Posted on 10/01/2004 1:22:20 PM PDT by Mia T
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You have six minutes to complete the test. Please use a number 2 pencil to mark each of your answers. Turn your sheet in at the Front Desk of the UN Building when you have completed the test. 1) Your country is engaged in an unpopular war in Southeast Asia, but one which is necessary to contain Communism. Should you: CBS Exclusive: Kerry's 'Global Test' located!
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Hugh Hewitt mentioned you two or three times on his radio show yesterday.
Arent you all that? ;>) And more?
That's a handsome group of humans!
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REMARKS BY THE VICE PRESIDENT FOLLOWING A PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE WATCHING PARTY
Denver Marriott City Center Denver, Colorado
7:57 P.M. MDT
AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Good evening.
AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Thank you, thank you. (Applause.) Well, we're delighted you were here tonight. I thought the President did a great job. (Applause.) I was fascinated to watch on the one hand John Kerry saying that he's committed to winning the war on terror, and to winning in Iraq, and then he turns around and is unrelentingly negative about the proposition, the decision.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Useless.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Useless was your comment. (Laughter.) But I thought it's -- the President made several very good points, especially saying how can you expect to get support from our allies when you consistently trash our allies' efforts? (Applause.)
And the real bottom-line decision in terms of what this election is all about is who is going to be Commander-in-Chief, who do we want to have in the Oval Office making those life decisions -- life-and-death decisions for the United States, for our people, and the man who makes the decisions about when we're going to send troops in harm's way. And I don't think you can look at that debate tonight and conclude anything other than on the one case we've got in George Bush a man who has done it, who has been there, done it four different -- for four different years now, and done a superb job, made the right decisions for America; is absolutely committed to taking offensive action whenever it's necessary in order to defend the United States of America, and the wanna-be Senator who says -- (laughter) -- says that in response to the question on preemptive action, he would support it as long as it passed some kind of global test.
AUDIENCE: Booo!
THE VICE PRESIDENT: What George Bush has made clear repeatedly is that we're perfectly prepared to seek international support for international efforts. We've got a great alliance -- we've got 30 countries fighting alongside of us in Iraq. And we're prepared to work to lead a coalition, but we will never submit to the objections of a few. We will never seek a permission slip to defend the United States of America. (Applause.)
So I want to thank all of you for being here tonight. I've got to go do some interviews. And of course, I would invite all of you to watch next Tuesday when we'll do it all over again from Cleveland. (Applause.) John Edwards and myself -- I'm very, very proud to have had the privilege of serving alongside this President. And I'm delighted that the American people are going to give him four more years to lead this nation. (Applause.)
AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!
WHO is John Edwards?
Perhaps 'countrymen' is an allusion to Mark Antony's funeral oration ('Friends, Romans, countrymen, etc.'), words that turned the Romans against Brutus....
(John "help is on the way" Kerry is never shy about lifting the effective words of others....)
Hi,
No problem on the data. Please dont worry about timely replies. I work nights and post some of my messages very late or very early and im used to it.
Sad but very true point you make regarding brain dead people. I was awakened to that reality when Clinton was elected then re-elected back in the 90's. (seems funny to say it aloud "the 90's" ) Where does all the time go??
What do you make of the newsweek poll? i say gallup is more accurate because of their method of polling.
Hi,
I know what you mean about the old media wanting those ratings...i got much the same feeling about that. Whats worse to me is i noticed fox news doing the same thing! Now i truly like fox news, but i was a little dismayed at the way lots of fox people acted right after the debate. All except Sean Hannity.
One of the more interesting parts of the Bush-Kerry debate in Coral Gables, Florida, was Senator Kerry's reference to Papa Bush's Persian Gulf War decision not to go into Baghdad thirteen years ago because there was no viable exit strategy. Undoubtedly, Kerry was intending to needle George W. Bush with this fatherly reference of caution, and perhaps Kerry is choosing to associate himself with Bush pere's foreign policy. But like most of Kerry's arguments, this too contains the flawed seeds of contradiction and equivocation.
Regrettably, President George W. Bush did not seize the moment to remind 55 million television viewers that on January 12, 1991, Sen. Kerry actually voted against S.J.RES.2, the congressional authorization that empowered President Bush 41 to liberate Kuwait after Saddam Hussein's cruel invasion. This little bit of history sheds much light on Kerry's past and casts a dark shadow over any of his new promises to successfully execute today's war in Iraq.
Time and again on the campaign trail Kerry argues for a grand international alliance to win the Iraq war. He repeated this in the debate. But in 1991 the U.S. headed a grand alliance of 36 nations that was fully backed by a United Nations resolution. And Kerry still opposed that war to liberate Kuwait. The U.N.-backed coalition included Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Qatar. All the pieces were there, including the cause of justice. Still he voted against it. How, knowing this, can anyone believe Kerry when he says he will show us a better way to defeat our terrorist enemies today?
If ever there was a military action that passed the "global test" -- which Kerry argued for in the debate -- the Persian Gulf War was it. It overwhelmingly met Kerry's dubious standard -- and still he opposed it. This reveals a credibility problem of the first order. Almost defining credulity, Kerry said in a brief statement on the Senate floor, in an accompaniment to his vote against the Persian Gulf War, that "The president made a mistake to unilaterally increase troops, set a date, and make war so probable."
Clearly, Kerry has a very strong aversion to the use of military power under virtually any circumstance. Of course, this raises serious questions about Kerry's ability to conduct any military operations against our fundamentalist radical-Islamist enemies. Can we really believe that the man who has called the war in Iraq a "grand diversion," a "colossal error," an "incredible mess," and the "wrong war" in the "wrong place" at the "wrong time" -- pessimistic and defeatist statements all -- is capable of waging a strong foreign policy and prosecuting a military action of any sort? What's really left here is the portrait of a politician steeped in ambiguity and equivocation who at bottom has a strong aversion to war of any kind, for any reason.
In one of his better moments in a somewhat energy-less debating performance, President Bush did in fact take Kerry to the woodshed for his notion of a "global test." So did Bush's vice president. In a campaign rally after the debate, Dick Cheney said, "We will never seek a permission slip to defend America."
It seems to me that the American electorate knows full well that what's at stake come November is not the next secretary general of the United Nations but the next president of the United States. In Bush's closing statement he said, "I'll never turn over America's national-security needs to leaders of other countries. . . . and will continue to spread freedom. I believe in the transformational power of liberty. And I believe both a free Afghanistan and a free Iraq will serve as a powerful example for millions who plead in silence for liberty in the broader Middle East." This excellent content will triumph over some stylistic mistakes. Kerry's poor content, however, may have dug him into a deeper electoral hole.
The latest Gallup Poll of 615 registered voters who watched the presidential debate contains some startling results: On debate performance Kerry wins 53 percent to 37 percent. However, as to who would better handle the situation in Iraq, Bush wins 54 to 43. Who do these voters trust more to handle the responsibilities of commander-in-chief? Bush 54, Kerry 44. Who's more believable? Bush 50, Kerry 45. More likable? Bush 48, Kerry 41. And the grand whopper -- Who is tough enough for the job? Bush 54, Kerry 37.
Surely this shows the good sense of the American voter. Debating points are one thing, but truly strong national-security content is a much more important matter.
"I believe the most solemn duty of the American President is to protect the American people.Dang. I wish you'd post some facts to support your position.
JUST KIDDING!
BTW, are you really Ann Coulter? If you are, would you marry me?
'nite, Ann.
Well Mia, no-one will ever accuse you of not knowing how to post HTML images.
It's ... daunting.
If you don't mind me asking - what was the slogan of yours that H. Hewitt liked?
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