MoveOn $87 Billion Mislead Ad a Roaring Success
Juan..E.-Jimenez
From MoveOn.Org
We have some great news. Weeks of on-the-ground testing have shown that our "$87 Billion" TV ad successfully gets the truth out about President Bush and his policies. Our tests showed that an impressive 4% of viewers changed their positions to disfavor Bush after seeing the ad. Even experts who have been in this field for years were blown away.
So today, we're launching our first really big MoveOn Voter Fund ad buy. We’re putting the "$87 Billion" ad to work in several key swing states -- putting up close to two million dollars to make sure that every TV viewer these states sees the ad multiple times. With the results so far, we know that this ad buy will have a measurable impact. Now please help us continue to fund this effort by giving $25, $50, or $100, or whatever you can. Remember, every two dollars you contribute will be matched by another dollar from our major contributors.
You can watch the "$87 Billion" ad and contribute right now at:
http://www.moveonvoterfund.org
In the ad, we ask, "If there's money for Iraq, why isn't there money for America?" At a time when schools are being closed, prescription drugs are unaffordable for many Americans, and even police and emergency first responders don't have the funding they need, the message clearly hits home.
To our knowledge, no one's ever run an ad this deep so far before an election. But together, we have an opportunity to shape the political landscape now -- before President Bush and the Democratic candidates start attacking each other on TV and voters tune out. Our purpose is not to tell voters how to vote, but to educate them about Bush's policies and let them decide. Our tests show that the ads are working.
This campaign is a great example of how we'll get our message through -- by being nimbler, by being empirical, by being more strategic, and by speaking the truth. Our purpose is not to tell voters how to vote, but to educate them about Bush's policies and let them decide. Our tests show that the ads are working.
We'll also win by embracing democracy. The great power of this ad is that it comes directly from the MoveOn membership. On September 15th, we sent out a message inviting MoveOn members to share their thoughts on the $87 billion President Bush requested for Iraq in an ActionForum. Thousands of us participated, and the message came through loud and clear: folks weren't happy with the sum of money, especially given the service cuts here at home and the failure of President Bush's postwar policy.
Two days later, we launched a petition calling on Congress to vote against the $87 billion. Hundreds of thousands signed, and, working with the Win Without War coalition, over half a million of us contacted Congress by phone, email, or fax in the run-up to the vote. The huge energy from the grassroots prompted us to produce an ad along the same theme, aimed at getting press and influencing Congress' debate. The ad, which only ran in Washington DC and New York, got free play on most of the major TV networks, and certainly stiffened the backbones of the bill's opponents. But when the issue came down to a vote, we lost.
Legislators always like to think that once they've cast a vote that their constituents don't like, they can shuffle it under the rug. Together, we warned them that there would be repercussions for this vote. And now, for many of them, the ads are coming home. It's clear that Americans are deeply troubled by the Republican leadership's willingness to spend billions of dollars on the occupation in Iraq -- with most of that money going to big corporate friends like Halliburton -- while slashing services here at home. With this big buy, we'll push the message that started with a MoveOn ActionForum into the very center of American politics.
We'll need your help. Like every other ad we do, this one will be supported by our contributions. By pitching in $25, $50, or $100, you can help fund an ad that clearly works. You can view the ad and contribute securely online by credit card or check at:
http://www.moveonvoterfund.org/
For inspiring this potent ad, and for all the great work you do, thank you.
Sincerely,
--Carrie, Eli, James, Joan, Noah, Peter, Wes, and
Zack
The MoveOn.org Team
December 4th, 2003
P.S. For some early press on this effort, check out this article from the LA
Times, posted on the Detroit News web site in Michigan:
http://www.detnews.com/2003/politics/0312/04/a08-341607.htm
Politically Incorrect
"Juan..E.-Jimenez" <b*d&5^-@-*b(d)5+.!c#o$m> wrote in message news:OxJzb.225897$Dw6.801680@attbi_s02...
Who Cares?
"Juan..E.-Jimenez" <b*d&5^-@-*b(d)5+.!c#o$m> wrote in message
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From MoveOn.Org
<snip>
MoveOn.org is making sure the President Bush is re-elected in '04 by
their smear tactics! Keep up the good work, boys and girls!
But then again,
Who Cares?
Juan..E.-Jimenez
"Politically Incorrect" <to...@okoto.net> wrote in message news:zNKzb.4312$K52....@newssvr22.news.prodigy.com...
Gregory Gadow
> The Hate Bush Campaign won't work! Understand? Nah, don't think you
> will ever learn.
So pointing out the misleads and outright lies of the Bush
Administration, and asking logical questions such as "If there is $87
billion dollars for foreigners, why are public schools in the US so
impoverished? Why are local police and fire departments being forced to
downsize? Why are so many Americans hungry and homeless?" are all part
of a "Hate Bush Campaign?"
That being the case, the only hope for this country is to get as many
people hating Bush as possible.
--
Gregory Gadow
tech...@serv.net
http://www.serv.net/~techbear
"If you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you."
-- Benjamin Franklin
Bob Harrington
"Juan..E.-Jimenez" <b*d&5^-@-*b(d)5+.!c#o$m> wrote in message
> Oh, yeah, the moron with the 30 second attention span forgets that
> the latest polls show 61%, not 72%, and that that represents a
> THIRTY PERCENT CRASH from 9/11. And best of all, it's STILL going
down.
>
> Go back to slurping from the toilet, pinhead. :)
Looks like he will have to wait until the bowl refills after you drank
it dry...
http://www.wftv.com/politics/2678022/detail.html
Bush' overall _personal_ approval rating is 72% (_UP_ from 65% before
the Iraq visit), his job approval rating is 61% (_UP_ from 56%) - hell,
even a majority of _Democrats_ have a positive opinion of the President!
We already know that even simple feats of comprehension are beyond your
reach, but thanks for playing! :)
Clave
news:ptMzb.421064$HS4.3346037@attbi_s01...
>
> "Juan..E.-Jimenez" <b*d&5^-@-*b(d)5+.!c#o$m> wrote in message
> news:BeLzb.303091$275.1043153@attbi_s53...
> > Oh, yeah, the moron with the 30 second attention span forgets that
> > the latest polls show 61%, not 72%, and that that represents a
> > THIRTY PERCENT CRASH from 9/11. And best of all, it's STILL going
> down.
> >
> > Go back to slurping from the toilet, pinhead. :)
>
> Looks like he will have to wait until the bowl refills after you drank
> it dry...
>
> http://www.wftv.com/politics/2678022/detail.html
>
> Bush' overall _personal_ approval rating is 72% (_UP_ from 65% before
> the Iraq visit), his job approval rating is 61% (_UP_ from 56%) - hell,
> even a majority of _Democrats_ have a positive opinion of the President!
Which we all know are numbers meant to do little more than entertain the
children.
His re-elect numbers are pretty much all that count, and they're hovering right
about where his father's were, and dropping.
Bush vs. Generic Democratic Candidate for '04
=============================================
% Vote for Bush % Vote for Democrat
4/30/03 53 40
8/11/03 48 40
9/13/03 49 44
10/13/03 46 47
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/Politics/iraq_economics031014_poll.html
Jim
Bob Harrington
> "Bob Harrington" <r...@blarg.net> wrote in message
> news:ptMzb.421064$HS4.3346037@attbi_s01...
>>
>> "Juan..E.-Jimenez" <b*d&5^-@-*b(d)5+.!c#o$m> wrote in message
>> news:BeLzb.303091$275.1043153@attbi_s53...
