Edwards Raps Bush on War's Cost (U of Maine:Stephen King calls current administration "dangerous")

Portland Press Herald Online ^ | Thursday, September 9, 2004 | MARK PETERS

[fight_truth_decay]

"The crowd, which swelled to more than 6,800, according to event organizers, blanketed the steps of Fogler Library with some onlookers perched inside the windows.

.. the North Carolina senator reserved his most pointed criticism for the outset of his speech as he blasted Vice President Dick Cheney for his recent remarks that America risks another terrorist attack if voters make the wrong election choice.

Bangor author Stephen King called "the most dangerous and unpleasant bunch we've had since the Nixon years."

After the event, where about 100 Bush supporters gathered to protest, Kerry supporters generally gave Edwards high marks for the speech, a mix of his standard stump speech from the primary and his convention address." Bangor Daily News

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[WoodstockCat]

I am so happy to see the Dems take this line on spending.

It just opens up the ad "Just like John Kerry voted against Defense during the Cold War, John Kerry wants to gut our military again."

[RexBeach]

Hey, Steve! Shutup and write!

[rabidralph]

"He is nice-looking, but for this position I want someone who knows what he is doing," Orono Republican Mary Drew said.

LOL!

[Prime Choice]

And horror writer Stephen King, who spoke before Edwards, called the current administration "dangerous" and "unpleasant," urging Mainers to get out and vote for Kerry.

So the King of Creepiness endorses sKerry. Why oh why am I not surprised?

[aruanan]

(U of Maine:Stephen King calls current administration "dangerous")

Stephen King: Shut up and continue writing good fiction.

[IamConservative]

"Stephen King, who spoke before Edwards, called the current administration "dangerous"

Damn straight - this Administration is very dangerous if you are a terrorist.

[KJacob]

I don't think the Kerry campaign expect to have to go to a New England state,that Gore won, this close to the election.

[38special]

Funny they don't talk about the future "costs" of inaction and appeasement and having to deal with Iraq later.

[stainlessbanner]

this Administration is very dangerous if you are a terroris

Well said.

[ClearCase_guy]

Mr Bush be doin' the mash
He turnin' Iraqis into ash
But what I don' like is
What he's doin' is bad for biz

What's the cost? Where's the cash?
With my tongue, I'll give him a lash
Yo Condi Baby, give me five!
I'm a white boy, but I can jive!

[dts32041]

"Stephen King: Shut up and continue writing good fiction."

You call what he writes good fiction, fiction it is good I am not so sure about.

But I bet he walks on the correct side of the road these days.

[an amused spectator]

Bangor author Stephen King called "the most dangerous and unpleasant bunch we've had since the Nixon years."

Who cares what a washed-up old has-been thinks?

[fight_truth_decay]

Slate: "Some political reformers think we should be taking more of our cues from Maine. Proponents of revamping the Electoral College have suggested that every state adopt Maine's peculiar electoral vote-splitting scheme. It's a way to ensure that the electoral votes Maine casts more closely reflect the wishes of its people. Sports statistics guru Jeff Sagarin's web site figured out how the 2000 presidential election would have been decided if all states used the Maine method. Gore would have been whupped."

[AzSteven]

Stephen King: Shut up and continue writing good fiction.

Hasn't done that in years that I can see. I gave up on him after Cujo, when it became apparent that this guy was writing books to create characters in order to snuff them; I guessed it was some sort of weird passive-aggressive revenge fantasy for what I assume are problems in his non-writing life.

[dougiefresh]

This should be a no brainer for the republican's to counter. Can a dollar amount be associated with a cost of freedom? Afghanistan did not have any WMD and look at the economic toll they caused to our coutnry. Should we have also waited for Iraq to strike us before we took action? Time to get Iraq behind us and move onto the other nations.

[You Dirty Rats]

Slate considers Tennessee a swing state? If Gore couldn't win it, how do they expect Kerry to win it?

[hushpad]

And horror writer Stephen King, who spoke before Edwards, called the current administration "dangerous" and "unpleasant," urging Mainers to get out and vote for Kerry.<<<

Mr. King got weirder after his accident. Mr. King has just lost his #1 fan. Tonight, I burn his books in the fireplace, I will never buy another.

[aruanan]

Read the Gunslinger series. It's great. Neither The Talisman or Black House creates characters to snuff them. This was true in The Tommyknockers and in another of the early ones. Not so true in the post-Christine, Cujo, Pet Sematary world.

[JulieRNR21]

King is a 'peace-nazi'.....He was leading anti-war marches before the start of the Iraq War.