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Politics : THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (1438)	2/19/2004 2:03:39 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2164

about the reason for going to war> Okay, let's say sadam insane was only bluffing, are you suggesting we should not have called his bluff? Wrong!!! tax breaks to the rich The rich pay a much higher portion of their income in taxes than anyone else. The demonuts just piss away my hard earned tax money and give it to the irresponsible and lazy? The social welfare game is over!!! GZ

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (1438)	2/19/2004 2:39:20 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2164

More Kerry lies...... Empty Kerry By The Prowler Published 2/19/2004 VICTORY SURPRISE Sen. John Kerry was said by some volunteers and staffers in Wisconsin to be stunned by his poor showing in the Wisconsin primary. "We knew that Wisconsin was a weird state politically, but not this weird," says a Kerry staffer. "Tracking polls and everything we saw for the past week had us feeling like we were well ahead of [John] Edwards." As it turned out, a few late endorsements of Edwards by local newspapers and almost constant attacks by Dean and Edwards on the frontrunner chipped away at Kerry's lead. "In the end, Edwards has a non-win victory because he came so close and Kerry has trouble. That's the spin," says the Kerry volunteer. Kerry held a late-night meeting and conference call demanding to know why Wisconsin happened, according to another Kerry campaign source in Washington. "He wanted to know what happened to his victory. That's what it was called, 'his victory.' Like somehow he was entitled to it. Sometimes he forgets he's running against other people." Almost immediately, talking points were developed for Kerry underlings and reporters were spun that (1) Edwards had won only one primary (South Carolina); (2) Kerry had won 15 of the 16 other contests, including Wisconsin; and (3) Kerry had a lock on the big prizes of Super Tuesday. One byproduct of the Edwards close call in dairy country is that Kerry will be spending a lot more of his cheese to knock his senatorial colleague back. The Kerry campaign, which for the past two weeks had basically been ignoring Edwards and Dean and focusing on attacking the president, is now looking to spend millions in Ohio and New York and even California to keep a lid on any Edwards insurgency. While Kerry has a large double-digit lead on Edwards in California, the Kerry folk believe Edwards has a shot to make inroads in Ohio, New York, and Georgia on Super Tuesday. "There is enough of a rumble that we're going to have to deal with Edwards. It was something we were hoping wasn't going to happen," says the Kerry staffer in Wisconsin. "We have plenty of stuff to use on him. We oppo'd him at the same time we were doing research on Dean." SOUNDS SICK There he goes again. While campaigning in Wisconsin, Sen. John Kerry was approached by an AIDS protester, who tried to hand him material about the threat of AIDS. Kerry, in front of reporters, told the protester that he didn't need to be educated. "I wrote the AIDS legislation," Kerry said, then walked away. Kerry, in fact, did not write any AIDS legislation. The 2002 landmark AIDS legislation, known as the Kerry-Frist Global AIDS bill, had little to no input from Kerry beyond his lending it a bipartisan coloring. Democratic Senate staffers credit Sen. Joe Biden with doing much of the heavy lifting on the Senate side for Democrats. In the end, much of the bill that was passed came out of the House of Representatives' version of the bill. "It's just another example of Kerry taking credit for basically putting his name on something," says a Democratic leadership staffer. "[Sen. Bill] Frist was the driving force on this, and Biden did a lot of work on it. Kerry was just there for the photo-op." spectator.org