>>> Oh, yeah, the moron with the 30 second attention span forgets that
>>> the latest polls show 61%, not 72%, and that that represents a
>>> THIRTY PERCENT CRASH from 9/11. And best of all, it's STILL going
>> down.
>>>
>>> Go back to slurping from the toilet, pinhead. :)
>>
>> Looks like he will have to wait until the bowl refills after you
>> drank
>> it dry...
>>
>> http://www.wftv.com/politics/2678022/detail.html
>>
>> Bush' overall _personal_ approval rating is 72% (_UP_ from 65% before
>> the Iraq visit), his job approval rating is 61% (_UP_ from 56%) -
>> hell,
>> even a majority of _Democrats_ have a positive opinion of the
>> President!
>
> Which we all know are numbers meant to do little more than entertain
> the children.
Unless, of course, they somehow support your "opinions".
Who Cares?
"Clave" <ClaviusFair...@cablespeed.com> wrote in message
news:171d96a810cd26f1...@news.teranews.com...
But put him up against a real Demoncrat candidate and he wins every
time. You vote for people, not "generics".
Who Cares?
"Gregory Gadow" <tech...@serv.net> wrote in message
news:3FCF8090...@serv.net...
| Politically Incorrect wrote:
|
| > The Hate Bush Campaign won't work! Understand? Nah, don't think
you
| > will ever learn.
|
| So pointing out the misleads and outright lies of the Bush
| Administration, and asking logical questions such as "If there is
$87
| billion dollars for foreigners, why are public schools in the US so
| impoverished?
They are? Compared to what?
|Why are local police and fire departments being forced to
| downsize?
Better question: Why is police/fire funding always "special levy"
instead for "first dollar"?
|Why are so many Americans hungry and homeless?"
They aren't and you know it.
|are all part
| of a "Hate Bush Campaign?"
Yup.
|
| That being the case, the only hope for this country is to get as
many
| people hating Bush as possible.
| --
| Gregory Gadow
It is back-firing on the liberal/leftist/progressive/neo-socialists.
His approval ratings are holding pretty constant, and none of the
demoncrat candidates can touch him in a one on one poll. Kerry,
Clark, Dean and the rest are so busy fighting with each other and
espousing hate towards Bush that they haven't been able to show
anything to the public to get their interest. And it is driving many
hard core lefties nuts.
Gau-zhi
"Who Cares?" <whoc...@freetidet.org> wrote in message
news:u7Nzb.28407$sb4....@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
Another way to look at that poll is to consider the sum of all democratic
challengers' votes to be roughly equal to GW's.
As you say, in a one on one, none stand a chance against GW.
--
"The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an
old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to
seed,-because both parties stand on the one ground of the
supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and
the other to keep." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A liberal is a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet." - Frank Rizzo
Clave
> Clave wrote:
> > "Bob Harrington" <r...@blarg.net> wrote in message
> > news:ptMzb.421064$HS4.3346037@attbi_s01...
> >>
> >> "Juan..E.-Jimenez" <b*d&5^-@-*b(d)5+.!c#o$m> wrote in message
> >> news:BeLzb.303091$275.1043153@attbi_s53...
> >>> Oh, yeah, the moron with the 30 second attention span forgets that
> >>> the latest polls show 61%, not 72%, and that that represents a
> >>> THIRTY PERCENT CRASH from 9/11. And best of all, it's STILL going
> >> down.
> >>>
> >>> Go back to slurping from the toilet, pinhead. :)
> >>
> >> Looks like he will have to wait until the bowl refills after you
> >> drank
> >> it dry...
> >>
> >> http://www.wftv.com/politics/2678022/detail.html
> >>
> >> Bush' overall _personal_ approval rating is 72% (_UP_ from 65% before
> >> the Iraq visit), his job approval rating is 61% (_UP_ from 56%) -
> >> hell,
> >> even a majority of _Democrats_ have a positive opinion of the
> >> President!
> >
> > Which we all know are numbers meant to do little more than entertain
> > the children.
>
> Unless, of course, they somehow support your "opinions".
Yeah -- I see you weren't all that entertained by the *real* numbers below.
That's OK -- you keep squatting in the corner, nodding like a chimp on crack and
muttering "personal approval -- personal approval -- personal approval."
Jim
Bob Harrington
Short drive...
Bob Harrington
Oh, all right. I guess I'll just have to settle for the 61%. We'll see
in less than a year how overly optimistic/deluded you folks are. And
then you can happily shriek that _two_ elkections were stolen!
Politically Incorrect
"Juan..E.-Jimenez" <b*d&5^-@-*b(d)5+.!c#o$m> wrote in message news:BeLzb.303091$275.1043153@attbi_s53...
Oh, yeah, the moron with the 30 second attention span forgets that the latest polls show 61%, not 72%, and that that represents a THIRTY PERCENT CRASH from 9/11. And best of all, it's STILL going down.
Approval Rating! Come back after class is out.
Clave
Beg you pardon- My attention span of 30 seconds is obviously longer than yours!
I repeat: ( get someone to explain it to you) : 72% PERSONAL APPROVAL RATING
Come back when alternative learning class is over. LOL!
Psst -- 46% re-elect rating against 47% for "unnamed Democrat."
Jim
Bill Bonde ( the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack )
If 72% like Bush, the other numbers like 47% for an unnamed Democrat are
just hypothetical. We can't know what the difference 72% - 46% will
really do, we can't even really seriously guess, until later.
SteveR
Gregory Gadow <tech...@serv.net> wrote:
> Politically Incorrect wrote:
>
> > The Hate Bush Campaign won't work! Understand? Nah, don't think you
> > will ever learn.
>
> So pointing out the misleads and outright lies of the Bush
> Administration, and asking logical questions such as "If there is $87
> billion dollars for foreigners, why are public schools in the US so
> impoverished?
Didn't Bush just back a Kennedy initiative that increased school funding?
Fiscal mismanagement within the system existed prior to the Bush admin,
and the rhetorical assumption that the billions towards foreign policy
somehow suddenly impoverished schoolchildren in Tupelo is laughable.
> Why are local police and fire departments being forced to
> downsize?
Because tenured middle-middle-middle-apparatchiks have a great union.
> Why are so many Americans hungry and homeless?" are all part
> of a "Hate Bush Campaign?"
Irrational assumption that Bush, and only Bush, caused economic and
foreign policy events of the turn of the century is so profoundly
illogical that people label the phenomenon as "bush hate" - which is
much kinder than the alternative explanation/label - moron.
>
> That being the case, the only hope for this country is to get as many
> people hating Bush as possible.
That's the ticket - scoff at any notion of any "hate bush" ethos while
using "hate bush" as your platform. That's exactly what the RNC is
counting on.
> "If you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you."
> -- Benjamin Franklin
>
>
--
'If you walk away from Iraq, the jihadis will follow you wherever you go.
You may think you've left them behind, but they will pursue you.'
---Senior Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew
Clave
<std...@backpacker.com> wrote in message
news:3FCFE16F...@backpacker.com...
Like the lying asshole you are, you're mixing approval rating with re-elect
numbers. They really must hurt you a lot.
Jim
SteveR
"Who Cares?" <whoc...@freetidet.org> wrote:
They were already nuts, they're just standing up to be counted at the
moment.
Edward Glamkowski
> > The Hate Bush Campaign won't work! Understand? Nah, don't think you
> > will ever learn.
>
> So pointing out the misleads and outright lies of the Bush
> Administration, and asking logical questions such as "If there is $87
> billion dollars for foreigners, why are public schools in the US so
> impoverished? Why are local police and fire departments being forced
> to downsize? Why are so many Americans hungry and homeless?" are all
> part of a "Hate Bush Campaign?"
