Posted on 10/11/2004 8:06:24 PM PDT by Utah Girl
A bumper sticker couldn´t have said it better.
In a campaign season of glib one-liners, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Monday joined with an attack on President Bush using a bumper sticker phrase as ubiquitous as "Let´s not elect him in 2004 either."
"It´s a very simple issue. Bill Clinton lied, but nobody died," Albright said when asked, during a rally for Democratic candidate John Kerry, about her support for Clinton during his impeachment.
Albright, who served as secretary of state under Clinton and has been an informal adviser to John Kerry, went on to criticize the Bush administration´s efforts to build a coalition before the war in Iraq, its "bring it on" bravado and its work with other nations.
"Some people ask me what I´m doing, and I say flat out that I´m trying to overthrow the government," said Albright, who also spoke Monday in Bangor. Then echoing Bush´s own phrasings, she said: "George Bush said it´s hard work? Well let´s give him a break."
Pithy one-liners are coming from both campaigns. "W is for wrong." "Kerry is consistently inconsistent." And the tactic isn´t new this year. Politicians have long used prefab comebacks. (Think Ronald Reagan´s "There you go again.")
But Albright´s comments struck the Bush campaign in Maine as offensive.
Peter Cianchette, state spokesman for the Bush-Cheney campaign, said Albright´s comments were surprising coming from a former official who should understand the complexities of global politics.
"When I hear things like that, she´s simply reciting senator Kerry´s drivel," Cianchette said. "He seems to be want to be the critcizer-in-chief. What we need and what we have is a commander in chief."
Each campaign and their supporters are trying outwit the other. It´s a war on the fender, each trying to outwit the other with simple messages.
But there´s none more simple than a black W crossed through by a red line _ another popular bumper sticker, said Terry Cato, of Albany, Ore., who owns Bumpertalk.com. The Web page sells bumper stickers of all political varieties.
Its top seller: "10 out of 10 terrorists agree: Anybody but Bush."
It doesn´t surprise him that politics play out in unlikely places, he said.
"If you can put a bumper sticker on your car that says ´I visited Disney Land,´ why wouldn´t people want to express their political interests?" he said.
Campaigns seem to have perfected the art of the bumper sticker message, said John Baughman, a political science professor at Bates College.
One-liners have punch and boil down issues. The more they´re repeated, the more likely they´ll sick, Baughman said.
"They work for selling burgers and they work for selling candidates," he said.
genocide in Rwanda did not meet the standard for ethnic cleansing.
Not a big voting block in the US.
Clinton and Kerry are right out of 1930s Europe mentality.
Keep up the good work True
"It´s a very simple issue. Bill Clinton lied, but nobody died," Albright said when asked.."
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Well Madeline Halfbright, if Billy had been in office on 9/11 YOU WOULD BE CHOKING ON THOSE WORDS...and if Billy Boy had taken ONE OF THE FOUR OPPORTUNITIES to have OBL handed to him...MAYBE 9/11 MIGHT NOT HAVE HAPPENED....
(female dog synonym)
Vince Foster might have something to say about that...How about Ron Brown and other "friends" of Bill???
How very diplomatic and statesmanlike of the good Madame.
How about a bumper sticker with Albright's face on it that says "Let's Keep Her Away From All Future Administrations."
I don't know, Madeline, Vince Foster hasn't been looking so good lately.
No one died?
In January 1993, two CIA agents are shot and
killed as they enter CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
"The following month, February 1993, a group of terrorists are arrested
after a rented van packed with explosives is driven into the underground
parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City. Six people are
killed and over 1000 are injured.
"Then in November 1995 a car bomb explodes at a US military complex in
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia killing seven service men and women.
"A few months later in June of 1996, another truck bomb explodes only 35
yards from the US military compound in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. It destroys
the Khobar Towers, a US Air Force barracks, killing 19 and injuring over
500.
simultaneous attack on two US
embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. They kill 224.
"The USS Cole was docked in the port of Aden, Yemen for refueling on 12
October 2000, when a small craft pulled along side the ship and exploded
killing 17 US Navy Sailors.
And of course you know the events of 11 September 2001.
Parted out of a letter.
I have to agree...as long as the result is the same!
At least she now admits that Clinton lied, she denied he lied to her for years.
sssshhhhh
Making me scowl.
Do the math Madeleine. . .just start with Waco; and if totally honest; you should include the body count on September 11; and all those no longer here, because of it.
Madeliene and the rest of the Dimrats are the world's worst joke.
nobody died ? Clinton cut down American women and children in waco and at Ruby ridge!
The F is for FOOL
Wintersoldier,Scheisterlawyer,2004
F...(no F'n way) '04
there was no one worse in the clinton administration than madeline albright.
And without the 'interference' of Linda Tripp; Monica probably would have been on that list as well.
Seems Clinton and his 'lies' have given him not just one list of casualties due to his lies; but two. . .
'The Clinton Body Count' hangs still hangs out there. . .thanks to Madeleine; perhaps there will be a recount.
On the other hand, perhaps others would.
Does anyone have her email address?
As the say in Albania, "Maddy, give us 5 minutes and please go away."
WRONG! clinton lied and SERBS died!!!!
Mad Halfbright is the worst Secretary of State that we've ever had!!!! She and her boss did everyting possible for the "human rightser" cabal and the islamoNazis, and against Judeo-Christian civilization.
Only democrats can lie. The republicans tell the truth, and they are told they lie. What a crock.
Ruby Ridge was under the Bush 41 administration.
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