ABSURD…WE ARE IN WAR
Kerry is a notorious pacifist, who helped the Viet Cong defeat his own country with his Hanoi Jane act as the military leader of the VC Giap has said in his book and half the nation thinks he is going to keep America safe from murderous terrorists? Haven’t they learned anything? Clinton was easy on terror, we got 3000 dead men, women and children in return. Bush decimated our enemies, Saddam, Taliban, Al Qaida. When you are in a state of war, you do not need Viet Cong Kerry. If he gets elected, America hasn’t learned anything from the 3000 dead heros on 9-11. A vote for Kerry is a vote for the enemy. It’s as simple as that.

Posted by: Ricky Vandal at March 6, 2004 10:01 AM

The sad fact Ricky Vandal is that 9/11 happened on Bush’s watch. There were cataclysmic failures prior to 9/11 and plenty of intel the Andover cheerleader you blindly support chose to ignore. Immediately after 9/11 the entire world rose in support of America, and France Germany, Russia, and all our allies old and new spontaneously proclaimed - “We are all Americans now”.

The shameless exploitation and mass marketing of the horrors and dead of 9/11 for partisan political gain is a greivous treachery that will not be forgotten. NYC will deliver this message loud and clear to the RNC when they come to New York to use ground zero as a backdrop for Bush reelections commercials.

Shame!! Shame! Shame!

These few years after 9/11 the predatory hegemony, the brutish hubris, invidious deceptions, woefully misguided failures, radical miscalculations, crony capitalist war profiteeering and rightwingideologue delusions of the Bush government has turned most of the world against America and divided Americans fiercely at home.

15 of the 19 9/11 mass murderers were Saudi nationals, and the Bush government mysteriously shields these Americanhating, wahabi freaks abundantly funding and nurturing all the jihadist mass murder gangs, including al Quaida as “good friends”.

Bush failed to complete the mission in Afghanistan, hurled the America to an unjust, unnecessary war, and a costly, bloody, woefully misguided, radically miscalculated or purposefully cloaked occupation and nationbuilding enterprize against the wrong Muslims in Iraq based on two years of pimping deceptions, hype, and exaggerations.

Cronies and cartels with incestuous ties to the Bush government are profiteering obscenely from the war, occupation, and nebulous neverendingwaronterror.

The list of abuses, deceptions, failures, acts of perfidy and malfeasance, book cooking crony capitalist war profiteering, shameless sloganeering, exploitation of 9/11, and gross negligence of the Bush government are long and festering.

The largest government in American history is mismanaging the largest debt in American history and exited the most American jobs since Hoover.

Millions of Americans are unemployed, many millions more underemployed.

Bush and his rightwingideologue war profiteers have divided, shamed, bankrupted, and redefined America.

I could fill pages with the more legitimate grievances the people hold against the Bush government.

We want our country back.

A vote for Kerry is a vote for the return of democracy here in America.

Four more years of the Bush govenrment, and the America we honor and defend will be destroyed.

ANYONEBUTBUSH!!

Posted by: Tony Foresta at March 6, 2004 10:57 AM

“A vote for Kerry is a vote for the return of democracy here in America.”

I was scrolling through your polemic and my eye fell on this quote. May I say, with no hyperbole that this is the funniest and most pathetic quote I have ever seen on the internet. And I am only thinking of one aspect of it. It has many layers and textures of funny and pathetic.

Posted by: jones at March 6, 2004 11:55 AM

Do you see how laughable that quote is? Honestly. Look at it and try to think clearly.

Posted by: jones at March 6, 2004 11:56 AM

Jones,

I read the quote from Tony. I didn’t get it (maybe I’m too used to hearing this kind of mess from liberals).

I read it again. I laughed. I rolled.

That is indeed one of the funniest quotes I have seen in a while.

Posted by: The Yangban at March 6, 2004 01:46 PM

Wow, what great material! You’re probably just playing Demosthenes, but I’d like to take a paragraph:

“Four more years of the Bush government, and the America we honor and defend will be destroyed.”

I certainly hope so..

The America you honor and defend seems a persistent adolescent naivete: Anyone who judges me and my friends is a big meanie. How can there be absolute right and wrong as long as I feel I’m a good person? Laws, standards, morals, traditions, and expectations only make people angry- be nice and understanding to everyone (unless they don’t belong to our chosen groups). Rich people and business are bad. It’s unfair that they take money from the people. The gov’t should take their money and give it to us. That’s true fairness. Foreign policy is bad, we should take a vote at the UN.

Hey, I understand the sentiment. But I grew out of it when I was twelve.

Notice, please, the declines in fortune experienced by Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Saddam, Enron, Global Crossing, Halliburton, and WorldCom in the last four years. Note, too, the shocking changes in North Korea, Libya, and Iran. Saudi Arabia, of all places, seems genuinely, albeit slightly, troubled by terrorism.

What has changed in the last four years? Anything? Has there been anything you can put your finger on that has impacted the behavior or situation of these symbols of Bush’s Evil and Greed when compared with, say, the mid-90’s?

You can’t have “your country” back. It’s on the run or in jail.

Posted by: benson at March 6, 2004 02:06 PM

An interesting finding of the Fox poll is that President Bush’s support is much more committed than Kerry’s. 75% of those favoring President Bush “strongly support” him. Only 55% of those favoring Kerry “strongly support” him.

Posted by: Dan spencer at March 6, 2004 02:09 PM

You write meaningless words benson, and regurgitate the same tired hollow rightwingideologue truebeliever myths and fictions as though they carry some wieght or have any veracity or validity - when the sad fact is - they do not. Bush promises and fictions mean nothing and contradict and conflict with the hard realities facing America.

Most of your silly partisan claims are wild distortions and fictions. No one on theleft makes or supports any of the crazy claims you assign to “adolescent naivete”. That entire paragraph is patently false.

We do not have any problem with criticism, or vetting of facts, but theright silencing, suppressing, slurring, and sliming our fellow Americans for asking legitimate and critical questions of the Bush government is totally unacceptable, and will not go unchallenged.

Al Quaida and the Taliban are reconstituting in the Peshawar and continue conducting operations, and working on the sequal to 9/11. We applaud the degradation of mass murder gangs, but until the Bush government redresses the heart, brains, and blood,(abundant funding) in SA - the nebulous waronterror is failing, and allowing serious threats to American security and prosperity to retrench, strengthen, and strike.

We applaud the capture of Saddam. We question the deceptions pimped to justify the bloody costly war, and the woefully misguided, pathetically poorly planned, radically miscalculated, and/or intentionally cloaked occupation and nationbuidling enterprize against the wrong Muslims in Iraq.

Enron, Global Crossing, Halliburton, and WorldCom are all book cooking corporate abusers who have robbed the America people. Halliburton is reaping obscene fortunes and continues to benefiit from Bush government war profiteering in Iraq and beyond. (Halliburtions’ 1mn square ft. of storage space in Columbia is curious)

NK is wagginig their Dongs in our face, Libya is pardonned for crimes against humanity and supporting jihadist mass murder gangs only because the CIA busted Khan in Pakistan who sold Khadafi nuke technology and for the Bush government political expediency. SA refuses to cooperate with the US on any jihadist mass murderer, or mass murder gang investigation, and continues to be the funding and nurturing tit for all the jihadist mass murder gangs, despite the multi millions of dollars the Baker PR firms expends attempting to paint lipstick on a pig, and frame the Saudi’s as “good friends”. It’s a big fat lie.

Much has changed. Our essential rights, freedoms, privaleges, and protections have been ravaged by the rightwingideologue christian fundamentalists in the Bush oligarchy suppressing the peoples right to dissent, to privacy, to petition the government for grievances, to keep their bastardized false and fundamentalist religion out of our government, to assemble. 2.3 millions Americans have lost jobs, many millions more are underemployed.

