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

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (273108)	7/10/2002 11:22:13 PM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 769670

Why not just ram the plane anyway. After all, they're flying the thing. I would hope our hiring and screening processes have gotten much tighter.

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (273108)	7/10/2002 11:23:08 PM
From: Dr. Doktor	Respond to of 769670

Who are the whores now Ray...and all you liberals buy it hook line and sinker. <<The ad, produced by the non-profit organization American Family Voices, which has close ties to Clinton administration advisers, compares Bush and Cheney to foxes guarding the hen house and warns that their past business dealings make them unfit to lead the call for corporate responsibility. "Remember the saying about foxes guarding the hen house? Well, guess what's happening in Washington? President Bush says he's getting tough on corporate fraud, but look at the record. Bush thinks tough talk can hide the record, that's sly, like a fox," the ad said. The ad discusses Bush's nearly $900,000 sale of Harken Energy stock in 1990, but makes no mention of the fact that an SEC investigation showed no harm, no foul in the sale. It also mentions Cheney's former firm Halliburton is currently under investigation and that Pitt was once a lawyer for major accounting firms, suggesting that the two were involved in bad business. The White House called the ad nonsense and said the AFV does a bang-up job of disguising its financiers. "It's not clear at all who's behind this ad, where the money came from, and we're in an era now [in] which people have expected people who run advertisements to indicate who they are, who the contributors are, and where they come from," White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said. The American Family Voices group was created with labor union money in 2000 to bash Bush and help then-Vice President Al Gore in the presidential election. It is a non-profit issue advocacy organization that under section 501c(4) of the tax code does not have to say where it gets its cash. >>