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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (348)	1/29/2004 11:02:29 AM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 81568

"Throughout the 1990’s John Kerry, Senator from Massachusetts, asked this question, as published in the Congressional Record on May 1, 1997, “Now that [the Cold War] struggle is over, why is it that our vast intelligence apparatus continues to grow…” In fact he produced several pieces of legislation calling for reductions in funding for the American intelligence community. In 1994 Kerry introduced S.B. 1826 that proposed cutting $1 billion from the budgets of the National Foreign Intelligence Program and from Tactical Intelligence, and freezing their budgets. In 1995 he introduced Senate Bill 1290 that would have “reduced the Intelligence budget by $300 million in each of fiscal years 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000,” $1.5 billion overall. For John Kerry to be traipsing around the country pointing fingers at George W. Bush for “deceiving” the American public while the very reason our intelligence was compromised in the first place is directly related to his actions is the height of hypocrisy and, quite frankly, deceptive." Message 19746444

To: American Spirit who wrote (348)	1/30/2004 11:57:52 AM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 81568

Clark Needles Kerry on Affirmative Action Friday January 30, 2004 11:48am COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Democratic presidential contender Wesley Clark on Friday criticized rival John Kerry for failing to take responsibility for comments he said Kerry made about affirmative action. "When you make a mistake you ought to fess up to it, take responsibility for it, and correct it," Clark said while visiting historically black Benedict College. "We need leadership that will take responsibility in this country, and I'm very disturbed that John did not do that." In a candidate debate Thursday night, moderator Tom Brokaw of NBC News asked Kerry about reservations he said the senator had expressed in the 1990s concerning affirmative action. Brokaw quoted Kerry as having described the policy as representing a culture of dependency. Kerry responded that he had been describing what critics of affirmative action had said and then contended he had agreed with President Clinton and others who wanted to "mend it, not end it." "There were a great many questions in the country about how it was being implemented. We wanted to keep it," Kerry said. "I've always supported it." Clark Needles Kerry on Affirmative Action Clark read the debate exchange to the college audience on Friday and said he was bothered that Kerry had not acknowledged he had made a mistake. "He should acknowledge what he said in the past and take responsibility for it because that's the kind of leadership we need," Clark said. "I'm very strong on that program because we worked it and made it work in the United States Armed Forces," said Clark, a retired four-star general. katv.com