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

To: zonkie who wrote (4979)	3/3/2004 11:57:06 PM
From: zonkie	Respond to of 81568

Let's hope whoever Kerry chooses for VP better than the VP we have now. The following is from an old website. It doesn't include all of the things Cheney has done as VP and is trying to distance himself from today. Watch out it's another compassionate conservative. _________________________________________ DICK CHENEY BY THE NUMBERS... From 1979 - 1988, former Congressman Dick Cheney frequently sided with a small group of right-wingers in opposing common sense legislation. Here is a look at Dick Cheny by the numbers: WORST EXAMPLE: Cheney Was One of Only 4 House Members to Vote Against Banning Terrorist Guns in 1988. SENIORS: One of Only 12 House Members to Oppose Older Americans Act Amendments in 1984. One of Only 39 House Members to Back Capping Social Security COLAs in 1985. One of Only 8 House Members to Oppose Renewing the Older Americans Act Providing Nutrition and Support Services for Elderly People in 1987. One of Only 7 House Members to Oppose Renewing the Conference Report on the Older Americans Act in 1987. EDUCATION / CHILDREN: One of Only 33 House Members to Vote Against Reauthorization of Head Start Plan in 1986. One of Only 27 House Members to Oppose Funding for Head Start in 1986. One of Only 25 House Members to Vote Against a Bill to Reauthorize College Student Aid in 1986. One of Only 8 Members to Vote Against Reauthorizing Both the National Health Service Corps and the Federal Immunization Program in 1987. CRIME & GUNS: One of Only 16 House Members to Oppose 1983 Crime Bill Designed to Help States Fight Crime. One of Only 31 House Members to Oppose Family Violence Prevention Program in 1984. One of Only 21 House Members to Oppose Ban on Armor Piercing Bullets in 1985. ENVIRONMENT: One of Only 18 House Members to Oppose Reauthorizing "Federal Water Pollution Act" in 1981. One of Only 9 House Members to Oppose EPA Research and Development in 1984. One of Only 33 House Members to Oppose Reauthorization of "Superfund" in 1985. One of Only 27 House Members to Oppose Reauthorization of Superfund in 1986. One of Only 21 House Members to Oppose Refunding "Safe Drinking Water Act" in 1986. One of Only 8 House Members to Oppose Reauthorization of Clean Water Act in 1987. One of Only 26 House Members to Support Reagan's Veto of Reauthorization of Clean Water Act in 1987. One of Only 16 House Members to Oppose Reauthorization of Endangered Species Act in 1987. LABOR & WORKING FAMILIES: One of Only 33 House Members to Oppose Guaranteeing Death Benefits for Firefighters and Cop Widows in 1983. One of Only 9 Members to Vote Against Allowing Federal Employees to Take Time Off for Sick Family Members in 1988. CIVIL RIGHTS: One of Only 29 House Members to Oppose Collection of Hate Crime Data in 1988. FAMILY ASSISTANCE: One of Only 16 House Members to Vote Against Support for Nutrition Programs in 1983. One of Only 39 House Members to Vote Against Hunger Relief Plan in 1984.

To: zonkie who wrote (4979)	3/4/2004 12:06:20 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

See Dick Run nytimes.com By MAUREEN DOWD OP-ED COLUMNIST The New York Times March 4, 2004 WASHINGTON - You've got to admire the Bush re-election ads being rolled out today. With up to $60 million to spend by convention time, the campaign is plotting the most expensive political advertising seduction in history, and you can see the money on the screen. In scary/gauzy images, the president does his best to shift the blame, take the credit and transmit concern about regular folks — waitresses, welders, firefighters, black children, black seniors, middle-class families — when he really spends more time helping his fat-cat corporate friends. Mr. Bush continues to imply that we should be scared because we're not safe, so we need to keep him to protect our national security. Which seems like a weird contradiction. If he's so good at protecting us, why aren't we safe? The president doesn't hesitate to exploit 9/11 in his ads, even as he tries to keep 9/11 orphans and widows in the dark about what really happened. Mr. Bush's ad flashes a shot of firefighters removing some flag-draped remains of a victim from the wreckage at ground zero even as he prohibits the filming of flag-draped remains of soldiers coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan. You might call the Bush ads, an homage to Ronald Reagan's famous ads, "Mourning in America." Nothing like hypocrisy with high production values. I'm assuming that the second phase of the ad blitz will highlight the man with the plan: Dick Cheney. The Cheney ads could appeal to the base, featuring rich white men in the back seats of limos, showing how hard it is to make the tough decisions for you. Consider the possibilities: ON THE SCREEN The spot lingers on a shot of the vice president's office door, closed and padlocked. THE SCRIPT: "Big enough to tell you to butt out. Sensitive enough to know that special interests are truly special." ON THE SCREEN The spot opens with a tightly focused shot of a headless pheasant, then dissolves into a shot of a big Dick Cheney putting a miniature Antonin Scalia into the pocket of his Elmer Fudd hunting jacket. THE SCRIPT "Man enough to hunt with all the big dogs." ON THE SCREEN The spot opens with Mr. Cheney checking his mailbox on Massachusetts Avenue to see whether he's received his annual deferred compensation check for $150,000 from Halliburton. THE SCRIPT "Bighearted enough to forgive and forget Halliburton's pesky overcharges in Iraq for oil, and food for American troops." ON THE SCREEN A picture of Mr. Cheney beaming at his family. THE SCRIPT "Strong enough to put his base above his daughter and support a constitutional amendment against gay marriage." ON THE SCREEN A close-up of Mr. Cheney accepting a huge N.R.A. check in his spider hole. THE SCRIPT "Protective enough to safeguard the firearms industry from liberal potshots." ON THE SCREEN While the "Pink Panther" music plays, we see a cartoon of the vice president, dressed in an Inspector Clouseau trenchcoat and a false mustache, wandering the desert with a spyglass. THE SCRIPT "Steely enough to ignore the administration's own intelligence on the absence of W.M.D. and an Al Qaeda connection to Saddam. Farsighted enough to know that one of these decades, the rocks and trash that Iraqis are throwing at American forces will be replaced by flowers and palm fronds." ON THE SCREEN A doctored photo of John Kerry, his war medals airbrushed out, canoodling with Jane Fonda at an antiwar rally. THE SCRIPT "After getting four student deferments himself during Vietnam so he could attend to `other priorities,' he's still gritty enough to paint John Kerry as a spineless wimp on Vietnam and Iraq." ON THE SCREEN A shot of Mr. Cheney driving the Nascar Viagra race car. THE SCRIPT "Audacious enough to shred the American Constitution, even while he imposes one on Iraq." Instead of speaking at the end to say he approved the message, as Mr. Bush does in his, Mr. Cheney comes on at the end of his spots with a paper bag over his head and says, "It's none of your beeswax who approved this message." Except in one, where a rotund man comes on and says, "I am Ahmad Chalabi, and I approved this message." E-mail: liberties@nytimes.com