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

To: gerard mangiardi who wrote (458299)	9/13/2003 11:02:39 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Why won't he answer the question - Did you preform abortions? If he didn't why not answer? If he did, why isn't he proud of it? The more I learn about Dean the more I like him.

To: gerard mangiardi who wrote (458299)	9/13/2003 11:07:50 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

FLASHBACK: How Sorry They Will Be by Terence P. Jeffrey Posted Sep 11, 2003 Never has there been a more just cause for war. The surprise attacks on the United States of America last Tuesday were not a latter-day Pearl Harbor. They were worse. On Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese came in warplanes and struck at military targets. However devious they were in launching that war against America, the Japanese fascists, after Pearl Harbor at least, stood ready to fight us in the open. The terrorists who used hijacked commercial airliners to strike at the Pentagon and the World Trade towers last week hid among us, posing as friends, for weeks, months, perhaps even years. They enjoyed the freedom of our streets while plotting to destroy that freedom. They targeted civilians and soldiers alike, deliberately murdering women and children, young and old. The masterminds of these attacks remained, before and after, in the shadows. We can presume they privately reveled in their evil deeds even as they feared to take credit for them publicly. They are among the greatest cowards in human history. Remember Flight 93 And the coward’s message they are sending from seclusion into the bosom of every American home is: We will keep murdering your husbands and your wives, your children and your parents, until you succumb to our will. Americans can make only one response to such a threat: We will not succumb. We will not retreat. We will not stop until we destroy you. These terrorists discovered the spirit of America before their plot fully unfolded last Tuesday. It came alive aboard United Flight 93, bound from Newark to San Francisco. It was on that flight that a diverse group of American men, having learned via cell phone that the World Trade towers had been destroyed, and having taken a vote among themselves on their course of action, decided to take the plane back from their hijackers or die trying. America itself has now been hijacked, and the duty of all Americans is to take our country back. In doing so we must be true to our own constitutional principles and moral values. Congress—which is discussing just such a resolution as this issue of Human Events goes to press—should take a vote formally authorizing the President to wage war against this enemy. This vote will commit both political parties, both houses of Congress, the President, and most importantly, the nation itself, to running all the short-term risks and making all the long-term sacrifices necessary to achieve victory. This vote will also be the first step toward not repeating the mistakes we have sometimes made in recent years when America suffered from similar, if vastly less devastating, assaults. First, it will say that no crisis, let alone one precipitated by a gang of thugs, can shake the United States of America loose from the constitutional processes that for more than two centuries have sustained our freedom. And it is, without doubt, the authority and the duty of Congress, and Congress alone, to authorize war when war is necessary to preserve the security of this nation. Second, it will say that America is not treating this as a matter of criminal justice, but, as President Bush has rightly said, an "act of war." We will not bring our enemies to indictment and trial this time, we will bring them to defeat and death. Third, it will say that America is not seeking mere reprisal against this attacker. We are not seeking to send him a message by bombing a pharmaceutical plant or firing a barrage of cruise missiles into an abandoned base camp. We are seeking to find him personally, and all his lieutenants, and allies, and sponsors and supporters, and permanently eradicate them as threats to our nation. Fourth, it will say that America is united and unshakably committed to this cause. It is clear that once again our enemies have underestimated us. They have judged—perhaps from the apparent unwillingness of America to suffer casualties in arguably unnecessary wars, where there was no vital threat to American families or their liberty—that we had become a nation so morally irresolute we would no longer defend ourselves with all the righteous fury of a great power greatly wronged. How wrong they are. How sorry they will be.

To: gerard mangiardi who wrote (458299)	9/13/2003 11:09:07 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769667

