Posted on 10/11/2004 5:04:17 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty
Dear Editors:There was one more thing I wanted to add but I didn't think the Post would print it. Kerry and Edwards' ploy had to include the calculation that the mainstream press would NOT call them on it. They relied on the double standard against Republicans. In a fair world, that would cause some soul searching in MSM newsrooms.Senator Kerry hit a low point when he gratuitously referred to the private life of V.P. Cheney's daughter. His campaign says she is "fair game". But, she campaigns for her father as a loving daughter, nothing more. She does not campaign as a member of an interest group. Given the fact that the senator's running mate also raised the issue leads me to conclude this was no passing reference. It was apparently an ugly pre-planned strategy.
Elsewhere in the debate, Senator Kerry decried how divided the country has become. But he was the one who crossed the line into unprovoked divisiveness by invoking a private family matter. Apparently, there is no line he won't cross for political gain.
Re your post about homeschooling - I had to laugh at the notion of my symphony musician sister, who homeschools her girls (ages 4 and 8) and cans her own garden produce, as a domestic terrorist taking over school buses and the like! I'm so sick of the complaint that home-schooled kids get no "socialization." If you mean they don't learn to cuss like sailors by the time they're 6 or they do nothing but watch TV and play violent video games with other kids, I guess so. But both my nieces have lots of friends at church and in their neighborhood, the older one (a dead ringer for a young Liz Taylor, by the way) was picked to be in "Nutcracker" with the Pittsburgh Ballet this year, and - darn it all - they know the difference between right and wrong. Yes, we have a real problem with those two.
Let's see, what did I miss? Doesn't matter, I doubt Mama Forbes Kerry actually said that to her bouncing baby boy, anyway.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Three balloon arches: $1,486. Seven cakes: $1,850. One party planner: $85,552.
That's what a government anti-terrorism agency spent last year for an awards ceremony at a lavish Washington hotel, according to an internal report obtained by The Associated Press. The total cost came close to a half-million dollars. Awards were presented to 543 Transportation Security Administration employees and 30 organizations, including a "lifetime achievement award" for one worker with the 2-year-old agency. Almost $200,000 was spent on travel and lodging for attendees.
The investigation by the Homeland Security Departmentás inspector general, Clark Kent Ervin, also found the TSA gave its senior executives bonuses averaging $16,000, higher than at any other federal government agency, and failed to provide adequate justification in more than a third of the 88 cases examined. ...
"those guys lost me years ago, when they trashed rain forest preservation & biodiversity. Call me touchy and humorless but I can't get any chuckles out of human caused mass extinction."
Wait a minute, human-caused mass extinction is the lefties' raison d'etre, that's why they love genocidal nuts like Stalin and Saddam and hate it so much when those same nuts are out of power. Ahhh, who am I kidding? I'm a meanspirited Republican! Go mass extinction, woo hoo!
I am a regular listener to Dr. Laura and nothing gets her cackles up more than men who put their mamas on equal or higher level as their wives.
Kerry actually married "up" twice; his first wifey was worth $200 million.
Note that W refrained from mentioning his Mama; thank goodness as Kitty Kelly and Mo Dowd have written that he has an Odedipus complex. Although in my heart I know she (Barb) must have told W to stand up straight, also. And I bet she told the twins to wear modest dresses, lol...
The Dems sure love to exploit the infirm and dying for their own pathetic political agenda, from Mama Kerry to Al Gore's cancer-riddled sister to Christopher Reeve. Disgusting.
New low for the sKerry campaign...Note to Liz Edwards: you had best think twice before insulting Mrs. Cheney, you are no match for her...Elizabeth Edwards is blasting Second Lady Lynne Cheney
A Freeper on that thread made a great point.
With Kerry aides saying today that Mary Cheney is "fair game", does that mean it would have been OK for Bush to single out Mrs. Edwards if the subject of obesity came up?
LOL!
Just got a call from the Washington Post. They're going to run my letter tomorrow!!!
Oooo, that feels good!
Good on your sis, and her children. They are the real hope for the future of our country.
...and beautiful, to boot.
That's just great.
They should be honored to have your solid thinking in their paper.
Way to go!
