One sentence to blow Bush away tonight:

[ladybugg33]

"Everything that was ever done by the government to help PEOPLE, was done by Democrats."

Supporting statements: social security, depression work programs, medicare, head start, utility regulations and airline regulation (that Republicans have since removed), aid for college education, workplace protections, civil rights, military education, veterns benefits. Why the hell shouldn't Democrats be proud of their record (except for segregationists which are all now Republicans)and be proud to be called liberals?

[lil-petunia]

1. But Nixon started the EPA.

and despite Shrub's attacks on it, it has made a HUGE difference.

[SayitAintSo]

4. I was going to post that exact same thing .... but that's about it !!!

As far as I know - pretty slim pickings....

[nostamj]

9. he can use that!

In fact Mr. President, the one program initiated by a republican that was doing something good for the people of American was the EPA under Nixon, and you've gutted those regulations and left enforcement in the hands of industry lobbyists.

[cornfedyank]

2. mr. pResident; If this war is so right, why not PAY for IT NOW??

Deficit spending is a tax increase on Posterity.

[DrFunkenstein]

3. Partisanship Won't Swing People

But bringing up these programs certainly will be effective.

[nycmjkfan]

5. I like the one someone posted earlier:

"You can hide, but you can't run on your record"

[HysteryDiagnosis]

6. Woo hoo!! I hope he lays it on him... "very nice" n/t

[IdaBriggs]

7. Re: "Run Can't Hide" -- "I thought we weren't talking about Osama?" nt

[H2O Man]

8. I wish that Kerry would

challenge Bush to two more debates -- one in each of the next two weeks -- in order to further discuss their differences on foreign and domestic policy. Then we'll see Bush put on the hot seat.

[PurityOfEssence]

10. I'M out of the mainstream? You don't even believe in evolution.

or much of any science as far as I can tell.

[beaconess]

11. Al Sharpton pointed this out in his Convention speech

in response to Bush's claim that Democrats don't do enough for minorities and that the Republicans are the party of Lincoln:

You said the Republican Party was the party of Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule.

That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.

Mr. President, you said would we have more leverage if both parties got our votes, but we didn't come this far playing political games. It was those that earned our vote that got our vote.

We got the Civil Rights Act under a Democrat. We got the Voting Rights Act under a Democrat. We got the right to organize under Democrats.

Mr. President, the reason we are fighting so hard, the reason we took Florida so seriously, is our right to vote wasn't gained because of our age. Our vote was soaked in the blood of martyrs, soaked in the blood of good men, soaked in the blood of four little girls in Birmingham. This vote is sacred to us.

This vote can't be bargained away. This vote can't be given away.

Mr. President, in all due respect, Mr. President, read my lips: Our vote is not for sale.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21903-2004Jul28.html

[EndElectoral]

12. It is immoral....and list hundreds of things on this watch

[zulchzulu]

13. The President has been a cheerleader in the past....

Bringing up Chimpy's Pom Pom Past will at least get him to blink and smirk A LOT.