Posted on 10/31/2004 4:32:29 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
MARIETTA, Ohio - ...... Mr. Edwards said the "American dream" is on the ballot.
"I want you to assume you go in the morning to vote and you just dropped the kids off at school and you're late to work, and your car is about to run out of gas. You walk in to vote and you're in a hurry and you want to make the right choice. So you ask yourself, 'Over the course of the last four years, has my price at the pump gone up? Has the price of college gone up? Is George Bush ever going to do anything about this? Do I want four more years of the same?'?" Mr. Edwards said, as about 1,000 listeners shouted "No."
"Suppose you go in at lunch time. You've come from the doctor and you have a prescription slip in your hand, and you need to get it filled. But before you do that, you want to vote. You go in, but you're in a hurry and you want to make the right choice. And so you ask yourself, 'Over the last four years, have prescription-drug costs skyrocketed? Have my health insurance premiums gone up? Have drug-company profits gone up? Is George Bush ever going to do anything about this?" Mr. Edwards said as the audience shouted "No."
Kevin Madden, a spokesman for Mr. Bush's campaign, said:....
"John Kerry and John Edwards have never missed a chance to vote against the best interests of Ohio. Their dismal record on taxes, their hostility toward the Second Amendment rights of Ohioans, and their extreme defense of horrific procedures like partial-birth abortion are all instances where John Kerry and John Edwards put their liberal politics ahead of mainstream Ohio principles," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at toledoblade.com ...
I am guessing that this is a reference to Generation Xers.
What a crock! How can so many Americans have come to the point that they think it's government's job, and the President in particular, to make life easy for them or to solve their every problem from womb to tomb? Truth is we are paying the piper. For nearly 50 years we have tolerated government taking more and more of our hard earned money with the promise that vexing problems would be solved. Face it, government does NOTHING well or at a reasonable cost. Any problem government sets out to solve by using tax money, our money, is simply going to get worse. And the most depressing aspect of the whole thing is that we keep falling for it, election after election!
Southerners can stand..
correction.....Southerners CAN'T stand...
What is amazing to me is we have a Presidential race inwhich we have a clear cut unabashed LIBERAL ticket, which will not make a move on TERRORIST unless we're attacked vs. a conservative who is the first President in history to hunt these bastards down outrightly and shows he's been more than "compaassionately" willing to spend money on illfaited social programs and the figgin' thing is going to be a barn burner. (Actually, I think Bush is going to win by +5, but that's beside the point)
Iraq has to be the reason, and for people to even consider that John "friggin" Kerry will do a better job at ridding the world of this scum is beyond me!?
Ask your self this, too:
Has anyone hijacked a plane and flown it into a large city building?
Has anyone walked onto a bus lately with explosives strapped to their chest and pressed the button?
Has anyone taken over a school building and killed hundreds of my children and those of my neighbors?
No?
Then kick Edwards in the teeth and VOTE BUSH!
Someone has not been doing a good enough job conviencing this country WE ARE AT WAR WITH TERRORIST!!!
Bush has not gotten people to recognize this fact, and that is why the race is so close. Most people do not understand WHY we are in Iraq, Bush just has not done a good job at laying out the vision so the majority of Americans clearly understand.
Let's try this scenario...
You are at work. Your kids are at home (they are old enough to stay home alone :-0). An escaped criminal has been sighted in your neighborhood. Which neighbor would you trust to take care of your children and keep them safe- Mr. and Mrs. Heinz Kerry or George & Laura Bush?
What edwards dosen't realize is that the Dream Team is President Bush and Vice-President Cheney.
Kevin Madden, a spokesman for Mr. Bush's campaign, said:....
"John Kerry and John Edwards are anti-American communist pond scum."~~ rant off ~~
(ok, he didn't say that, but I wish someone in the administration would)
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