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2004 US Presidential Election
October 07, 2003
Clark | A Presidential Poll With A Twist

A CBS News/New York Times poll gave half of the respondents the choice between:

"Howard Dean, John Edwards, Richard Gephardt, Bob Graham, John Kerry, Dennis Kucinich, Joe Lieberman, Carol Moseley Braun, Al Sharpton, or someone else (with the order of the names rotated)."

The other half of the respondents were given the choice between:

"General Wesley Clark, Dr. Howard Dean, Senator John Edwards, Congressman Richard Gephardt, Senator Bob Graham, Senator John Kerry, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Senator Joe Lieberman, former Senator Carol Moseley Braun, Reverend Al Sharpton, or someone else (again, with the names rotated)."

The different results are astonishing... and revealing.
 



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Posted by: nonblonde at October 19, 2003 10:40 PM

George Bush should do America a big favor and resign thr presidenticy. for the following reasons.
1 he made fun of the fact that Karla Faye Tucker applied for clemency.
2 Bush is a alocholic
3 Bush has lied to the American public about his reasons for the Iraqu war. Bush started that war because his daddy told him to
$ Bush is a thief , he had his brother Jeb fix the election in florida, that makes him guilty of comsipracy too
5 Bush has ruined the ecomony, and does so while protecting his rich pals by getting large tax breaks for them
Bush or the repilicans has hired or encouraged nadder to run again so that bush can get votes

Posted by: Elvis wren at March 6, 2004 11:21 PM

Wren,

You are an idiot and typical of the BS statements that the democrats love to prop their weak asses up with. You offer no proof you just let the BS flow out of your mouth, you must like the taste. Kerry is a lying, commie supporting little shit. If there were any justice we would let the vets have 5 minutes with him and then the democrats would need a new candidate. Also work on your spelling. If you would take time to actually learn about what you are talking about, you would find out that the democrats are the ones stalling needed bills and funds. That the democrats are tacking on additions that are hurting American society. That most of the problems we are enduring now are because of the Clinton administration and Bush has tried to stop the worst of it. We won’t even get into the war with Iraq, which by the way was not new but had been going on since ‘91. An armistice was signed not a peace treaty, which Hussein broke and Clinton was too much of a wuss to back up. Bush decided that he was going to live up to the agreement which Iraq was continually breaking. I hope these words were not too big for you. You should engage your brain before your fingers.

Posted by: T Shuler at March 9, 2004 05:03 AM

The States are a bunch of idiots trying soo hard to take over!
no wounder they are hated!
i mean Iraqu? they are not even close to being as powerfule as the states, and the states know that, how dumn can it be to go after a country that you know does not stand a chance againts you!
and then they say that it was for Sadam?! MY ASS they did it for their oil and the states knows that damn well!!!! They Are Selfish Lying Basterds And Deserve Every Thing They Got! I hope it Happens again, so that they will feel what the innocent ppl felt. Bush is a thief, he started the iraqu war because he daddy told him to, he’s an alcoholic, im only 15 and i know more then his sorry ass does. Some advice for you Bush GROW THE FUCK UP AND GET THE FUCK OFF YOUR LASY ASS AND DO SOME THING USFULE YOU IDIOTIC MORRON! NO ONE LIKES YOU, AND ONE DAY, YOUR GOING TO DIE IN A VERY SORRY WAY!!!!!!

Posted by: Jess at March 11, 2004 04:16 PM

To T Shuler

You are an idiot and know nothing about anything

Posted by: John L at March 16, 2004 08:59 PM

My mistake I mean Jess

Posted by: John L at March 16, 2004 09:00 PM

My mistake I mean Jess

Posted by: John L at March 16, 2004 09:01 PM

I dont think any of you know what you are talking about…..

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fevered pitch and the blood boils with hate, and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded with patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader, and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar. -Julius Caesar on Patriotism.

Two words, in gigantic read-it-across-a-football-field-sized type: Bush Lies. Liberal Slant
July 28, 2003 http://www.liberalslant.com/mh072803.htm

It was alarming to me that one of Bush’s first official actions as president-elect was an
assault on the First Amendment, said Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans
United for Separation of Church and State. This is a clear sign that the constitutional wall
between religion and government is due to undergo sustained battering from the White
House over the next four years. AU February 2001 http://www.au.org/churchstate/
cs2012.htm.

