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Does anyone have the quote of Kerry stating that Bill Clinton's lack of military service should not have been an issue during Clinton's Presidential campaigns? I've Googled on various words and cannot locate the quote. Thank you.

The Republican National Committee is turning to a Democrat to nominate President Bush in New York at the convention. The choice of Senator Zell Miller of Georgia, who leads a committee of Democrats for Mr. Bush, will be announced by party leaders on Thursday, officials familiar with the decision say. Mr. Miller, as governor of Georgia, nominated Bill Clinton for president in 1992. Mr. Miller was governor from 1990 to 1998 and was appointed to the Senate in 2000. He is not seeking re-election this year.

After Hurricane Andrew left thousands homeless in August 1992, the first President Bush's administration was roundly criticized for moving too slowly to deliver food, water and troops. The son apparently did not want to repeat history. Even before Hurricane Charley struck, the second Bush White House was poised to act. Hours after Hurricane Charley made landfall, federal aid was flowing. As emergency crews and National Guard troops swooped in to help residents across the state, Floridians were showered with promises, assurances and lists of toll-free numbers they could call for help, according to a story in the LA Times. "While...

Former President Bill Clinton, admits he lied on national television in a 1992 post-Super Bowl CBS interview.Clinton appeared with his wife, Hillary, in the interview and told CBS correspondent Steve Kroft that he categorically denied having any extra-marital involvement with Gennifer Flowers. Hillary knew at the time of the interview that he was lying to Steve Kroft, lying to CBS, and lying to the world.When asked recently by CBS 60 Minutes' Dan Rather how he managed to get Hillary to agree to appear with him in the 1992 interview -- knowing as she did, that he was going to lie...

From The Archives...An Elephant Never Forgets! IN 1992, AL GORE ATTACKED PRESIDENT GEORGE H.W. BUSH FOR IGNORING IRAQ'S TIES TO TERRORISM. SEN. AL GORE: "[W]hen George Bush took office, he should have reevaluated what our relationship was with Iraq ..." CNN'S LARRY KING: "Well ..." GORE: "Let me finish, just briefly. Instead, he stepped up the foreign aid to Iraq, and he looked the other way when there were repeated incidents of terrorism in which Iraq had a part, terrorists operating openly in Baghdad, and repeated warnings from our national security people telling the Bush administration that Saddam was on...

How stupid are Americans? I think the answer is: As dumb as we wanna be. Twelve years ago, Bill Clinton realized he couldn’t get a majority to vote for him as a Democrat. So he pretended to be a Republican. He co-opted the Republican position on practically every issue. He left poor President Bush Sr. with nothing to say except “me too.” And Bush was the incumbent. Clinton’s message back then was: Bush is a complete failure, and I’m going to make everything better by following exactly the same policies. This year, it’s not “the economy, stupid,” because the economy...

DALLAS - Former President Bush (news - web sites) said Tuesday that John Kerry (news - web sites)'s Democratic presidential campaign is using the same rhetoric about the state of the economy against his son that Bill Clinton (news - web sites) used against him in 1992.   But the elder Bush said President George W. Bush has a stronger case to take to the voters this time around because the economy has begun to show signs of recovery. "I was out telling people things were getting better, but the Clinton campaign ... portrayed me as being out of touch,"...

It seems that every presidential election year, political analysts are busy trying to make comparisons with previous elections. In 2000, for instance, most analysts were convinced that a repeat of 1988 was in the making. It wasn’t hard to see why analysts thought this: the economy was good, Gore was suffering from ‘vice-presidentitis’, a 2-term president was retiring and his challenger George W. Bush was the governor of a one-party state. But, in the end, 2000 turned out to be very dissimilar from 1988, largely because analysts forgot one precious point: every election is different. And he we are in...

