Posted on 12/28/2004 2:43:12 PM PST by bitt
As we say goodbye to 2004, Political Points can't resist getting into the top ten game. We've browsed through our sister publication, Washington Wrap, and came up with our favorite "quotes of the day" from the 2004 campaign.
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9. "I am a gay American." Talk about being startlingly honest. Actually, New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevy's explanation for why he was stepping down from office was more startling than entirely honest. McGreevy was also worried that he was about to be sued by his lover whom he had put on the payroll.
8. "I am proud to announce to all of you, that in Boston and in Washington, we have All-Clad in our kitchens," (AFP, 4/25) John Kerry was trying to relate to blue-collar workers at the All-Clad plant by saying he and his wife have the pricy kitchenware in multiple mansions. His Philly cheese-steak with Swiss request, the visit to the Green Bay Packers "Lambert" field and the "who among us doesn't love NASCAR" remark, makes picking the best "Kerry plays average Joe" lines a close call.
7. "Don't be economic girlie men." Arnold Schwarzenegger was talking about pessimists in his speech at the Republican convention. His remarks led to another choice quote. "There was no sex for 14 days. Everything comes with side effects," said Arnold talking about the impact of the GOP convention appearance had on his wife, Maria Shriver. (AP, 10/20)
6. "I don't know that she's ever had a real job." Philanthropist Teresa Heinz Kerry was talking about former teacher and librarian Laura Bush. (USA Today, 10/20) Her "Shove it" remark gets the first runner-up place for dominating the headlines on the opening day of the Democratic convention. Honorable mention goes to "Clothing is wonderful but let them go naked for a while." That was her advice on why people should give water and generators rather than clothes to hurricane victims in Florida. (AP, 9/16)
5. "I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein." President Bush gave Bushism collectors some more fodder with that remark (AP, 5/25)
4. "Kerry Picks Gephardt" The New York Post's scoop that wasn't. ((7/6) "Senator Kerry Picked Daddy," said Emma Claire Edwards who had a better source than the Post, giving the news to her mother. (AP, 7/7) "I am thinking about Oreos because I love them" - in the interest of equal time some words of wisdom from John Atticus Edwards to his father and John Kerry. (LA Times, 7/9)
3 "Let's say you tried to have an election and you could have it in three quarters or four fifths on the country. But in some places you couldn't because the violence was too great. Well so be it. Nothing's perfect in life so you have an election that's not quite perfect." Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld talking about the Iraq, (or was it the Ohio?) election. (Reuters, 9/24)
2. "F*** yourself." Vice President Cheney told Democratic Sen. Pat Leahy who had been spending a lot of time talking about Halliburton. The Washington Post's editor Len Downie said they decided to print all four letters of the four letter word because "when the vice president of the United States says it to a senator in the way in which he said it on the Senate floor, readers need to judge for themselves what the word is because we don't play games at The Washington Post and use dashes." (AP, 6/25)
1. "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it." In one sentence Sen. John Kerry gave the Bush campaign the silver bullet they needed to portray Kerry as a flip-flopper. (Washington Post, 3/17)
Happy New Year and here's to an even more quotable 2005!
My favorite:
Teresa - 'Her "Shove it" remark gets the first runner-up place for dominating the headlines on the opening day of the Democratic convention. '
Hillary Rodham Clinton: "Many of you are well enough off that ... the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." (28 June 2004, in San Francisco at a Democrat Party fundraiser)
Wasn't this guy one of the group of Iraqis who had state of the art prosthetic hands put on by American doctors?
"I'm John Kerry....and....[salute] I'm reporting for duty."
"6. "I don't know that she's ever had a real job." Philanthropist Teresa Heinz Kerry was talking about former teacher and librarian Laura Bush. (USA Today, 10/20) Her "Shove it" remark gets the first runner-up place for dominating the headlines on the opening day of the Democratic convention. Honorable mention goes to "Clothing is wonderful but let them go naked for a while." That was her advice on why people should give water and generators rather than clothes to hurricane victims in Florida. (AP, 9/16) "
Florida???? Do they ever report anything with accuracy?
John Kerry
"I'm John Kerry and I'm reporting for duty!"
"Now, I'm not one to read into things, but guess which wing of the hospital the maternity ward was in? I'm not kidding. I was born in the West Wing!"
"And we will end the backdoor draft of National Guard and reservists.''
Al Sharpton
"We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us."
"It is frightening to think that the gains of civil and women rights and those movements in the last century could be reversed if this administration is in the White House in these next four years."
"I suggest to you tonight that if George Bush had selected the court in '54, Clarence Thomas would have never got to law school."
"Mr. President, read my lips: Our vote is not for sale."
Jesse Jackson
"But John Edwards understands using wallpaper for a windbreaker, not for decoration. He understands peanut-butter sandwiches and Kool-Aid. He understands grits and gravy. He understands the (unintelligible). He understands you and me."
Jimmy Carter
"Let us not forget that the Soviets lost the Cold War because the American people combined the exercise of power with adherence to basic principles, based on sustained bipartisan support."
"The achievements of Camp David a quarter century ago and the more recent progress made by President Bill Clinton are now in peril."
"You can’t be a war president one day and claim to be a peace president the next, depending on the latest political polls."
Al Gore
"I didn't come here tonight to talk about the past. After all, I don't want you to think I lie awake at night counting and recounting sheep."
"…exposing the threat of ecoterro----uh … narcoterrorism and tracing the sources of terrorist financing."
Elizabeth Edwards
"You know, I married the smartest, toughest, sweetest man I know. And in two days, we will celebrate 27 years of marriage... the way we always do. We'll do it the way we always do at Wendy's."
Teresa Heinz Kerry
"Shove it!"
Nancy Pelosi
"Democrats do not exploit fear to divide and distract the nation."
Stephanie Tubbs-Jones
"We are tired of seeing our hard-earned tax dollars go to haves and have-mores, while the must-haves, could-haves, should-haves, maybes and have-nots have not at all."
"Kerry's gonna win!"--Dummies everywhere
yes, he was one of the 12 who received our free treatments and protheses - and still the reporter had to dump on the President as he paid honor to these men AND to the honorable acts of our government.
Elizabeth Edwards:
Supporter: Kerry's going to take PA.
Liz Edwards: I know that.
Supporter: I'm just worried there's going to be riots afterwards.
Liz Edwards: Uh.....well...not if we win.
That's what I thought. So it's just a dopey reporter.
Supporter: Kerry's going to take PA.
Liz Edwards: I know that.
Supporter: I'm just worried there's going to be riots afterwards.
Liz Edwards: Uh.....well...not if we win.
Didn't she say that about the Florida hurricane victims?
Early in primaries, Sharpton said "Slap that donkey. Make him kick."
Kerry: we are one America
Edwards: we are two Americas
Obama: we are one America
[They never could get on the same page at the same time.]
THIS should be on bumperstickers and billboards across America for the next 4 years.
az
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