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deminflorida Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 12:51 AM
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Dean said.....Unbelievable, Simply Unbelievable
That George Bush in his soul is a Moderate, and that he'd be elected to two terms....

On most children of unwed mothers ending up on welfare, Dean said that is crap, absolute crap!

Forget the comments on Iowa, the real meat is in the rest of the video!

Unbelievable

www.msnbc.com

The Dean Tapes....
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slinkerwink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 12:53 AM
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1. this was when Bush was GOVERNOR and before he STOLE the election
to many Texans and people that knew about Bush at the time, he was a FUCKING MODERATE!
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MIMStigator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 12:55 AM
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8. It says it was after the 2000 election
In an appearance after the 2000 presidential election, Dean made this comment about his former fellow governor, George W. Bush. “George Bush, I believe, is in his soul a moderate.”
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BootinUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 12:56 AM
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9. Not according to Molly Ivins n/t
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eileen_d Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 12:58 AM
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14. What is a "fucking moderate" anyway?
Do they get girls "sort of" pregnant?
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 01:03 AM
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23. moderates sign 152 death warrants in 6 years?
Edited on Fri Jan-09-04 01:05 AM by JohnKleeb
He always called himself conservative, "compassionate conservatism" remember that travesty, now he did give the appearance of a moderate but he was no moderate. I read some of Ivins' one book, I forget what, said something like the only issue he was like moderate on was education.
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Buffler Donating Member (325 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 12:01 PM
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94. In Texas
the Gov. does not have the ability to commute death sentences. The only thing the Gov. can do is stay an execution for 30 days, one time. Which I believe he did a whopping 1 time. Though I believe Ann Richards also only did it once.
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Clark Campaigner Donating Member (186 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 01:03 AM
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24. Dean obviously doesn't think Bush stole the election
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slinkerwink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 01:16 AM
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31. it was in December of 2000!!!!!!!
comprende?
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Clark Campaigner Donating Member (186 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 01:30 AM
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39. yes, and the election was stolen in November of 2000
Edited on Fri Jan-09-04 01:30 AM by Clark Campaigner
The SCOTUS ruled on Bush v. Gore Dec 12, 2000.
Earlier in the same month that Dean said Bush would be elected twice.

comprende?

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Eric J in MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 08:28 AM
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68. In December 2000, there wasn't much information yet on the purge
In December 2000, there wasn't much information yet on the purge of 60,000 mostly legal, mostly black voters from the rolls.
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lurk_no_more Donating Member (582 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 10:31 AM
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84. Dean said Bush would be elected twice?
elected twice?.....Once would've been nice before thinking twice!

Take this statement along with "America may not always have the strongest military" I seriously doubt that dean should be President, much less will be.


And then there were none!
” JAFO”



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Clark Campaigner Donating Member (186 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 10:56 AM
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87. that's right, Dean said Bush would be "re-elected" in 2004!
Edited on Fri Jan-09-04 10:56 AM by Clark Campaigner
It's the shocking truth, and sort of deflates all of his angry talk about Bush and Florida 2000.
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 01:03 AM
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25. He said it in DECEMBER 2000.
The election was...in NOVEMBER 2000. He ALSO said that people shouldn't think that Bush is a 1 term president. How's that for hypocrisy?
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lurk_no_more Donating Member (582 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 03:43 PM
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96. These statements of bush's (re?) election
make me wonder since dean has been contemplating a Presidential run for how long now? Something in dean's statements really bother me.


And then there were none!
” JAFO”

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deminflorida Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 01:05 AM
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26. Slinkerwink....
I respect you allot and you know that, and I respect your support for your candidate.....

but if this kind of shit right here is repeated, well sorry but I'll continue:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=86201
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cthrumatrix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 08:02 AM
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60. 3 yrs ago...it's not like he voted repug --- Like the general has !!!!!!!
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DemBones DemBones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 08:55 AM
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73. Clark admits he's voted both GOP and Dem, but

that's not a crime. Lots of voters switch parties at some point, or simply vote for the other party sometimes.