During a recent interview, Tom Brokaw asked President Bush about the prospect of an
Islamic government in postwar Iraq, a country with a 60 percent Shiite majority. President
Bush replied: What I would like to see is a government where church and state are
separated. BJCPA April 30, 2003 http://www.bjcpa.org/Pages/Views/
2003/04.30.03intersection.html

BUSH TIES TO TOBACCO
Beyond the campaign, industry titan Philip Morris Cos. was one of the most generous
contributors to Mr. Bush’s inaugural, giving $100,000 itself and another $100,000 through
its subsidiary, Kraft Foods. Along with a number of inauguration tickets, these donations
entitled company executives to two tables at a candlelight supper attended by President
Bush and Vice President Cheney the night before their swearing-in. OCA March 6, 2003
http://www.organicconsumers.org/corp/corporate.cfm

In addition, the powerful role of money in shaping our electoral outcomes is another key
ingredient in the right wings success, as well as in keeping liberal (much less radical)
alternatives from gaining influence in the Democratic Party. Steven Miller, Common
Dreams June 13, 2003 http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0613-02.htm

You simply never have to say you are sorry, and all your failures are the result of evil
forces beyond your control. Being on a Crusade, having an absolutist and deeply
ideological sense of mission, also underpins the right wing’s willingness to use all the
power at their command legal and extra-legal to push for a maximal agenda. No matter
how thin their electoral margin of victory, once in office, they act without hesitation or
compromise. They understand that success creates its own legitimacy and its own tailwind,
pulling others along with it. Steven Miller, Common Dreams June 13, 2003 http://
www.commondreams.org/views03/0613-02.htm

Through a combination of sheer stupidity and contemptible arrogance, the Bush
administration has been making a mess of the public relations battle, which raises the most
serious questions about its competence to wage a war. Irish Examiner October 4, 2003
http://www.examiner.ie/pport/web/opinion/Full_Story/didsgaEfBdqLJrwwsgDQQ5wn3uAIg.
asp

The press may whisper it, some Democratic candidates say it with varying force, but let’s
scream it from the rooftops. Let’s put it out there and yell it until we restore our republic.
Two words, in gigantic read-it-across-a-football-field-sized type: Bush Lies. Liberal Slant
July 28, 2003 http://www.liberalslant.com/mh072803.htm

If you are walking blind through a repressed least informed popolaution in the world….. I wouldnt blink twice to know that you or anyother right wing biggot might have a chance in the presidency.

and BTW… while Kerry was getting his 3rd Purple Heart Bush was flown to the White House by President Nixon for a date with daughter Tricia.

April 23, 1971:
Kerry testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He tells lawmakers: “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”

Spring 1971:
Bush is hired by a Texas agricultural importer. He uses a National Guard F-102 to smuggle tropical plants from Florida.

I hate bush… oh and BTW I am a lesbian who hates bush. 10 year Navy Vet, Lesbian, Howard Stearn Supporting, Enviornmental Engineering, Pollution Prevention Inspector.

BUSH ATTACKS EVEYTHING THIS COUNTRY STANDS FOR. Washington is turning over in his grave. I’d rather live in Canada. Atleast people up there still dont have to lock their doors.. or worry about being murdered in their front yards.

everyone else can BITE ME. Ignorance KILLS. It kills people like me and YOU.

Posted by: Burning Bush at March 22, 2004 05:38 PM

YES, BY ALL MEANS LETS HAVE KERRY AND ALL THOSE SOCIALIST, COMMUNIST,LEFTISTS, RUN OUR COUNTRY, MAY BE HE CAN MAKE TED KENNEDY DEFENCE SECRETARY THAT WAY TEDDY COULD RUN TO THE UN EVERY TIME WE AND GET THEIR APPROVAL SO WE COULD DEFEND OURSELVES. IF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY COULD COME UP WITH JUST ONE IDEA ON ITS OWN IT WOULD BE A MIRACLE,FDR MUST BE ROLLING IN HIS GRAVE TO SEE WHAT A PATHETIC JOKE THAT HIS PARTY HAS BECOME

