Kerry didn't have a great week either:
In the past eight days, John Kerry has:
*announced to a national audience that American actions in defense of national security must pass a "global test";
*announced that he would sell nuclear fuel to Iran;
*could not answer, and badly filibustered a question on what he would do if Iran continued to push towards nuclear weapons acquisition;
*denounced as unilateralism the conation that George Bush put together to overthrow Iraq, and called for unilateral appeasement of North Korea;
*compared Iraq to Lebanon, but insisted a summit could entice other countries to join the effort in Iraq, even after the French and the Germans announced they would not do so even if Kerry was elected;
*twice identified the most pressing proliferation problem as the American effort to develop a new generation of nuclear weapons capable of destroying deep bunkers, thus equating the United States with rogue states like North Korea and Iran and proclaiming hostility to modernization of the American arsenal --vintage Kerry defense thinking;
*announced plan after plan for which no details exist;
*"absolutely" pledged not to raise taxes on anyone earning less than $200,000 annually, a pledge that even his most ardent admirers know is either a bald lie or a repudiation of most of his spending plans;
*ignored the creation of 1.9 million jobs over the past 13 months and ignored the economic consequences of the Clinton recession and 9/11 attacks while attacking Bush's tax cuts;
*while calling attention to his Catholic status, defended his vote against banning partial birth abortion, called for taxpayer support for abortion, argued that "parental notification" was connected to dads raping daughters and defended the wholesale harvesting of frozen embryos for research purposes --four positions completely opposite of Catholic Church teaching and far outside the American consensus opinion on abortion;
*actually said "John Edwards and I are for tort reform," and told the American people that lawsuits against doctors are 1% of the health care problem;
*defensively denied being "wishy washy," a "flip flopper," and a "liberal," while complaining about being branded such by the president;
*embraced the Kyoto Treaty and called for its resuscitation with amendments;
*told America that General Shinseki had been fired by Bush and that the firing had a "chilling" effect on all generals, and one day later said Shinseki had been "retired" --not fired-- and left off the "chilling effect" argument --a record one day flip flop;
*saw his running mate get woodshedded and his campaign try to reverse that blow by arguing that the Vice President should have remembered meeting Edwards;
*heard his wife assert that American troops were fighting for oil and many other stunning things;
*watched as Bush did not make a single memorable error in two debates while effectively underscoring Kerry's "global test" pratfall, focusing on Kerry's did-nothing time-serving two decades in the Senate, wrestle the ISG report to its appropriate place in the discussion of the Iraq War, persuade by repeated argument (which the Vice President also helped along) that coalitions can not be led or maintain by derision or democracies built by indecision;
*watched as Bush effectively and accurately branded KerryCare as an expanded form of HillaryCare;
*watched as Bush simply and devastatingly branded Kerry as not credible on taxes, spending and most important of all, defending the United States.
That's not true. IIRC, he clearly stated that he would be "tough". ;)
No disrespect to the first President Bush, who's situation was entirely different because he was coming off a successful war and his first term, but Kerry's "promise" was SOOOOO "read my lips" I was surprised the pundits didn't jump all over it.
Another of Kerry's flubs was when he said he helped negotiate the Kyoto treaty, was IN Kyoto, trashed Bush for trashing Kyoto and then said Kyoto was flawed. So he was FOR Kyoto before being against it before being for it again.
That article is also the top-ranked article on www.ChronWatch.com as of today.
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this was the big whopper that even backwards hats liberals with arrows shot through the brain can dig
LOL - you forgot to mention that he managed to look down his nose at the entire audience last night, stating that he, President Bush and Charles Gibson were the only ones in the room that would be affected by raising taxes on those earning over $200,000.
I wish Bush would have said:
After September 11th, I now realize it is naive to make pledges like that. I can't predict the future, I can't predict that world conditions will remain the same over the next four years, and I can't guarantee that a raise in taxes won't become necessary for the good of the country at some point. But what I will pledge is that I will do everything in my power to keep everyone's taxes as low as possible, as long as it is not detrimental to the country's long-term well-being. I hope you will respect the fact that I'm being as honest and straightforward as possible here, rather than trying to buy your vote by making a promise that I may or may not be able to keep, which is what my opponent has just done.
However, I don't know if Bush made those very same "promises" during his campaigns (either this one or the first one).... so it may have been a flip flop if he had said that. LOL
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*haughtily denigrated every American sitting in last night's debate audience by stating only Kerry, Bush and Gibson earn $200,000 or would ever earn that amount.
King Kerry obliterates the American Dream for the clanging masses of riff-raff.
He's such a prig.
A_R
and let's not forget that Kerry expanded his definition of hie "Global Test" - "not just Global but elsewhere."
Huh? "Calling Mars...?"
Beware Democrats with plans - they used to call them "program." These pencil-headed leftist so-called intellectual snobs all view the world through the 10 pt or 14 pt or 28 pt program. The things are always mind-numbingly dull and devoid of common sense, but they are designed to be implemented at the point of a gun-barrel and are always for the greater good, no matter how much unintended harm they do. The one thing the 20th century has taught us is that whenever they start talking that way you know that neither your life, nor your liberties nor your finances are safe. It seems to have started with Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, but Jimmy Carter talked much this way as did Al Bore.
And he actually said in the debate:
"Between the World Trade Center bombing in, what was it, 1993 or so, and the next time was five years, seven years.
WHAT??? He's not SURE when the first WTC bombing was?? "what was it, 1993 or so" ????? And he has the gall to call September 11th "and the next time" ?? What, he doesn't know when September 11th occurred either???
And HE CAN'T EVEN FREAKIN' DO MATH ???? (Pssst. Hey Kerry, Sept. 2001 - Feb. 1993 = about 8.5 years, you DOLT !!)
I'm pretty sure President Bush could tell you the exact DATE and TIME and ALL OF THE PERPETRATORS in the first WTC bombing. I know I can! (Feb. 26, 1993, Ramzi Yousef, Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, etc.)
Who would want a Commander in Chief running the Global War on Terror, who DOESN'T EVEN KNOW WHEN WE WERE ATTACKED ON OUR OWN SOIL ??? What the hell was Kerry doing in 1993 that he MISSED IT ??
I wonder if he even knows the date of September 11, 2001. Kinda like the question "Who's buried in Grant's tomb? If only one of the questions at the next debate would be: "Senator Kerry, when was September 11, 2001?" LOL
And if he can't even figure out how many years there are between 1993 and 2001, I sure don't want him in charge of our BUDGET !!! Holy crap.
excellent
bump!
Shinseki was replaced as Chief of Staff by Rumsfeld for running off at the mouth and retired subsequently.
PING for a great list of Kerry issues.