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Under fire, Democrat retreats (Missouri Senate race)
Washington Times ^ | 9/12/06 | Christina Bellantoni

Posted on 09/13/2006 7:54:44 AM PDT by freespirited

The U.S. Senate campaign of Missouri Democrat Claire McCaskill has been under sharp criticism since she accused President Bush of letting poor blacks in Louisiana die during Hurricane Katrina.

Mrs. McCaskill, the state auditor, is attempting to link Republican Sen. Jim Talent with the president as she tries to unseat the incumbent.

"George Bush let people die on rooftops in New Orleans because they were poor and because they were black," she told a group of Democratic state legislators last week. The comments, made as she outlined Mr. Talent's efforts to attract minority voters, were first reported by Pub Def Weekly, a St. Louis-based blog.

"In a spirited voice, she told them that she would do everything she could to make clear to every Democratic voter that 'George Bush has no better friend than Jim Talent,'" wrote Pub Def Weekly's Antonio D. French.

Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee, immediately called upon Mrs. McCaskill to apologize for the remarks.

"It is totally unconscionable to suggest that the Coast Guard helicopter crews who worked hours long past regulation were intentionally leaving poor, black Americans to die on their rooftops," Mr. Frist said on his blog.

... But Mrs. McCaskill told KMOX radio in Missouri the statement's context as reported by Pub Def Weekly is "not exactly correct." She said she was acknowledging the sentiment of many Americans, and national tragedies are the time when people need government the most.

(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clairemccaskill; election2006; jimtalent; missouri; senate
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But Mrs. McCaskill told KMOX radio in Missouri the statement's context as reported by Pub Def Weekly is "not exactly correct."

Just close to exactly correct, I would guess.

1 posted on 09/13/2006 7:54:46 AM PDT by freespirited
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To: freespirited
Wasn't this one of the races the DBM had all but put in the Dems pickup column?
2 posted on 09/13/2006 7:56:09 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: freespirited

Rats will say and do anything to win, but this comment backfired big time!


3 posted on 09/13/2006 7:56:45 AM PDT by moose2004 (You Can Run But You Can't Hide!)
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To: mainepatsfan

At least it wasnt the macacaca word(sarc)


4 posted on 09/13/2006 7:57:34 AM PDT by italianquaker (Democrats and media can't win elections at least they can win their phony polls.)
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To: mainepatsfan

She won't unseat Talent.


5 posted on 09/13/2006 7:58:37 AM PDT by Leg Olam ("There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them." Louis Armstrong)
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To: freespirited
McCaskill will get the Kansas City and St. Louis votes but that's it. I don't believe it was ever really in favor of McCaskill the way the polls have been claiming.
6 posted on 09/13/2006 7:58:59 AM PDT by tobyhill (The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
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To: italianquaker

I heard that Allen has pulled out of that nose dive.


7 posted on 09/13/2006 8:00:08 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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Wasn't this one of the races the DBM had all but put in the Dems pickup column?

Yup. So did everyone who gets their intelligence from Howard Dean.

8 posted on 09/13/2006 8:00:28 AM PDT by freespirited (We have met the enemy and it is Wal-Mart. ---The Democratic Party)
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To: Lee Heggy123

It's always tough to knock off an incumbent senator.


9 posted on 09/13/2006 8:00:36 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: Lee Heggy123

Goodness Gracious I hope Not!!!


10 posted on 09/13/2006 8:01:07 AM PDT by Mrs. Shawnlaw (No NAIS! And the USDA can bugger off, too!)
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To: freespirited

Well he did say that he wanted to spend money in red states.


11 posted on 09/13/2006 8:01:11 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: freespirited
This b!tch doesn't stand a chance. Talent is going to bury her big-time (outside of St Louis/Kansas City, both Dim strongholds).

Her crook of an ex-husband and their nursing home scandals have not even come up yet, but they will...even the Post-Disgrace and KC Red-Star will not be able to suppress the skeletons in her closet.

12 posted on 09/13/2006 8:02:12 AM PDT by liberty_lvr (Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.)
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To: freespirited

She has been trying to garner a few rural votes with her stance against NAIS. A growing number who raise livestock/animals in MO are opposed to animal id as they are already tagged/registered. Most are seeing thru her guise.
Talent Rocks!!!!


13 posted on 09/13/2006 8:02:38 AM PDT by Mrs. Shawnlaw (No NAIS! And the USDA can bugger off, too!)
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To: tobyhill

St. Louis county is a worry. I recall that at one polling place, 14 voters rang up 34 or 35 votes.


14 posted on 09/13/2006 8:04:07 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: freespirited

Does anyone recall her outcome running against Talent the last time? Was it like 55/45? He gets a lot more STL vote than KC vote.


15 posted on 09/13/2006 8:04:55 AM PDT by Mrs. Shawnlaw (No NAIS! And the USDA can bugger off, too!)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

LOL! Lacey Clay probably rang up half of those!


16 posted on 09/13/2006 8:06:08 AM PDT by Mrs. Shawnlaw (No NAIS! And the USDA can bugger off, too!)
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To: freespirited

Anyone who thinks this kind of rhetoric is not being used by all Democrat candidates in the black communities this year is dreaming. "The Black Holocaust" is already a legend of major proportions and will be used by Democrats to flog Republicans as long as Herbert Hoover was.


17 posted on 09/13/2006 8:08:18 AM PDT by Dems_R_Losers (Bill Clinton is Chief Loser)
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To: Lee Heggy123
She won't unseat Talent....

you are right

18 posted on 09/13/2006 8:08:21 AM PDT by rface ("...the most schizoid freeper I've ever seen" - New Bloomfield, Missouri)
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To: freespirited

intelligence from Howard Dean

Huh?


19 posted on 09/13/2006 8:14:43 AM PDT by rj45mis
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To: freespirited

Im voting for Talent but holding my nose doing so. His flip flop on fetal stem cell research was bought and paid for by the Sowers Foundation, an extremely well funded champion of liberal causes, based in Kansas City.


20 posted on 09/13/2006 8:17:34 AM PDT by em2vn
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