Memo Says U.S. Was Lax on Iraq; 'No One Was Paying Attention' to Arms [EXCERPT] The Washington Post R. Jeffrey Smith, Washington Post Staff Writer FIRST SECTION; PAGE A1 June 5, 1992, Friday, Final Edition A senior State Department official concluded in a secret memorandum after Iraq invaded Kuwait that "no one was paying attention" to blocking Iraq's purchase of Western equipment for weapons of mass destruction during the previous decade, according to a copy obtained by The Washington Post. [According to Clarke's memo,] "no one was paying attention" to blocking Iraq's purchase of Western equipment for weapons of...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The papers of former Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, author of the infamous Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion, have been opened to the public. The New York Times, which was given first access to the materials, reports that the Roe decision almost fell until Justice Kennedy changed his mind and approached Blackmun with the idea to uphold parts of a pro-life law while keeping Roe's framework intact. According to the Times, Blackmun feared the Roe decision would fall when the Court prepared to heard the case of Casey v. Planned Parenthood, which saw the...

If there's a rumor of infidelity about a presidential candidate, it must be addressed! This goes right to the issue of character and temperament. Right? Depends on the year. In 2004, no. When the Drudge Report passed along a juicy leak about John F. Kerry's supposed infidelities, the mainstream media pursed its lips and sewed them shut, leaving the issue to hiss and dissipate on the Internet and talk radio. In 1992, though, it was different. That election year was Bizarro World: Few in the media really cared about Bill Clinton's attempts to avoid military service, and everyone was talking...

... In the coming months, members of both parties may want to reread a speech delivered from the floor of the Senate on the eve of another presidential campaign in which Vietnam was an issue. "We do not need now to divide America over who served and how," it reads. No group "has cornered the market on virtue or rectitude or love of country." The year was 1992. The speaker, then as now a decorated combat veteran, was Senator John Kerry. ...

As main press players blast the DRUDGE REPORT and foreign outlets for revealing details of a behind-the-scenes campaign drama surrounding candidate Kerry and the nature of his relationship with a mystery woman, just 12 years ago pre-Internet mainstream media assaulted President George W. Bush's father with questions surrounding an infidelity rumor. In 1992 top reporters swiftly reacted to a footnote in a book by Susan Trento, wife of CNN reporter James Trento who was the source of the original rumor -- apparently from an interview with a long dead ambassador. CNN rushed to get the rumor into the media stream...

A Strategy for Kerry January 29, 2004 After the first President Bush betrayed conservatives by raising taxes, in spite of his promise never to do so, many conservatives didn’t bother voting for him in 1992. This was one of the reasons he lost to Bill Clinton, who re-energized the conservative movement and brought about a Republican takeover of Congress in the 1994 elections. In the meantime, Clinton’s ambitious national health-care plan flopped. Principled conservatives should hope that history repeats itself in 2004. If John Kerry wins the presidency, Republicans may start acting a bit like conservatives again. Under the current...

On Thursday night, CNN dedicated the entire hour of its 8pm EST Paula Zahn Now to “2 Men, 2 Choices,” a title which appeared beneath old black and white photos of John Kerry and George Bush in military uniforms. But in 1992, well more than a week after news broke about Bill Clinton’s underhanded efforts to avoid the draft by misleading the chief of his local draft board, CNN aired a profile of Clinton during a prime time special on the candidates, yet failed to mention his draft avoidance. The MRC’s Tim Graham reminded me of this paragraph from the...

Read through this and see if you find anything good: SEN. KERRY: (Sounds gavel.) This hearing of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs will come to order. This morning we continue the hearing which was initiated yesterday, which covers principally questions regarding the so-called Soviet connection, but not only that issue in terms of today's hearing, also the entire question of information that may or may not have been known to the intelligence community of the United States and the tracking process with respect to potential live POWs that may have been held in Vietnam, or Laos, or Cambodia...

Excerpted from the Congressional Record -- February 27, 1992 (Page: S2479): Mr. KERRY. Mr. President, I also rise today -- and I want to say that I rise reluctantly, but I rise feeling driven by personal reasons of necessity -- to express my very deep disappointment over yesterday's turn of events in the Democratic primary in Georgia. I am saddened by the fact that Vietnam has yet again been inserted into the campaign, and that it has been inserted in what I feel to be the worst possible way. By that I mean that yesterday, during this Presidential campaign, and...