>
> That being the case, the only hope for this country is to get as many
> people hating Bush as possible.
moveon.org is itself full of nothing but misleads and lies.
I've already painfully detailed it once on their first anti-Bush ad,
shall I do it again now?
Here's one hint:
Schools, fire, police, the hungry and homeless are all problems that
are handled at the local and state level, not the federal level.
National defense and foreign affairs, however, *ARE* in the realm of
federal responsibility, and in fact the states are explicitly
forbidden
from engaging in such things on their own.
Read the constitution sometime, you'll find it most informative.
moveon.org clearly hasn't read it. They certainly rely upon their
followers to not have read it.
M
>Clave wrote:
>> "Bob Harrington" <r...@blarg.net> wrote in message
>> news:ptMzb.421064$HS4.3346037@attbi_s01...
>>>
>>> "Juan..E.-Jimenez" <b*d&5^-@-*b(d)5+.!c#o$m> wrote in message
>>> news:BeLzb.303091$275.1043153@attbi_s53...
>>>> Oh, yeah, the moron with the 30 second attention span forgets that
>>>> the latest polls show 61%, not 72%, and that that represents a
>>>> THIRTY PERCENT CRASH from 9/11. And best of all, it's STILL going
>>> down.
>>>>
>>>> Go back to slurping from the toilet, pinhead. :)
>>>
>>> Looks like he will have to wait until the bowl refills after you
>>> drank
>>> it dry...
>>>
>>> http://www.wftv.com/politics/2678022/detail.html
>>>
>>> Bush' overall _personal_ approval rating is 72% (_UP_ from 65% before
>>> the Iraq visit), his job approval rating is 61% (_UP_ from 56%) -
>>> hell,
>>> even a majority of _Democrats_ have a positive opinion of the
>>> President!
>>
>> Which we all know are numbers meant to do little more than entertain
>> the children.
>
>Unless, of course, they somehow support your "opinions".
That's probably the best nail on the head that I've seen in quite a while. We can all find numbers
and polls and figures to support what we wish to believe, if we look hard enough.
Where numbers REALLY count though is the return coverage during an election. Nobody wants to vote
for the loser. If, for example, you live in on the West Coast, by the time you even wake up, there
are already strong numbers from the rest of the states. I am a strong advocate of blacking out
coverage until the polls close, nationwide. Those of you in Hawaii, wouldn't that be nice?
---M
M
Therein lies the problem, Steve. Yes, the polls currently say that a generic Democratic candidate
would have a narrow margin against Bush. But the minute you put any of the above names in the blank
slot, the numbers change dramatically. Hypothetical vs. reality. What that particular poll is really
telling us is that people want a change, just not anyone that currently is running against W. If the
Dems could conjur up more than a hate monger, they might have a chance. Until then.....probably not.
---M
Bill Bonde ( the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack )
What are you talking about? I didn't mix anything.
Gau-zhi
"M" <m...@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:3fd0dd00...@news.east.earthlink.net...
This is the clearest explanation I've seen yet of current numbers. Good job.
--
"The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an
old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to
seed,-because both parties stand on the one ground of the
supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and
the other to keep." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A liberal is a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet." - Frank Rizzo
>
Gau-zhi
"Edward Glamkowski" <eglam...@angelfire.com> wrote in message
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The very definition of the "useful idiot" that the left depends on. The more
uneducated, welfare dependant voters, the better. If you can get someone to
hate Bush with a single emotionally charged paragraph, some irrelevant
statistics, and a dose of misleading statements, you too can start up a
website and attract useful idiots.
SteveR
m...@nospam.com (M) wrote:
That wasn't my post you were replying to, but...
Polls right now are mostly meaningless - other than their historical
comparisons, and Bush's numbers until now put him in about as good a
statistical position as any modern president that was re-elected.
I'm not quite so sure people are "ready for a change" - liberal
democrats certainly are, but that's a given - and I see more of an
increase in volume and hyperbole, not an increase in numbers, for the
democrats.
Oddly, it's the hyperbole that is likely to turn off the deciding
independent voters - but I suspect it will tone down during the
campaign, and they'll look for ways to attack Bush from the right.
Their default message will be that they will clean up the "mess", and
that will be problematic if there are positive trends on the major
fronts leading up to the election. I think the democrats are going to
have a Bob Dole moment, it's just a question of who gets to be Bob '04.
Hillary or Dean or Clark or a combo thereof. Judging by performance so
far, democrats are sunk.
alohacyberian
news:c49f8b5e.03120...@posting.google.com...
>
> I've already painfully detailed it once on their first anti-Bush ad,
> shall I do it again now?
>
>
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=c49f8b5e.0309181423.257fbfa2%40posting.google.com&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain
>
> Here's one hint:
> Schools, fire, police, the hungry and homeless are all problems that
> are handled at the local and state level, not the federal level.
>
> National defense and foreign affairs, however, *ARE* in the realm of
> federal responsibility, and in fact the states are explicitly
> forbidden
> from engaging in such things on their own.
>
> Read the constitution sometime, you'll find it most informative.
> moveon.org clearly hasn't read it. They certainly rely upon their
> followers to not have read it.
>
illiterates pandering to political illiterates. Fortunately most of them
don't vote and will resultantly be very disappointed in the results of the
next election. I guess it's just part of political illiteracy. KM
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Ohia
chokehold on american politics? Since politics is not a language I'm afraid
your alliteration is very poor, if not idiotic.
You obfuscators come up with the strangest expressions. Now if you only had
the literary skills to explain exactly what a "political illiterate" is.
Seems to me that GW bush would fall into this category as he is just plain
unread and has no thirst for knowledge nor any intention of bettering
himself or this counttry.
SteveR
<Y7gAb.400223$0v4.19...@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
"alohacyberian" <alohac...@att.net> wrote:
> "Edward Glamkowski" <eglam...@angelfire.com> wrote in message
> news:c49f8b5e.03120...@posting.google.com...
> > moveon.org is itself full of nothing but misleads and lies.
> >
> > I've already painfully detailed it once on their first anti-Bush ad,
> > shall I do it again now?
> >
> >
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=c49f8b5e.0309181423.257fbfa2%40posting.go
> ogle.com&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain
> >
> > Here's one hint:
> > Schools, fire, police, the hungry and homeless are all problems that
> > are handled at the local and state level, not the federal level.
> >
> > National defense and foreign affairs, however, *ARE* in the realm of
> > federal responsibility, and in fact the states are explicitly
> > forbidden
> > from engaging in such things on their own.
> >
> > Read the constitution sometime, you'll find it most informative.
> > moveon.org clearly hasn't read it. They certainly rely upon their
> > followers to not have read it.
> >
> That is to say that moveon.org is put together by a group of political
> illiterates pandering to political illiterates. Fortunately most of them
> don't vote and will resultantly be very disappointed in the results of the
> next election. I guess it's just part of political illiteracy. KM
Look at Move On's track record - they didn't even manage to prevent the
impeachment which they were formed to prevent, and the people they've
backed politically haven't benefited from their help.
Just another money pit for the disaffected, who believe the more they
contribute and the louder they cry, the better chance they have of
forestalling the death of the left in the US.
Juan..E.-Jimenez
"SteveR" <texxd...@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:texxdriver-18D44...@comcast.ash.giganews.com...
>
> Look at Move On's track record - they didn't even manage to prevent the
> impeachment which they were formed to prevent, and the people they've
> backed politically haven't benefited from their help.