We can and will take our country back, and none of our icons are in jail, but many of yours hopefully will be soon.

You and the Bush government rely on fictions, myth, hollow promises, blind partisan hagiography and the sliming and misdirects against your fellow American to defend the indefensible, - but the Bush government is accountable.

Posted by: Tony Foresta at March 6, 2004 06:40 PM

Oh, jeez. Tony has found this page. My mouse scroll wheel will get a good workout.

Posted by: Gary and the Samoyeds at March 6, 2004 06:49 PM

Did you catch my point Tony?

Global Crossing- Terry McAulife was neck deep in that mess. Is he a Bushite? Seems to me W put a couple more white collar hides on the barn door yesterday Tony.

Posted by: jones at March 6, 2004 07:09 PM

Good for W. If there is evidence of McAulife wrongdoing, he should be held accountable.

Bring us the head of Ken Lay. When that arch criminal and book cooking fraud is brought to justice and sent to jail for defrauding the markets, his employee’s, and the American people - I will accept your claim of Bush addressing corporate abuse in the boardroom - until then and while Ken Lay is living in luxury - no where near enough is being done.

Posted by: Tony Foresta at March 6, 2004 09:13 PM

“Mr.” John Kerry,”War Hero”™ brought his ” Socialist Yankee Sideshow” to New Orleans, yesterday. Wasn’t much of a show, to the eyes of this observer. He found it necessary to hole up in the Democratic stronghold section of the city, and surround himself with the Union Rank & File dredged up by the whats left of the old Long\Landrieu Political Machine.

For being the Democratic Parties choice, I found it all rather bizzare that neither our newly elected female Democratic Governor, Kathleen Blanco nor the revered and retiring Senior Democratic Senator, John Breaux did not bother to appear in New Orleans and support “Mr.” Kerry. Or coarse, the Junior Senator, Mary Landrieu received her orders from the Democratic National Committee to not only be there, but be “all smiles”, considering how much they spent to keep her from getting thrashed by a Political Newbie in the last senatorial election.

Yes, it was interesting to note that the ranking Democrats in the State of Louisiana (and many lessor ones, I might add) convieniently found a place to be other than New Orleans during “Mr.” Kerry’s sojourn. It say’s volumns about the South and our local Democratic politicians. You see, thay want a chance to be re-elected……….and a picture of them with John Kerry would be the moral equivalent of, as Governor Edwin Edwards once said,” being caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.”

Posted by: ET at March 6, 2004 10:48 PM

Revealed: how ‘war hero’ Kerry tried to put off Vietnam military duty

By Charles Laurence in New York
(Filed: 07/03/2004)

Senator John Kerry, the presumed Democratic presidential candidate who is trading on his Vietnam war record to campaign against President George W Bush, tried to defer his military service for a year, according to a newly rediscovered article in a Harvard University newspaper.

coward
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1092297/posts

Posted by: Fat Guy at March 7, 2004 03:42 AM

I ran into an interesting poll on the Business Week website.

Among a demographic group called “Security Moms”

Bush had a 44% approval rating.

BUT 64% were planning to vote for him in the next election?

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Posted by: Dan Kauffman at March 7, 2004 03:43 AM

“9/11 happened on Bush’s watch”

Oh please!!! Clinton flubbed catching Osama several times, as well as a bunch of other crazies.

Bush barely has time to have the cum stained carpets changed in the oval orfice and you blame Bush?
You democrats are real desperate.

Posted by: Fat Guy at March 7, 2004 03:47 AM

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1091579/posts
The ‘Offended’ 911 Group “Peaceful Tomorrows” is funded largely by Teresa Heinz

Posted by: Fat Guy at March 7, 2004 04:16 AM

USS COLE,93 TWIN TOWER BOMBINGS,BALI,.. damn the list is forever,typical..the left makes the
mess and others have to clean it up.
We want our country back.
You can’t have “your country” back. It’s on the run or in jail.
Now that was priceless..

Posted by: Rob..NC at March 7, 2004 09:48 AM

Bush was working on the transition since November of 2000 and usurped the White House in January of 2001, - and he was given plenty of intel by the Clinton White House specifically warning of imminent al Quaida threats, the Andover cheerleader, and pampered papa’s boy chose to ignore for 8 months.

8 MONTHS!!

9/11 happened on Bush’s watch, and none of your partisan evasions, unsubstantiated and/or conflicted excuses, and truebeliever pathetic attempts to blame anyone else - will ever alter that sad truth.

9/11 happened on Bush’s watch, and there was plenty of hot intel warning of al Quaida hijacking planes, the selected usurper chose to ignore.

9/11 happened on Bush’s watch, while Bush was focused on Iraq.

9/11 happened on Bush’s watch, while his “good friend” Prince Bandar’s wife aided and abetted the minder of the San Diego 9/11 mass murderer cell.

9/11 happened on Bush’s watch, and Bush is accountable.

Posted by: Tony Foresta at March 7, 2004 01:16 PM

Tony,

You write: “9/11 happened on Bush’s watch, and Bush is accountable”

My response: AND?! I don’t think you understand what these terms mean. Hint: they don’t mean what most civilians and reporters think they mean.

Posted by: JFH at March 7, 2004 03:04 PM

Thank God George Bush was on watch when we were attacked on 9/11/01. If a Democrat was in the White House, we would have to get permission from the United Nations to defend ourselves.

I just hope enough people will realize that the Economy is just a small (but very important) part of choosing a President. Personally, I do not want a President that must get the United Nations’ permission before he can defend our country. I also do not want Universal Health Care…just ask the citizens in Canada what they think of Goverment provided Heathcare. I also do not Liberal Judges that will abolish our 2nd amendment rights.

By the way Mr. Foresta, what President signed NAFTA? We cannot blame President Bush entirely on the lost jobs. It appears we always mention the lost jobs and not the new jobs.

Also, do you really think the problems on WorldCom, Enron, etc. started January 2001?

God Bless President Bush

Posted by: VA Boy at March 7, 2004 04:00 PM

Listen to what I have to say and listen carefully; you cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs and you cannot win a hot war such as has been thrust upon America after 9-11, without taking casualties. There is no guarantee about how long this war will last, only that it must be fought now that the gauntlet has been tossed down by Islamic terrorism. Therefore fight it or be lost. In order to win it is only necessary to fight and outlast the enemy, the Islamists. Already there are cracks in their armour, i.e. Libya’s capitulation and Saudi Arabia’s acquiescence to US demands to take a more pro-active role in the fight and their own terrorism problems. Even Iran is in upheaval now as its citizens sense that the end is near and the fight inside that theocracy must be joined.

What were the lessons of the “Lord of the Rings” triology? That there are no easy wins; the battles (each of them) must be fought. But that if you PREVAIL, each battle the enemy loses is one less battle to be fought at the end; each victory won is one battle closer to ultimate victory and final freedom from terrorism.

So take heart; don’t let the weak-hearted message of “Peaceful Tomorrows” and MoveOn.org sap your resolve to win the ultimate freedom—Freedom from Fear! Freedom from Terrorism.

Those two organizations are both funded by John Kerry’s very wealthy wife, Theresa Heinz Kerry, through her family’s foundation, The Tides Foundation, which also funds such anti-war groups as Ramsey Clark’s Action Committee Group which operates International A.N.S.W.E.R., formerly the Communist ‘Worker’s World Party’ and similar anti-US groups. They are sending a divisive message to Americans in order to elect a man who would step on the backs of Americans, veterans and just-plain folks alike, in order to fulfil his personal ambitions. But what is happening to my favorite neighbour and friend, the United States, is criminal and possibly fatal.

