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01 Dec 2007 10:55:19 AM |
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It's a hoot when all the finger pointing begins |
Amongst the democrat demagogues!
Details below:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071201/ap_on_el_pr/democrats_presidential_candidates_8
VIENNA, Va. - Democratic presidential candidates faulted their own party as
well as assailing Republicans as they pitched their candidacies to the
staunchest of Democrats on Friday.
Bill Richardson, John Edwards, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Dennis Kucinich
addressed officials who make up the Democratic National Committee, their
last opportunity to speak to such a gathering before the first presidential
voting begins in January. Hillary Rodham Clinton was scheduled to speak,
too, but canceled after a man took hostages at her office in Rochester, N.H.
Richardson did not go easy on the party, assailing the Democratic-controlled
Congress for its failure to accomplish more and calling on the party to win
back people's confidence.
"That begins with proving that we're listening to them," he said.
"Look at the last twelve months. Not only are we still in Iraq, we still
have the failure called No Child Left Behind. We still have 9 million
children with no health insurance. We're still allowing this president to
thumb his nose at the Bill of Rights. We're slipping into a recession,"
Richardson said. "And we can't even reject an attorney general who refuses
to condemn torture."
Edwards blamed Democrats as well as Republicans for isolating Washington
from the rest of the country.
"The American people are on the outside," he said. "And on the other side,
on the inside, are the powerful, the well-connected and the very wealthy.
.... The truth is that it's not just Republicans who built this wall.
Democrats helped."
Obama called for tossing out past electoral strategies to embrace
independents and disaffected Republicans. Without mentioning front-runner
Hillary Rodham Clinton's name, he suggested that if she were to win the
nomination, Republicans would reprise the divisions of the 1990s.
"They're counting on the same bitter partisanship and the same electoral map
that we've had for far too long," he said of the Republican Party.
Biden, noting his long tenure in the Senate, portrayed himself as the
Democrat best able to withstand Republican criticism.
"Before a Democrat can lead, he or she must get elected," he said. "We know
the Republican playbook. They'll say we're weak. They'll play on people's
fears, not their hopes. Ask yourself: Who do you want in the ring to take
their best shots and then give it back, better, harder, and faster than they
gave it?"
Clinton never made it to the Sheraton Premiere Hotel in Vienna, and DNC
Chairman Howard Dean announced from the podium that she would not make an
address. Outside the hall, aides kept track of the hostage news on their
mobile phones and on television screens scattered around the lobby.
Sen. Christopher Dodd skipped the session to campaign in Iowa.
Biden, before beginning his speech, somberly said he heard the news about
the hostage taking as he made his way to Washington from his home in
Wilmington, Del., and said he spoke for everybody in hoping "it all works
out right."
"I wish Hillary the best of luck," he added.
Kucinich alluded to the hostage situation during his speech.
"We're in solidarity totally at this moment as we think about what she's
going through," he said.
Both Edwards' and Obama's speeches clearly had Clinton's candidacy in mind.
Clinton, ahead in national polls but bunched with both men in Iowa, is
perceived in some surveys as being too calculating and of telling voters
what they want to hear.
"Poll driven positions because you're worried about what Mitt or Rudy might
say about it just won't do," Obama said.
"Too many politicians from both parties are choosing self-preservation over
principle, compromise over convictions," Edwards said.
But all had a common foil as well - President Bush. Some of the loudest
applause came when each of the candidates reminded DNC members that whatever
the outcome next November, Bush would no longer be president.
Obama joked that "my cousin ***** Cheney" won't be on the ballot, a reference
to a study that found the two men share an ancestor. "We've been trying to
hide that for a long time," he added.
And Edwards specifically distinguished himself from Bush.
"It is time for a president who asks America to be patriotic about something
other than war," he said. "As your president, I will call on you to
sacrifice so that we can move this country forward again."
Richardson, trying hard to join the front-runners in the polls, chastised
the field for not talking more about jobs and voiced implicit criticism of
Obama, Edwards and Clinton for suggesting that some troops may have to stay
in Iraq for some time.
"This is the hard reality - you can't say you'll end the war in Iraq if
you're leaving thousands of troops behind, or if you won't even commit to
removing them by 2013," he said.
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| User: "llorT kreM gliB" |
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| Title: Re: It's a hoot when all the finger pointing begins |
02 Dec 2007 05:02:14 AM |
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"MioMyo" <USA_unpatriot@Somewhere.com> wrote in message
news:Xlg4j.22367$4V6.18629@newssvr14.news.prodigy.net...
Amongst the democrat demagogues!
This kind of rightarded nonsense is why you KKKrooKKKed lying repugnigoons
can't win elections.
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| User: "Rich Travsky" |
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| Title: Re: It's a hoot when all the finger pointing begins |
01 Dec 2007 10:29:11 PM |
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MioMyo wrote:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/22339.html
November 29, 2007
Republicans eat their own in increasingly nasty race
Remember Ronald Reagan's famed 11th commandment, do not speak ill of
fellow Republicans?
It looks as if this year's presidential candidates have forgotten it.
At Wednesday's CNN/YouTube debate, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani
accused former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney of running a "sanctuary
mansion" because Romney had illegal immigrants doing yard work at his
home.
Earlier in the week, Giuliani's campaign manager called Romney a
"mediocre one-term governor."
Romney has lambasted Giuliani's judgment in hiring as police
commissioner Bernie Kerik, who was indicted on corruption charges
recently.
....
But rarely has the level of personal nastiness among Republican
contenders — beyond simple policy disagreements — risen so early and
so systemically, and been conducted so openly by the candidates
themselves and their campaigns.
``Clearly, the candidates are beginning to more directly attack each
other," said Peverill Squire, a political scientist at the University
of Iowa.
....
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