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Madeleine Albright hits Bush with a bumper sticker one-liner (gag alert)
Maine Today ^ | 10/11/2004 | RYAN LENZ

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: albright; bumperstickers
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To: Utah Girl

Did we ever determine if Albright made a fortune under Oil-For-Food? ;=)


41 posted on 10/11/2004 8:58:48 PM PDT by DaveMSmith (One Day at A Time || Blue Angel in PJs)
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To: Utah Girl
A democratic victory means losers like her in the administration again. I don't think we could survive it. If the woman had any self respect at all, she would could hide in a cave in shame some place after what she, clintoon and the rest of them did to our country.
42 posted on 10/11/2004 9:06:46 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: Hugin
Ruby Ridge was under the Bush 41 administration

I'm pretty sure reno was in the clintoon admin.

43 posted on 10/11/2004 9:08:07 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: Utah Girl

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?


44 posted on 10/11/2004 9:08:29 PM PDT by pnz1
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To: paul51

Ruby ridge....never mind!


45 posted on 10/11/2004 9:08:47 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: Utah Girl

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.


46 posted on 10/11/2004 9:10:37 PM PDT by Froggie
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To: Utah Girl

How about a bumper sticker that says; " NEVER elect another Clinton--EVER!"


47 posted on 10/11/2004 9:19:26 PM PDT by luvie (WE will not waver;WE will not tire;WE will not falter!)
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To: cricket

"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!!!!!!!


48 posted on 10/11/2004 9:32:52 PM PDT by sweetiepiezer (We have to stop Kerry for our grandkids sake!!!!!!!! GO W)
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To: DaveMSmith
Did we ever determine if Albright made a fortune under Oil-For-Food? ;=)

It appears she ate up all the profits !

49 posted on 10/11/2004 9:36:10 PM PDT by Freesofar (The "F" in John F stands for Foolin'ya)
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To: Utah Girl

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?


50 posted on 10/11/2004 9:40:39 PM PDT by dagnabbit (Prevent the next 9-11. Stop Islamic immigration and deport Muslim aliens.)
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To: Utah Girl
"It´s a very simple issue. Bill Clinton lied, but nobody died,"

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

51 posted on 10/11/2004 9:42:03 PM PDT by wai-ming
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To: Utah Girl
Ms. Albright could wear a t-shirt that reads:

I went to North Korea; My friend Kim Jong-Il got nuclear weapons, and all I got were these lousy broken promises.

52 posted on 10/11/2004 9:46:01 PM PDT by wai-ming
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To: Darnright
"... the people in the Murrah Federal Building..." Oh, but that was the fault of conservative talk radio shows, Rush Limbaugh in particular, because they preach hate and violence and should not be allowed on the public airwaves
53 posted on 10/11/2004 9:48:22 PM PDT by Tacos
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To: Tacos

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...


54 posted on 10/11/2004 9:50:39 PM PDT by Tacos
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To: Utah Girl

"It´s a very simple issue. Bill Clinton lied, but nobody died," Albright said."


Nobody died except at WTC I, the USS Cole, Oklahoma City, TWA 800, Mena, Waco, Mogadishu, Kosovo, etc.
55 posted on 10/11/2004 9:51:36 PM PDT by Wolfhound777 (It's not our job to forgive them. Only God can do that. Our job is to arrange the meeting)
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To: Utah Girl

Anyone killed by a North Korean Nuke. I hold her responsible.


56 posted on 10/11/2004 10:01:11 PM PDT by Brimack34
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To: Utah Girl

Gas Bags have opinions too....after all....opinions are like assholes....everbody has one.....


57 posted on 10/11/2004 10:31:47 PM PDT by Stateline
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To: Utah Girl
That's all well and good, but we ought to hear from the French hotel cleaning lady, too.

May I change your sheets for you, Monsieur?

58 posted on 10/11/2004 10:41:37 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad
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To: paul51
Ruby Ridge was under the Bush 41 administration

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.

59 posted on 10/11/2004 11:55:58 PM PDT by Hugin
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To: Utah Girl

I like my one liner.

John Kerry is the wrong candidate for the wrong office at the wrong time.


60 posted on 10/12/2004 12:00:40 AM PDT by MWS (Errare humanum est, in errore perservare stultum.)
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