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

To: American Spirit who wrote (5804)	10/25/2003 1:50:38 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 10965

you and your "special person" Kerry. clear.msu.edu

To: American Spirit who wrote (5804)	10/25/2003 2:24:18 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 10965

Caught on Film: The Bush Credibility Gap house.gov

To: American Spirit who wrote (5804)	10/25/2003 3:42:27 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 10965

Out of the Mainstream, Again __________________________________ Lead Editorial The New York Times Published: October 25, 2003 nytimes.com Of the many unworthy judicial nominees President Bush has put forward, Janice Rogers Brown is among the very worst. As an archconservative justice on the California Supreme Court, she has declared war on the mainstream legal values that most Americans hold dear. And she has let ideology be her guide in deciding cases. At her confirmation hearing this week, Justice Brown only ratified her critics' worst fears. Both Republican and Democratic senators should oppose her confirmation. Justice Brown, who has been nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, has made it clear in her public pronouncements how extreme her views are. She has attacked the New Deal, which gave us Social Security and other programs now central to American life, as "the triumph of our socialist revolution." And she has praised the infamous Lochner line of cases, in which the Supreme Court, from 1905 to 1937, struck down worker health and safety laws as infringing on the rights of business. Justice Brown's record as a judge is also cause for alarm. She regularly stakes out extreme positions, often dissenting alone. In one case, her court ordered a rental car company to stop its supervisor from calling Hispanic employees by racial epithets. Justice Brown dissented, arguing that doing so violated the company's free speech rights. Last year, her court upheld a $10,000 award for emotional distress to a black woman who had been refused an apartment because of her race. Justice Brown, the sole dissenter, argued that the agency involved had no power to award the damages. In an important civil rights case, the chief justice of her court criticized Justice Brown for "presenting an unfair and inaccurate caricature" of affirmative action. The American Bar Association, all but a rubber stamp for the administration's nominees, has given Justice Brown a mediocre rating of qualified/not qualified, which means a majority of the evaluation committee found her qualified, a minority found her not qualified, and no one found her well qualified. The Bush administration has packaged Justice Brown, an African-American born in segregated Alabama, as an American success story. The 39-member Congressional Black Caucus, however, has come out against her confirmation. President Bush, who promised as a candidate to be a "uniter, not a divider," has selected the most divisive judicial nominees in modern times. The Senate should help the president keep his campaign promise by insisting on a more unifying alternative than Justice Brown.

To: American Spirit who wrote (5804)	10/25/2003 8:18:44 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 10965

<<...That tortured chapter of American history marked "Iraq" will not rest. The Bush administration insists that the threat to the United States was so serious and so urgent that invasion was unavoidable. But the public remains unconvinced...>> csmonitor.com

To: American Spirit who wrote (5804)	10/25/2003 8:44:04 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10965

Vietnam Service Becomes Issue in Campaign story.news.yahoo.com <<...Democrats Wesley Clark and John Kerry are basing their presidential campaigns largely on military service that includes combat in Vietnam — a distinctive qualification in a race full of candidates who came of age during the war but did not fight. Their White House rivals did not serve in Vietnam, even though most turned 18 while young men were being drafted. They escaped combat with deferments for college, medical problems, fatherhood and by serving in the National Guard. President Bush was in the National Guard during the war and did not see combat. Clark and Kerry mention their military service in nearly every campaign appearance, offering their credentials as evidence they are best prepared to lead the nation during the fighting against terrorism. Clark was an Army infantry officer and company commander in Vietnam. He rose to four-star general and supreme allied commander of NATO forces in Europe. Kerry was the skipper of a Navy swift boat in the Mekong Delta of South Vietnam. Both men received the Purple Heart after being wounded in combat and were awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action. "Obviously we've had presidents who haven't had military experience," Kerry said in an interview. "I understand that. It's not a prerequisite. But we are living in a very different time."...>>

To: American Spirit who wrote (5804)	10/25/2003 10:35:47 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10965

As you know, the New Hampshire winner rarely wins the nomination or presidency anyway. Actually, 17 out of the past 26 NH winners were their party's nominee; 11 of those won the general election (every single winner from 1952 through 1988, and then Clinton in 1996, won NH). Gore, winner of the popular vote in 2000, also won New Hampshire. Facts. Try them, you'll like them. Winners of New Hampshire primary since 1952: politicallibrary.org 1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower 1952 Estes Kefauver 1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower 1956 Estes Kefauver 1960 Richard M. Nixon* 1960 John F. Kennedy 1964 Henry Cabot Lodge 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson 1968 Richard M. Nixon 1968 Lyndon B. Johnson (withdrew) 1972 Richard M. Nixon 1972 Edmund S. Muskie 1976 Gerald R. Ford* 1976 Jimmy Carter 1980 Ronald Reagan 1980 Jimmy Carter* 1984 Ronald Reagan 1984 Gary Hart (zippered out of race) 1988 George H. W. Bush 1988 Michael Dukakis* 1992 George H. W. Bush* 1992 Paul Tsongas 1996 Pat Buchanan 1996 Bill Clinton** 2000 John McCain 2000 Al Gore* * won nomination, lost general election ** won general election