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

To: American Spirit who wrote (498786)	11/26/2003 12:53:40 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

of course there isn't any growth and what is really troubling about it, is that we have spent the ENTIRE TREASURY and cannot even add enough jobs to sustain the current unemployment rate. My personal feeling is that Bush is a drag on the economy, I think his presence casts a pall on the worldwide business community such that everybody is afraid of being stuck with excess capacity during the next Bush created US invasion. As soon as Bush is replaced things will be much better.

To: American Spirit who wrote (498786)	11/26/2003 12:56:17 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769667

Courting independents in New Hampshire, Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Lieberman's new television commercial features voters who helped Republican John McCain win the Granite State's presidential primary in 2000. "Something's happening," an announcer says in the ad that began airing Tuesday in the state. "McCain supporters are backing Joe Lieberman." Seven McCain backers take turns identifying what they say are similar traits between Lieberman and McCain, the maverick three-term Arizona senator. They call the two senators "straight talkers" who "vote their own conscience," and "get past the party ideology and focus on the key issues." "It goes back to integrity," Melinde Lutz Sanborne, a McCain backer in 2000, says. Lieberman campaign officials say their internal polls show that a significant number of independent voters plan to vote in New Hampshire's Jan. 27 primary and that many former McCain supporters favor Lieberman over the other eight candidates vying for the Democratic nomination. Independents can vote in the state's Democratic primary. The 30-second ad is part of Lieberman's three-pronged approach to appeal to independents to spark his bid in New Hampshire, where the Connecticut senator trails his major rivals in polls. The ad coincides with a mailing sent to 30,000 former McCain supporters in New Hampshire and a plea on Lieberman's Web site, urging former McCain backers to sign up as converts. In 1988, presidential candidate McCain won the New Hampshire Republican primary over George W. Bush, capturing 49 percent of the vote, before his campaign faltered. The commercial is the second in which Lieberman links himself to McCain. In the ad titled "Focus," Lieberman mentions supporting the campaign finance reform bill that McCain co-sponsored. The Lieberman campaign would not disclose the cost of the new ad, but said airtime was bought in Manchester, N.H., and in Vermont, which broadcasts into New Hampshire. The campaign has not yet purchased airtime in the more expensive Boston market that broadcasts into southern New Hampshire. Democratic rival John Kerry will begin running a 30-second ad in every media market in Iowa on Wednesday. In it, the Massachusetts senator uses his diagnosis of prostate cancer earlier this year to illustrate his plan to give all Americans access to the same health care that those in Congress receive. "I'm cured now, but I was lucky. As a United States Senator, I could get the best health care in the world. Most people aren't so lucky and we need to change that," Kerry says in the commercial.