<p>"I am saddened that Vietnam has yet again been inserted into the campaign."</p> <p>Mr. President, I also rise today--and I want to say that I rise reluctantly, but I rise feeling driven by personal reasons of necessity--to express my very deep disappointment over yesterday's turn of events in the Democratic primary in Georgia.</p>

<p>"I am saddened that Vietnam has yet again been inserted into the campaign."</p> <p>Mr. President, I also rise today--and I want to say that I rise reluctantly, but I rise feeling driven by personal reasons of necessity--to express my very deep disappointment over yesterday's turn of events in the Democratic primary in Georgia.</p>

Sen. John Kerry and his media boosters are hoping bogus allegations that President Bush went AWOL from the National Guard will catapult him into the White House - but during the 1992 presidential campaign, Kerry angrily denounced Bush's father for raising Bill Clinton's Vietnam draft record. In fact, back then, Kerry called those who wanted to make Vietnam service an issue "cowardly." "I'm here personally to express my anger, as a veteran," Kerry told National Public Radio two months before the 1992 election, "that a president who would stand before this nation in his inaugural address and promise to put...

Mr. President, I also rise today--and I want to say that I rise reluctantly, but I rise feeling driven by personal reasons of necessity--to express my very deep disappointment over yesterday's turn of events in the Democratic primary in Georgia. I am saddened by the fact that Vietnam has yet again been inserted into the campaign, and that it has been inserted in what I feel to be the worst possible way. By that I mean that yesterday, during this Presidential campaign, and even throughout recent times, Vietnam has been discussed and written about without an adequate statement of its...

VIETNAM INSERTED INTO CAMPAIGN (Senate - February 27, 1992) [Page: S2479] Mr. KERRY. Mr. President, I also rise today--and I want to say that I rise reluctantly, but I rise feeling driven by personal reasons of necessity--to express my very deep disappointment over yesterday's turn of events in the Democratic primary in Georgia. I am saddened by the fact that Vietnam has yet again been inserted into the campaign, and that it has been inserted in what I feel to be the worst possible way. By that I mean that yesterday, during this Presidential campaign, and even throughout recent times,...

I personally met Sen. John Kerry in Boston in 1992 at a Boston Northeastern University political science gathering and found him cold, aloof, unfriendly and condescending. In fact, the only person he was warm to was the token "gay" guy at the gathering. I guess I was not diverse enough to be talk to him in a social situation. Furthermore, my Syrian friend Khalid saw him groping women and acting drunk at the Harvard Club in Boston (yeah I know he went to Yale, but he IS a senator and can do that). And at an election year party in...

Sen. John Kerry says he has heard the scuttlebutt, says it's all premature and says he's campaigning hard for Paul Tsongas. But Kerry's public defense of Gov. Bill Clinton's actions during the Vietnam War - along with the assets that the Massachusetts senator might bring to the ticket as a decorated war hero - has spurred talk here that he could end up as a running mate of the man he ostensibly opposes. Despite his early support for Tsongas, "John Kerry will be on the short list," if Clinton wins the Democratic nomination for president, says Robert Farmer, a Massachusetts...

DENVER In February 1992, five years after I retired from the Senate and entered the world of international law, I was approached at my hotel while on a business trip to Athens by a man identifying himself as a "naval attaché{grv}" from the Libyan Embassy, who was almost certainly with the Libyan intelligence service. This was by no means the first time such a thing had happened to me since leaving the Senate. Nevertheless, there was an air of intrigue about the meeting, and it led to intensive contacts with the Libyan government over the next several weeks. Although I...

Just one month after an al Qaeda recruiter was ordered to contact former U.S. servicemen, both Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols relocated to areas where Osama bin Laden's terror network was actively recruiting. In December 1992, al Qaeda operative Clement Rodney Hampton-El was given a list of former U.S. servicemen to recruit as volunteers by a Saudi-linked cleric based in the Philippines, according to testimony in his 1995 trial. (previous story) Shortly after Hampton-El was given the list, McVeigh quit his job and moved to Florida, where al Qaeda was creating a new financing network. In January 1993, Nichols traveled...

In 1992, al Qaeda recruited U.S. veterans by exploiting a Saudi government program that had converted thousands of G.I.s to Islam after the Gulf War. Clement Rodney Hampton-El, an African-American convert to Islam convicted of plotting in 1993 to blow up New York City landmarks, was called to a meeting at the Saudi Embassy in December 1992 and given the names of U.S. servicemen about to finish their tours of duty, whom he attempted to recruit as volunteer mujahideen and paramilitary trainers for a bin Laden-sponsored insurgency in Bosnia. The man who gave Hampton-El the list of servicemen was a...

