Kerry team gives Bush 'Hoover award'

The Washington Times ^ | 3/9/04 | unknown

[GailA]

WASHINGTON, March 9 (UPI) -- Sen. John Kerry's campaign Tuesday gave U.S. President George W. Bush an award he didn't want for losing more jobs than any U.S. president since Herbert Hoover.

Kerry Campaign Chairwoman Jeanne Shaheen announced the symbolic and satirical presentation of a fictitious "Herbert Hoover Award" to the president Tuesday, the day he was honoring quality leaders in U.S. business at the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality awards.

[GailA]

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/richlowry/rl20031117.shtml

Bush-Hoover '04? Rich Lowry

November 17, 2003

Herbert Hoover never had it so good.

Inattentive voters listening to the Democrats' anti-Bush rhetoric could be forgiven for thinking that the Depression-era Republican had returned from the grave to occupy the White House once again. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says President Bush has "the worst record on jobs since Herbert Hoover," a charge echoed by every Democrat in the country and repeated incessantly by Democratic presidential candidates. The more times they can say Hoover -- Hoover, Hoover, Hoover -- the better.

http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200311210905.asp

The odd thing about the Hoover-obsessed Democrats is that they are the ones advocating Hooverite economic policies. Under Hoover, the top income-tax rate went from 25 percent to 63 percent, and 40-percent tariffs were imposed on imports. Most Democratic presidential candidates, including frontrunner Howard Dean, support tax increases and protectionism. One of the few Democratic free-traders, Sen. Joe Lieberman, recently warned that if these policies were put into effect, "the Bush recession would be followed by the Dean depression." Which would be the first time the country suffered a depression since...

[My2Cents]

The Bush campaign should give Kerry the Lenin Award.

[Clemenza]

The Average American: "Herbert who?"

[caisson71]

This sounds like a bunch of damn kids with too much time on their hands.

[Keith]

Kerry campaign get the LBJ award for most atrocious lies about an American war...

[Wings-n-Wind]

We should truly CELEBRATE this award as Bush keeps Kerry UNEMPLOYED.. subsequent to Nov '04....hmmm

Passing thought..
Regards

[Wings-n-Wind]

We should truly CELEBRATE this award as Bush keeps Kerry UNEMPLOYED.. subsequent to Nov '04....hmmm

Passing thought..
Regards

[lonevoice]

Sad...but true.

[Dolphy]

I'd give the President the award too for cleaning up the mess of the Clinton administration. Wrong Hoover?

[jigsaw]

Bush & Crew should say 'Thank You' while making the point they are still using
their Hoover to clean up the mess left by the Clinton administration.

[F.J. Mitchell]

We could tell Fauntleroy where to stick that award, but his big ugly, flop eared. liberal head, has been permenately ensconced into that orifice.

[RichInOC]

Any chance we can get Letitia Baldrige to flame the Kerry campaign for mocking her brother's memory?

[BadAndy]

What awards would be appropriate for Kerry?
The Benedict Arnold/Jane Fonda Award for Treason.
The Neville Chamberlain Award for Appeasement.
The Fish out of water Award for most Flip flops.
The Larry Flynt award for being lame and obscene.

[Argus]

Is there a medal for living off rich women? Kerry could retire that trophy.

[Esther Ruth]

Yea and Kerry and his gang are Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory - Giving away free candy to any lazy little punk who wants it, and the Cholcolate Factory is his socialist commie utopia he want to create.

[My2Cents]

The Gigolo Trophy.

[adam_az]

What I wanna know, is how they got the Hoover award back from Monica!

[doug from upland]

Here's my Hoover award for Kerry. He sucks.

[Argus]

We could call it The Porfirio Rubirosa Award.

And the Rubirosa goes to...Jean-Francois Kerry!

[My2Cents]

The Porfirio Rubirosa Award.

You get a thousand points for the obscure references! :-)