Posted by: gary at April 9, 2004 11:22 AM

YES, BY ALL MEANS LETS HAVE KERRY AND ALL THOSE SOCIALIST, COMMUNIST,LEFTISTS, RUN OUR COUNTRY, MAY BE HE CAN MAKE TED KENNEDY DEFENCE SECRETARY THAT WAY TEDDY COULD RUN TO THE UN EVERY TIME WE AND GET THEIR APPROVAL SO WE COULD DEFEND OURSELVES. IF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY COULD COME UP WITH JUST ONE IDEA ON ITS OWN IT WOULD BE A MIRACLE,FDR MUST BE ROLLING IN HIS GRAVE TO SEE WHAT A PATHETIC JOKE THAT HIS PARTY HAS BECOME

Posted by: gary at April 9, 2004 11:23 AM

YES, BY ALL MEANS LETS HAVE KERRY AND ALL THOSE SOCIALIST, COMMUNIST,LEFTISTS, RUN OUR COUNTRY, MAY BE HE CAN MAKE TED KENNEDY DEFENCE SECRETARY THAT WAY TEDDY COULD RUN TO THE UN EVERY TIME WE AND GET THEIR APPROVAL SO WE COULD DEFEND OURSELVES. IF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY COULD COME UP WITH JUST ONE IDEA ON ITS OWN IT WOULD BE A MIRACLE,FDR MUST BE ROLLING IN HIS GRAVE TO SEE WHAT A PATHETIC JOKE THAT HIS PARTY HAS BECOME

Posted by: gary at April 9, 2004 11:23 AM

YES, BY ALL MEANS LETS HAVE KERRY AND ALL THOSE SOCIALIST, COMMUNIST,LEFTISTS, RUN OUR COUNTRY, MAY BE HE CAN MAKE TED KENNEDY DEFENCE SECRETARY THAT WAY TEDDY COULD RUN TO THE UN EVERY TIME WE AND GET THEIR APPROVAL SO WE COULD DEFEND OURSELVES. IF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY COULD COME UP WITH JUST ONE IDEA ON ITS OWN IT WOULD BE A MIRACLE,FDR MUST BE ROLLING IN HIS GRAVE TO SEE WHAT A PATHETIC JOKE THAT HIS PARTY HAS BECOME

Posted by: gary at April 9, 2004 11:23 AM

YES, BY ALL MEANS LETS HAVE KERRY AND ALL THOSE SOCIALIST, COMMUNIST,LEFTISTS, RUN OUR COUNTRY, MAY BE HE CAN MAKE TED KENNEDY DEFENCE SECRETARY THAT WAY TEDDY COULD RUN TO THE UN EVERY TIME WE AND GET THEIR APPROVAL SO WE COULD DEFEND OURSELVES. IF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY COULD COME UP WITH JUST ONE IDEA ON ITS OWN IT WOULD BE A MIRACLE,FDR MUST BE ROLLING IN HIS GRAVE TO SEE WHAT A PATHETIC JOKE THAT HIS PARTY HAS BECOME

Posted by: gary at April 9, 2004 11:23 AM

YES, BY ALL MEANS LETS HAVE KERRY AND ALL THOSE SOCIALIST, COMMUNIST,LEFTISTS, RUN OUR COUNTRY, MAY BE HE CAN MAKE TED KENNEDY DEFENCE SECRETARY THAT WAY TEDDY COULD RUN TO THE UN EVERY TIME WE AND GET THEIR APPROVAL SO WE COULD DEFEND OURSELVES. IF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY COULD COME UP WITH JUST ONE IDEA ON ITS OWN IT WOULD BE A MIRACLE,FDR MUST BE ROLLING IN HIS GRAVE TO SEE WHAT A PATHETIC JOKE THAT HIS PARTY HAS BECOME

Posted by: gary at April 9, 2004 11:23 AM

T Shuler i will fukin beat the shit out of u u 15 yewart old prickj u dont know shit fuk u fuk u fuk u bush takes actiopn sop shit like 911 dont hapopen but as u said u think we deserves 911 wat fukin countrry do u live in we prob fukin liberated ur sorry ass or u depend on us cause like it or not were the fukin suiperpower and we still are nice to ur sorry mother fukin asses fuk u u shud be greatful that we r so kind generous and fukin free i wish i saw u so i cud beat the shit outa u u jeloue fukin prick

Posted by: Kevin at June 6, 2004 01:19 AM

GOD BLESS AMERICA BABY IF U DONT LIKE US UR FUKIN JEALOUS USA USA USA USA USA USA

Posted by: USA at June 6, 2004 01:23 AM

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