JERUSALEM (AP) - Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak defended an Israeli plan to assassinate Saddam Hussein in 1992, breaking his silence on an operation that was canceled after five Israeli commandos were killed during a dress rehearsal. The Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot said Tuesday that commandos from the elite Sayeret Matkal unit planned to kill Saddam as he attended a relative's funeral in his hometown of Tikrit, Iraq. Saddam was captured by American forces near Tikrit on Dec. 14. Barak was Israel's military chief of staff at the time of the planned operation, and was at the army base...

TEL AVIV, Israel - The Israeli military planned a daring assassination attempt against Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) in 1992 — a plot that would have involved landing commandos in Iraq (news - web sites) and firing sophisticated missiles at him during a funeral, an Israeli newspaper reported Tuesday. The attempt was reportedly called off after an accident during a training exercise for the mission ended in the deaths of five soldiers. The Maariv daily reported that with the capture of Saddam, Israeli military censors lifted a ban on publication of the full story. Israeli officials were not immediately...

Sayeret Matkal, the IDF General Staff's elite special-operations force, trained in 1992 to assassinate Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in a daring operation that would have landed commandos in Iraq and fired sophisticated missiles at him during a funeral, Israeli media reported Tuesday. The attempt was called off after an accident in a training exercise for the mission ended in the deaths of five soldiers. Maariv daily and Army Radio reported that with the capture of Saddam, Israeli military censorship lifted its ban on publication of the full story. Israeli officials were not immediately available for comment. The radio said the...

Translation from Hebrew to English by me: Sayaret Matcal was planning on eliminating the former president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, in 1992, but the operation was canceled after the "Zehelim Disaster B," where 5 soldiers were killed. It was today allowed to publish this after the former tyrant was captured by the Americans. The plan started to formulate after the first Gulf War in 1991, after the survival of Saddam brought upon depression in the IDF leadership and the Ministry of Defense. Talks between Israeli officials and leaders in the CIA showed that the Americans were depressed from the order...

IDF commando unit trained to assassinate Saddam in 1992, operation called off after 5 troops killed during training (Army Radio)

DISPIRITED PARTY DREADS 92 VOTEAuthor: By Walter V. Robinson, Globe Staff Date: Wednesday, January 24, 1990 Page: 1 Section: NATIONAL/FOREIGN WASHINGTON -- At home the economy, though somewhat anemic, continues to grow. Abroad democracy flourishes, and so do hopes for a permanent peace. And here, the White House is basking in the midwinter glow of presidential approval ratings that even Republicans never anticipated. Heady times in the capital? Without question -- unless you are a partisan Democrat. Alas for the Democrats, there is no warmth to thaw the chill in their party's soul. Their party is leaderless, some say rudderless,...

Lessons of the Bush Defeat: The Conservative Electorate of 1992 by David K. Nichols …what Perot's candidacy did was to give the voters who were dissatisfied with their respective parties a chance to protest without taking the revolutionary step of voting for the other side. Clinton received only 10% of the Republican votes, up a mere 2% from 1988. Almost all of the Republican voters who deserted Bush moved to Perot. This is perhaps the most conclusive sign that Bush lost, rather than Clinton won.If there is agreement on anything about the 1992 election, it is that the election represented...

<p>For Democrats eager to retake the White House, it must be awfully tempting to view 2004 as a repeat of 1992. In that year, after all, the Republican incumbent was named George Bush, and he had just won a war, or at least a battle, against Saddam Hussein's Iraq. The Democrats went on to win their first presidential election in almost a generation.</p>

FEDS TAKE PROPERTY FOR A TRAIL; TAKE TAXPAYERS FOR A RIDE William Perry Pendley President and Chief Legal Officer   On May 22, 2002, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims ordered the United States to pay J. Paul and Patricia Preseault of Burlington, Vermont, for the unconstitutional taking of their property, that is, without paying for it. The United States was ordered to pay: $234,000, plus interest from the February 5, 1986, date of the taking, for a total of $551,931.30; and $894,855.60 in attorneys' fees. The United States will be writing a check for $1,446,786.90! The United States...