What Bob Dole said after Clinton beat Bush I to what Kerry has (not) said:

[Lex]

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from www.liberaloasis.com:


On Nov. 4, 1992, the day after Bill Clinton beat George H.W. Bush by 5 percentage points and 202 electoral votes, this was the first thing out of Sen. Bob Dole's mouth:

57 percent of the Americans who voted in the presidential election voted against Bill Clinton, and I intend to represent that majority on the floor of the US Senate.

He finished his remarks with:

I think got some good news and some bad news last night...

...The good news is that he's getting a honeymoon in Washington. The bad news is that Bob Dole is going to be chaperone.

With that fighting attitude, the GOP stymied the centerpiece of Clinton's agenda, health care, and took over Congress in two years.


Compare that attitude with what was displayed by the lone Dem on the Sunday shows, Sen.-elect Barack Obama. From NBC's Meet The Press:

...one of the things I told the president was that we all have a stake in seeing him have a successful presidency.

I don't think that the Democrats succeed by rooting against the president in office.



http://www.liberaloasis.com/archives/110704.htm#110804

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Arrrrrrghhhhhhh. Why doesn't Kerry issue a press statement or SOMETHING hard-nosed to let the GOP know that he doesn't intend to roll over? And that OUR BELIEFS of inclusiveness and choice are worth fighting for?

[JanMichael]

1. Heh. It's almost funny the way we bend over the fence.

If we haven't learned by now that ass kissing doesn't win votes then we probably never will.

[grannylib]

2. Send that along to Olbermann and others...I'd like to see us keep hammerin

on the gross hypocrisy that has come to characterize the Repugnican party over the last two decades and then some (ever since the RayGun years at least).
Dole is a bastard. Bitter old fuck.

[rockydem]

3. truly interesting juxtaposition

[libbygurl]

4. Arrggghhhh, indeed! At least John Edwards' concession speech gave me hope,

while John Kerry's just left me feeling abandoned.

The Dems need more fighters!

[are_we_united_yet]

You know

that is downright scary

[are_we_united_yet]

5. self delete

[DELUSIONAL]

6. If the democrats continue like this

I will have to look for another party -- or return to being an Independent.

Statements like this don't represent me. We cannot lay down and roll over -- if anything the GOP taught us to fight hard when we are the under-dogs.

[drunkdriver-in-chief]

7. Americans don't want nice leaders right now

In this age of terrorism they want a dirty-fighting bastard like bush in the WH. The undecided voters listened to the pure and noble dems and said "if they won't even fight the republicans, how can they fight the terrorists?."

Dems can't seem to understand that americans don't like dirty fighters but they really loathe the man who won't fight at all.

[Cha]

8. How long will it take Obama to

find out they don't give a shit what Democrats think in Washington D.C.?

Obama is king of the hill in Illinois but in D.C. he's going to get a reality check.

[Lex]

12. Right now it starting to appall me that Kerry hasn't

issued a tough statement right now--about his supporters, our beliefs, the fight ahead, etc.

I mean, WTF?

[unblock]

9. please edit your subject line, '92? '96?

the dole quotes appear to be from '92, after clinton beat bush sr.

dole ran against clinton in '96.

[Lex]

11. Fixed it. Thanks.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

10. This party is done for if our leaders don't get tough!

[Lex]

13. But WHY won't they? Isn't there a tough fighter in the bunch?

It is starting to get really depressing.