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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 (8973)	3/20/2004 1:34:09 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Ken Lay worked with Dick Cheney on deregulation so Enron could sell phantom energy to CA. Get Cheney!

To: American Spirit who wrote (8973)	3/20/2004 1:36:40 PM
From: DOUG H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

""CLinton never took money fropm any such situation."" Clinton took money from all the bubblemeisters. Clinton should "give back" all the fraudulent ecomonic sucess that was in fact driven by bubblemania. Jobs, tax reciepts, all of it was fake.

To: American Spirit who wrote (8973)	3/20/2004 1:44:41 PM
From: Ms. Baby Boomer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

U R really a piece of work.... M

To: American Spirit who wrote (8973)	3/20/2004 1:47:02 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

"President Bush could have walked onto the set of the game show "What's My Line?" with a full marching band playing "Hail to the Chief," and the panel still would not be able to guess what this man did for a living".--R.A. Kaintz

To: American Spirit who wrote (8973)	3/20/2004 1:49:52 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

What's your favorite prewar untruth from the Bush gang? When Cheney in August 2002 said there was "no doubt" that Saddam Hussein was amassing weapons of mass destruction "to use...against us"? When Bush in May 2003 said "we found the weapons of mass destruction"? (Bush was referring to two tractor-trailers discovered in northern Iraq. From the start, analysts questioned the administration's claim that these were mobile biological weapons factories. And Tenet has noted the jury is still out on the tractor-trailers. It seems more probable they were designed to produce hydrogen for weather balloons.) These unforgettable lines--at least they ought to be unforgettable--are among the Waxman's Top 237. Is the Waxman list complete? Not entirely. Comments made by Ari Fleischer, Paul Wolfowitz and other significant administration figures are not included in the database. (Are there bandwidth limitations?) And I could not find one of my favorites: Rumsfeld on September 13, 2002, exclaiming, "There's no debate in the world as to whether they have those weapons....We all know that. A trained ape knows that." (I guess it depends on whether that trained ape was trained to misread and hype intelligence reports.) But Waxman and his staff deserve credit for rounding up and archiving many of the false and disingenuous assertions Bush and his gang used to grease the way to war. If the commission Bush begrudgingly appointed to study the prewar intelligence on Iraq's WMDs is going to investigate whether Bush abused the intelligence, this website would be of tremendous value to it. As of now, though, it seems that the commissioners--all chosen by Bush--will duck that mission and that Waxman's site will not be on their computer browser's list of favorites. But Waxman's report practically makes it unnecessary for the commissioners to worry if Bush falsely characterized the prewar intelligence. After all, why bother bother investigating a question with such an obvious answer? thenation.com

To: American Spirit who wrote (8973)	3/20/2004 1:56:47 PM
From: Augustus Gloop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

<<Bush's #1 contributor was Enron and Enron turned out to be king of the crooks. Bush has known this ever since 2001>> That doesn't mean he should be liable for returning anything. By your own admission he didn't didn't know anything until 2001 which was well after the contribution. What is known is that the people Clinton appointed to oversee the market didn't keep a very good eye on things as it was during his tenure in office that accounting scandals took place by a multitude of companies. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't blame Clinton for what our unethical corporate America did but I think its an even greater stretch for you to lay blame at GWB's feet. Afterall, the people that were to be watching such things were appointed by Clinton. Worldcom & Loral were supporters of Bill CLinton. Should we now go back and hold him responsible? I don't think so! As much as we'd like to think/hope that our Presidents know everything the simple fact is they just don't. The scrutiny in the media has gotten so bad that in the last 2 elections the 4 best candidates we had to chose from were GWB, AL Gore and John Kerry. Anyone with an ounce of brains knows there were better, more qualified people to run our country but nobody is willing to step forward and be skinned alive by the media when they can be happy and make more money in private industry. I think we as voters had better tread lightly and encourage our media to do the same or we're going to continue to be faced with candidates like we've had. It's really sad if you ask me. I watched Al Gore in 2000 and couldn't help but see a guy that would have been willing to sell his mother to become President. I must not have been the only guy to see that because he lost to a person who was clearly his junior on an intellectual basis.