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Thursday, October 14th, 2004A Blogs For Bush reader has informed me of something quite interesting about a story John Kerry told last night at the debate.
When asked about what he’s learned from the strong women in his life, Kerry made a point to shift his answer from discussing Teresa and his daughters to telling a story about his late mother:
Can I say, if I could just say a word about a woman that you didn’t ask about, but my mom passed away a couple years ago, just before I was deciding to run, and she was in the hospital and I went in to talk to her and tell her what I was thinking of doing. And she looked at me from her hospital bed and she just looked at me and she said, “Remember, integrity, integrity, integrity.” Those are the three words that she left me with.
Did that at all sound familiar to you? It did to me, but I couldn’t figure it out… Well, here’s why it is familiar.
Vietnam veteran John Rassman, who joined Kerry on the campaign trail earlier this year, said something remarkably similar … or should I say identical:
After serving with John Kerry, a veteran says Kerry is better suited to serve in the White House. Jim Rassman was in Eau Claire on Tuesday to campaign for Kerry. Rassman says Kerry saved his life when he pulled him out of a river during a battle in Vietnam. Rassman says he voted for Bush in 2000, but says he doesn’t plan to back the President this time around. “There are three character traits John has that George Bush does not have and they are integrity, integrity, integrity. I trust John Kerry implicitly. I don’t trust a thing George Bush tells me,” said Rassman.
Is John Kerry so lacking in integrity that he actually borroed Rassman’s quote and falsely attribute it to his own dying mother to make a political statement?
Is there anything John Kerry won’t do to influence voters?
Bush Wins Again!!!!!!
Thursday, October 14th, 2004
Bush campaign declares victory!!!
Dems on “Red” Alert in NJ
Wednesday, October 13th, 2004The campaign of President Bush has identified New Jersey as a target of “opport
unity” for Republicans after polls showed Bush and Kerry in a close race in the state, though the senator from Massachusetts holds a slim lead.“We’re doing well here,” Cheney said to cheers at a rally in Medford. “The signs are good here in New Jersey.”
Bush and Cheney lost New Jersey by double-digits in 2000 and the state has gone Democratic in the past three presidential elections.
But the Bush campaign hopes to capitalize on its advantage in statewide polls on the issue of terrorism. New Jersey lost nearly 700 residents in the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
Democrats dismissed Cheney’s visit as a feint aimed at drawing Kerry’s attention and resources away from the real battleground states.
That’s interesting. Democrats are miffed that they actually have to fight to keep New Jersey in the blue? The Kerry campaign may scoff at the idea that Bush and Cheney could carry the state, but recent visits to the New Jersey by Edwards suggests they know they have to defend New Jersey in order to keep it in their column. Clearly they aren’t happy having to spend valuable time and money defending a state that has been safe territory for their party in the past.
John Kerry: Hypocrite on Taxes
Monday, October 11th, 2004Jonathan over at Blogs For Bush has pointed out that while John Kerry says “the rich” should pay their fair share of taxes, Kerry himself has used loopholes to pay as little in taxes as possible.
Jason notes that John Kerry’s pledge to not raise taxes on people who make less than $200,000 was broken by his own proposed tax policy.
John Kerry: Terrorism A “Nuisance”, like Fighting Prostitution and Illegal Gambling
Sunday, October 10th, 2004John Kerry’s perception of the war on terror has gotten increasingly disturbing throughout this campaign. He told us during his acceptance speech at the DNC he’d only hit the terrorists after were attacked. Now, he’s equating terrorism to prostitution and illegal gambling:
”We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they’re a nuisance,” Kerry said. ”As a former law-enforcement person, I know we’re never going to end prostitution. We’re never going to end illegal gambling. But we’re going to reduce it, organized crime, to a level where it isn’t on the rise. It isn’t threatening people’s lives every day, and fundamentally, it’s something that you continue to fight, but it’s not threatening the fabric of your life.”
Terrorism a “nuisance”? Fighting terror is like fighting prostitution and illegal gambling?
Reality check for John Kerry: Terrorism is a real threat to our country, it is not a simple “nuisance” and it never will be. Clearly, John Kerry thinks that eventually we’ll just get to the point where we can just deal with the existence of terrorism and not eradicate it. How can John Kerry compare terrorists to a “nuisance” like gambling and prostitution?
Sorry Mr. Kerry, most Americans want us to fight the war on terror to win it, not reduce it to levels where we simply become complacent about it.