Do not let divisive messages sway or change your focus. America MUST WIN the War on Terror. I don’t agree with everything George W. Bush says or does but he WILL FIGHT THIS WAR. The fight in Iraq is and always was a necessary part of the fight against Terrorism.

It would not be a good idea to switch horses in mid-stream; for one thing, it gives the enemy the impression that Americans aren’t sure GWB is the right guy so they’ve decided to try out a new one. And the enemy knows that John Kerry seems to change him mind with his shirts. They are HOPING Kerry will be elected.

Don’t give the enemy any hope. Stick with the guy what brung you and you’ll win—not only the election but the War on Terror. You MUST NOT LOSE THAT WAR WHATEVER YOU DO! Give GWB four more years to finish what he started and you won’t be sorry.

A Canadian friend.

Posted by: Elizabeth at March 7, 2004 05:42 PM

Tony, John Kerry Apologist, Foresta

Conveiniantly plays the typical role of ‘Liberal with Extreme Short Term Memory.’ Apparently, reading his posts, live begins at this current president’s presidency.

Sorry Tony. But alot of the ‘screwups’ you blame Bush for are screwups from past presidencies. Bush had what less than 2 years to fix up a completely overhauled FBI, CIA, and intelligence gathering? Good luck!

What with John Kerry slashing our Intelligence Funding consistently voting to slash this and slash that. It really shows how incredibly stupid you can be when you are a liberal.

Posted by: Jeff MacMillan at March 7, 2004 07:07 PM

You commentaries are impassioned, but your suppositions flawed. Any democrat would have prosectuted an attack on al Quaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan immediately after 9/11 in the same way as the Bush government.

It was the lost focus, and radical misdirect into Iraq, the deceptive pimping of non-existant WMD threats, and not credible links to 9/11 and al Quaid, the sliming and silencing of our fellow Americans, and the shameless exploitation and mass marketing of the horrors and dead of 9/11 for partisan political gain that divorced theleft from theright and the rightwingideologues in the Bush government.

It is a scurrilous and patently false lie and partisan soothsaying myth to suggest that democrats are unwilling to respond to legitmate threats, or requiring the consultation or permission of the UN or any other nation, or would not have attacked al Quaida, all the jihadist mass murder gangs, and that aid and abet them after 9/11.

This (democrats are weak on defense) nonsense and slime heaped on your fellow Americans is categorically false and totally unsubstantiated.

The divide cutting to the heart of what I believe is a shared objective for most Americans, - defines one group that supports the Bush government based on theendsjustifythemeans, or “what’s the difference?” constructs and believe the Bush government acting boldly if unseemly and scaring the living hell out of the entire Arab or Muslim world, by acting like a batshitcrazy” “triggerhappy” cowboy - and raining fire depleted uranium down upon the evilone and enemies of America gaining a toehold in Iraq to allow America to reach out militarily to the entire middle east.

Imaginative if imperialist fiction, but hardly the reality.

The other group, Theleft, recognizes that America must crush our true sworn enemies with equal determination as theright, - but that this enemy is not the entire Arab or Muslim world or Islam - but only a few sexually repressed, psychopatic religous zealots and mass murderers - the jihadist, - the wahabi mutation of islam, spawned, nurtured, and abundantly funded by the Bush oligarchy “good friends’ in Saudi Arabia proselytizing the killing of Jews, Americans, and all infidels.

The jihadists are a small but formidable enemy.
This enemy does not fear America, or our hyperpower superiority or the ferocious force and fire of our brilliant weapons. These freaks seek religious, not military, political, or economic ends.

By lumping all Islam and all Muslims into one eviloneterrorist brood we fail to comprehend our true enemy, and fuel the fear and seething animosity of the entire world, and provide the breeding groung for the next generation of jihadist mass murderers.

The Bush government foriegn policy and agenda is conduct unbecoming, contrary to the will and best interests of the people, and essentially un-American.

Posted by: Tony Foresta at March 7, 2004 08:52 PM

Tony,

You appear to be a very intelligent guy, it is just sad that your partisan perspective is so badly flawed.

Now if you happen to stick around after the election, I can hear you now. God these people are so stupid. How in the world could they have given Bush a landslide?

Those DNC talking points keep you in an echo chamber and when you come out in to the real world you will be in for a rude awakening.

The left which you so passionately defend throws some good lines, but their actions speak much louder than their empty promises. Given your twisted view of the world there is no way the left would have conducted this war effectively. They would have raised taxes, kept us in recession, and our military would have continued to suffer. This is true because we saw it for eight years under you beloved Clinton.

Mr. Benson said it rather well.

“The America you honor and defend seems a persistent adolescent naivete: Anyone who judges me and my friends is a big meanie. How can there be absolute right and wrong as long as I feel I’m a good person? Laws, standards, morals, traditions, and expectations only make people angry- be nice and understanding to everyone (unless they don’t belong to our chosen groups). Rich people and business are bad. It’s unfair that they take money from the people. The gov’t should take their money and give it to us. That’s true fairness. Foreign policy is bad, we should take a vote at the UN.”

Bush will win by a landslide with almost 60% of the vote. We have not even began to fight or donate.

Posted by: op at March 7, 2004 10:58 PM

Tony, John Kerry’s Vote for the Iraqi War Somehow Doesn’t Count, Foresta wrote,

“You commentaries are impassioned, but your suppositions flawed. Any democrat would have prosectuted an attack on al Quaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan immediately after 9/11 in the same way as the Bush government.

It was the lost focus, and radical misdirect into Iraq, the deceptive pimping of non-existant WMD threats, and not credible links to 9/11 and al Quaid, the sliming and silencing of our fellow Americans, and the shameless exploitation and mass marketing of the horrors and dead of 9/11 for partisan political gain that divorced theleft from theright and the rightwingideologues in the Bush government.”

First of all going to war with Iraq was absolutely the war on terrorism and was the right thing to do. And guess what? That is exactly why John Kerry voted for the war resolution in Congress.

As John Kerry pointed out…. President Bush didn’t even need a resolution in Congress to go to war. He could have just gone to war and that’s that.

But no? he went and asked for a vote to take place. And guess who voted? The very same people you claim that wouldn’t go to war with Iraq, VOTED FOR THE WAR!

Ah yes. But details don’t matter? Skip the Facts, it is all about the seriousness of the charge.

Posted by: Jeff MacMillan at March 8, 2004 12:26 AM

If I am not mistaken TONY. There was a Black African American Woman that DID NOT vote for the war in Afghanistan.

The Afghanistan war did not have FULL DEMOCRATIC PARTY support. It had FULL REPUBLICAN support. Not Democratic Support.

You put all of your marbles into a politcal party you don’t even understand.

Posted by: Jeff MacMillan at March 8, 2004 12:28 AM

If roles were reversed and we had a Democratic President that went to war in Afghanistan and in Iraq..

I would be kissing praises left and right to that president.

Had we had a Democratic President that went to war in Afghanistan and decided NOT to go to war in Iraq?

I don’t know if anyone caught this on FOX NEWS CHANNEL. But the early part of the war there was a guy who had a map. He pointed out a couple nations where America might go to war with later on. He pointed out Iraq as the MOST SIGNIFICANT nation to go to war with after Afghanistan.

BOY was he right on the money. Everyone KNEW (whether liberalized and brainwashed or not) that Iraq was next. Any common sense tells you that. What with the terrorist harboring and Terrorist Training and the WMD threat (which was always considered by PResident Bush to be a potential threat not an imminent threat.)

Go ahead liberal. Continue to make fools out of yourselves.

