Posted on 10/09/2004 6:57:32 AM PDT by JohnRand
Kerry: "...And looking around here, at this group here, I suspect there are only three people here who are going to be affected: the president, me, and, Charlie, I'm sorry, you too."
Kerry speaking in last evening's debate about his plan to raise taxes on people making 200k+ annually. So now John Kerry is prejudging people by just looking at them to determine their income?!? He decided that the only people in the room that qualified as his new tax-hike victims were himself, Bush and Charlie Gibson! Wow, a big criticism many liberals have of Bush is his supposed "arrogance", there was simply nothing more arrogant and ignorant than that statement that Kerry made and it will probably haunt his campaign...
I was.
I laughed out loud when someone posted last night, "Vote for me or Chris Reeve never walks again!"
Kerry does not inhabit the real world.
Where's my white gloves so I can bitchslap sKerry, the self-rightious snob?
I want to know WHY didn't President Bush bring up "I own one house and paid $250,000 in taxes last year and Senator Kerry owns 4 houses and paid $62,000 in taxes last year and still thinks he speaks for 'middle America'?"
I wouldn't be able to watch TV then for the next 22 days then if that happened!
I can't stand looking at him, nor hear his voice!
Good point. I missed that all together. That is incrediably ignorant. This man has no ability to be a sinawhore let alone the P. His wife was in the audience and she makes (probaly) more then everyone in the room put together.
The phoney SOB did not even mention her. I bet she is madder then hell. We might see a divorce if he loses. Too bad the commie MSM isnt all over this. You can bet if W was in the shoes it would front page headlines.
Your point deserves a post of its own. Maybe you can get talk radio on it.
First Lady Laura Bush was also present. Hmmm... I guess the Senator didn't notice her.
One thing that was really blatant --- Kerry could never bring himself to mention the "middle class" --- he could talk about the rich and the poor. That was it --- it's like he loathes the middle class so much he must pretend it doesn't exist. Bush won because he could bring up the middle class --- he at least realizes we exist and that we are important.
Basically, he's telling people that if you're close to $200,000, there's no incentive to "get over the hump." Might as well become mediocre and stay where you are!
Of course, that's what our tax system is all about.
That's the American way of looking at it. Then there's the John Kerry way (and the rest of his ilk).
Good observation. Thanks.
Good luck with your business! That's what America is supposed to be about -- hard work paying off, not hard work paying the government.
You are exactly right about working less. That is what some of my colleagues were doing in the Clinton years.
I thought this was Kerry's worst moment in the debate. The real John Kerry came to the fore. The man looks at America and sees, not his peers, but his inferiors.
Here's my theory. Thanks to Kerry, those few left employed under his "plans" will all be making over $200K (union labor of course), thus he could claim he kept his promise of "not taxing anyone making under $200K.
Yeah, how about that arrogant frog. He "looks into his guts" and finds no one at home. Then he goes outside with his shotgun and crawls around on the ground looking for Bambi. After that, he's worked up quite an appetite, so he goes to Steve's Soul Food Restaurant in Detroit and gets something to go, which he promptly throws in the trash on his way to Chez Phillipe for some fine dining.
Insult to those in the audience?
Cultural Drifter / MAUREEN DOWD
Politics/Elections Editorial Opinion (Published)
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/library/opinion/dowd/100399dowd.html
Published: October 3, 1999 Author: MAUREEN DOWD
Posted on 10/02/1999 23:49:47 PDT by JohnHuang2
October 3, 1999
LIBERTIES / By MAUREEN DOWD
Cultural Drifter
WASHINGTON -- Here are some things you might not know about George W. Bush:
He hasn't gone out to see a movie in the last five years.
He likes Van Morrison.
The last actress who made his heart race was Julie Christie in "Doctor Zhivago."
He doesn't identify with any literary heroes, but is drawn to Paul Newman's defiance in "Cool Hand Luke" and Jack Nicholson's irreverence.
He loved "Cats."
In an interview about culture, W. gamely concedes there are yawning gaps. Baseball, he says, is his favorite "cultural experience." (Like his father, he views cultural questions as some kind of psychoanalysis.)
We're in a van on the way to Reagan airport after his speech to the Christian Coalition.
He has one word for opera: "No." He likes "nice, quiet jazz on the radio." He went to one ballet "and was amazed by the athleticism."
Although some of the Bushes are musical -- his uncle Jonathan was in a Bronx revival of "Oklahoma" in 1958 and his uncle Bucky plays the guitar and sings -- W. is not.
"I loved 'Cats,' " he says brightly.
He said he doesn't watch TV series, just news and sports. "Culturally adrift," he says, making a funny face. "Occasionally, I'll cruise into an A&E biography. The last one I saw was about me."
He avoids cable chat. "Now that I'm the subject, there's no telling what you'll hear about yourself. So I've just chosen not to listen."
He says he's usually asleep by Leno and Letterman, but adds: "They're actually very funny. Even at my own expense."
I asked if he and his wife, Laura, ever fight over the clicker. He says he's mostly doing work stuff or falling asleep. "We're both usually reading instead of battling over flickers."
He did not try to impress his librarian wife when they were dating by reading more. "Our first date was to go play putt-putt golf," he says.
As to literary preferences, he said: "I've always liked John La Care, Le Carrier, or however you pronounce his name. I'm mainly a history person." He's just finished "Isaac's Storm," a history of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, and reads Robert Parker's detective-for-hire stories.
Asked if he likes movies, he says: "Not too much. I like 'em O.K. I haven't been to a movie theater since I've been Governor. We occasionally rent movies. We've got a Blockbuster card the girls use more than Laura and me. The last movie I saw I really liked was 'Saving Private Ryan.'
"But prior to getting elected I did go to movies. Laura and I were talking the other day about the last time we'd gone to a movie. I think it was the day Ann Richards called me a jerk. It was 'Forrest Gump.' "
Has he ever censored his twin 17-year-old daughters' movie picks? "I can't think of anything. Uh oh, a giant hole in the net of censorship."
In an interview with GQ, the 53-year-old Governor said that when he was at Yale in the 60's, he did not share the musical tastes of the counterculture. He said he liked the Beatles before their "weird, psychedelic period."
I asked who was his favorite Beatle. "The first drummer," he joked. "As you know I was a fraternity man at Yale. I had parties. We had a lot of groups come in. I just was not, I mean, I like music. But I'm not a great aficionado of music."
Asked if he would set a cultural tone in the White House closer to Jackie's Pablo Casals or Bill's Kenny G, W. replied: "I imagine it would be eclectic. You know we've had Lyle Lovett come to the mansion to play. I probably won't be spending a lot of time making the list up. I'll delegate."
W. sometimes waggles his hips when he's on a stage. Does he like to dance?
"No," he said. "It's not a religious thing. I just don't dance. At the last inauguration, I did the box step for about 25 seconds and declared my dancing over for the year.
. . . I don't go to dances and I don't socialize very much."
Asked about Warren Beatty's Presidential flirting, W. asks something that probably hasn't even dawned on the Hollywood star: "The question is, Can he survive the Iowa caucuses?"
The Governor's perfect day would include running, fishing and watching sports on TV, followed by dinner with friends with Van Morrison playing in the background. Then, bed by 10.
Is this a great country or what?
Sam Walton too.
I know many small business owners who make 200k a year or more and don't flaunt it. A sensible business man knows if he doesn't rub his employees' noses in it when he's making money, they won't begrudge him a good income.
The flip side is that he better make payroll without whining even when it means his own compensation falls to nothing or less. (That has happened to me before.)
If Kerry had read The Millionaire Next Door he might have saved himself from making such a ridiculous statement.
-ccm
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