Oooo, that's riiiight, Clinton never finished his term because of the
$50,000,000 blow job witch hunt... what's the matter, Stevie, lost another
loan to Ditech? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Crowe, Estrada, Energy Bill... and the list goes on and on... :)
SteveR
"Juan..E.-Jimenez" <b*d&5^-@-*b(d)5+.!c#o$m> wrote:
> "SteveR" <texxd...@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:texxdriver-18D44...@comcast.ash.giganews.com...
> >
> > Look at Move On's track record - they didn't even manage to prevent the
> > impeachment which they were formed to prevent, and the people they've
> > backed politically haven't benefited from their help.
>
> Oooo, that's riiiight, Clinton never finished his term because of the
> $50,000,000 blow job witch hunt... what's the matter, Stevie, lost another
> loan to Ditech? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
As you may recall, Clinton was impeached.
Juan..E.-Jimenez
>
> As you may recall, Clinton was impeached.
By a gaggle of hypocrits. And acquitted. Deal with it, putz. :)
SteveR
"Juan..E.-Jimenez" <b*d&5^-@-*b(d)5+.!c#o$m> wrote:
At least you accept that he was impeached.
alohacyberian
moribund American Left. KM
alohacyberian
> In article <vuvAb.321881$275.1079423@attbi_s53>,
> "Juan..E.-Jimenez" <b*d&5^-@-*b(d)5+.!c#o$m> wrote:
> > "SteveR" <texxd...@comcast.net> wrote in message
> > news:texxdriver-04445...@comcast.ash.giganews.com...
> > >
> > > As you may recall, Clinton was impeached.
> >
>
> At least you accept that he was impeached.
>
aromatic cigar and a stained dress. KM
SteveR
<p0DAb.161996$Ec1.6...@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
"alohacyberian" <alohac...@att.net> wrote:
> "SteveR" <texxd...@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:texxdriver-538F4...@comcast.ash.giganews.com...
> > In article <vuvAb.321881$275.1079423@attbi_s53>,
> > "Juan..E.-Jimenez" <b*d&5^-@-*b(d)5+.!c#o$m> wrote:
> > > "SteveR" <texxd...@comcast.net> wrote in message
> > > news:texxdriver-04445...@comcast.ash.giganews.com...
> > > >
> > > > As you may recall, Clinton was impeached.
> > >
> > > By a gaggle of hypocrits, putz. :)
> >
> > At least you accept that he was impeached.
> >
> Well, at least he accomplished something while he was in office other than an
> aromatic cigar and a stained dress. KM
His ardent apologists revere him. A 2-bit career politician who
flourished in a state that rests reliably on the bottom end of all
measurable standards needs only oratorical gifts and political instinct
to successfully gain a constituency which is not particularly concerned
about particulars that would indicate an empty suit.
Clave
Who coincidentally presided over 8 of the best years this country's ever had.
Yeah, right. And Reagan was a Saint.
Jim
SteveR
"Clave" <ClaviusFair...@cablespeed.com> wrote:
> "SteveR" <texxd...@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:texxdriver-CA7C1...@comcast.ash.giganews.com...
> > In article
> > <p0DAb.161996$Ec1.6...@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
> > "alohacyberian" <alohac...@att.net> wrote:
> >
> > > "SteveR" <texxd...@comcast.net> wrote in message
> > > news:texxdriver-538F4...@comcast.ash.giganews.com...
> > > > In article <vuvAb.321881$275.1079423@attbi_s53>,
> > > > "Juan..E.-Jimenez" <b*d&5^-@-*b(d)5+.!c#o$m> wrote:
> > > > > "SteveR" <texxd...@comcast.net> wrote in message
> > > > > news:texxdriver-04445...@comcast.ash.giganews.com...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > As you may recall, Clinton was impeached.
> > > > >
> > > > > By a gaggle of hypocrits, putz. :)
> > > >
> > > > At least you accept that he was impeached.
> > > >
> > > Well, at least he accomplished something while he was in office other than
> an
> > > aromatic cigar and a stained dress. KM
> >
> > His ardent apologists revere him. A 2-bit career politician who
> > flourished in a state that rests reliably on the bottom end of all
> > measurable standards needs only oratorical gifts and political instinct
> > to successfully gain a constituency which is not particularly concerned
> > about particulars that would indicate an empty suit.
>
> Who coincidentally presided over 8 of the best years this country's ever had.
Coincidentally.
Clave
Now just repeat that over and over before you fall asleep.
Jim
alohacyberian
> In article
> <p0DAb.161996$Ec1.6...@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
> "alohacyberian" <alohac...@att.net> wrote:
> > "SteveR" <texxd...@comcast.net> wrote in message
> > news:texxdriver-538F4...@comcast.ash.giganews.com...
> > >
> > Well, at least he accomplished something while he was in office other
than an
> > aromatic cigar and a stained dress. KM
>
> His ardent apologists revere him. A 2-bit career politician who
> flourished in a state that rests reliably on the bottom end of all
> measurable standards needs only oratorical gifts and political instinct
> to successfully gain a constituency which is not particularly concerned
> about particulars that would indicate an empty suit.
>
achieve the same success. KM
alohacyberian
news:vt6ps6i...@corp.supernews.com...
> "SteveR" <texxd...@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:texxdriver-CA7C1...@comcast.ash.giganews.com...
> > In article
> > <p0DAb.161996$Ec1.6...@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
> > "alohacyberian" <alohac...@att.net> wrote:
> > > "SteveR" <texxd...@comcast.net> wrote in message
> > > news:texxdriver-538F4...@comcast.ash.giganews.com...
> > > > In article <vuvAb.321881$275.1079423@attbi_s53>,
> > > >
> > > Well, at least he accomplished something while he was in office other
than
> an
> > > aromatic cigar and a stained dress. KM
> >
> > His ardent apologists revere him. A 2-bit career politician who
> > flourished in a state that rests reliably on the bottom end of all
> > measurable standards needs only oratorical gifts and political instinct
> > to successfully gain a constituency which is not particularly concerned
> > about particulars that would indicate an empty suit.
>
> Who coincidentally presided over 8 of the best years this country's ever
had.
>
Isn't it amazing what a Republican Congress can achieve? KM
Mitchell Holman
$Ec1.6...@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net:
>
>
> Isn't it amazing what a Republican Congress can achieve? KM
The biggest spending spree in US history
that even conservatives are finding alarming?
Conservatives blast Bush on spending
Medicare bill triggers unusual barrage from key constituency
THE WASHINGTON POST
12/05/03
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 — Last month’s passage of a Medicare
prescription drug benefit that could cost $2 trillion over
20 years, after three years of sharp increases in federal
spending, has provoked an unusual barrage of criticism of
President Bush from conservative leaders.
THE WALL Street Journal editorial page accuses Bush
of a “Medicare fiasco” and a “Medicare giveaway.” Paul
Weyrich, a coordinator of the conservative movement,
sees “disappointment in a lot of quarters.” Bruce
Bartlett, a conservative economist with the National
Center for Policy Analysis, pronounces himself
“apoplectic.” An article in the American Spectator
calls Bush’s stewardship on spending “nonexistent,”
while Steve Moore of the Club for Growth labels Bush
a “champion big-spending president.”
“The president isn’t showing leadership,” laments
Brian Riedl of the Heritage Foundation, who calculates
that federal spending per household is at a 60-year
high. “Conservatives are angry.”
The spark has been the Medicare prescription drug
benefit, which is expected to cost $400 billion over
10 years and, according to the Congressional Budget
Office, could go as high as $2 trillion over another
10 years. Before its passage, former House majority
leader Richard K Armey (R-Tex.) wrote to the Wall
Street Journal to say that “the conservative, free-
market base in America is rightly in revolt over this
bill” and that “conservatives would be smart, and right,
to reject it.” Some conservatives, including Sens. Trent
Lott (R-Miss.) and Don Nickles (R-Okla.), did just that.