I would be kissing praises at a Liberal that had HALF the balls of George Bush. One such Liberal I wish to praise is ‘Joseph Lieberamn.’ Joe is the only Liberal you guys have that is still grounded in reality.

Posted by: Jeff MacMillan at March 8, 2004 12:32 AM

This is my last post for quit awhile and this is joke for Tony Foresta:

I don’t think a Liberal would go to war with a nation in a Post 9/11 World where that nation has a Dictator who starves his people while purchasing dual use WMD supplies, conducts secret activity, has several Iraqi Case Officers of which he uses to speak with Terrorists and who knows who else, Has Funded Palestinian Terrorist Families, has a Rape Room, has Tortured and Killed Prisoners and has Prisoners, has Shot down one of our Drones after years of Firing Weapons at our Planes, has disobeyed 16 UN Resolutions, has corrupted the Food for Oil UN Program, is currently seeking to build or purchase WMDs, has a Terrorist Training Camp, has a Terrorist Organization up North called Ansar Al-Islam. Nope, I don’t think a Liberal would ever go to war at all.

Posted by: Jeff MacMillan at March 8, 2004 12:42 AM

Tony said:

“Much has changed. Our essential rights, freedoms, privaleges, and protections have been ravaged by the rightwingideologue christian fundamentalists in the Bush oligarchy suppressing the peoples right to dissent, to privacy, to petition the government for grievances, to keep their bastardized false and fundamentalist religion out of our government, to assemble.”

Can you back a single one of these charges up? Suppressed the right to dissent? Who, Tim Robbins? The guy who just won an Academy Award?

What petition of grievances has been denied? Are you telling me that Democrats can’t vote in the House and Senate or what? Back it up.

The right to assemble has been denied? Where? What group hasn’t been allowed to march and scream all they want? Name the time, place, group.

And precisely how have Bush’s religious beliefs impacted you? He’s against gay marriage? Like more than 60% of the country is against it?

You make charges like these, back them up. Cool sounding slogans and wild charges don’t cut the mustard any more. This isn’t 1971.

Posted by: R.McLeod at March 8, 2004 03:19 AM

Something else in that Fox Poll.

Asked about their current personal economic situation, the numbers of people reporting excellent or good are way up compared to Sept. 03.

Also: asked how they’re doing now compared to five years ago, the numbers are also up considerably compared to the same survey done in June 03.

This is extremely bad news for Kerry. It’s one thing when people are worried about the national economic climate (but they aren’t worried, those feeling optimistic are also way up in the last year), but historically it’s their OWN situation that they care about when they go to the polls.

Based on this material, and if it holds, Kerry and the Democrats are going to be vulnerable on their biggest issue: the economy.

You wonder who Kerry and his people are listening too. Undoubtedly, it’s union leaders and the usual sky-is-falling liberal thinktanks.

Bush has 5.6 unemployment rates going now. That is a great number in ANY election year. Sure, there are people worried about the job situation and the economy. But are they working? Is their business or company doing ok?

Kerry and the Dems have to somehow convince a lot of people that everything has gone to crap. It clearly hasn’t. So what clothes will the emperor wear when we all realize he’s got very little on?

Posted by: RMcLeod at March 8, 2004 03:36 AM

We all know that Tony Foresta is TOTALLY and
CERTIFIABLY INSANE.

He has shown a complete disregard for any
Truth, but he cannot understand it anyway.

For the rest of you, here is a link that you
may find useful in discussing Defense.

Look at this site! You might want to send
this to everyone you know who is proud
of the US military! It is a certainty that
Kerry is not!

http://www.pabaah.com/Kerry.html

Posted by: leaddog2 at March 8, 2004 11:10 AM

Tony, which religion does your party think is a “bastardized false and fundamentalist religion!”?. I didn’t know the America you want brought back recognises only secular atheism. I didn’t know that America existed at all.

You are a typical Liberal Nazi - speaks up for minority religions like Islam with no sincerity and only to promote the power of thuggish, power seeking, political interests. Do you believe terrorism is just some religous phase that will go away over the time? That the only course of action is to tolerate it as religious action? You have strangely inconsistent beliefs for someone so angry at religion.

Posted by: researcher at March 8, 2004 05:46 PM

God I love this mumbo-jumbo mind-lock, knee-jerk auto-reflex, rightwing republican mush-mind-speak. These Dodo heads, as oxycontin Rush likes to call them, are so mindless that they are making me rich! All I have to do is be hyper-cynical about anything the Bush administration says is true and keep a close eye on which corporations and individuals are likely to benefit from their political contributions.

Our country is stronger with Bush. Thats why we shall soon see the Saudis, Iranians, and the Hugo Chavez begin to squeeze us at the gas pump in support of our Haliburton strategy. Anyone for $4/gallon at the pump? Its good that a portion of this gets kicked back into the Bush-Cheney relection effort.

I guess I should also mention how much money can be made correctly predicting trends in U.S. personal bankrupcies that are now at an all time high and climbing (of course a sign that our economy is turning a corner [hard right as it soon plunges over the edge]).

Thank God that Karl Rove had the foresight to replace all those key economic statistic takers at the departments of labor and commerce within the first few months of his administration. Most people still think the economy is growing because they are relying on government numbers. Thank God too that I set up my own methods to statistically analyze and interpret the magnitude of their revisions, as well as data from the fed, which loathes to reveal its structural weakness and political venue.

To garner limited support for our screwed up foreign policy among foreign governments we have to outsource jobs as part of “secret” binational security arrangements. Tracking these will make you a pretty penny.

Our health care system is now so strong that the US infant mortality rate has increased for the first time in more than 30 years. Adult mortality will no doubt catch up when Bush ends Social security payments for the masses (hats off to Alan Greenspan for his foresight). Keeping up with this aspect of the president’s progress will also make you plenty of money.

Thanks to the Bush administration’s emphasis on abstinence and religous “virtue” over science-based sex education we now lead the industrialized world in sexually transmitted disease. Ironically, most of those infected profess their Christianity and gay-marriage which leads to (temporary?) monogamy tends to reduce the spred of STD’s. In any event, its easy to make money off these folks as they purchase their increasingly expensive medications to treat the highly predictable symptoms.

Our educational system is being made so strong that we have now slipped 4 more places lower among nations in math and science scores over the last 3 years (to 34th). No US child is being left behind, because they’re all being left behind (at least nearly all european countries and now many asian nations). Fortunately, foreign scientists notably Indians and Chinese continue to make up a large portion of Ph.D’s in engineering and science at US universities. Unfortunately, they now have good jobs to return to in India and China and don’t stay in this country in the numbers they did previously.

Here in Mississippi Halley Barbor has removed geometry as a requirement for high school graduation to “keep the curriculum consistent with the NCLB act”. Ironic, considering this subject has been a central component of mathematics instruction for the last 2,000 years. Now clearly thats progress any republican can appreciate! But unfortunely, calculus and linear algebra are still taught as a requirement in JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL in Japan. Although we won’t be leaders in science in the future, we can still pretend we will be safer knowing that that the chips in our “smart weapons” will be manufactured overseas.

I especially appreciate the Bush administration policy to outsource leading edge medical technology to south Korea, the UK and other nations particularly in stem cell research where the major breakthroughs are now being made in understanding structural developmental genomics.

I also appreciate the high levels of debt we have taken on through the Bush tax cuts (Warren Buffet is right. These cuts really disportionally help the wealthy. Thanks George!). This keeps offshore gold futures demoninated in Euros strong and the dollar predictably dependent on buying by foreign central banks during periodic quarterly settlement periods. By the projections of the Bush administrations our payments for our national debt will require the entire federal budget minus defense by 2015. We certainly won’t have to worry about runaway welfare or medicare spending, these problems will be solved for us once and for all. Whew, and so many thought we really had to worry. Its reassuring that all our economy really needed was a good Snow job.

