Posted on 10/11/2004 12:12:35 AM PDT by igoramus987
WALLACE: Senator, the numbers don't add up... Well, I want to follow up on precisely that point, because in Friday's debate, Senator Kerry said that he would cut the deficit in half during his first term, he would cut taxes for the middle class, but he also had all these new spending programs.
Are you saying right here and now that if the numbers, when you get into office, don't add up, that it's the spending programs that go first?
EDWARDS: Yes...
WALLACE: But again, just to clear it up, I just want to make clear that you're saying that even Kerry's cherished health-care plan, he would cut that back before he would add to the deficit or raise taxes on the middle class?
EDWARDS: We will not raise taxes on the middle class, as John said clearly. And we will cut back -- we will cut back on our programs if it's necessary to make sure that that happens.
WALLACE: ...you attended just three of 36 meetings of the Judiciary Committee, the worst record of any member of that panel, and you attended just four of 13 public meetings of the Intelligence Committee.
For someone who's been in the Senate less than a full term, isn't that a problem?
EDWARDS: No, I'll tell you exactly what happened. I was in -- the first several years I was in the Senate, I had almost a perfect attendance record. And then I watched what was happening under this administration... but at that point, I came to the conclusion that the only real solution to this was to get George Bush out of the White House. And that's when I decided to run for president, and that's the period of time that they're talking about.
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> EDWARDS: We will not raise taxes on the middle class, as John said clearly.
No, he said he would give a middle class tax CUT, clearly.
He didn't say it, but more than likely, tax cuts and defense spending would be the first to go so they could spend more money on their entitlement programs.
I agree. It is like the twilight zone. I know what I watched and I sqaw GWB kick Kerry's butt all over the floor. As soon as it was over, all I hear is that Kerry won???????
Is it me or am I crazy??????
His selection was Kerry's biggest mistake.
Selecting such a lightweight pretty boy was definetely a 910 decision.
What was Kerry thinking? Pretty boy lawyer from the south would help get him what votes?
Such a decision is scary when you realize that Kerry is unable to sense the gravity of the world we live in and that as president he would be the target of terrorists. A wise decison would have been to be sure he left the country in strong capable hands...not a Breck girl.
Hey Amelia :)
I'd rather read transcripts!
Easier on my blood pressure.
So he blames his absenteeism on the President. Kinda like Courtney Love blaming the Prez for her troubles, eh? So in a roundabout way, he acknowledges his being AWOL, but please, his intentions were noble. That excuses everything.
He started running for POTUS the second he was sworn into the Senate.
And I am in his state; he wasn't going to win re-election for the Senate anyway. His own town, you know -- the milltown -- went sold Bush/Cheney in 2000.
He's been in Iowa more than he's been here. Or in the Senate, for that matter.
As I said above, if they were to be elected, he'll be running from the second he's sworn in as VP.
Don't forget New Hampshire where he spent a good part of the year leading up to the primaries, meeting "regular" folk.
He was on 5 different shows yesterday; somebody posted that that's more than he's been here.......LOL.
I wish the president would make the point during a debate that when Kerry raises taxes on corporates, that the money eventually comes out of the pocket of the consumers. AKA the middle class.
LOLOL! And did you hear about Elizabeth stopping by a SoHo Apple Store, halting traffic and the crowd greeting her with "Elizabeth Edwards for president!"
She is one nasty witch. IMO, she is saying stuff a candidate's wife should NEVER say.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1237564/posts
LOLOL!
Published October 11, 2004
MIAMI (AP) -- Sen. John Edwards said it was a mistake to believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, as he paused a Midwest campaign swing to make the round of talk shows yesterday.
The Democratic vice presidential nominee defended his record and criticized President Bush in appearances on five programs, while Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry campaigned in southern Florida.
Mr. Edwards later stopped at a diner in West Allis, Wis., where he criticized Mr. Bush's handling of the economy and promised to create more jobs and support working women by improving health care and child care. "This is the first president in 70-plus years who didn't create jobs," the North Carolina senator said to about 40 working women.
Appearing on ABC's "This Week," Mr. Edwards was asked -- as Mr. Bush was in the presidential debate on Friday -- to name three mistakes during his time in office. He named two, saying it was a mistake to vote for Rod Paige as education secretary and to believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, Mr. Bush's primary rationale for invading that country.
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WEEEELLL! Isn't that special! Who do you think choose this team, do you think, well I don't know, maybe it was,
SATAN!
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