"It makes me really sad that that's Lynne's response. I think that it indicates a certain degree of shame with respect to her daughter's sexual preferences that I'm certain makes her daughter uncomfortable. That makes me very sad on a personal level."Keep diggin', sKerry, keep diggin'.
I'm a few days late to respond, but the guy is from Youngstown - a bastion of Dems, unions and stomping ground of James Traficant, prior to his unfortunate incarceration : ) He spoke at the rally for President Bush a few weekends ago in Akron. He was amazing - very preacher-like. If we weren't believers before he spoke, we were after he finished!
I agree, fair game is fair game, and let the donuts fall where they may, Elizabeth, you silly cow.
The man's been on every TV show and every network but Nick at Nite. The reviews are, this guy's a pro at working a room . . . a jury . . . a voter.
One television crew was wildly impressed with Edwards' skill. They marveled that he breezed in minutes ahead of time, wanted nothing, needed nothing, plunged right into the audience, shook hands, smiled, showed the teeth, then sat smack down in the chair, pinned on his mike, cranked up that megawatt smile, did his bit and didn't even hang around to say thanks.
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COME January comes former New Jersey governor, former Bush Cabinet member Christine Todd Whitman's 320-page book, "It's My Party, Too: Taking Back the Republican Party — and Bringing the Country Together Again." Daughter of a Republican activist, attendee at every Republican National Convention for 50 years, she told me she wrote this Penguin Press job because, "It's time for a radical moderate. My party's made a hard turn to the right and this is a call to arms." ....
Then she talked about her book. "I did it with a speechwriter because I'm concerned for what's happened to my party. Both parties have gone to extremes. I've written that Democrats have gone as far to the left as we've gone to the right. [Not even close, Christie]
"My GOP's been hijacked by social fundamentalists. They're marginalizing women [Anyone here feeled marginalized?] and we've done so much for this country. We're the ones who pushed education through. The Republican Party today is a tragedy. What happened to the party of Lincoln?" .... (Cindy Adams)
14 Oct 2004 | Associated Press
(10-14) 10:27 PDT MEXICO CITY (AP) --
Republicans Abroad made a final push Thursday in Mexico for the Hispanic vote, calling a news conference to urge Mexicans and dual citizens to support U.S. President George W. Bush.
Larry Rubin, president of the group's Mexico chapter, said Bush will work with Congress -- which he said will "definitely" be Republican -- to pass a migration accord that will allow more people to work legally in the States.
In January, Bush proposed a temporary work program that has so far stalled in Congress, which is currently held by Republicans.
"Bush understands the problems of the border and knows the Mexican people," Rubin said, adding: "The Democrats don't have a clear plan for Latin America."
He said that his group was making a last push this week to register Americans and dual citizens to cast absentee ballots.
"I think Americans know their vote counts more than ever," he said.
Democrats Abroad has also campaigned for the votes of the estimated 1 million Americans and dual citizens living in Mexico.
Those campaigns are also meant to convince Mexicans here to influence relatives living in the United States, where there are more than 20 million people of Mexican origin.
The campaign and debates have been closely watched in Mexico, where President Vicente Fox has lobbied Bush for four years to pass a migration accord.
While Bush made Mexico a priority after taking office, the Sept. 11 attacks shelved migration talks and many Mexicans felt they had been forgotten as the U.S. waged its war on terror.
On Thursday, Mexico City's Reforma newspaper ran a front-page headline under a picture of Bush and Democratic candidate John Kerry shaking hands that read: "They gave migrants four minutes."
In the debate, both candidates expressed support for a migration accord, although Bush said he didn't support an amnesty program. Kerry said a temporary work program wasn't enough and that people who have spent years working in the United States should be legalized.
Diego Garcia, a 30-year-old financial analyst in Mexico City, said he hadn't seen any of the debates, but supported Kerry because Bush had failed to fulfill migration promises and to fully turn around the U.S. economy.
"Bush might be a friend of Fox's, but he is not a friend of the Mexicans," he said.
Good Morning down there. Thinking about LDPing some beans, The spread is good. I think.
34 degrees here this morning. I finally broke down and turned the furnace on last night.
#2 Son is taking #1 Grandchild to see Bush in Cedar Rapids today. Watch for the cute little blonde genius on the news clips.
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