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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: WTSherman who wrote (121069)	1/5/2001 12:24:58 PM
From: JDN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Dear WT: I have met George W. Bush and what you see on T/V is what you get. He is totally natural. All I can say personally is that after no more than 15 minutes of talking to him I was impressed and felt he was the kind of fellow I wish was my friend. this was years ago before any of this. As to Ashcroft, I have read a lot on him From what I have read even his critics feel he is honest etc. He fought the appointment of one black judge but did vote for 22 others over his time including installing a black judge himself in Missouri when he was Govenor. I think the Liberal right is just plain scared to death over this anti abortion beliefs and is dragging up any half baked excuse to shoot him down. After what we have been through recently I for one want an HONEST person in that office who is nobody's lackey and has convictions. I am not concerned in the least of his not following the law. Whether he likes the law or not everything I have read would indicate he follows it. JDN

To: WTSherman who wrote (121069)	1/5/2001 12:46:56 PM
From: George Coyne	Respond to of 769667

I am curious as to what "positions" Ashcroft has that you think detract from his "character". There is one overriding character trait that he will bring to Justice that has been sorely lacking for too long. Can you guess what that might be? INTEGRITY!

To: WTSherman who wrote (121069)	1/5/2001 12:53:14 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

LET'S BYPASS BLEEDING-HEART ASSAULTS ON JOHN ASHCROFT Friday,January 5,2001 By STEVE DUNLEAVY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HAVING bravely survived global warming, the Y2K crisis, Mayors John Lindsay and David Dinkins, and athlete's foot, I must now gird for the next Armageddon. We are talking about the confirmation of Sen. John Ashcroft as attorney general. Of course, the liberals and feminists are howling like wolves that Ashcroft is the worst thing since Louisiana's David Duke. What's it all about? It has to do with Ashcroft blocking Judge Ronnie White's bid to get a berth on the federal bench for life. "Racist!" the liberals scream, because Ronnie White just so happened to be an African-American. "There isn't a discriminatory bone in his body," Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said yesterday of Ashcroft. Right on, Hatchy! But there isn't a dumb bone in Ashcroft's body, either. Sen. Ashcroft of Missouri blocked Judge Ronnie White's ambitions for better robes because White should not have been judging a Siamese-cat show. "This is not about race or civil rights, this is about law, order and victims' rights," said Mark Levin of the Landmark Legal Foundation, a Washington public-interest law firm. Levin is one of the few people who actually went into the reasoning of Ashcroft's opposition to White. "In 1998, Judge White, in the Missouri State Supreme Court, gave a dissenting opinion in the death-penalty case of James Johnson," Levin said. The facts are the following: Deputy Sheriff Les Roark went to Johnson's house in Moniteau County in response to a domestic dispute. "As he was walking away from the house, Johnson shot him once in the back and once in the head," Levin recounted. "When he heard Roark moaning, he went back outside his house and shot him in the forehead, killing him." Knowing that there would be more fuzz coming, Johnson then went to the house of Sheriff Kenny Jones, who was celebrating Christmas with his wife. Johnson shot through a window with a semi-automatic, killing the sheriff's wife, Pam. He then went to the home of Deputy Sheriff Russell Borts and shot him, but Borts lived. The rampage continued to the office of Sheriff Charles Smith, whom Johnson shot dead. As Deputy Sheriff Sandra Wilson was getting out of her patrol car, he shot her dead. Despite the fact that the jury found Johnson legally sane to stand trial and get the death sentence, Judge Ronnie White suddenly decided Johnson must have been crazy to do this and opposed the death sentence. On the theory that to do something really bad you have to be crazy, that lets Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin off the hook. "Are we all losing our minds?" Levin asked. "I don't know why people are asking the question why Ashcroft blocked White's lifetime promotion. They should be asking why Bill Clinton and Sen. Charles Schumer of New York supported the nomination in the first place. "I would like Clinton or Schumer to explain their reasoning to the loved ones of those who were killed by Johnson." For the liberals who cry race, one should listen to Sean Hannity of Fox News, who pointed out that, as governor, Ashcroft signed into law Martin Luther King's birthday as a state holiday and created an award in the name of the great black educator of Missouri, George Washington Carver. Ashcroft also appointed a black woman to the state bench, and he led the fight to save Lincoln University, which was founded by African-American soldiers. He also designated the ragtime genius Scott Joplin's house a historical site. For liberals to fight the Ashcroft confirmation, I'd like them to tell me in chapter and verse of the accomplishments of Attorney General Janet Reno. Attorney general? She couldn't be attorney corporal. Yes, there's no question Ashcroft belongs to a conservative wing of his faith, a rigid foe of "partial-birth" abortion and a supporter of school vouchers. Which of course puts him comfortably in the same philosophy of Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. When will these liberals stop flapping their freaking mouths? nypost.com

To: WTSherman who wrote (121069)	1/5/2001 2:38:31 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769667

I have heard President Bush with Larry King and O'Reilly and I was amazed that Bush was so eloquent and then see such a stiff when speaking publicly. I go back to my idea that President Bushes problem stems from the inability in certain public forums to speak with ease as he overanalyzes while speaking so as not to speak a half truth. Clinton and Gore definitely do not have this problem. I find Mr. Ascroft a refreshing pick. This man's record speak of an person of exceptional honesty and integrity. His position are based on his beliefs and unlike Clinton or Gore who put their hand on a bible and swear to uphold the law, when Mr. Ascroft does this I know that he will truly and faithfully with no purpose of evasion enforce all the laws as any man of pure integrity would do. Yes he will also work within the law try to stop mothers from sucking the brains out of their unborn children as he believes that all persons are protected by the constitution have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Many based on a feeling believe that only after some unknown time after conception a person has rights. Before that time whatever it is there is no person and thus no rights. I see this as like the assumption that a person is guilty of not being a person and thus a mother can suck the brains out or poison with a pill an entity that is not wanted. This time of a non person was created through the sophism of feeling and no through a process of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. This is the heart of the intellectually honest legal objection to the murder of unborn children. Yes I use loaded visual words when I express my opinions on this issue as that to me is the only intellectually honest way to proceed. I view abortion as a question of life and death of human being and as an engineer who has worked on many projects involving true life and death engineering I spead in the language of brutal truth. A few of the things I've worked on in this area that I can reveal are. watman.com watman.com and developing a quality control load verification process for the bolts holding the stringer suspension cables of the akashi bridge. hsba.go.jp Mr. Ascroft is honest and competent to be an exceptional Attorney General. I'm not familiar with James Watt clone of whom you speak but I'm 100% behind Ascroft and to the extend that I do know the folks picked by President Bush and their support of Mr. Bush I'm certain that the James Watt clone you refer to is first and foremost honest and totally competent. Some will always differ on opinion on what policy is followed and how it is implemented but I have no doubt that President Bush is looking for honest, decent and competent folks. I also believe that Clinton/Gore could not because of the flaws in his/their character get the same quality of folks to work with him/them. Tom Watson tosiwmee