But the Medicare legislation comes on top of a
federal spending increase of 23.7 percent since Bush
took office. “In the last three years we’ve had the
biggest farm bill, the biggest education bill, the
biggest foreign aid bill and now the biggest health
care bill in 30 years,” said Moore of the free-market
Club for Growth. “There’s now not any pretense that
Bush is committed to smaller government.”
http://www.msnbc.com/news/1001912.asp?0cv=CB10&cp1=1
Ohia
"alohacyberian" <alohac...@att.net> wrote in message
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> "SteveR" <texxd...@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:texxdriver-CA7C1...@comcast.ash.giganews.com...
> > In article
> > <p0DAb.161996$Ec1.6...@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
> > "alohacyberian" <alohac...@att.net> wrote:
> > > "SteveR" <texxd...@comcast.net> wrote in message
> > > news:texxdriver-538F4...@comcast.ash.giganews.com...
> > > > At least you accept that he was impeached.
> > > >
> > > Well, at least he accomplished something while he was in office other
> than an
> > > aromatic cigar and a stained dress. KM
> >
Juan..E.-Jimenez
Of course, that's what allowed him to laugh last and laugh best. :)
Juan..E.-Jimenez
> > Who coincidentally presided over 8 of the best years this country's ever
had.
>
> Coincidentally.
You wish! :)
SteveR
<x8WAb.166136$Ec1.6...@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
"alohacyberian" <alohac...@att.net> wrote:
> "SteveR" <texxd...@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:texxdriver-CA7C1...@comcast.ash.giganews.com...
> > In article
> > <p0DAb.161996$Ec1.6...@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
> > "alohacyberian" <alohac...@att.net> wrote:
> > > "SteveR" <texxd...@comcast.net> wrote in message
> > > news:texxdriver-538F4...@comcast.ash.giganews.com...
> > > > At least you accept that he was impeached.
> > > >
> > > Well, at least he accomplished something while he was in office other
> than an
> > > aromatic cigar and a stained dress. KM
> >
> > His ardent apologists revere him. A 2-bit career politician who
> > flourished in a state that rests reliably on the bottom end of all
> > measurable standards needs only oratorical gifts and political instinct
> > to successfully gain a constituency which is not particularly concerned
> > about particulars that would indicate an empty suit.
> >
> Fortunately, the loving wife he is so fond of two-timing, isn't going to
> achieve the same success. KM
Hillary's no loveable empty-suit slickmeister, she's a full blown
big-village socialist collectivist from the Wellesley school of rad
politics and elitist social engineering. I would love to see her run,
but I suspect she is going to be the groomed saviour after Dean reveals
his stunning lack of expertise on so many fronts.
It appears Gore will endorse Dean. My wild-ass guess is that it will be
a Dean/Clark ticket. Kinda like Perot/Stockdale populist blah-fest of
populist platitudes.
SteveR
"Juan..E.-Jimenez" <b*d&5^-@-*b(d)5+.!c#o$m> wrote:
> "SteveR" <texxd...@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:texxdriver-538F4...@comcast.ash.giganews.com...
> > In article <vuvAb.321881$275.1079423@attbi_s53>,
> > "Juan..E.-Jimenez" <b*d&5^-@-*b(d)5+.!c#o$m> wrote:
> >
> > > "SteveR" <texxd...@comcast.net> wrote in message
> > > news:texxdriver-04445...@comcast.ash.giganews.com...
> > > >
> > > > As you may recall, Clinton was impeached.
> > >
> > > By a gaggle of hypocrits. And acquitted. Deal with it, putz. :)
> >
> > At least you accept that he was impeached.
>
> Of course, that's what allowed him to laugh last and laugh best. :)
Clinton will go down in history as an answer to Jimmy Carter, in that
the 90's tech boom better masked his failures. His greatest legacy,
other than personal issues, will be his move to center dictated by a
repub congress. Big whoop.
. I do give Dhimmicrats points for conviction, willing as they are to
sacrifice power in order to express such
Juan..E.-Jimenez
>
> Clinton will go down in history as an answer to Jimmy Carter, in that
> the 90's tech boom better masked his failures.
You and your predictions are such a hoot.
Just look at how history is looking at the Veggie. Maybe then you'll get a
clue.
Bob Harrington
He knows.
You lose...
SteveR
"Juan..E.-Jimenez" <b*d&5^-@-*b(d)5+.!c#o$m> wrote:
I think the end of the Soviets may figure in there (not with Dean,
though - he thinks they're still around).
Clinton will have the Korean nuke agreement (with a little help from
mentor Carter), the Palestinian/Israeli peace pact, and a foreign policy
that had Osama scared silly.
Juan..E.-Jimenez
>
> I think the end of the Soviets may figure in there (not with Dean,
> though - he thinks they're still around).
Not with the Veggie either, since he wasn't responsible for anything related
to that nor does he remember anything about it, thank goodness.
Juan..E.-Jimenez
"Bob Harrington" <r...@blarg.net> wrote in message
news:zChBb.478970$Tr4.1323743@attbi_s03...
Still dreaming, eh, putz? :)
Eric da Red
SteveR <texxd...@comcast.net> wrote:
>In article
>Hillary's no loveable empty-suit slickmeister, she's a full blown
>big-village socialist collectivist from the Wellesley school of rad
>politics and elitist social engineering.
It's clear you don't know any socialists. It's becoming clearer
that you don't know any women, either.
--
Quote Of The Week: "Bertie [Wooster] was a little milder than W., not
quite so mean-spirited. He had a British butler, and Bush has one too.
His name is Tony Blair." -- Studs Terkel.
Juan..E.-Jimenez
"Eric da Red" <berg...@drizzle.com> wrote in message
news:br52ul$2o4$1...@drizzle.com...
> In article <texxdriver-F41D7...@comcast.ash.giganews.com>,
> SteveR <texxd...@comcast.net> wrote:
> >In article
> >
> >Hillary's no loveable empty-suit slickmeister, she's a full blown
> >big-village socialist collectivist from the Wellesley school of rad
> >politics and elitist social engineering.
>
> It's clear you don't know any socialists. It's becoming clearer
> that you don't know any women, either.
The only one he managed to snag out of sheer luck left him after he told her
he'd disown the children she had with him if they turned out to be gay.
<chuckle> What a loser, eh?
SteveR
"Juan..E.-Jimenez" <b*d&5^-@-*b(d)5+.!c#o$m> wrote:
Absolutely!
SteveR
berg...@drizzle.com (Eric da Red) wrote:
> In article <texxdriver-F41D7...@comcast.ash.giganews.com>,
> SteveR <texxd...@comcast.net> wrote:
> >In article
> >
> >Hillary's no loveable empty-suit slickmeister, she's a full blown
> >big-village socialist collectivist from the Wellesley school of rad
> >politics and elitist social engineering.
>
> It's clear you don't know any socialists. It's becoming clearer
> that you don't know any women, either.
Did I diss your mommy?
Bob Harrington
Of you taking up li'l Rachel's mantle as Olympic Bulldozer Wrestling
silver medalist?
You bet!
Juan..E.-Jimenez
> >
> > Still dreaming, eh, putz? :)
>
> Of you taking up li'l Rachel's mantle as Olympic Bulldozer Wrestling
> silver medalist?
>
> You bet!