I’m also pleased that the president’s faith based environmental policies are taking hold (you have to have faith that it will still be there after he’s gone). Don’t you just love lumber futures? We must cut down the forests in order to save them (who said George Bush didn’t learn any lessons from the Viet Nam war?).

And you did short those companies that installed sewer systems didn’t you? No need to clean the water. Americans love eating seafood and vegetables contaminated in their own wastes and molecules like mercury, arsenic, and MTBE. No money in the bugets for those pesky regulators. Now that was smart, especially since republicans know that they can survive without an environment (why else should Mars be so attractive?). Fortunately, with republican media moguls having bought up most of the news outlets, we don’t even have to worry about all those disturbing reports about the consequences of such pollution (they don’t really cover the science behind such stories anyway, as most Americans couldn’t really tell you what science is anyway). Science and math is boring right? Certainly, no mass audiences to be gained there.

I’m so relieved to hear that the president knows exactly where he wants to lead this country in his next 4 years. I stand to make a fortune on the fallout from all the unintended consequences. That famous republican Abraham Lincoln was right. You can fool some of the people all of the time. Its good that our country is getting back to its political bedrock.

How could I possibly not vote for another 4 years of this? The vibrant Bush economy creates so many opportunities to make a fortune.

Posted by: S. G. Poss at March 9, 2004 01:03 AM

SG Poss…nice try, Tony.

Jeff MacMillan said, ” One such Liberal I wish to praise is ‘Joseph Lieberamn.’ Joe is the only Liberal you guys have that is still grounded in reality.”

Jeff MacMillan…..I agree. The guy actually seemed to have a brain, anchored in the sands of reality…..and what….they dumped him like Scott Peterson did a pregnant wife. She came back to haunt him……hopefully Joeseph can do the same.

Posted by: Jeff B at March 9, 2004 01:35 AM

Outstanding comment S. G. Poss, and humorous.

Lieberamn is Bushlite, and did not have the support of democrats or theleft for exactly that reason, and flaw.

Posted by: Tony Foresta at March 9, 2004 06:02 PM

I see Tony/SG is playing “sock puppet”.

Actually, “SG” is hilarious: ROVE replaced all the statisticians with hand-picked drones?

Should I burst his bubble, by explaining that

A) US Commerce Data comes from two private firms which have provided the key economic data for the last four decades: The Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)

B) White House aides do not enjoy hiring/firing authority, except that they may consult with the White House Chief of Staff about their personal staff

LOL, Tony/SG, as usual you are fooling … only yourself!

Posted by: GDubya at March 12, 2004 03:49 PM

Democrats hate conservatives more than they love the country!

Posted by: alan at March 12, 2004 06:54 PM

i happnd to literally “fall” into this blog of sorts..and have only 1 question: how true is it that bush has osama’s arrest as the ace 4 his election campiagn?

Posted by: kads at March 15, 2004 03:26 AM

hello

Posted by: fabiola at March 23, 2004 10:57 PM

hello

Posted by: fabiola at March 23, 2004 10:57 PM

What does George W. Bush, the man who started a totally unneccessary war (at least as far as US national security is concerend—the humanitarian case for intervention was compelling, but it wasn’t given as the main reason for going to war) intend to do now? Al Qaeda, as someone mentioned is rapidly regrouping in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, Ayman al Zawahiri, the mastermind of the 2001 attacks, alive and kicking, has called on the people of Pakistan to overthrow their traitorous leader—and Pakistan, we must remember, actually has those Weapons of Mass Destruction that Bush and his cronies tried so hard to find in Iraq. A top Pakistani scientist has actually confessed to selling his country’s military secrets to Libya and North Korea for heaven’s sake. Unlike Iraq, which has never conclusively linked to ANY act of terror against the United States, the Pakistani connection to worldwide terror is well documented.
It was of course, all too easy for Bush to wage war on a poor, third world country and try and deflect attention from the fact that he is no closer to finding Osama and Zawahiri than he was on September 12,2001. Bush, who seems to act before he thinks, has with his bogus war in Iraq, brought the US much closer to the ire of the maniac Muslim than it ever was previously. While much of the world expressed sympathy with the US on September 11, I doubt that would be the case today if another terror attack happened here—all thanks to Bush.

Posted by: jackofnice at March 31, 2004 12:42 PM

What does George W. Bush, the man who started a totally unneccessary war (at least as far as US national security is concerend—the humanitarian case for intervention was compelling, but it wasn’t given as the main reason for going to war) intend to do now? Al Qaeda, as someone mentioned is rapidly regrouping in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, Ayman al Zawahiri, the mastermind of the 2001 attacks, alive and kicking, has called on the people of Pakistan to overthrow their traitorous leader—and Pakistan, we must remember, actually has those Weapons of Mass Destruction that Bush and his cronies tried so hard to find in Iraq. A top Pakistani scientist has actually confessed to selling his country’s military secrets to Libya and North Korea for heaven’s sake. Unlike Iraq, which has never conclusively linked to ANY act of terror against the United States, the Pakistani connection to worldwide terror is well documented.
It was of course, all too easy for Bush to wage war on a poor, third world country and try and deflect attention from the fact that he is no closer to finding Osama and Zawahiri than he was on September 12,2001. Bush, who seems to act before he thinks, has with his bogus war in Iraq, brought the US much closer to the ire of the maniac Muslim than it ever was previously. While much of the world expressed sympathy with the US on September 11, I doubt that would be the case today if another terror attack happened here—all thanks to Bush.

Posted by: jackofnice at March 31, 2004 12:43 PM

a vote for kerry is a vote for a weaker military in america and a rise in terrorism, especially in the united states. Saying kerry would call for a weak military is an understatement…. the idea that military would be almost gone completly is more like it.

Although our economy may not be in the best shape, it is recovering, and i would rather have a weaker economy than a unprotected country, as John Kerry hopes for.

As for other issues such as education, Bush’s controversial plans such as the no child left behind act are a god send. My brother happens to be in a title one program as part of that act and it has improved his education greatly. Also, as for the fetus rights bill he just signed, it is about time that the fetus is finaly treated with some rights, as it is (or at least will be when its born) a human being, not unlike the rest of us.

The leftist freaks and our f—ked up left wing media tries to blame everything wrong in the world on Bush, and they should not just be ignored because they are liars and wrong, but should be laughed at for their stupidity

Posted by: rsrightchoice at April 1, 2004 11:49 AM

I think Bush will win in November because the American people feel better about having a leader who has less brains than they do.

Posted by: page54 at April 2, 2004 09:13 PM

The US public is fickled. They have short memories, they’re short on patience and short on thinking for themselves. No Democrat in recent years has held the Presidency with honor. They have only made a mockery of the respect the office deserves. Carter had to micro manage his administration to where he never accomplished a thing in office, and he had no backbone to stand against Iran. Clinton was a pompous, arrogant, swaggering liar that I couldn’t stand to watch. He lied about the Chinese paying his way to office. He lied about giving the Chinese our military secrets. He lied about Monica Luwinski to the point of perjury under oath. Kerry lies about being a hero in Viet Nam. He’s a traitor. I’m glad I didn’t serve with him.
Reagon built this nation back up to where it should be, number one in the world. Bush senior made two mistakes, the “read my lips” issue and not getting Saddam when we were there the first time. Bush Jr. has been a big morale booster for the USA number one mentality. He is protecting our people as best he can, protecting the soverignty of our nation by standing up against the UN, France, and Germany. All of these entities are ungrateful for what the US has done for them. They exist today as free nations because of us. We rebuilt these nations and opened our shores to the UN HQ. New York is the world capitol in the eyes of the liberal world and the UN. They seek to establish a one world government. Why is it so easy for liberals to steal from everyone and give up our freedoms? They march against our own country, why don’t they march against the Bin Ladens and Husseins of the world. They won’t lift a finger to get rid of these people but use every ounce of energy they have to put down our own nation in the eyes of these infidels. They laugh at us for being so stupid. That is exactly what they want. All voting terrorist will be voting for Kerry because they know they will have the US where they want us then. How stupid can you liberals be. You are selling our nation down the drain. Get some backbone, get a life or get another country.

