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

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (33839)	7/6/2004 2:05:29 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

there are many that are just plain morons supporting another moron in his Christian Crusade CC

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (33839)	7/6/2004 2:08:35 PM
From: zonkie	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 81568

All news articles with junior's name in them are not bad news. Here is one which proves that. ________________________ Hatch: Senate Supports Stem Cell Research WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Orrin Hatch, a Republican supporter of embryonic stem cell research, said Sunday there is wide support in the Senate to ease the Bush administration's restrictive policy. Hatch said supporters have more than the 60 votes needed to end a filibuster, but he's unsure whether Congress would act "in this hot political atmosphere." The Utah senator predicted on CNN's "Late Edition" that the administration and supporters of the research would reach a compromise that would include moral and ethical standards set by the National Institutes of Health. "That has to be done, or we're going to have a mess on our hands all over the world," Hatch said. He predicted countries around the world would follow NIH standards, including a ban on cloning. Hatch was among 58 senators earlier this month who signed a letter to the president asking him to relax restrictions on federal financing of embryonic stem cell research. Long before her husband's death, former first lady Nancy Reagan supported the research. She said cells from embryos could lead to cures for the Alzheimer's disease that afflicted Ronald Reagan, along with other illnesses. "I personally believe that in the end the president and those who are in the administration will see that," Hatch said. "And we need to support this. Nancy Reagan happens to be right on this." Bush signed an executive order in August 2001 that limited federal help to financing stem cell research on 78 embryonic stem cell lines then in existence. Because day-old embryos are destroyed when stem cells are extracted, the process is opposed by some conservatives who link it to abortion. 2004-07-06 12:26:34 GMT news.findlaw.com __________________ also see - workingforchange.com

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (33839)	7/6/2004 2:43:21 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 81568

Kerry chooses Edwards as running mate Simon Jeffery Tuesday July 6, 2004 John Kerry has named North Carolina senator John Edwards as his running mate for the White House in the US presidential election this November, telling supporters he couldn't wait to see the senator go "toe-to-toe with Dick Cheney". The announcement will end months of speculation over Mr Kerry's choice for vice president that has raged since he first emerged as the likely winner of the Democratic nomination to take on George Bush. "In the next 120 days and in the administration that follows, John Edwards and I will be fighting for the America we love," Kerry said in an e-mail to supporters. "We'll be fighting to give the middle class a voice by providing good paying jobs and affordable health care. We'll be fighting to make America energy independent. We'll be fighting to build a strong military and lead strong alliances, so young Americans are never put in harm's way because we insisted on going it alone." Right up to the last minute, alternative running mates such as Iowa governor Tom Vislack and Democrat heavyweight Richard Gephardt were being named as probable vice presidential candidates. Aides were reported to have prepared campaign banners with all possible names alongside Mr Kerry's to be prepared for all eventualities. But more than just adding another senator called John to his election ticket, the Kerry-Edwards combination has long been spoken off as the one that will give the Democrats the best chance at the White House. <font color=red>The reason: Mr Edwards gives the Kerry campaign balance. <font color=black>The rough equation is that John Kerry is a dry (some would add patrician) liberal north-easterner while his new running mate is a good looking southern populist and rousing public speaker who never went to Yale. In the end it was the raw political talents Mr Edwards demonstrated in primary campaigning for the Democratic nomination that now gives him a chance of becoming vice president. Although he only won his birth state of South Carolina, Mr Edwards was the last serious challenger to Mr Kerry and showed a remarkable ability to win over Republican voters <font color=green>(are they talking about you, Ann?)<font color=black> and come from behind in the polls. "To many people, it's a dream ticket," the Rev Jesse Jackson said in February, when Mr Kerry's victory was more or less assured and the veepstake speculation first began. Around that time Mr Edwards was running an interesting campaign. He refused to attack the other candidates - though he once accused Mr Kerry, to audience laughter, of the "longest answer I ever heard to a yes-or-no question" - and instead directed all his anger at George Bush. Playing on his relatively humble origins in southern textile towns, he positioned himself as the champion of ordinary working people against the Republican elite. A favourite campaign speech attacked Mr Bush's two Americas: one America that is struggling to get by and another that "can buy anything it wants, even a president". The Republicans responded to the announcement today with the launch of a website that accused Mr Edwards of being a "disengenuous, unaccomplished liberal". Despite this he is on the centre-right of the party and usually perceived as more socially conservative than Mr Kerry. The Democrats had seen this before - an ease with crowds, a southerner with mainstream political appeal - and he was consequently cast as a new Bill Clinton in his first days as a North Carolina senator, a seat he won in 1998 against an entrenched Republican establishment in the state. Six years on, campaigning to be president, the moniker had faded but some of his supporters went as far as to suggest that a longer lasting primary campaign than the bunched-up one they got (a system designed to select an early frontrunner like John Kerry and propel him all the way) would have seen their candidate come out on top. A parallel line of thought was that a one-term senator such as Mr Edwards was much too inexperienced to take on an incumbent Mr Bush. Some commentators insisted he was always angling to be one of the bigger hitters' running mate. Counting against him was his lack of foreign policy or combat experience in a climate dominated by the Iraq war. Mr Edwards's background was not state politics or Washington: he was a personal injury lawyer, taking on corporate negligence cases, and only moved into politics after the death of his son in a road accident inspired a change of career. After conceding he switched his campaigning to support Mr Kerry, though the two senators were not thought to get on especially well. One of the reasons why names such as Richard Gephardt's continued to be mentioned - and even Republican John McCain's - was that Mr Kerry was expected to choose a running mate he could at least work with. Recent meetings between the two Johns may have answered that question in Mr Kerry's mind. guardian.co.uk