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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (182889)	2/17/2004 5:45:09 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1578098

So when Kerry claims he won't do nothing unless the UN ok's it - is basically bullshit. I don't know that he has said that as explicitly as you have...remains to be seen. Al

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (182889)	2/17/2004 9:04:23 PM
From: brian1501	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578098

So when Kerry claims he won't do nothing unless the UN ok's it - is basically bullshit. We're outsourcing everything else, may as well outsource our sovereignty. <g> Brian

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (182889)	2/17/2004 9:55:00 PM
From: hmaly	Respond to of 1578098

Eric. Re...So when Kerry claims he won't do nothing unless the UN ok's it - is basically bullshit. Absolutely not. Kerry fully intends to follow that statement, and not pass or introduce anything unless the UN approves of it first. That way under his presidency, he can be as ineffectual as a pres. as he was as a senator, but he will have a ready made excuse. factcheck.org Kerry's campaign website contains a long list of bills Kerry has either sponsored or co-sponored over the years. But in July 2003 The Associated Press reviewed Kerry's legislative record and concluded that he "is known for using his investigative powers to shine a light on problems and corruption, but not as someone steeped in the process of making bills into law." The AP story said: Kerry has been the lead sponsor of eight bills that have become law. Two are related to his work on the Senate panel on oceans and fisheries - a 1994 law to protect marine mammals from being taken during commercial fishing and a 1991 measure for the National Sea Grant College Program Act, which finances marine research. In 1999, President Clinton signed his bill providing grants to support small businesses owned by women. The rest of the laws he saw passed were ceremonial - renaming a federal building, designating Vietnam Veterans Memorial 10th Anniversary Day, National POW/MIA Recognition Day and World Population Awareness Week in two separate years. Leading From the Shadows? In the most recent Democratic candidates debate, January 29 in South Carolina, Howard Dean confronted Kerry directly by accusing him of having a poor legislative record on health care: Dean: Senator Kerry is the front-runner, and I mean him no insult, but in 19 years in the Senate, Senator Kerry sponsored nine -- 11 bills that had anything to do with health care, and not one of them passed. Kerry didn't dispute Dean's statistics. Instead, he painted himself as working effectively behind the scenes: Kerry: Well, one of the things that you need to know as a president is how things work in Congress if you want to get things done. And one of the things that happens in Congress is, you can in fact write a bill, but if you're smart about it, you can get your bill passed on someone else's bill and it doesn't carry your name. Maybe Kerry was indeed an invisible playmaker or maybe not. But would that count as "leading the fight?" You decide.

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (182889)	2/17/2004 10:38:05 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578098

Eric, Do you believe that globalization is happening, and if you do, do you think its a bad or good thing? ted