Posted on 09/11/2004 7:22:19 AM PDT by longtermmemmory
GWBush made a very good speech for 9/11 surrounded by families.
Kerry will deliver the opposing response in an hour or so.
dang, I missed it... is there an audio link available yet?
Good One
You know for one day Bob Beckel couldn't restrain himself from criticizing President Bush. This guy has got to be the #2 A'Hole in the 'Rats party behind McAwful.
WTF???
Why on Earth is there going to be any kind of "opposing response"?
This is totally inappropriate - it is not the time or place for partisan politics in any form.
Who thinks up this shit?
Forget it...I think I know the answer to that.
There was Bob Beckel on Fox a few minutes ago...Cavuto's show...turning the 9/11 remembrance into a political hack job. Ugly. Should backlash big time, as well as Kerry's speech if he's stupid enough, and he is, to blast GW on security issues or anything else. It's a day to remember, mourn, and pull together. Anyone who heard Rumsfeld's speech at Arlington or Guiliani's speech in NY couldn't help but be moved and strengthened in purpose.
A man on Cavuto now, who lost his brother on 9/11 says the families just want no one else in the country to walk in their shoes. He mentioned the war in Iraq, was it right, he didn't want to say, GW had to make hard decisions, he's glad he isn't President. What this man doesn't get is that the entire nation has been walking in 9/11 families' shoes from the moment the first plane hit.
Did you see Cavuto chastize him for saying "1000 dead in Iraq"?
Well, the Democratic party began stagnating, and all the scum floated to the top...
In a way you are right.
Kerry will never be a leader. BUSH IS A LEADER!
"A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances."
- General George S. Patton, Jr
For those we have lost fighting the good fight which began on 9/11:
"We came here to thank God that men like these have lived rather than to regret that they have died."
- General George S. Patton, Jr
"... and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-ninth."
Great proclamation by President Bush. My only concern is in the math. 2004 minus 1776 equals 228, not 229. Sorry if I'm wrong thinking on this, but, like most conservatives, I'd rather be right than happy :) LOL
The media is skipping over the fact that the market today is higher than it was on 9/10/2001.
Kerry is going to claim that it's 9/10.
With the exception of Fox News which did note it.
WHY should there be an OPPOSING response to a 9/11 statement?
Why in the world is John Kerry giving an opposing view to the President's speech about 9/11? Is that the epitome of classless politicking, or what?
If anything, he should just be giving his own remarks. Why would he do a dem rebuttal?
Maybe he meant we are in our 229th year?
(s)not enough blue ribbon committees to reaaaaaaaly be sure it was al queda?(/s)
Here's what the Libertarian Party has to say about today (Let's compare it with what Kerry says, shall we? LOL)
Bush should commemorate Sept. 11 attacks
by tracking down bin Laden, Badnarik says
WASHINGTON -- The best way for President Bush to commemorate the Sept.
11 terrorist attacks is to pull out of Iraq and use those troops to
track down Osama bin Laden instead, Libertarians say.
"Who would you rather see sitting in a U.S. prison cell right now:
Saddam Hussein, or Osama bin Laden?" asked Michael Badnarik,
Libertarian presidential candidate. "If the president had made an all-
out effort to capture the man who had just murdered thousands of
innocent Americans, instead of a man who had no connection to that
attack, the United States might be a much safer place right now."
On the grisly anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on
New York and Washington, Badnarik says Americans have a right to ask
their commander-in-chief -- who has made the war on terrorism the
centerpiece of his re-election campaign -- why the perpetrators remain
at large.
One reason, Badnarik says, may be the war in Iraq -- which was a
dangerous diversion of military resources.
"Had Bush directed our troops to seal off the border between
Afghanistan and Pakistan and launched an all-out effort to find bin
Laden, they might have succeeded in capturing the mastermind of the
attacks that killed 3,000 innocent Americans," he said. "Instead, Bush
sent U.S. troops into Iraq -- an action that resulted in the death of
1,000 more Americans.
"The nation is in deep trouble when the president's response to a
terror attack kills one-third as many Americans as the attack itself."
Not only is the Iraq war a diversion of resources, it's actually
fomenting more terrorism, Badnarik says.
"The fact that U.S. troops are being killed almost daily in Iraq
indicates that the occupation may be spawning a new generation of anti-
American terrorists," he said. "Instead of rooting out known terrorists
in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Bush is creating new ones in Iraq."
Though Bush seems to have forgotten about bin Laden, the American
people have not, Badnarik said.
Noting that in a recent USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll, 68 percent of those
surveyed said it was "extremely" or "very" important for bin Laden to
be captured or killed, he said: "Public support for destroying al-Qaeda
is far greater than support for the continued occupation of Iraq.
"On the third anniversary of the horrific September 11 attacks, the
president should summon the courage to admit his mistake and resolve to
correct it. The grieving families have waited too long for justice
already."
Let him do it. He'll drop another 5 points.
Once again the Libertarians prove why they can never get more then half a percent in a Presidential election.
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