Gephardt Shifts Attacks to Dean Sharp Criticism On Medicare Issue Intensifies Race By Dan Balz Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, September 13, 2003; Page A08 DES MOINES, Sept. 12 -- Rep. Richard A. Gephardt (Mo.) launched a sharp attack against former Vermont governor Howard Dean here today, charging that his rival sided with former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) in Republican efforts to scale back and rewrite the Medicare program in the mid-1990s. Seeking to slow Dean's momentum in the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination, Gephardt accused Dean, as a governor, of trying to undermine Medicare and Social Security, two programs fundamental to the well-being of senior citizens and, not incidentally, touchstones to Democratic primary voters, particularly here in Iowa. The attack marked a clear shift in Gephardt's strategy. For months he has attacked President Bush and in recent days has increased the volume of those criticisms, repeatedly calling Bush's foreign policy "a miserable failure." But in turning his fire on Dean as well, Gephardt's remarks signaled that the Democratic nomination battle has entered a more intense and potentially decisive phase. Dean's ability to weather the attacks could determine just how strong his surging campaign is. Gephardt is not the first Democrat to attack Dean. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (Conn.), aiming at Dean from the right, earlier warned that Dean's opposition to the Iraq war and positions on other issues would doom Democrats to defeat against Bush in 2004. Gephardt took aim at Dean from the left, in much the way Al Gore did against former New Jersey senator Bill Bradley four years ago, charging that he had not stood with Democrats in some of their most crucial battles against the GOP. Gephardt, speaking to a union audience, quoted Dean as calling Medicare "one of the worst federal programs ever," and his campaign issued a string of quotations in which Dean said Social Security should not be spared cuts to help balance the budget, specifically saying that he favored raising the retirement age -- a view Dean has recanted in his run for the presidency. Saying there were "very real differences" between him and Dean, Gephardt took a line Dean has used throughout the campaign, that he represents the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party, and turned it against the former governor, saying Dean was with the GOP during a crucial battle in the 104th Congress, just after Republicans came to power. "1995 was the time for the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party to be counted," Gephardt said. "I led House Democrats as we joined with President Clinton and we stopped the Medicare cuts." Gephardt based his attacks on a series of articles describing Dean's position in the early and mid-1990s. One article said of Dean that he "supported more managed care for Medicare recipients and requiring Medicare recipients to pay a greater share of the cost of their medical services." In a statement issued by his campaign, Dean accused Gephardt of engaging in the "politics of the past" and that he was "deeply saddened" by the attack from someone he considered a friend. "It is a sad day for Dick Gephardt when he compares ANY Democratic candidate running for President to Newt Gingrich and his divisive policies," Dean said. "No Democrat in the presidential race bears any resemblance to Newt Gingrich on any major issue. And for Dick Gephardt to suggest otherwise is simply beyond the pale." The attack came on the eve of a major Democratic picnic here in Iowa, for which Sen. Tom Harkin (Iowa) is the host. The event will feature the presidential candidates and former president Bill Clinton, and likely will become the backdrop for a weekend of campaigning by the candidates and discussion among Democrats who will participate in the Jan. 19 precinct caucuses that will kick off the nomination battle here. Gephardt delivered his attack in the basement of the Teamsters hall on the outskirts of the state capital here, with union members sitting on metal folding chairs cheering him on. There was no mistaking how much importance the Gephardt campaign attached to in the speech, with the candidate dressed in a blue suit and white shirt and speaking from a teleprompter. Much of the speech was an attack on Bush and the GOP for what Gephardt said was "an ongoing assault upon Social Security and Medicare [that] is driven by a cynical belief that these vital programs are nothing more than some form of expendable charity." But Gephardt's goal was to drive a wedge between Dean and many of his liberal Democratic supporters by connecting the former governor to the Gingrich wing of the Republican Party. "In the midst of the Republican Revolution, Governor Dean actually agreed with the Gingrich Republicans," Gephardt said. "His home-state newspaper reported time and again how he supported turning Medicare into a managed-care program." Joe Trippi, Dean's campaign manager, said Dean was among a number of Democrats who, in the early 1990s, were looking for ways to reform Medicare and Social Security in an effort to preserve them and protect them from financial collapse. Trippi said that the booming economy of the 1990s had alleviated those pressures and eliminated the need to make those kinds of changes. "Newt Gingrich was doing everything he could to destroy these programs," Trippi said. "To associate us with Newt Gingrich is a low blow, beyond the pale, and it won't wash with the American people." Dean was chairman of the National Governors Association and often tangled with Gingrich, particularly on welfare reform. Trippi said Dean's apparent hostility to Medicare reflected his frustrations as a medical doctor with the program. "Elections are about issues," Gephardt said. "As Democrats, we need a nominee who is clearly different from George Bush on protecting seniors from deep cuts in Medicare and on privatizing Medicare."

To: gerard mangiardi who wrote (458299)	9/13/2003 1:25:03 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

johnkerry.com learn about Kerry now. As Bill Maher asked Terry McAuliffe last night on his show, "Shoudln't military credentials be mandatory for a presidentil candidate in this age?" I agree. Especially in terms of winning over swing-voters from the Bush military PR warriors. Bush may be a phony warrior himself, but they know how to wrap themselves in the flag. Dean won't be able to. They'll practically brand him as a communist. That's why Dean will have a very hard time beating even a weak Bush.