Posted by: wapo machko at April 2, 2004 11:56 PM

I was wondering if G W was a lier or a moran—now i realize he’s both and it scares the hell out of me..My grandchildren are teens…will they have to die for a fools ego?

Posted by: L E Yoder at April 7, 2004 08:38 PM

He’s both a lier and a moran? Too bad neither are real words.

Try liar and </i?moron. Hope your grandchildren have access to a dictionary and that you aren’t the one that taught them how to write.

Posted by: Sissy at April 7, 2004 08:53 PM

Sissy….My grandchildren didn’t teach me how to spell -sorry’ i was nervous .My first time at this .
My mom tought me manners and respect . Too bad yours didn’t do the same. this man really scares me .O K ?

Posted by: L E Yoder at April 7, 2004 11:55 PM

LE Yoder,

Being as we live in a Country that runs a voluntary military I would say that the fate of your grandchildren are in their own hands. Their level of Patriotism will determ whether they love their County enough to fight and possible die for the freedoms all Americans have. Just remeber Freedom does not come free and without the brave soldiers that go a head of us in war, we would not know let alone love the freedoms we currenlty have.

I have served in the Armed Forces for 12 years now and was very pleased with the election of My President George W. Bush. It was so discouraging to have a Commander in Chief that could not be respected or believed. I personally would of had a little respect for Clinton had he of just refused to answer the questions about Monica but instead he felt that lying was the right answer (under oath makes it even worse). Clinton wanted to shutdown the military and continued to take away the benefits, cut retirement and shutdown posts. He stood by and did nothing when the USS Cole was attacked or when the the Twin Towers where hit the first time. It is my understanding that he was out of the Country on 9/11 so where was he? Did he know something that he did not share with the New Administration? It really blows my mind that you are scared of Bush but expressed not concern for the fact that Clinton was selling Military secrets to the Chineese. Guess it is time to open the blinders, step outside the box and see the truth. What scares me is that John Kerry’s book The New Soldier depicts several unkempt demonstrators crudely handling an upside down American flag to mock the famous photo of the U.S. Marines at Iwo Jima. How disgraceful is that and now he wants to be the Commander in Chief of those he mocked!!!

I am very proud to serve under the Bush Administration, I have seen many benefits be restored and many soldiers who respect our wonderful President. Respect is something Clinton did earn from many soldiers even after 8 years, he rather killed the respect with each lie and his failure to act when attacks were being made on US ships and embassys.

George Bush IS NOT sending soldiers across the waters to get killed. He is sending them across the water to DO THEIR JOB. We say an oath upon elistment and promise to protect our country from both foreign and domestic conflicts. That is what we are trained to do and most of us do it with honor. How we feel could not be expressed better than in the newly written song “American Soldier

Posted by: Amanda at April 8, 2004 09:59 AM

Mr. Tony Foresta,

you are a stupid ass liberal and you make me sick. Your left wing extremism and your desire to get rid of Bush is persistant, ignorant, and blind. You were obviously beaten as a child by your mother.
George Bush is a great president and i think we should keep him. Kerry will screw us all over, he will leave our occupied countries to fend for themselves and they will be overrun and become dictatorships again. We’ll have to get another good president to clean up after Kerry’s semen stained job.

John Kerry is a coward who actually tried to dodge and delay his miliatary service. He actually plans to cut military and intelligence service budgets. Semper Fi, you dumbass.

I’m also very proud of our troops in Iraq and in other peacekeeping missions around the world. If they didnt fight those sloppy, disorganized planejackers before they got here than they would repeat 9/11. Clinton ignored so many damn attacks and would back down from aggression from even the most minor and underfunded military groups. He was a coward, and so is Kerry, they are even using the same slogan. I despise Tony Foresta’s and all the other liberals ignorance. All my life i’ve seen what happens when you back down from an enemy, especially a weak one. They won’t give up, we have to hunt them down and eliminate them like George Bush is doing. Give the guy four more years to finish the job starts just a few years ago.

P.S.-Ralph Nadar just sucks too

Posted by: Jesse Parrish at April 8, 2004 08:55 PM

Hey all you liberal scum out there. I hope you communists have lots of fun and indecision between Bush and Nadar. So far i have noticed that many of you promised to leave the country if Bush was elected. It’s been a while since hes been elected. And he will probably be elected again. If you hate our system and our government so bad then leave and go to France. Or a third world country that is communist or a dictatorship and see how bad it is. You would want George Bush over there if you had also seen the cruelty of some of these dictators. Kerry wasnt fighting in Vietnam, he just got wounded. Big deal. So did thousands and thousands of other people. He also had to be forced into Vietnam. He would rather be suckin on his momma’s titty at Woodstock. Thats all i have to blow out of my ass for you liberals right now. See you later

Posted by: Jesse Parrish at April 8, 2004 09:00 PM

Tony Foresta, are you really a liberal democrat or just an anti-Bush communist trying to break our country apart from within? Honestly, John, let’s face the facts. John Kerry recieved a purple heart during the Vietnam War for falling out of a PT boat and hitting his head on the dock. What does that tell you about him? Oh, you are a democrat……democrats let other democrats think for them. Ok, well I’ll tell you what you should think. John Kerry is a klutz in battle as well as in politics. Wouldn’t that make him a klutz in office?

George W Bush is a leader, not a semen-injected specimen like John Kerry.

Posted by: Sean Parrish at April 8, 2004 09:00 PM

Tony Foresta, are you really a liberal democrat or just an anti-Bush communist trying to break our country apart from within? Honestly, John, let’s face the facts. John Kerry recieved a purple heart during the Vietnam War for falling out of a PT boat and hitting his head on the dock. What does that tell you about him? Oh, you are a democrat……democrats let other democrats think for them. Ok, well I’ll tell you what you should think. John Kerry is a klutz in battle as well as in politics. Wouldn’t that make him a klutz in office?

George W Bush is a leader, not a semen-injected specimen like John Kerry.

Posted by: Sean Parrish at April 8, 2004 09:00 PM

I have a small penis

Posted by: Tony Foresta at April 8, 2004 09:02 PM

I have a small penis

Posted by: Tony Foresta at April 8, 2004 09:03 PM

Guys, I don’t know much about kerry, but I know that I don’t like Bush, so that is all that matters. I am sick and tired of Bush trying to tell me that my tax dollars need to go to a war that I am totally against. Sure, I felt we needed revenge after 9/11, but hey, enough is enough. We said that we were going after Osama Bin Laden. And then he had to get personal revenge on Saddam. I say personal revenge because one of the reasons he is doing this is Saddam tried to have Bush Sr. killed while he was in office.

Bush… Enough is enough… we all know that you are pushing for war because you are trying to compensate for something.

Posted by: Monte at April 15, 2004 09:31 AM

Here is a joke that my grandma told me…

One day, Pres. Bush was walking through an airport terminal when he spotted an old man, in robes, sitting on the floor reading his bible…

Bush walked over to the man and said, “Hey, Aren’t you Moses?”

The old man simply ignored him… So he knelt down… and Repeated his question, and again, the old man ignored him.