Still dreaming, putz! :)
Bob Harrington
Ya gotta admit - it's a very pleasant dream!
alohacyberian
easily fooled, while Clark will hopeully appeal to the old-guard Democrats
and military people. Oh, yeah, Hillary would make V.I. Lenin and Stalin proud
as hell; fortunately when she was put in charge of health care during the
Clinton Administration, Congress snickered at her pie-in-the-sky Marxist
medicine and never took it seriously. I notice Clark said if nominated, he'd
consider Hillary as a vice-presidential running mate to which she fawned all
over him and herself. Talk about delusionary - Clark's chances of winning the
nomination are about the same as Hussein's chances of resuming his regime in
Iraq. Though I suppose in the 2008 election, a Hillary Clinton--Saddam
Hussein Ticket would gain widespread approval from rank-and-file Leftwing
Liberals. KM
alohacyberian
> SteveR <texxd...@comcast.net> wrote:
> >In article
> >Hillary's no loveable empty-suit slickmeister, she's a full blown
> >big-village socialist collectivist from the Wellesley school of rad
> >politics and elitist social engineering.
>
> It's clear you don't know any socialists. It's becoming clearer
> that you don't know any women, either.
>
It's become more clear that you don't know the difference between an East
coast big village socialist collectivist and a west coast wild-eyed
hippie-groupie socialist tree-hugger. Hillary might be a hit with males from
the Caspar Milquetoast genre, limp-wristed type "guys" and lesbians, which
gives me pause to wonder which category you fit into. KM
alohacyberian
news:rr8atv8010ir8ucf5...@4ax.com...
> On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 07:56:13 GMT, "alohacyberian"
> <alohac...@att.net> wrote:
>
> "Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad
> realization that [Hillary Clinton]...is a congenital liar."-- William
> Safire
>
Did she get her lessons from William Jefferson Clinton or Al Gore? KM
Juan..E.-Jimenez
Still dreaming!
Eric da Red
alohacyberian <alohac...@att.net> wrote:
>"Eric da Red" <berg...@drizzle.com> wrote in message
>news:br52ul$2o4$1...@drizzle.com...
>> In article <texxdriver-F41D7...@comcast.ash.giganews.com>,
>> SteveR <texxd...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> >In article
>> >Hillary's no loveable empty-suit slickmeister, she's a full blown
>> >big-village socialist collectivist from the Wellesley school of rad
>> >politics and elitist social engineering.
>>
>> It's clear you don't know any socialists. It's becoming clearer
>> that you don't know any women, either.
>>
>
>It's become more clear that you don't know the difference between an East
>coast big village socialist collectivist and a west coast wild-eyed
>hippie-groupie socialist tree-hugger.
I can recognize two terms that do not have concrete referents.
>Hillary might be a hit with males from
>the Caspar Milquetoast genre, limp-wristed type "guys" and lesbians, which
>gives me pause to wonder which category you fit into. KM
Is that the same Hillary who said a few days ago that the US needs
to send more troops to Iraq?
alohacyberian
> In article <5cXBb.178791$Ec1.6...@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
> alohacyberian <alohac...@att.net> wrote:
> >"Eric da Red" <berg...@drizzle.com> wrote in message
> >news:br52ul$2o4$1...@drizzle.com...
> >> In article <texxdriver-F41D7...@comcast.ash.giganews.com>,
> >> SteveR <texxd...@comcast.net> wrote:
> >> >In article
> >> >Hillary's no loveable empty-suit slickmeister, she's a full blown
> >> >big-village socialist collectivist from the Wellesley school of rad
> >> >politics and elitist social engineering.
> >>
> >> It's clear you don't know any socialists. It's becoming clearer
> >> that you don't know any women, either.
> >
> >It's become more clear that you don't know the difference between an East
> >coast big village socialist collectivist and a west coast wild-eyed
> >hippie-groupie socialist tree-hugger.
>
> I can recognize two terms that do not have concrete referents.
>
> >Hillary might be a hit with males from
> >the Caspar Milquetoast genre, limp-wristed type "guys" and lesbians, which
> >gives me pause to wonder which category you fit into. KM
>
> Is that the same Hillary who said a few days ago that the US needs
> to send more troops to Iraq?
>
Yeah, that's the same Hillary who is gearing up for a run at the presidential
election in 2008, so she knows what to say to get elected. Unfortunately what
she says and what she does are never the same. It's the same Hillary Clinton
who for 8 years was in charge of reforming Healthcare and accomplished
absolutely nothing. It's the same Hillary Clinton who went on and on when
running for the Senate about it being time to get rid of the Electoral
College, yet hasn't made a peep about it since taking office. KM
Castor and Pollux Towers
> In article <5cXBb.178791$Ec1.6...@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
> alohacyberian <alohac...@att.net> wrote:
> >"Eric da Red" <berg...@drizzle.com> wrote in message
> >news:br52ul$2o4$1...@drizzle.com...
> >> In article <texxdriver-F41D7...@comcast.ash.giganews.com>,
> >> SteveR <texxd...@comcast.net> wrote:
> >> >In article
> >> >Hillary's no loveable empty-suit slickmeister, she's a full blown
> >> >big-village socialist collectivist from the Wellesley school of rad
> >> >politics and elitist social engineering.
> >>
> >> It's clear you don't know any socialists. It's becoming clearer
> >> that you don't know any women, either.
> >>
> >
> >It's become more clear that you don't know the difference between an East
> >coast big village socialist collectivist and a west coast wild-eyed
> >hippie-groupie socialist tree-hugger.
>
> I can recognize two terms that do not have concrete referents.
>
> >Hillary might be a hit with males from
> >the Caspar Milquetoast genre, limp-wristed type "guys" and lesbians, which
> >gives me pause to wonder which category you fit into. KM
>
> Is that the same Hillary who said a few days ago that the US needs
> to send more troops to Iraq?
She wants to be president. We won't elect someone who's not Iraq pro-war.
hwhit
"Castor and Pollux Towers" <novemu...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:99ff0f02.0312...@posting.google.com...
and the same hillary who was pro-iraq invasion in the first place.
hillary is right on this issue. props to her
whit
alohacyberian
news:99ff0f02.0312...@posting.google.com...
> > to send more troops to Iraq?
>
> She wants to be president. We won't elect someone who's not Iraq pro-war.
>
and money. KM
Eric da Red
>> >> >Hillary's no loveable empty-suit slickmeister, she's a full blown
>> >> >big-village socialist collectivist from the Wellesley school of rad
>> >> >politics and elitist social engineering.
>> >>
>> >> It's clear you don't know any socialists. It's becoming clearer
>> >> that you don't know any women, either.
>> >
>> >It's become more clear that you don't know the difference between an East
>> >coast big village socialist collectivist and a west coast wild-eyed
>> >hippie-groupie socialist tree-hugger.
>>
>> I can recognize two terms that do not have concrete referents.
>>
>> >Hillary might be a hit with males from
>> >the Caspar Milquetoast genre, limp-wristed type "guys" and lesbians, which
>> >gives me pause to wonder which category you fit into. KM
>>
>> Is that the same Hillary who said a few days ago that the US needs
>> to send more troops to Iraq?
>
>Yeah, that's the same Hillary who is gearing up for a run at the presidential
>election in 2008, so she knows what to say to get elected.
Could be. How do you know?
>Unfortunately what
>she says and what she does are never the same. It's the same Hillary Clinton
>who for 8 years was in charge of reforming Healthcare and accomplished
>absolutely nothing.
That's not true.
