Democratic candidates take turns bashing Bush at Urban League conference

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.post-gazette.com/election/20030729dems0729p1.asp

Democratic presidential candidates joined in a round of tag-team Bush-bashing yesterday, taking turns flaying his administration's performance on education, the economy and national security.

Seven Democrats spoke on the same stage the president had occupied just hours earlier, addressing delegates of the National Urban League conference at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Downtown.

Had he stuck around, the president wouldn't have liked what he heard.

Howard Dean, former governor of Vermont, said Bush had played the race card on affirmative action. The Rev. Al Sharpton accused Bush of lying. All of the candidates bemoaned the administration's record of job losses, while U.S. Rep. Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., said Bush had displayed "a serious case of wishful thinking" in predicting the economy had begun to turn around.

Bush elicited a polite if not electric reception from the predominantly African-American group in late-morning remarks that highlighted his support for faith-based institutions amid a familiar defense of his administration's policies on the economy and in response to terrorism.


Howard Dean, the former governor of Vermont who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, chats with Mark McLawhorn, 18, a student from South Carolina and a Dean supporter, as the candidate makes his way into the convention center for yesterday's forum. (John Heller, Post-Gazette)

[sonias]

1. It's not bashing it's called truth

What the candidates were quoted as saying about bu$h is the truth. If hearing any of it would have made * uncomfortable, it would have been because he knows it's the truth. He just doesn't want to hear it. He's in complete denial, he thinks everybody loves him.

Can't wait til we kick him out of our White House.

Sonia

[are_we_united_yet]

2. Good point.

Bushco has screwed so much up, it is actually difficult to bash them.

[PartyPooper]

5. Preaching to the choir.

The National Urban League knows what the Dems presented was all factual...just as they know what * presented was all lies and B.S.!

[Cha]

3. As Harry Truman said ..."I give 'em the Truth and they think

it's Hell."

I like that picture of Dean and Mark McLawhorn! Nice to have the younger supporters, too! :kick:

[RamboLiberal]

4. Here's another of the camera hates * photos

[indictrichardperle]

6. i think the Harry Truman comparison is a good one

same blunt, no BS approach. Dean is a great speaker, fast on his feet. The "hothead" label, also is crap. If you arent pissed, youre part of the problem.

[study_war_no_more]

7. we have lost american lives in iraq

because of the greed and desire for empire. Bring our boys home now and let the UN take over. Dennis K.