What should Kerry bring up tomorrow night??

[disneyboy]

The Movie? The Draft? The SC Justices? The 10 Commandments? Gas going up 8 cents? How Bush wants a theocracy? Scalia? Thomas? etc?

[Skidmore]

1. The general topics of lying and privilege and

relate each of the above to them.

[DrFunkenstein]

2. Health Care, The Economy, Stem Cell Research, Renewable Energy

Maybe bring up Cheney's position on amending the Constitution.

[olddem43]

3. All of Bush's bad decisions -

Should take up most of his 45 minutes.

[agingdem]

4. How about...

the fact that Bush lives in a bubble of his own making? Kerry should ask him if he or his handlers know or care (exact words) that more people are in poverty and that the middle class is shrinking; that more children are without health care; and that the air is unbreathable and the lakes and rivers are polluted.

[tokenlib]

5. When Cheney was at Walmart HQ

Kerry needs to hit Bush on Bush creating service sector jobs that pay on average $9000 a year less than the good manufacturing jobs we've lost to outsourcing. Kerry needs to hit on the trend of stagnant-reduced wages and benefits. And Kerry can tie it up with the Cheney quote to the Wal-Mart people that "Walmart is the exemplification of what the Bush economy means for America!"

But as much as I love this idea--I suppose it would be dangerous to attack the source of those low prices that the uninformed masses love.

[demokatgurrl]

6. Daddy Bush.

[NewJeffCT]

7. 3 things on the economy

Also posted this in the other thread of the same name...

1) Point out how awful the 1.9 million jobs created in 13 months really is. The Republicans keep bringing that up again and again like it is awesome. I think Rush & Hannity both orgasmed reading the numbers.(previously, it was 1.7 million created in 12 months, then we create 96,000 jobs and go up to 1.9 million in 13 months????). Use these two statistics: a) An average 13 month period under Bill Clinton – average, mind you – brought you over 3 million new jobs and; b) In the same 13 months that we created 1.9 million new jobs, our working age population grew by about 2 million people.
2) When George W. Bush took office, the majority of taxes in this country were paid by the rich. Now, thanks to Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy, the rich no longer pay the most taxes – that burden falls to the middle class. (There was a recent non partisan study released on this, but I forgot the name)
3) The average family income is down for the first time in X years. The few new jobs that are being created are much lower paying than the jobs that were lost. Couple the lower average income with rising costs for gasoline, increased property taxes and other inflationary items like milk, and the middle class & working class of America are really hurting.

[Bandit]

8. If I were him I would bring up quotes from republicans in 1993

Every single Republican voted against Clinton's first budget. Every single one. They made many comments like Clinton's budget would cause irreversable damage to the economy. They said it was impossible to raise taxes during a recession that it would destroy America. Al Gore had to cast the Tie-breaking vote but America went on to experience the greatest economic expansion in history. 22 million new jobs, crime down every year, etc. etc. Bush* gets in and puts his budget into place with every Republican voting for it and America experiences the greatest economic turn around in history. The first pResident since the Great Depression to actually lose jobs and putting America into the deepest debt ever in it's history. Very striking differences in how to manage the economy. Eight years of Peace and Prosperity verses Warand Debt and more war and debt with no end in sight.

[RobertDevereaux]

9. Chimpy's lunch!

[Thrill]

10. 39M Americans in Working Poor Families

say it. Say it. Say it often

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