>It's the same Hillary Clinton who went on and on when
>running for the Senate about it being time to get rid of the Electoral
>College, yet hasn't made a peep about it since taking office. KM
How many times did she talk about eliminating the Electoral College
during her Senate campaign? Be specific.
alohacyberian
If you don't want to believe it, then don't believe it. If you want
specifics, do your own homework. KM
Castor and Pollux Towers
I don't how many times she said this:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/11/10/politics/main248645.shtml
A politician shouldn't be that ignorant. Democracies don't last long
at all. But then again, liberals hate America...
news...@comcast.net
No doubt Hillary has said some stupid things in her life, as has
everyone on the planet -- particularly politicians (of all stripes).
But this story certainly doesn't answer the question at all, does it.
The question was how many times during her campaign. The story above
was what she said *after* the election, not during the campaign...
--
That's News To Me!
news...@comcast.net
Bert Hyman
>
> How many times did she talk about eliminating the Electoral College
> during her Senate campaign? Be specific.
>
Here's one, but spoken after her election:
"We are a very different country than we were 200 years ago," Clinton
said. "I believe strongly that in a democracy, we should respect the will
of the people and to me, that means it's time to do away with the
Electoral College and move to the popular election of our president."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/11/10/politics/main248645.shtml
--
Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN be...@visi.com
Castor and Pollux Towers
> In dfw.general Castor and Pollux Towers <novemu...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > berg...@drizzle.com (Eric da Red) wrote in message news:<brd080$o3j$1...@drizzle.com>...
> >> In article <6H5Cb.180740$Ec1.6...@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
> >> alohacyberian <alohac...@att.net> wrote:
>
> >> >It's the same Hillary Clinton who went on and on when
> >> >running for the Senate about it being time to get rid of the Electoral
> >> >College, yet hasn't made a peep about it since taking office. KM
> >>
> >> How many times did she talk about eliminating the Electoral College
> >> during her Senate campaign? Be specific.
> >
> > I don't how many times she said this:
> > http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/11/10/politics/main248645.shtml
> >
> > A politician shouldn't be that ignorant. Democracies don't last long
> > at all. But then again, liberals hate America...
>
> No doubt Hillary has said some stupid things in her life, as has
> everyone on the planet -- particularly politicians (of all stripes).
>
> But this story certainly doesn't answer the question at all, does it.
She only needs to retract the statement once. Do you have a cite?
alohacyberian
If you want to vote for Hillary, go ahead; if you don't want to believe she
said she'd organize a movement to remove the Electoral College, then don't;
but, don't hold your breath about her ever becoming an American president. KM
alohacyberian
> On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 08:38:27 GMT, "alohacyberian"
> <alohac...@att.net> wrote:
> >"Eric da Red" <berg...@drizzle.com> wrote in message
> >news:brd080$o3j$1...@drizzle.com...
> >> In article
<6H5Cb.180740$Ec1.6...@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
> >> alohacyberian <alohac...@att.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> >It's the same Hillary Clinton who went on and on when
> >> >running for the Senate about it being time to get rid of the Electoral
> >> >College, yet hasn't made a peep about it since taking office. KM
> >>
> >> How many times did she talk about eliminating the Electoral College
> >> during her Senate campaign? Be specific.
> >
> >If you don't want to believe it, then don't believe it. If you want
> >specifics, do your own homework. KM
>
> now, she made mention of doing away with the electoral college on
> several occasions. However, as you and I both know, she was pandering
> to a NY demographic who finds such a position appealing. As a
> practical matter, Hillary knows what both of us do, repealing the
> electoral college is exceedingly unlikely, and would ignite a
> firestorm of controversy, for many different reasons. Bottom line: No
> matter whether you view a repeal as a good idea, or a bad one, it
> ain't gonna happen, not in my lifetime.
>
Oh, I personally believe the Electoral College will eventually be eliminated
and I strongly favor replacing the Electoral College by the popular vote;
but, I agree, it won't happen in our lifetimes any more than Hillary Clinton
won't make a move to remove it in her lifetime. KM
Eric da Red
alohacyberian <alohac...@att.net> wrote:
>"Eric da Red" <berg...@drizzle.com> wrote in message
>news:brd080$o3j$1...@drizzle.com...
>> In article <6H5Cb.180740$Ec1.6...@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
>> alohacyberian <alohac...@att.net> wrote:
>>
>> >It's the same Hillary Clinton who went on and on when
>> >running for the Senate about it being time to get rid of the Electoral
>> >College, yet hasn't made a peep about it since taking office. KM
>>
>> How many times did she talk about eliminating the Electoral College
>> during her Senate campaign? Be specific.
>
>If you don't want to believe it, then don't believe it.
I have no problem believing it, or not believing it.
>If you want
>specifics, do your own homework. KM
I have no intention of doing your homework for you.
Eric da Red
>> >election in 2008, so she knows what to say to get elected.
>>
>> Could be. How do you know?
>>
>> >running for the Senate about it being time to get rid of the Electoral
>> >College, yet hasn't made a peep about it since taking office. KM
>>
>> How many times did she talk about eliminating the Electoral College
>> during her Senate campaign? Be specific.
>
>I don't how many times she said this:
>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/11/10/politics/main248645.shtml
So she said it once, and not during her campaign.
Thanks.
>A politician shouldn't be that ignorant.
What about her statement was especially ignorant?
>Democracies don't last long
>at all. But then again, liberals hate America...
Not as much as you do.
Steve Harket
http://www.bushin30seconds.org/
Unfortunately, after CNN mentioned outrage at two of the Commercials on this
site, the site was forced to remove them. Not something you could think
would happen in a free country, but then again, this is not a free country
anymore.
However, I searched and located the two Commercials that were pulled from the
site and found them here:
http://www.rnc.org/moveon2.mov
http://www.rnc.org/moveon-h2.mov
Download and enjoy them before they get taken down again.
Juan..E.-Jimenez
15 best were left.
Naturally, the slopeheads at the RNC couldn't find any other way to attack
MoveOn so they grabbed what they could, slipped due to greasy hands from the
crisco they put on their hair to achieve the Slick Chester the Religious
Child Molester repukeblican fashion statement and fell flat on their gourds.
:)
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Steve Harket
> 15 best were left.
They were pulled, as soon as the press got on their case about it. CNN
announced they wanted a copy of the two spots, and the website claimed they
didn't have a copy anymore. The site also claimed NOW only after pressure,
that they do not screen the spots as well as they could have and said the spots
were in bad taste, yet look at the one and it has their website name branded on
it, showing they were sponsoring it and were proud of it.
Tell me how these two are in poor taste, yet all the anti-Bush ads still on the
site that accuse him of killing and lies are any different from the other
two? The others have just as strong messages, some even MORE powerful in my
opinion, like all the photos of military that are now dead because of Bush's
lies. That one is still up on the site. Perhaps the press didn't look at
that one or any of the others yet.
> > Here is a link to the best Political Commercials I have seen.
> > http://www.bushin30seconds.org/
Mr. N
> http://www.bushin30seconds.org/
>
> Unfortunately, after CNN mentioned outrage at two of the Commercials on
this
> site, the site was forced to remove them.
Incorrect. All entries were posted for a certain amount of time so that
visitors could vote on them. What is on the site now are the 15 finalists.
Nevertheless - it's unfortunate that Moveon.org has elected to back down on
this. The comparison is/was accurate.