If Clark had been holding office as a Democrat all his life, that would be a strange claim to make, but he's just entered politics. His entry into the political world has been a lot like Eisenhower's, which is not surprising since military personnel are supposed to be nonpartisan.

There is also no guarantee that Dean, or anyone else, has never voted Republican. Even if a candidate claims to have always voted Democratic, there's no way to check on the claim.

This criticism of Clark is a weak one.
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 12:53 AM
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2. Why is it shocking that he would call someone on a lie about single
mothers? He was right.
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Jerseycoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 12:54 AM
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6. Yes
I applaud him for that.
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Jerseycoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 12:53 AM
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3. I saw it
I say the meat is Iowa. Dee-lish
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AP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 12:53 AM
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4. When Bush got elected I thought the WORST thing that could happen is that
he'd be moderate. I had no doubt in my mind that he was not a moderate at heart. But I thought he'd present the face of moderate, and use that to do all the things under the surface that would deeply entrench the Republican Party.

I've been astounded by how blatant they've been in exposing what's in their hearts.
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BootinUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 12:58 AM
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Notice the shift though recently?
Americans have a short memory when it comes to politics. Prescription Drugs anyone?
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AP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 01:02 AM
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22. All this mars/moon mission shit is to make Bush seem like JFK.
They're going to spend all year trying to make people forget the shit they pulled in years 1-3.
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DemBones DemBones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 09:14 AM
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74. To seem like JFK, AND to bankrupt the Treasury

with expanded military and space expenditures. More and more, it seems obvious they want to "grow the deficit" by giving government money (which Bush kept saying in his 2000 campaign was OUR money) to their cronies in the defense and space industries. This will make it necessary to keep cutting funds for public education (educated workers have to be paid too much), Social Security, Medicare, etc. (people should take care of themselves), etc. It's also about a military domination of space and other planets. The US is going to hell in a handbasket with this crew.

Tony Blankley (editor of Moonie-owned Washington Times) is on Washington Journal right now being happy about Bush's new ideas for a moon program, etc. He doesn't like Bush's plan re: illegal immigrants, though.
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madfloridian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 12:54 AM
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5. When he worked with Bush as a governor, he always said that.
He has learned like the rest of us, Bush is no moderate.

Have you posted something nice about your candidate tonight?
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MIMStigator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 12:56 AM
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11. No he said it AFTER the 2000 election says the article
In an appearance after the 2000 presidential election, Dean made this comment about his former fellow governor, George W. Bush. “George Bush, I believe, is in his soul a moderate.”
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dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 01:00 AM
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19. but before he governed
it was December.
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slinkerwink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 01:17 AM
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33. Bush took OFFICE in JANUARY 2000......
and this was before we know how fucking radical his administration would get.
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Eric J in MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 08:26 AM
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66. No, Bush took office in January 2001 (nt)
nt
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deminflorida Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 01:00 AM
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18. Well I haven't posted anything like this, that's for sure....
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whirlygigspin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 12:55 AM
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7. I've seen every episode of the Editors
and I hope you get a chance to see them too, the more they show em'
the better for Dean.

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maxanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 12:56 AM
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10. unwed mothers
On most children of unwed mothers ending up on welfare, Dean said that is crap, absolute crap!


He's right - so what's the problem?
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madfloridian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 01:30 AM
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38. He looked at the guy and said "unmitigated crap!" I cheered.
Because it was crappy what the guy said and Dean called him on it. Loved it. He was so right. Righteous anger.
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HFishbine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 08:04 AM
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61. What's wrong with it? He said the "C" word.
I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you. What a potty mouth.
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deminflorida Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 10:52 AM
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86. Nope I was wrong on this one....
I fell for the way it was being spun, (i.e. like Dean saying no to some kind of benefit)...your right it was an insult to single Moms and Dean was right...
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quinnox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 12:57 AM
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12. I had a different take
Edited on Fri Jan-09-04 12:57 AM by quinnox
The Iowa stuff is the only thing that will hurt him, the rest wasn't that noteworthy. But the Iowa caucus insults could be a huge deal, we will have to see what happens.
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maxanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 12:59 AM
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17. except
he wasn't talking about Iowa specifically.
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adamrsilva Donating Member (636 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 12:58 AM
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13. I thought Bush was a moderate too. An idiot, but a moderate.
In December of 2000, before Bush even took office. None of us had any idea what kind of radical he'd become, nor that it'd be possible that he could get away with it under the guise of 9/11. I see nothing damaging in this statement, in the context. Of course, all of Dean's statements are taken out of context so...
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 01:13 AM
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29. Oh, no, you're wrong...
Some of us knew what was coming with Bush. Some of us followed the family and watched his record in Texas and pretty much tried to get the message out. However, people kept saying, that there was no difference in Bush and Gore-like that was serious. And other people believed it.

