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

To: American Spirit who wrote (378587)	3/25/2003 12:14:29 PM
From: Baldur Fjvlnisson	Respond to of 769670

Don't worry; the sinkhole economy and Bush's systematic incompetence and negligence will soon be headline news again.

To: American Spirit who wrote (378587)	3/25/2003 12:36:03 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

When Bush's approvals hit 48% last July... Fact check time again. Bush's approval ratings only fell below 70% after July 22 of last year. usatoday.com Just before the attacks on New York and Washington, Bush's job approval was at 51%, the lowest of his tenure. Then it rose to 90% Sept. 21, a record for presidents in the Gallup Poll. It stayed above 80% until March 4 and above 70% until July 22. Enron was never a real issue. The American people correctly recognized that the criminal activity surrounding Enron and other entities did not occur on Bush's watch. I don't recall seeing Bush or any other Republican saying that they were in support of white collar criminals. We will probably have more high level white collar criminal prosecutions during Bush's first four years than in any other four year period in our history.

To: American Spirit who wrote (378587)	3/25/2003 1:37:13 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Respond to of 769670

John Kerry, A Big Stinking Fraud and Traitor Against the United States I keep hearing Vietnam Veteran everytime this joker makes a speech. Below adds some perspective. As Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, considers a bid for the White House, Americans should know a few things about him that he might prefer go unmentioned - and I don't mean his $75 haircuts. When Mr. Kerry pontificated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Veterans Day, a group of veterans turned their backs on him and walked away. They remembered Mr. Kerry as the anti-war activist who testified before Congress during the war, accusing veterans of being war criminals. The dust jacket of Mr. Kerry's pro-Hanoi book, "The New Soldier," features a photograph of his ragged band of radicals mocking the U.S. Marine Corps Memorial, which depicts the flag-raising on Iwo Jima, with an upside-down American flag. Retired Gen. George S. Patton III charged that Mr. Kerry's actions as an anti-war activist had "given aid and comfort to the enemy," as had the actions of Ramsey Clark and Jane Fonda. Also, Mr. Kerry lied when he threw what he claimed were his war medals over the White House fence; he later admitted they weren't his. Now they are displayed on his office wall. Long after he changed sides in congressional hearings, Mr. Kerry lobbied for renewed trade relations with Hanoi. At the same time, his cousin C. Stewart Forbes, chief executive for Colliers International, assisted in brokering a $905 million deal to develop a deep-sea port at Vung Tau, Vietnam - an odd coincidence. As noted in the Inside Politics column of Nov. 14 (Nation), historian Douglas Brinkley is writing Mr. Kerry's biography. Hopefully, he'll include the senator's latest ignominious feat: preventing the Vietnam Human Rights Act (HR2833) from coming to a vote in the Senate, claiming human rights would deteriorate as a result. His actions sent a clear signal to Hanoi that Congress cares little about the human rights for which so many Americans fought and died. The State Department ranked Vietnam among the 10 regimes worldwide least tolerant of religious freedom. Recently, 354 churches of the Montagnards, a Christian ethnic minority, were forcibly disbanded, and by mid-October, more than 50 Christian pastors and elders had been arrested in Dak Lak province alone. On Oct. 29, the secret police executed three Montagnards by lethal injection simply for protesting religious repression. The communists are conducting a pogrom against the Montagnards, forcing Christians to drink a mixture of goat's blood and alcohol and renounce Christianity. Thousands have been killed or imprisoned or have just "disappeared." The Montagnards lost one-half of their adult male population fighting for the United States, and without them, there might be thousands more American names on that somber black granite wall at the Vietnam memorial. As Mr. Kerry contemplates a run for the presidency, people must remember that he has fought harder for Hanoi as an anti-war activist and a senator than he did against the Vietnamese communists while serving in the Navy in Vietnam. MICHAEL BENGE Foreign Service officer and former Vietnam POW (1968 to 1973) Washington

To: American Spirit who wrote (378587)	3/25/2003 2:07:19 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

John Kerry: Another Fraudulent McCain Wannabe "So far, the front-runner in the campaign for the McCain mantle is John Kerry, the candidate most overtly fashioning his campaign after McCain's. He's running as The Vietnam War Hero, betting that McCain voters prefer biography to ideology. Like McCain, Kerry has a Bronze Star, a Silver Star, and a Purple Heart. And as Michael Crowley details in a June 3 cover story for the New Republic, Kerry now wants to supplement his war hero credentials with a McCain-esque role as a no-BS Mr. Media Accessibility. He's even adopted a bit of the Self-Flagellating Apologist, telling Crowley, "When I first got into politics I was quite brash, and I made some mistakes." Even the criticisms lobbed at Kerry are reminiscent. Like McCain, he's criticized as a Preening Show Horse who's not very good at the messy business of legislation. Crowley says Kerry has "a degree of personal manifest destiny and self-love rare even among politicians." Sound familiar? Granted, Kerry is a Massachusetts liberal, not a centrist, but even that may work in his favor. Since Bush's inauguration, McCain has been acting like a Massachusetts liberal, too! Kerry even married rich, like McCain. (Kerry was also born to privilege, but not as much privilege as the Heinzes, his second wife's family.) What may hurt Kerry most among McCainiacs is not his blue blood but his reputation as a relentless opportunist, especially the deadly anecdotes about him filming himself in combat during Vietnam and throwing other veterans' medals onto the Capitol steps during a protest against the Vietnam War. McCain Factor: 7 (on a scale of 10)." slate.msn.com