Posted on 04/03/2004 9:12:08 PM PST by Utah Girl
I saw that idiot story right before I left this morning, read the headline and had to peek. Got a good laugh for my trouble.
Trying to reverse partisan stereotypes, Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites) is launching a campaign to portray himself as a fiscal conservative, comparing his economic strategy with the $6 trillion in unpaid spending that he says President Bush (news - web sites) has proposed over the next 10 years.
"We intend to run to President Bush's right on this," said Roger Altman, who was deputy treasury secretary under President Clinton (news - web sites) and is advising Kerry's campaign. Link
- should be interesting.
Pepe and Tehraza will bring us oodles of interesting for the next 7 months.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), D-Mass., center, speaks with Robert Armstead, of Washington D.C., left, at the Franklin Street One-Stop Career Center, in Washington, Monday, April 5, 2004. Kerry made a campaign stop at the center and met with administrators and people, including Armstead, who are looking for jobs. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Kerry: I'll, I'll, I'll give you a job if you just don't kill me.
Kerry: I know Armstead said I gave him a job and I want to give you a job but I have to ask my wife.
Kerry: So... if I don't give you a job my wife will be able to bury me in that box? Let me make a call.
The ad, though sleazy in its use of Osama and Saddam, didn't question Cleland's patriotism. It questioned his political courage and judgment. It focused narrowly on his behavior in office and his actual votes against the Homeland Security Department. With images of Bin Laden and Saddam flashing onscreen, a narrator declared that, "As America faces terrorists and extremist dictators, Max Cleland runs television ads claiming he has the courage to lead." The ad then listed Cleland's votes against the Homeland Security Department and said he was stalling "the president's vital homeland security efforts." It concluded: "Max Cleland says he has the courage to lead, but the record proves Max Cleland is just misleading."
Chambliss' criticism was based on Cleland's actual votes. The fact that Cleland volunteered for Vietnam and Chambliss avoided it means something, but it certainly doesn't mean that Cleland should be immune from all attacks on his Senate voting record.
And Cleland should remember his good friend's words, from 1992 that we shouldn’t divide the country by getting into people’s Vietnam era service and reopening those old national wounds.
....Rather that a quagmire. :-)
Today's tidbits from Page Six:
WHICH college studentdaughter of a former Democratic presidential candidate was recently overheard extolling her posterior virtues on her Ivy League campus? "I like my a- -," she said. "I have a very supple a- -" . . .
And this, of McAwful:
TERRY McAuliffe, who has been muzzled by the Sen. John Kerry campaign, may be able to hang on to the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee until the election - but he'll be forced to step down then regardless of who wins, party sources say. If Kerry wins, however, McAuliffe can expect a plum reward for all the fund-raising he has done for the Dems over the years. The job of Commerce Secretary is most likely, but also mentioned is a coveted posting to London as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. "Why would the Republicans ever approve him?" one source asked. Answer: "to get him out of fund-raising."
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I got a letter-to-the-editor in the New York Post today! It's in response to their editorial on the Oil-for-Food program (heavily edited, but still responsive):
The United Nations announced its "internal review" of the Oil-for-Food program at the very time the Iraqi Governing Council was demanding to see records.Will the United Nations refuse to release those records, now that they're under review?
That would be convenient.
They outdid themselves on this one....
Now take a gander at what Sen. Chris Dodd recently had to say on the occasion of Senator and Former KKK Grand Wizard Robert Byrd's 17,000th senate vote:
"It has often been said that the man and the moment come together. I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia that he would have been a great Senator at any moment.Haven't heard this in the media, have you? I detect not one scintilla of difference between Dodd's statement and Lott's."Some were right for the time. ROBERT C. BYRD, in my view, would have been right at any time. He would have been right at the founding of this country. He would have been in the leadership crafting this Constitution. He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this Nation. He would have been right at the great moments of international threat we faced in the 20th century.
I cannot think of a single moment in this Nation's 220-plus year history where he would not have been a valuable asset to this country. Certainly today that is not any less true."
He is such a dork showing up in that $65 tie and designer suit at an unemployment office, sorta rubbing it in to the little guys. I guess his tattered shirt and gold jacket were at the cleaners?
It will be interesting to see where and if he worships on Easter Sunday. (BTW did you know he considered the priesthood?)
Politics cloud Kerry's Easter plans
I think there is a "story" here in regards to Kerry's supposed annulment. I do hope the press follows up...if it turns out he did not get an annulment from the Church that means he lied about it. Course the press will just say, it is about religion and that is private,,,yada yada yada
And we KNOW which one is the lady.
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