Script 1:
GRAPHIC: Nazi Flags In A Parade
GRAPHIC: Hitler
HITLER: (Speaking In German)
CHYRON: A NATION WARPED BY LIES
GRAPHIC: German Troops Marching
GRAPHIC: Hitler In Car In Parade
GRAPHIC: German Troops Marching
CHYRON: LIES FUEL FEAR
GRAPHIC: German Tanks
CHYRON: FEAR FUELS AGGRESSION
GRAPHIC: German Artillery Firing
GRAPHIC: German Planes Dropping Bombs
GRAPHIC: German Tanks Firing
CHYRON: INVASION
GRAPHIC: German Tanks Rolling Down Street
CHYRON: OCCUPATION
GRAPHIC: Hitler With Hand Raised
BACKGROUND: Sig Heil! Sig Heil!
CHYRON: WHAT WERE WAR CRIMES IN 1945
GRAPHIC: President Bush With Hand Raised At Inauguration
BACKGROUND: Sig Heil! Sig Heil!
CHYRON: IS FOREIGN POLICY IN 2003
CHYRON: SPONSORED BY MOVEON.ORG
Script 2:
GRAPHIC: Pictures Of Hitler
HITLER: (Speaking In German)
CHYRON: We have taken new measures to protect our homeland,
GRAPHIC: Pictures Of Hitler
HITLER: (Speaking In German)
CHYRON: I believe I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty
Creator,
GRAPHIC: Pictures Of Hitler
HITLER: (Speaking In German)
CHYRON: God told me to strike at al-Qaida and I struck them,
GRAPHIC: Pictures of President Bush
HITLER: (Speaking In German)
CHYRON: and then He instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did.
CHYRON: SOUND FAMILIAR?
BACKGROUND: Cheering German Crowd
--
-My Real Name
Steve Harket
> this
> > site, the site was forced to remove them.
>
> Incorrect. All entries were posted for a certain amount of time so that
> visitors could vote on them. What is on the site now are the 15 finalists.
In that case, there was no need to apologize, or lie to CNN that they didn't
have a copy of the spots to forward to CNN as they requested, saying they no
longer had a copy of the spots. Yet even I have a copy of them.
> Nevertheless - it's unfortunate that Moveon.org has elected to back down on
> this. The comparison is/was accurate.
Exactly. I lose all respect for anyone that backs down and apologizes for
something they believe in, just to satisfy other people.
I could respect Swarzenegger for saying that he respected what Hitler was able
to do, losing both parents as a child and having to support, feed and shelter
himself, not able to attend fancy schools yet was able to work hard and become
leader of a nation. Everyone has to admire that. But when called on
it, he denies it now. That is where I lost respect for him. If you
can't stand by what you believe in, what sort of person does that make you?
M. Paul
I couldnt have said it better myself.
Bravo, Lets have some leaders with guts!
~mp
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Mr. N
> In that case, there was no need to apologize
I agree - they shouldn't have.
> or lie to CNN that they didn't have a copy of the spots to forward to CNN
as they requested, saying they no
> longer had a copy of the spots.
The RNC has copies. Why should Moveon.org provide a copy of a file - so
that CNN can turn around and claim the spots were "provided by Moveon.org"
and right-wing douchebags could further twist the truth?
>Yet even I have a copy of them.
And where did you get them (as if I didn't know)?
> > > Nevertheless - it's unfortunate that Moveon.org has elected to back
down on
> > this. The comparison is/was accurate.
>
> Exactly. I lose all respect for anyone that backs down and apologizes
for
> something they believe in, just to satisfy other people.
I don't lose all respect, but it does disappoint me a great deal.
Besides - the true comparison isn't between Bush and Hitler at all - it's
between Hitler's followers and big-government loving, Constitution-hating
lying right-wing scumbags.
--
-My Real Name
LNB4
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>
> "Steve Harket" <sha...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:3FFB203E...@yahoo.com...
>
> > In that case, there was no need to apologize
>
> I agree - they shouldn't have.
>
> > or lie to CNN that they didn't have a copy of the spots to forward
to CNN
> as they requested, saying they no
> > longer had a copy of the spots.
>
> The RNC has copies. Why should Moveon.org provide a copy of a file -
so
> that CNN can turn around and claim the spots were "provided by
Moveon.org"
> and right-wing douchebags could further twist the truth?
>
> >Yet even I have a copy of them.
>
> And where did you get them (as if I didn't know)?
>
Where can I find them? - I'd like to see, not just read them.
would you mind posting for d/l?
Steve Harket
>
> I agree - they shouldn't have.
>
> > or lie to CNN that they didn't have a copy of the spots to forward to CNN
> as they requested, saying they no
> > longer had a copy of the spots.
>
> The RNC has copies. Why should Moveon.org provide a copy of a file - so
> that CNN can turn around and claim the spots were "provided by Moveon.org"
> and right-wing douchebags could further twist the truth?
Understandable. But saying they no longer have them, is like Michael Jackson
saying he never had plastic surgery done. They should have just said, "No,
we won't give you a copy so that you can use them to further hurt us or twist
the truth, why should we help you?"
THAT I could respect more than lies.
> >Yet even I have a copy of them.
> And where did you get them (as if I didn't know)?
Point is, they still had them too. The lie doesn't help their credibility,
even though they were right to have the spots on their site in the first
place. They didn't need to lie.
I would expect in Nazi Germany if someone put out an ad comparing Hitler to
Bush, the Nazi's would have that ad taken down right away too. But the US
should not behave like a bunch of Nazis, ALLOW any ads, even those that compare
Bush to Hitler, or to a pile of dog shit. That is free speech and this
constant harassment of getting anger towards people who make certain statements
in the USA and force them to apologize for them puts us in the same class as
the Nazis.
The irony here, is that the more anger that is shown over Bush being compared
to Hitler, the more the comparison actually proves itself.
If I made an ad, I would have included a line that stated:
"The USA is becoming so much like Nazi Germany, that this ad will probably be
forced to be removed from this website and censored from appearing to the
American public in any way they can try to stop you from seeing it. We would
have liked to show this ad on American television, but that will never happen
in the USA, only in a free country with free speech could that ever occur."
This way, when they want the ad removed, the ad's statements are proven.
Steve Harket
> would you mind posting for d/l?
Here are the two Bush/Hitler ads:
http://www.rnc.org/moveon2.mov
http://www.rnc.org/moveon-h2.mov
The rest of the Bush ads can be seen here:
http://www.bushin30seconds.org/
LNB4
These links you posted before - the RNC has removed them.
I'd still like to see them --
Steve Harket
> > > would you mind posting for d/l?
> >
> > Here are the two Bush/Hitler ads:
> > http://www.rnc.org/moveon2.mov
> > http://www.rnc.org/moveon-h2.mov
> >
> > The rest of the Bush ads can be seen here:
> > http://www.bushin30seconds.org/
> >
>
> These links you posted before - the RNC has removed them.
> I'd still like to see them --
That is too bad, that is why I downloaded them as soon as I found them,
knowing they would not be there for ever.
Here is what you do... Since we know the file name, you go to
google.com and do a search for moveon2.mov I just did that and a lot
of the rnc links obviously came up, but I also found this one:
http://www.parapolitics.info/media/moveon2.mov and it works.
I did the same search for the other file, but nothing came up yet,
however since everyone is probably searching for these, if you do a
google newsgroup search, you will probably find it. Else just keep
checking google every day and it may show up in a few days.
Be sure to download and save them as soon as you find them, as you can't
depend on it staying at any link for too long.
wen...@iesk.et.uni-magdeburg.de
here are a few links to bush-hitler ads,
you were asking in dfw.general
moveon ad 1:
http://www.evote.com/evotepix/media/moveon-h2.mov
moveon ad 2:
http://www.parapolitics.info/media/moveon2.mov
bush-hitler-morphing 28. March .2003:
http://media.de.indymedia.org/media/2003/03/47045.mov
open with quicktime!
Regards,
Andreas
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