Posted on 04/13/2004 4:04:13 PM PDT by Dog
This will be tonights live thread..
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.Indeed, as you wrote, it "sends chills down my spine."
None of our arguments today mean a thing -- wouldn't exist -- if Lincoln hadn't said it, hadn't made it happen. Amazingly, self-government is yet despised in the world. If Lincoln hadn't salvaged it for America, America wouldn't today be fighting for it around the world.
Thanks for posting this.
Free trade. And pre-existing him doesn't give him an out. His support of it is directly responsible for this. Supporting it makes it his policy whether he put it in place or not. And he is planning on signing more legislation that extends far beyond Nafta. An opportunity to damage us further with even more of it. But more importantly, to disenfranchise Americans because they happen to be Americans and the companies don't want to pay American wages. They just want the American profits. It's no more complicated or simple than that.
No Frank, it is not the time he usually goes to bed. Perhaps it is past your bedtime, though?
Jorge, Bush is not a public speaker. Period.
Most Americans aren't either, and they're fine with Bush for his stumbling.
They like what's inside.
Kerry's smooth, Clinton's smooth, but they're as phony as $3 bills.
And, everybody knows it.
People have lost jobs, for all kinds of different reasons, from time immemorial and it is NOT the president's or the government's place to see that everyone has a job.Though I admit to not having read your original post,I have read this one.Are you a Conservative or a Socialist? Think about this for a while, because you lost assuredly do NOT sound like a Conservative at all.You use emotion and attempt to make those who read your words feel guilt. You appear to want demand sort of assurances/safety nets And then claim that you have never used any and won't ever use them.
This happens to be a live thread,a LIVE THREAD to discuss tonight's press conference.You've tried to high jack it for your own purposes and agenda.The president's policies are NOT "unethical" and tonight's talk was NOT about jobs at all.
You wanted sympathy and attention.You got attention, but it hasn't been what you really wanted at all...unless any attention at all, is what you crave.And FYI...your spurious whinging about "others" losing their IT jobs is a smokescreen! This entire outsourcing doom&glooming on FR, is mostly baseless and invalid !
And his vision and toughness bodes well for the world my grandchildren will inherit. I thank him for that.
I have been perusing your responses and I want to ask a question of you.
Put yourself in the Presidents shoes and will the knowledge in mind of just how emotional he is about our troops and the loss of same. And the loss of the 3000 plus on 9/11........
Then stand there and have several idiots ask you to apologize to the nation for these losses!
These requests caused his heart to rise into his throat and did in fact stagger him, each and every time the apology line was said.
I felt it..........I felt it and wondered how the hell he was going to get through this because as much as he would like to apologize for all these things, an apology infers that something wrong was done.
He said", Ossama Bin Laden is responsible for 9-11 and no one else".
I thought it one of his best replies, but he was visibly shaken by our losses in Iraq. he could not apologize or say those kinds of words and he was searching for the answers that would help those who were grieving without showing weakness in front of the entire country. But the question would come again.
I could not have made it through that, yet he did!
He made me and any vet watching very proud. And he restated the goal and the reasons for sacrifice.
Yes, he did fine by me. Anyone who would not be shaken by what we have endured, knowing that we have much more yet to endure would not be the person that I would want sending me or my son into battle.
Has it Frank?
I see you quickly picked up on Don from NPR's last question.
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