Bush was getting upset that someone was ignoring him, so he said, “Do you know who I am? I am the President of the United States. Why won’t you speak to me?”

The old man finallylooked up and said, “Yes, I know… However, the last time I talked to a bush, I was stranded in the Desert for forty years!”

Posted by: Monte at April 15, 2004 09:38 AM

The war in Iraq was started by a president who, even before one war was over, went and started in war with Iraq. We could have waited, if not for a UN resolution, at least a stronger coalition. But, we didn’t and now, when we are in trouble, we want more international support.

Just a thought :)

Posted by: k 804 at April 19, 2004 08:53 PM

Sure blame President Bush for the war, but the war was asked for by UN weapons inspectors…. and Bush did have the FULL BACKING OF CONGRESS. dont blame one man

Posted by: Jesse Parrish at April 19, 2004 09:59 PM

John Kerry wears womens clothing!!!

Posted by: Mike Broderick at April 20, 2004 11:40 AM

I have grown up in an America that was free of war.I am only 19 years old and I have seen all that I care to see. I could care less who wins or loses, as I’ve always been told “it’s not who wins or loses it’s how you play the game that matters.” I personally believe that playing the game means you have to be good at the WHOLE job of the president of the United States. For the good of the country and all that live here. It’s important for me to live to see my children grow up and live long happy lives. I work hard every day to make sure that I can have the best life that I deserve.I will vote based on who I believe will let me see that wonderful day, I just hope everyone understands it’s not Republican vs. Democrat, the real battle is in your own lives.

Posted by: Love not war at April 25, 2004 12:37 AM

It is so sad to see the American people be persuaded by the liberal democratic media. They want people to believe that we are in trouble in Iraq and that things are not going all that well. But until you speak to those who have actually walked the ground in the mist of the fire who are you to say how the war is going? I think it is amazing how we are living in a land where the majority rule but is only the minority voices that is ever heard. Well it is time that the majority to stand up and let our voices be heard. This American Soldier has decided that is time for the truth about Iraq to be known.

Had we of set back and let Saddam reign we would still face the fears of terrorism at its best as he provided funds for many terrorist groups around the world and the actions of today’s military will provide the freedoms that have been know to our country. It will provide a safer America for our children and grand children in the future.

From a National Guard soldier

As I head off to Baghdad for the final weeks of my stay in Iraq, I wanted to say thanks to all of you who did not believe the media. They have done a very poor job of covering everything that has happened. I am sorry that I have not been able to visit all of you during my two week leave back home. And just so you can rest at night knowing something is happening in Iraq that is noteworthy, I thought I would pass this on to you.

This is the list of things that has happened in Iraq recently: (Please share it with your friends and compare it to the version that your paper is
Producing):

. Over 4.5 million people have clean drinking water for the first
time ever
in Iraq.
. Over 400,000 kids have up to date immunizations.
. Over 1500 schools have been renovated and ridded of the weapons
that were
stored there so education can occur.
. The port of Uhm Qasar was renovated so grain can be off loaded
from ships
faster.
. School attendance is up 80% from levels before the war.
. The country had it’s first 2 billion barrel export of oil in
August.
. The country now receives 2 times the electrical power it did
before the
war.
. 100% of the hospitals are open and fully staffed compared to 35%
before
the war.
. Elections are taking place in every major city and city councils
are in
place.
. Sewer and water lines are installed in every major city.
. Over 60,000 police are patrolling the streets.
. Over 100,000 Iraqi civil defense police are securing the
country.
. Over 80,000 Iraqi soldiers are patrolling the streets side by
side with US
soldiers.
. Over 400,000 people have telephones for the first time ever.
. Students are taught field sanitation and hand washing techniques
to
prevent the spread of germs.
. An interim constitution has been signed.
. Girls are allowed to attend school for the first time ever in
Iraq.
. Text books that don’t mention Saddam are in the schools for the
first time
in 30 years.

Don’t believe for one second that these people do not want us there. I have met many many people from Iraq that want us there and in a bad way. They say they will never see the freedoms we talk about but they hope their children will. We are doing a good job in Iraq and I challenge anyone, anywhere to dispute me on these facts. If you are like me and very disgusted with how this period of rebuilding has been portrayed, e-mail this to a friend and let them know there are good things happening.

Ray Reynolds,
SFC Iowa Army National Guard
234th Signal Battalion

Posted by: Amanda at April 28, 2004 03:28 PM

For those of you who want to know the truth about Kerry, take a look at the upside down flag on the cover of his book, “The New Soldier” that mocks the Marines at Iwo Jima during WWII. This book cover can be viewed at: http://www.cnsnews.com/pdf/2004/thenewsoldiercover.pdf
For me this tells me all I need to know about this Presidential candidate.

And as far as his campaign ad that states he will put jobs back in America, I wonder if he has began shutting down all his Heinz companies that are currently operation outside of the United States and moving them along with the jobs back to the US. The last time I checked he had not. All Kerry will do is hand America over to the communist and I am sure our children and grandchildren will thanks us for that gift. Kerry has told more lies during this campaign than Clinton come close to during his 8 years in office. At least we can trust George Bush to be honest about his intentions!!

God Bless you President Bush you are loved by many of the American Soldiers who go forth to protect this wonderful nation that we live in.

“In God the Soldiers Trust”

Posted by: Amanda at April 28, 2004 03:33 PM

I agree with Amanda, most Americans are easily influenced by the VERY Liberal media and there is nothing on Tv ive seen that shows those facts two entrys above this one. We have done well and im proud of Bush for doing it.

Posted by: Jesse Parrish at May 1, 2004 01:32 PM

I agree with Amanda, most Americans are easily influenced by the VERY Liberal media and there is nothing on Tv ive seen that shows those facts two entrys above this one. We have done well and im proud of Bush for doing it.

Posted by: Jesse Parrish at May 1, 2004 01:32 PM

I agree with Amanda, most Americans are easily influenced by the VERY Liberal media and there is nothing on Tv ive seen that shows those facts two entrys above this one. We have done well and im proud of Bush for doing it.

Posted by: Jesse Parrish at May 1, 2004 01:32 PM

Subject: Do you remember?

The events are actual cuts from the past history. They actually happened! Do you remember?

1. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by:
a. Olga Corbett
b. Sitting Bull
c. Arnold Schwarzenegger
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

2. In 1979, the U.S. embassy in Iran was taken over by:
a. Lost Norwegians
b. Elvis
c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

3. During the 1980’s a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
a. John Dillinger
b. The King of Sweden
c. The Boy Scouts
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

4. In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
a. A pizza delivery boy
b. Pee Wee Herman
c. Geraldo Rivera
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

5. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year-old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by:
a. The Smurfs
b. Davy Jones
c. The Little Mermaid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

6. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a U.S. Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by:
a. Captain Kidd
b. Charles Lindberg
c. Mother Teresa
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

7. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
a. Scooby Doo
b. The Tooth Fairy
c. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

8. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
a. Richard Simmons
b. Grandma Moses
c. Michael Jordan
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

9. In 1998, the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
a. Mr. Rogers
b. Hillary Clinton, to distract attention from Wild Bill’s women problems
c. The World Wrestling Federation
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

10. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by:
a. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd
b. The Supreme Court of Florida
c. Mr. Bean
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

11. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
a. Enron
b. The Lutheran Church
c. The NFL
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

12. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
a. Bonnie and Clyde
b. Captain Kangaroo
c. Billy Graham
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

Nope, I really don’t see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you?

So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people. They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, Secret agents who are members of the President’s security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winning former Governors, and leave Muslim Males between the ages 17 & 40
alone because of profiling.

