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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Shtirlitz who wrote (637701)	10/4/2004 5:04:06 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

Poor Little Rich Boys Well, I guess the Bush/Cheney/Carlyle Cartel dreamed up that pipeline in Afghanistan and "invaded" Iraq because they were trailing their richer liberal counterparts: Together the President and Vice President are worth less than would-be VP John Edwards--and they are worth many times less than John Kerry (he who would be P). Kerry--who has mysteriously shed his Vietnam-era boarding-school accent--is worth several times more than all three put together. In point of fact, excluding Ross Perot’s failed candidacy, the Kerry/Edwards ticket is the richest American Presidential ticket ever. And it's supported by some of the richest and most influential people, too--like the Titans of Tinseltown, for instance. Here's how the dollars break down: Kerry's estimated net worth--are you ready for this?--comes to an apparently incalculable $800 million - $1 billion.. (Yes, you read it right. As Dr. Evil would say: One biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiillion dollars!) Edwards' net worth is less impressive, at $70 million. Cheney's net worth lags at approximately $50 million. And Bush, that “venal” man? (How do we know he’s venal? Because Chevy Chase, the stand-up who made vacation a vocation, stood up and said so.) Well, the Prez is a fiscal lightweight, weighing in at a mere $15 million. Heck, before ya know it, even Michael Moore--that other “poor man of the people"--will be richer than GWB. I guess Cheney had better start looking beyond Afghanistan to dig . . .UAE, perhaps? I mean, it's not like the guy can just jab a shovel into Saudi Arabia--what with his friends there, and all. I hate to be so direct--after all, it's much less challenging than talking with my tongue stuck in my cheek--but I do have to ask: Who is more gullible, a man who refuses to swallow without question the questionable "premises" of Fahrenheit 9/11, or a man who thinks these two ultra-rich elitists, Kerry and Edwards, are (really) looking out for him? At least Bush and Cheney don't pretend they're looking out for him. They just pretend they aren't looking out for bin Laden. Edwards represents the little people, like you and me . . . or people who are even littler, like mill workers . . . . At least, that's the way he made his money, representing the little people . . . so he must be one of them, right? There's an old, wise saying: Cater to the classes, dine with the masses; cater to the masses, dine with the classes. Liberal Democrats like Kerry and Kennedy learned this truth long ago. And so did Edwards. And that's why they're richer than Cheney and Bush will ever be. It also helps if you marry a Ketchup Kween instead of a teacher, your daddy's a bootlegger instead of a former President of the United States, and you sue the pants off every doctor who gets within five feet of you (except your own, of course). And believe me, these guys know which way their brioche is buttered. The difference is: They pay to have it buttered, then tell the butter-bearer how much they care. Cry me an emulsified river. And so it goes: America’s butter-ers beg for Colonial--while her poor little rich boys binge on hot air. Karen H. Pittman