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.
GUYS! You're missing something here. She's not capable of handling the DNC talking points, so every day, Joe Lockhart and Terry McAuliffe call her with bumper sticker talking points. She memorizes four or five, then picks one for a response.
Oops! That's no good. That photo plus your caption has irritated my hernia.
Make that about two years earlier, like 1996
What is infuriating is that the DemonRats know that Bush has to play the secrecy game. They know the real truth of the matter, but they pretend that the weapons never existed in the first place. Those who can connect the dots know a few things. For one thing, our so called "allies," sold Saddam Hussien very critical equipment for the production of nuclear weapons and other high technology equipment for other mass weapons. This was going on while Maddy sat on her thumbs. She was probably on the take like the rest of the aliance of shame. In fact, maybe the DemonRats were on the take with the rest of them.
Perhaps one should say that the real "Lie," would be that the WMD's did not exist. Perhaps one could say that the truth of the matter cannot be revealed because of the secrecy of the matter. That the DemonRats take advantage of that fact shows once again that they have no consideration for the security of the American people.
Maddy has to mouth off to show that she is tough. However, when there was a real tough job to do, she sat on her thumbs.
Bill lied but nobody died?
Waco.
TWA 800
Serbia
Ron Brown
Vince Foster
OKC bombing coverup.
Hey Madeline, do you remember saying in reference to the terrorists, "they can run but they can't hide?" Well, in your administration they didn't have to hide because you weren't really looking for them. Bush is doing what you worthless State types were too afraid to do, hunt them down and kill them. Now, just go back to whatever rock you crawled out from under. Did anyone tell you it's unseemly for former Secretaries of State to be campaigning for candidates. I guess it's ok, because you weren't much of a Secretary of State.
Well, he's got her pegged... Mad Maddie Albright, Secretary of the Ministry of Drivel in the Bizarro world that would be a Kerry Administration (shudder). Kinda makes ya long for the gravitas of Warren Christopher, don't it?
Hey, people began to die as a result of Clinton's lies from the start if you will remember. Remember how he lied that the Haitian boat people would not be turned away? They heard him on radio and believed him. Then he was inaugurated, Haitian boat people were still sent back out to sea where hundreds, maybe thousands drowned in their crude, homemade boats. - Clinton ignored the "nuisance" of
Terrorists through attack after attack during his tenure, too busy diddling with interns and racking up campaign donations from very questionable sources to be bothered, setting the stage for 9/11.
Could not find anything. Wonder if Algore gave her
access to his net???
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