Let’s send this to as many people as we can so that the Gloria Aldreds and other dunder-headed attorneys along with Federal Justices that want to thwart common sense, feel doubly ashamed of themselves if they have any such sense.

YOU BE THE JUDGE!

Posted by: Amanda at May 3, 2004 03:19 PM

May 03, 2004
Kerry ‘Unfit to be Commander-in-Chief’, Say Former Military Colleagues
Via CNSNews.com:

- - - - - - -

Hundreds of former commanders and military colleagues of presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry are set to declare in a signed letter that he is “unfit to be commander-in-chief.” They will do so at a press conference in Washington on Tuesday.

“What is going to happen on Tuesday is an event that is really historical in dimension,” John O’Neill, a Vietnam veteran who served in the Navy as a PCF (Patrol Craft Fast) boat commander, told CNSNews.com . The event, which is expected to draw about 25 of the letter-signers, is being organized by a newly formed group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

“We have 19 of 23 officers who served with [Kerry]. We have every commanding officer he ever had in Vietnam. They all signed a letter that says he is unfit to be commander-in-chief,” O’Neill said.

O’Neill, currently a Houston, Texas, based attorney, is no stranger to Kerry. O’Neill served in the same naval unit as Kerry and commanded Kerry’s swift boat after Kerry returned to the United States. Kerry’s command of the PCF boat lasted four months and ended shortly after he received his third Purple Heart. According to naval regulations at the time, any sailor who received three Purple Hearts could request a transfer out of the combat zone.

Kerry and O’Neill engaged in a nationally televised debate in 1971 on The Dick Cavett Show over Kerry’s allegations that many Vietnam soldiers had routinely engaged in atrocities such as raping and cutting off ears and heads of Vietnamese soldiers and citizens. Kerry was the then spokesman for the anti-war group Vietnam Veterans Against the War.

“We are going to be presenting a letter that deals with Kerry’s unfitness to be commander and chief that has been signed by hundreds of swift boat sailors, including most of those who served with Kerry,” O’Neill explained.

“The ranks of the people signing [the letter] range from admiral down to seaman, and they run across the entire spectrum of politics, specialties, and political feelings about the Vietnam War,” he added.

Among those scheduled to attend the event at the National Press Club and declare Kerry unfit for the role of commander-in-chief are retired Naval Rear Admiral Roy Hoffman, who was the commander of the Navy Coastal Surveillance Force, which included the swift boats on which Kerry served.

Also scheduled to be present at the event is Kerry’s former commanding officer, Lt. Commander Grant Hibbard. Hibbard recently questioned whether Kerry deserved the first of his three Purple Hearts that he received in Vietnam. Hibbard doubted both the severity of the wound and whether it resulted from enemy fire.

“I’ve had thorns from a rose that were worse” than Kerry’s wound for which he received a Purple Heart, Hibbard told the Boston Globe in April.

Organizers are confident that Tuesday’s event and the letter with hundreds of signatures will educate people about Kerry.

“It is one of the largest outpourings of concern about him being commander-in-chief that anybody could have in a presidential campaign and it is by the people who know him best,” O’Neill said.

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May 02, 2004
Meet Vietnam Veteran John Kerry
Senator John Kerry’s campaign for president will begin airing biographical ads this week in key states, aiming to introduce the four-term Senator to the voters.

ABC’s ‘The Note’, quoting Jackie Calmes’ Washington Wire (no link available), reports that ‘an aide says campaign surveys show Kerry remains unfamiliar; many voters don’t know he saw Vietnam combat.’

Meanwhile, the LA Times finds that Senator Kerry is helping spread the message about his Vietnam service whenever given the opportunity. ‘In one 24-hour period, he invoked his service:

• To fend off attacks by his Republican rivals;

• As evidence he will fight to expand healthcare;

• As evidence he understands the complicated landscape in Iraq;

• To explain his love of peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches.’

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Catholic Vote Up For Grabs
The LA Times reports that Kerry isn’t expected to see the kind of support that Kennedy got from Catholic voters 1960.

Even though Kerry will be the first Catholic to be a presidential nominee since Kennedy, Kerry can’t count on the support of the nation’s 63.4 million Catholics. Catholics are not as homogeneous as they were in 1960 when eighty percent of Catholic voters supported Kennedy. According to the LA Times:

“Today, there’s an argument to be made that there’s no such thing as the Catholic vote,” said John Kenneth White, a professor of politics at Catholic University of America. “It looks an awful lot like America.”

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In 1960, voters worried that Kennedy was so Catholic that the Vatican would have undue influence in the White House. The question today is whether Kerry is sufficiently Catholic, whether he hews closely enough to the church’s teachings to be given the sacraments — or even to align himself publicly with his faith.

“Now the pressure is coming from the bishops, not the suspicious Protestants in Kennedy’s time,” said Edward Sunshine, associate professor of theology at Barry University in Miami Shores, Fla.

The two men’s challenges are not all that have changed. Kennedy was not asked to take a public stand on polarizing issues like abortion, which was legalized in 1973, or same-sex marriage.

Catholics, once heavily Democratic, now are nearly as likely to be Republicans as Democrats. And they have reached economic parity with Protestant voters.

Posted by: Amanda at May 3, 2004 04:06 PM

Bush could have thought clearly on the consequences of the war. The U.S. troops have made an effort to improve the living situation in Iraq, unfortunately most of the people over there dont see this. What are our U.S. troops doing there? I agree this is a very unnecessary war. All the war is provoking the enemies to be against us even more. Thanks to Bush.

Posted by: KAREN at May 11, 2004 12:21 AM

There are so many of you that think for one second that Tony is the only Liberal out there.

You may be right about Iraq, but why should soldiers threaten their lives and end others to make only Americans safe? Do you realize how many families could be ruined in this war? You conservatives are using half a brain and none of your heart. If you want to invade a country that poses little threat to us, then enlist and ruin your family as well. I have seen the movie Fahrenheit 9/11. The Iraqis are not understanding why theyre being invaded. Why are half of them being killed for oil profit? Yes, oil profit. Bush knows the Saudis are responsible for terrorist attacks, but he’s making too much money to end his relationship with the bin Ladens. Yes, the Bin Ladens

Say what you want, but there are more liberals, no, people who care about life, than you think.

Posted by: Allen at June 29, 2004 08:47 AM

My god Allen, that is the most horrible posting ever, you are the other liberal, congratulations… this is the most beautiful and PERFECT demonstration of Liberal ignorance i have ever heard in my entire life… i cant help but flame you… Yes, we were right about Iraq, AND YOU BASED YOUR POST ON A MOVIE YOU SAW THAT CAME OUT OF LARGELY LIBERAL HOLYWOOD FROM A VERY WELL KNOWN LIBERAL DIRECTOR NAMED MICHAEL MOORE…. you are also trying to use sentamentilism where there is none. We did invade Iraq, but not for imperialism and definately not for profit, we have turned over power now, Iraqis love us, except for al sadr and other islamic male extremists, duh, theyve hated us for a long time now this doesnt change anything. We have opened up hospitals and schools and provided food and water, this isnt an invasion as much as a liberation. And as for people caring about life, YOU LIBERALS KILL BABIES… you know NOTHING about caring for life. Iraq was not a completely defenseless nation, they had biological and i think they tried nulear but just werent smart enough. we have proof they had biological weapons, Saddam killed 200000 people or something with them. if a terrorists hired by the iraqi regime set loose mustard gas in new york way more would die than in 9/11. michael moore is a fat overpaid liberal sellout who is a great friend of Kerry. Do you ever wonder why all of our foreign enemies want kerry as president?!!?!?

Posted by: Jesse Parrish at July 2, 2004 05:07 PM