegas Saturday, Mr. McAuliffe was so busy attacking the President for manipulating markets and exploiting September 11 that somehow he never mentioned the words Global Crossing.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
What a hypocrite Democrat!
But the real question becomes "How many people were afforded the opportunity to purchase the stock at such a low level?" My guess is not too many. What really gets me is that Terry McAuliffe is the embodiment of what the Left claims the Republican Party is all about. A rich lout who gamed the system for his own personal gain. And yet nobody seems to care.
He won't be able to weasel out of this one because the WSJ is one of the most widely read and respected papers not only in the USA, but the world. Sorry Mr. McAuliffe. :-)
Mr. McAuliffe made an investment of $100,000 in Global Crossing shortly before it went public. Two years later he sold it for $18 million. Shortly thereafter, Global Crossing made a public announcement of decline in profits and the share price plummeted. It declared bankruptcy last January; in other words, Mr. McAuliffe pocketed $18 million for worthless shares.
McAuliffe almost makes those two insufferable demagogues look like decent men.
In school, children are taught that reporters are cut-throat, hard-hitting competitors who would scandalize their own mother for a good scoop. So, many assume they hear it all on TV. It's kind of like Logan's Run. If you don't go outside and look for yourself, you will stay in one place.
The only way this country is getting any better is conservatives and libertarians talking with people on the street.
Recognize hypocrisy? Yeah and if pigs could fly........ McAuliffe avoided indictment in the Teamsters/Democrat donations scandal only by the efforts of Mary Jo White. A House committee chaired by Rep. Peter Hoekstra noted that the Teamsters treasury had been looted to the tune of $812 million while Carey was president. McAuliffe was directly tied to the entire sordid mess and there are ample public records available. McAuliffe should be in prison along with Bill and Hillary but then maybe democrats are too dumb or just like the trashy characters they elect to run their party...a party that offers nothing new, just the same old slander, innuendo, race baiting, class warfare and continued criticizing of a good President, when they did nothing for eight years and are still complaining about the very things they said they had fixed or would fix.
If you had been in power for eight years and did nothing, would anyone vote for that sort of government again? McAuliffe is giving his party the coup de grace with his tired old rhetoric.
Do you have proof of this? I find it hard to believe that the Journal would make such a grevious error. Perhaps you should call it to the national press's attention.
Stupid Party lives on - then they scratch their heads & wonder why conservatives stay home or vote for the Libertarian or Constitution candidate DUH...
FReegards...MUD
I've got the GX stock prices from inception as well as the first articles in summer of 1999 re: McAuliffe's sales on another box that's down for an upgrade, I'll post that info when I can get to it.
AxelPaulsenJr queried:
Do you have proof of this? I find it hard to believe that the Journal would make such a grevious error. Perhaps you should call it to the national press's attention.
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