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

To: American Spirit who wrote (9561)	1/30/2004 6:48:51 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 10965

WAFFLEKING KERRY FLIPS ONCE AGAIN...or was he just lying? KERRY DID SAY “MISTAKE” CONCENTRATING ON SOUTH Claimed “Never Said Democrats Made A Mistake” Concentrating On South. TOM BROKAW: “How can you come South, given what you said about the Democrats making a mistake and spending too much time worrying about the South?” KERRY: “I never said Democrats made a mistake. I never said that at all. I was asked a question about the mathematics of election. And I answered a question about the mathematics with respect to Al Gore’s election.” (Sen. John Kerry, Democrat Presidential Candidates Debate, Greenville, SC, 1/29/04) In Fact, Kerry DID Say Democrats Make “The Mistake Of Looking South.” “Everybody always makes the mistake of looking South ... Al Gore proved he could have been president of the United States without winning one Southern state, including his own.” (Katharine Q. Seelye, "Kerry And Edwards Face A Critical Test In The South," The New York Times, 1/29/04)

To: American Spirit who wrote (9561)	1/30/2004 6:56:09 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 10965

KERRY MISLEADS ON PAST AFFIRMATIVE ACTION STATEMENTS Kerry Claims Every Public Statement He’s “Ever Made” Supports Affirmative Action. BROKAW: “Senator Kerry, a final answer back in the 1990’s. You express someday reservations about affirmative action as it is currently constituted. You said that it represented a culture of dependency. That we have to reexamine. That if you became president of the United States, would you attempt to put some kind of a sunset law on affirmative action in which it would phase out after a number of years?” KERRY: “Actually, that’s not what I said. What I described was what the critics were saying about it. And about the growing questions about it. And I was part of the same movement that Jim Clyburn and Bill Clinton were. Mend it, don’t end it. There were a great many questions in the country about how it was being implemented. We want to keep it. I’ve always supported it in the very speech in which I raised what those perceptions were, I said at the beginning. I support affirmative action. I said at the end. I support firm affirmative. And every vote I’ve ever cast and every statement I’ve ever made publicly supports it and I’ve implemented it. And I will as president of the United States.” (Democrat Presidential Candidates Debate, Greenville, SC, 1/29/04) But In 1992, Kerry Drew Ire Of Many African Americans For His Comments On Affirmative Action . . . Kerry Said There Was Excessive Reliance On Affirmative Action Programs. “In speeches at Yale University on Monday and here yesterday, Kerry criticized what he said is an excessive reliance on affirmative action programs, calling it counterproductive. He urged Democrats to push such solutions in concert with a tough anticrime message that stresses personal responsibility - a better way, he said, of luring alienated white voters back to the civil rights agenda.” (John Aloysius Farrell, “Democrat Debate Comes To Light: Power Vs. Purity,” The Boston Globe, 4/3/92) Kerry Said Affirmative Action Kept U.S. Thinking In Racial Terms. “[The truth is that affirmative action has kept America thinking in racial terms, and as Yale law professor Stephen Carter has recently and so provocatively asked: ‘Is it a good thing, is it a safe thing, to encourage white America to think in racial terms?” (Senator John Kerry [D-MA] As Quoted In Alan Lupo, Op-Ed, “Affirmative-Action Medicine For An Unfair World,” The Boston Globe, 4/4/92) Editorialist Says Many African Americans Felt “Stabbed In The Back” After Kerry’s Speech. “Kerry did not have the courage to say that affirmative action must keep America thinking in racial terms until white Americans do away with racism. His failure to do so guaranteed that a Jim Kelly would leap for joy over this speech, while many African Americans who thought Kerry was on their side feel stabbed in the back.” (Derrick Z. Jackson, Op-Ed, “Kerry’s Profiles In Crumble,” The Boston Globe, 4/5/92)