John Kerry thinks that terrorism is more a law enforcement issue, not a military operation.
John Kerry does not understand the threat to our country.
John Kerry does not plan to eliminate terrorism; he just wants to reduce it.
John Kerry is satisfied with terrorism being a mere “nuisance”… whatever that means.
John Kerry does not realize he’s running to be our Commander-In-Chief, not our chief prosecutor.
Make no mistake, John Kerry is the wrong person to lead the war on terror.
Debate #2
Friday, October 8th, 2004I will be live blogging the debate tonight over at Blogs For Bush
John Kerry Has Been Outsourcing Truth
Friday, October 8th, 2004One of John Kerry’s major arguments on the economy has been obliterated by a recent study released today that states, “Fears that an exodus of white-collar jobs to India and other low-wage economies will lead to massive employment losses in rich countries such as the United States and Britain are not backed up by the facts.”
In a working paper for the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research, two International Monetary Fund staffers discover no evidence that job growth in Britain is slower in those sectors with a quicker pace of service outsourcing.
They also find no link between job losses and outsourcing in the United States because outsourcing, by boosting firms’ efficiency, creates enough new jobs to offset the initial losses.
IMF researchers Mary Amiti and Shang-Jin Wei say that “the risk of service outsourcing dramatically reducing job growth in the advanced economies has been greatly exaggerated.” The findings of this latest study concur with other assesments by analysts, “including Diana Farrell of McKinsey Global Institute in San Francisco and Catherine Mann of the Institute for International Economics in Washington.”
In fact, the report also says that the United States benefits from jobs that insourced into the country:
In balance-of-payments statistics, outsourced services count as imports. In the United States, such imports of computing and business services have roughly doubled since 1993 thanks to the growth of fast, cheap telecommunications but were still only 0.4 percent of gross domestic product in 2003.
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“In sum, the notion that large industrialized countries outsource more intensely than other economies is not supported by the trade data,” Amiti and Wei write.
Amit and Wei also say that “the presumption that global service trade is dominated by lopsided one-way outsourcing from developed countries to developing countries is not supported by the data.”
This report absolutely destroys Kerry’s claims that outsourcing has hurt our economy.
But will John Kerry stop telling his lies? Doubtful. Last month when Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao tried to bring out the facts on outsourcing, John Kerry said, “I have no idea how they [the Bush Administration] could say that.”
Maybe because the facts all prove that John Kerry’s position on outsourcing is erroneous. The only outsourcing that has been bad for America has been John Kerry’s outsourcing of the truth. Kerry continually lies to the American people about our economy, and he is sure to continue to ignore the facts.
Cheney Won
Wednesday, October 6th, 2004I’ve heard for months now that John Edwards is some talented trial lawyer whose experience awarded him with great communication skills, and perhaps even the power of persuasion.
That esteemed trial lawyer was not in court tonight.
I watched Edwards closely tonight. He often appeared shaken (not stirred) by Cheney rebuttals – even if only slightly. The confident smiling trial lawyer I expected to see go against our vice-president just was not there tonight.
Edwards tried to make the debate about Cheney and Bush, but Edwards was often using his energy to defend not only himself, but John Kerry. Unable to offer any convincing defense of Kerry’s “global test” gaffe, Edwards looked like a little boy jumping up and down for attention, while Dick Cheney was clearly the man of experience and knowledge. The split screen shots brought that image to the audience – giving the voter to reflect on the question, “If one of these two had to take over for the President in a time of crisis, who would you want to be in that position?”
No doubt about it… that man is Dick Cheney.
When the moderator asked, “What is a global test if it is not a global veto” Edwards crumbled and avoided answering the question. This devastating moment for Edwards reveals that even a well-experiencd trial lawyer couldn’t defend John Kerry’s statement.
Two moments stand out to me in the debate. When Dick Cheney said, “if [John Kerry and John Edwards] couldn’t stand up to the pressures that Howard Dean represented, how can we expect them to standup to Al Qaeda?” That line will be a soundbyte that will resonate with voters, and so accurately describes the waffling of the Kerry ticket.
All John Edwards had to defend his ticket with was meaningless rhetoric. When Edwards said, “A long résumé does not equal good judgment,” it was demoralized admission of his own inexperience, which, in contrast to Cheney’s long record of public service, perpetuated the image that John Edwards is an unproven and untested politician whom we cannot risk having as Vice President of the United States.
All the trial lawyer experience in the world couldn’t have helped Edwards tonight. He dug his own grave, and Cheney buried him.
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