Posted on 10/08/2004 7:45:07 PM PDT by 1stFreedom
My favorite moment is when Pres. Bush used the Catholic buzz words "Culture of Life".
I agree with you. I now hate Brit and his beltway boys. They suck. And if they are smart enough, they should change how they spin the news before their rating goes down to basement.
I liked when President Bush cut off the moderator.
What a great line! I'll have to try it out on Mrs. Jeff Chandler.
LOL...good luck ;)
I agree with you 100%.
definitely when Bush let Charlie know who was in charge!
Best moment? Hands down Dred Scott. Off the hook!
Wayyyyy to many to pick one. GW was so good.
One though was when Kerry was asked about govt money being used for abortion.
He whole heartedly declared himself Catholic but said he could not legislate his 'beliefs' for others...
My question is, if he uses govt funds for abortion, isn't THAT legislating, and forcing me not only to support, but to pay for something I don't believe in?
Having something to be legal doesn't mean that the govt has to pay for it...but you see how he really answered...
Need some wood..... but I liked it when Kerry called himself a little girl and wet his pants.
"Facts are stubborn things; and what ever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they can not alter the state of facts, and evidence."- John Adams
Awesome classic photo! Thanks Phil!
The whole lumber business.
Great photo.
I loved that moment! We got to see Dubya fired up and finally give the verbal finger to those jerks.
I liked it when Kerry looked around, and sweeping his arm across the whole audience, said, "From the looks of the people in this audience, the only ones in this room who will be affected by the president's tax cut for the rich will be myself, the president, and Charles Gibson." Pompous is right.
I DID hear him right, didn't I?
BUSH: "I'm trying to decipher that"
(to the following question and Kerry's weird answer)
DEGENHART: Senator Kerry, suppose you are speaking with a voter who believed abortion is murder and the voter asked for reassurance that his or her tax dollars would not go to support abortion, what would you say to that person?
KERRY: I would say to that person exactly what I will say to you right now.
First of all, I cannot tell you how deeply I respect the belief about life and when it begins. I'm a Catholic, raised a Catholic. I was an altar boy. Religion has been a huge part of my life. It helped lead me through a war, leads me today.
But I can't take what is an article of faith for me and legislate it for someone who doesn't share that article of faith, whether they be agnostic, atheist, Jew, Protestant, whatever. I can't do that.
But I can counsel people. I can talk reasonably about life and about responsibility. I can talk to people, as my wife Teresa does, about making other choices, and about abstinence, and about all these other things that we ought to do as a responsible society.
But as a president, I have to represent all the people in the nation. And I have to make that judgment.
Now, I believe that you can take that position and not be pro- abortion, but you have to afford people their constitutional rights. And that means being smart about allowing people to be fully educated, to know what their options are in life, and making certain that you don't deny a poor person the right to be able to have whatever the constitution affords them if they can't afford it otherwise.
That's why I think it's important. That's why I think it's important for the United States, for instance, not to have this rigid ideological restriction on helping families around the world to be able to make a smart decision about family planning.
You'll help prevent AIDS.
You'll help prevent unwanted children, unwanted pregnancies.
You'll actually do a better job, I think, of passing on the moral responsibility that is expressed in your question. And I truly respect it.
GIBSON: Mr. President, minute and a half.
***BUSH: I'm trying to decipher that***
"More of the same."
You heard right. That was such a putdown of the studio audience. Kerry's arrogance was on display. We shoulda kept score on how many times he said "I" during the debate.
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