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Politics : WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (1885)	5/1/2003 1:07:40 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 10965

only a like minded person(writer of the story) would use ritter in any sort of BS story..how about you, you still like under aged girls too? and are you paid off by Saddam too?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (1885)	5/1/2003 2:24:14 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10965

Kerry admits to an error in boast about 1st speech By Glen Johnson, Globe Staff, 5/1/2003 WASHINGTON -- Senator John F. Kerry said yesterday that he will stop declaring that his first speech on the floor of the US Senate highlighted his support for the Roe v. Wade decision on abortion rights, a recollection he has learned is not true.As he has campaigned for the presidency, the Massachusetts Democrat has on numerous occasions stated that his maiden speech as a senator was about abortion rights. Kerry did so last month before a group of women in Des Moines, as he pledged to nominate only supporters of abortion rights to the Supreme Court. But the Congressional Record shows that Kerry's first speech in the Senate, on March 19, 1985, was made in opposition to President Reagan's push to build 21 MX missiles. A States News Service report at the time said that Kerry's planned remarks were reduced to a relatively brief four minutes, because more senior colleagues wanted to speak and floor debate had been limited to 10 hours. In an interview with the Globe Tuesday, Kerry sought to emphasize the importance he places on abortion rights by declaring that it was the subject of his first floor speech in the Senate. When a Globe reporter told him that the States News account from 1985 raised questions about the accuracy of his statement, Kerry paused and said he may have been misled by a former staff member. He also pledged that if he were mistaken, he would never make the comment again. An aide said later that the campaign will remove from its website a statement on Kerry's website declaring that ''Senator Kerry's first speech on the floor of the United States Senate was in strong support of Roe v. Wade.'' The Congressional Record shows that on Jan. 22, 1985, about three weeks after the former lieutenant governor of Massachusetts was sworn in as a senator, Kerry entered a written statement reiterating his support for the Roe v. Wade decision. His first spoken words on the floor were made on Feb. 7, 1985, when Kerry made brief remarks about civil rights. His first speech, which usually is a momentous occasion sometimes marked by applause from fellow senators, did not occur until more than a month later, when Kerry took up the topic of the MX missile. ''Certainly it would've been more precise to have referred to John Kerry's 1985 remarks on Roe as his `first statement as a United States senator' than as his first `speech,' '' said a statement issued yesterday by Kelley Benander, a spokeswoman for his campaign. ''The confusion was just that, confusion, and was unintentional. The record will be corrected, but will always reflect that John Kerry has throughout his 18 years in the Senate vigorously supported a woman's right to choose.'' boston.com

To: stockman_scott who wrote (1885)	5/3/2003 4:52:18 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Respond to of 10965

Kerry says Bush economic plan ignores the country's needs Friday, May 2, 2003 By: Glenn Johnson Boston Globe johnkerry.com. The economic plan that President Bush is trumpeting in Silicon Valley today will do little to stimulate the economy while creating deficits that extend ''as far as the eye can see,'' Senator John F. Kerry said yesterday. Instead, the Massachusetts Democrat and presidential contender argued that the nation needs a plan that includes a middle-class payroll tax ''holiday,'' as well as a massive public works program that Kerry conceded will create deficits of its own for perhaps the next five years. Speaking before Bush addressed the nation last night about national security matters from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, and ahead of the president's economic address at United Defense Industries, maker of the Bradley fighting vehicle, in Santa Clara, Calif., Kerry told reporters in a conference call: ''You can give speeches defining your policy, but if it stays the same, it's the same policy. It's not the backdrop that's at issue; it's the policy that's at issue.'' Bush favors a program centered on a tax cut of at least $550 billion. He says putting cash back into the pockets of consumers will create spending that restores consumer confidence and promotes job creation. Asked about polls showing the president with a 71 percent approval rating, perhaps signaling public support for his policies, Kerry recalled the 91 percent approval rating that Bush's father, former president George H.W. Bush, enjoyed at the end of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. ''He's 20 percent below his father and his father lost'' reelection in 1992, the senator said. Kerry said the country cannot afford another tax cut on top of the $1.6 trillion tax-reduction plan Congress approved in 2001. He said that since Bush has taken office, the country has lost 2.5 million jobs and seen a $5.6 trillion budget surplus turn into a projected deficit of nearly $2 trillion. ''The president's going to a carrier to give a speech far out at sea with military surroundings while countless numbers of Americans are frightened stiff about the economy here at home,'' Kerry said. ''The economic plan of the president is simply not addressing the real needs of the country.'' Jim Dyke, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, offered no detailed response to Kerry's proposal, except to say, ''It may take me some time to call you back because it may take me some time to sort through what may just be campaign quips.'' The comment referred to Kerry's explanation that his recent comment calling for a ''regime change'' in the United States, as well as Iraq, was a ''quip'' that Republicans were using to challenge the senator's patriotism. As he did last fall during a speech in Cleveland, Kerry offered his economic prescription: a one-year rebate of the payroll taxes paid by middle-class workers; federal assistance to help states close deficits now pegged at $100 billion or more; allowing previously delayed spending on court-ordered projects such as the cleanup of federal Superfund sites; and a program of government spending on infrastructure such as road and bridge construction. On that last point, the senator would not provide a dollar figure, but said he is preparing to release a plan calling for ''significant'' spending. He said that such spending would create a budget deficit for up to five years, but that President Clinton followed the same prescription in 1993 and eventually it led to budget surpluses for two successive years. ''There is no politician in America who is going to balance the budget this year or next,'' Kerry said. ''We need to grow the economy, but we have to have a plan that shows that your revenue line and your expenditure line are coming together somewhere reasonable down the road.'' Under the Bush plan, he said, ''there are deficits as far as the eye can see.''