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Politics : WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: calgal who wrote (10913)	8/30/2004 1:52:42 AM
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Life-long Democrat Koch: I SUPPORT BUSH and His Stance on Iraq 22-Aug-2004 NEW YORK (AP) -- Calling himself a "liberal with sanity," former mayor Ed Koch -- a lifelong Democrat -- said he decided to support President Bush in the 2004 election because of Bush's stance on Iraq. "While I don't agree with Bush on any domestic matters, there's only one matter that's important in this race, and that relates to standing up to international terrorism, taking it on -- and George Bush has established that he is willing to do that," Koch said in an interview broadcast Sunday on WNBC-TV's "News Forum." Koch crossed party lines earlier this year to endorse Bush. He said Bush's unwavering opinions contrasted favorably with what he called the "hypocrisy" of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, who Koch said wavered on Iraq and gay marriage. Koch was appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to recruit volunteers for the national Republican convention later this month, a role Koch conceded seemed "strange" to his friends. The former mayor, who has long fielded questions about his sexuality, called the uproar over New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey's resignation "a Greek tragedy." "I don't think people are distressed in largest numbers ... about his lover who is male. I think they're distressed that he put his lover on the payroll," he said. Koch said he had never specified his own sexual orientation out of a desire for privacy. "If there's one area of privacy, it's still sexual activity," he said. "Although I will tell you, at the age of 80, I consider any question concerning my sexual exploits to be complimentary."

To: calgal who wrote (10913)	8/30/2004 1:55:08 AM
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McCain, Giuliani to Hail Bush on Security NewsMax Wires Monday, Aug. 30, 2004 NEW YORK - Sen. John McCain and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, two of the Republican Party's most popular politicians, open President Bush's nominating convention by calling him a leader unafraid of making unpopular choices to protect a nation scarred by the Sept. 11 attacks. "He has not flinched from the hard choices. He will not yield. And neither will we," McCain said in excerpts of his Monday address released by the campaign the night before. The four-day convention ends Thursday with Bush's acceptance address. Story Continues Below McCain, an Arizona conservative and a favorite of independent-minded voters, joins Giuliani to headline an opening-night convention script designed to appeal to moderates by reminding the nation of Bush's performance after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist strikes. Giuliani, who was mayor of New York at the time, compares Bush with former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and former President Ronald Reagan (news - web sites), two leaders who he said rose above criticism to confront threats posed by Nazism and Communism, respectively. "George W. Bush saw and described terrorism for the evil that it is and he will remain consistent to the purpose of defeating it while working to make us ever safer at home," Giuliani said in excerpts of his speech text. McCain, who lost to Bush in a bitterly fought 2000 GOP primary campaign, has been mending political fences with the White House for months. He is co-chairman of the president's re-election bid in Arizona, and plans to join the president on the campaign trail Tuesday, when Bush addresses an American Legion convention. McCain, who served more than five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, said of Bush, "He has been tested and has risen to the most important challenge of our time." The excerpts do not mention Kerry, though McCain elsewhere in the speech urges his friends in the Democratic Party not to doubt the president's sincerity in his effort to build a coalition to fight and win the war on terror. "What our enemies have sought to destroy is beyond their reach,'" he said. "It cannot be taken from us. It can only be surrendered. newsmax.com