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.
Did we ever determine if Albright made a fortune under Oil-For-Food? ;=)
I'm pretty sure reno was in the clintoon admin.
Is she the same one I've seen quoted in an article here saying that Saddam was one of the greatest threats the US faced?
Ruby ridge....never mind!
Excusssse me !! But wasn't it Ms Albright and President Half-bright who were in charge when the terrorists first tried to destroy the World Trade Center...and what was their response...go ahead, I'll wait.......right -- Nothing -- Bupkus...nada...zippo....Hard to take terrorism seriously while receiving a Lewinsky I guess.
How about a bumper sticker that says; " NEVER elect another Clinton--EVER!"
"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."
HIGH 5!!!!!
Right on!!!!!!!
It appears she ate up all the profits !
Albright, you obese, wheezing, balding, bag of disease - please tell the American public why the nineteen 9-11 terrorists were given visas, by your department, on your watch?
Wrong-O, Ms. Albright.
Lots of people close to the Clintons died under suspicious circumstances during their term in office.
Vince Foster
Ron Brown
Jim McDougal
The list goes on and on
I went to North Korea; My friend Kim Jong-Il got nuclear weapons, and all I got were these lousy broken promises.
Egads! My sarcasm tag didn't go in to that post!
Used arrow brackets around "sarcasm" by mistake instead of parentheses, which is why it didn't show up...
Anyone killed by a North Korean Nuke. I hold her responsible.
Gas Bags have opinions too....after all....opinions are like assholes....everbody has one.....
I'm pretty sure reno was in the clintoon admin.
Ruby Ridge happened in August of 92, six months before Reno became AG. She was in charge of the investigation afterwards.
I like my one liner.
John Kerry is the wrong candidate for the wrong office at the wrong time.
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