Posted on 06/16/2004 2:23:15 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
But take a look at this thread to see how the MSM manipulates public opinion. How is the Bush/Cheney team going to combat this full bore effort by the MSM to make the public think we are in a "depression"?
On one occasion a while back my well-off, lib sister was going on about how things were awful, and it's so hard about this and that. I became exasperated and finally asked her how she herself was doing. She had to admit she was doing pretty good. Then I asked her why she complained about so many things. She didn't have an answer, but I knew it was mostly due to the fact that Bush was president.
The same thing happened when Reagan's policies finally took hold. When the markets are good and income is up, people unload their asset hedges and invest in the market.
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FreeRepublic information is the best! Thanks for sharing your observation.
The Washington Post explains that Kerry is committed to badmouthing the boom, but the account admits that:
... a recent spate of positive economic news threatens to complicate, if not contradict, Kerry's impending attack. The economy is growing at its fastest clip in 20 years, 1.4 million jobs have been created in the past nine months, including nearly 250,000 in May alone, and wages are starting to climb for many workers.
Great stuff Mia!
I work for a boating company, just hired some full time folks the first time in many years. People are spending money on their toys again, in spite of the gas prices which we thought may have been a negative.
He's the guy who served in Viet-Nam.
He's the guy who served in Viet-Nam.John Kerry served in Vietnam?!?
Wow!I did not know that. :o)
I wonder why he doesn't talk about it more often. ;)
Thanks for the PING, King!
With rapid progress toward democracy unfolding in Iraq – and increasing despair among the terrorists, if this New York Post story on an alleged Zarqawi posting on an extremist website is to be believed...That would be THIS article, from www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/25766.htm:
TOP IRAQ FIEND CRIES TO OSAMA
June 15, 2004 -- CAIRO, Egypt — A leader of militants in Iraq has purportedly written to Osama bin Laden, saying his fighters are being squeezed by U.S.-led coalition troops, according to a statement posted yesterday on Islamic Web sites.
AL-ZARQAWI
Says U.S. grip "tightens."
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It was not possible to authenticate the statement allegedly from Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian whose insurgent group claimed responsibility for the videotaped beheading of American Nicholas Berg.
Titled "The text of al-Zarqawi's message to Osama bin Laden about holy war in Iraq," the statement appeared on Web sites that have recently carried claims of responsibility for attacks in Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
"The space of movement is starting to get smaller," it said. "The grip is starting to be tightened on the holy warriors' necks and, with the spread of soldiers and police, the future is becoming frightening."
The statement says the militant movement in Iraq is racing against time to form battalions that can take control of the country "four months before the formation of the promised Iraqi government, hoping to spoil their plan."
It appears to refer to the government that would take office after the elections scheduled for January 2005.
It also says insurgents are planning to intensify attacks on Iraqi soldiers and police.
Calling Iraqi forces "the occupier's eye, ear and hand," the statement says, "We are planning on targeting them heavily in the coming stage before they are fully in control."
U.S. authorities believe al-Zarqawi runs his own terrorist operation but is an ally of bin Laden.
The nine-page statement was longer than previous ones from al-Zarqawi, and uses classical Arabic language and poetry typical of militant leaders.
The statement isn't signed. Previously, statements or claims of responsibility purportedly from al-Zarqawi have been issued by his Monotheism and Jihad group.
If the militants fail to win Iraq, "we will have to leave for another land to uphold the [Islamic] banner, or until God chooses us as martyrs," the statement says.
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STATEMENT ON REPORT INDICATING NEARLY ONE MILLION NEW JOBS IN LAST THREE MONTHS ALONE
June 4th, 2004 -
STATEMENT FROM BUDGET CHAIRMAN DON NICKLES (R-OK)
RE: Bureau of Labor Statistics Report Indicating Nearly One Million New Jobs In Last Three Months Alone
“Every so often Congress does something that makes a big difference to the American people,” said Budget Chairman Don Nickles (R-OK). “Last year the President unveiled and the Republican-led Congress passed an economic stimulus package that has had a phenomenal impact on American families and businesses. As a result of the President’s economic policies, this country has seen the most rapid expansion of real GDP in twenty years, big surges in the stock market, significant declines in the unemployment rate, and largely expanding payrolls
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Eccentrics are crazy people who have money usually via trust funds...lunatics stand on street corners with intentions of making money...in the end BOTH are looking for ways to separate you from YOUR money...
I love reading about internal defeat from terrorists...instead of Kerry...
"...Kerry's Iraq doom-and-gloom preaching sounds increasingly like a core value of defeatism, which has never resonated with the American electorate." - Hugh HewittSee also, from Today's Toons 6/15/04:
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thx. if you have enough bandwidth, try playing the flashmovies.
re teddy's goggles: I was thinking 'diving,' not 'flying' ;)
That's O.K. - PIGS can BOTH "DIVE" and "FLY!"
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 The book that Kerry wishes would just go away. |
HanoiJohnKerry.com is a blog with a primary purpose. That purpose is to counter the preposterous claims of Sen. John Forbes Kerry (D-MA) that he has any legitimate claim to any sort of "brotherhood" among combat veterans of the War in Vietnam. While it is generally supposed that his service as a Naval officer on a "Swift Boat" in that theater was adequate and honorable, there is much to question regarding his readiness to allow the accolade "war hero" to be applied to him. Likewise, it is not at all uncommon for more senior Naval officers to raise an eyebrow at the swiftness and relative comfort by which Lt. JG Kerry attained those medals, and who is available to vouch for the efficacy of his being awarded them (since, as boat commander, it would be his own task to make recommendation for awards for all personnel, including himself, on the Swift Boat). But most egregious was his conduct, words and associations upon his early-out (from SEA) return to the USA and discharge from the US Navy. His leadership role with the radical pro-Communist (inaccurate to deem this group "anti-war") group called "Vietnam Veterans Against the [Vietnam] War" (hereafter VVAW). |
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It was while climbing the social and political ladder of the pro-Soviet Left as a principle of VVAW that John Kerry found his political soul-mate in Hanoi Jane Fonda. Granted, these politically formative years for Kerry were prior to the more outlandish acts of Fonda that earned her that name, but it is easily documentable that Fonda did not under go any radical transformation in belief or character from the time she and Kerry were working the same side of the street to the time she traveled to Hanoi, NVN and entered US history as the most overt traitor to ever NOT be charged, tried and executed. John Kerry went to his own overt extremes to demonstrate that, politically, socially and in lowness of character, there wasn't a nickel's worth of difference between he and Fonda. Thus, in the spirit of fairness and accuracy, we are reasonably certain that he will be agreeably flattered by calling him Hanoi John Kerry. |
 Here, testifying before the Fulbright Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is where John Kerry, spokesman for Vietnam Veterans Against the War, cemented his position and moniker as "Hanoi John" Kerry. This was the occasion where US troops still in the field in Vietnam learned from one of their FORMER brothers-in-arms that they were heinous murderers and war criminals. HJK would now like to call on them for support in his bid to be the new Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. Perhaps the most preposterous hypocrisy of all. |
I heard something about him kindof changing it to 'not enough high paying jobs being created'. We all know he's good at flip-flopping it around!
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