But, yes, some of us did know what was coming. I nearly lost several friends trying to warn them. I guess they've learned now.
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slinkerwink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 01:18 AM
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35. that was the minority---the majority believed Bush was a moderate
and we've ALL learned now what a fucking radical neoconservative Bush is!
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 01:24 AM
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36. Then the majority was far more stupid than I ever thought
Because I saw through that piece of crap from day one. If you (the generic you, not you personally) thought Bush was a "moderate" after 6 years as governor of Texas, you weren't paying any attention to his record. His entire career has been one of division, as has that of his father. He always talked the talk of moderation, but he NEVER walked the walk.
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 01:35 AM
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41. I saw it too...and you and I are just stupid mississippians, huh.
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stopbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 02:21 AM
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42. You know, if your candidate (Clark) gets the nomination, I'll
Edited on Fri Jan-09-04 02:24 AM by stopbush
support him just like I would any other Dem. OK, not Lieberman.

That said, it strikes me as odd that you're jumping on the bash Dean wagon over these tapes. This is all part of the anti-Dean onslaught that the RW has launched to stop a candidate that scares the crap out of them. If they can make it look like a Dem-inspired feeding frenzy, all the better.

The bits I saw on TV tonight were not at all damning. They show Howard Dean staking out some pretty traditional Dem positions. I especially liked when he called that guy on his unwed mother crap.

And if Dean was cutting bush some slack a few DAYS after the SCOTUS selection, so what? Al Gore himself was out calling for the country to unite behind bush. Sure, I - like you - saw through the bush piece of crap from day one as well, but what would you have liked Dean to have said? "I disagree with Al Gore, Bush just stole the election and he should rot in hell?" Ain't gonna happen.

But enough about Dean. What was your guy doing during this time? Neither Clark nor Dean was running for prez in Dec 2000. Was Clark denouncing bush for the piece of crap he was and is? If memory serves correctly, he was a registered repug at the time (when did Clark finally announce that he was a Dem anyway?). At least Dean woke up and saw bush for what he really was shortly thereafter and started speaking out against him and his policies. Again, check my memory, but wasn't Clark running around raising money for repugs during that time and well into bush's reign of error? Wasn't Clark giving speeches for repugs? Wasn't Clark by his own admission the one who was sitting by the phone waiting for the repugs to call him (though they never did)?

Maybe the media will make those tapes available next week.

In the interest of fairness, you really should apply the same litmus tests to Clark as you're applying to Dean.
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 07:55 AM
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59. I haven't jumped on any anti-Dean bandwagon
But JChild and I both had enough to see through the "George Bush is a moderate" BS. That didn't take much savvy at all.
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cally Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 10:37 AM
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85. Clark NEVER registered, at all
Few in Arkansas register a party. Clark was an independent who voted Democratic in the last three Presidential elections. After leaving the Army, he made a portion of his living at speaking engagements. He helped campaign for Democrtatic candidates and did a favor for a Republican friend and spoke to a fundraiser. There he didn't trash this maladministration, but basically said that he respects some of his advisors.

For the past four months, many supporters of other candidates have repeated over and over that Clark is a Republican. I've seen so many folks in this thread righteously state that they would never vote for a candidate that ever said anything positive about the Bushistas.

I find the hypocrisy on this thread astounding by many of you. Dean said that Bush is a moderate after seeing what Bush did in Texas? After the shenanigans in Florida? I had heard what went on there by that time, I would guess someone as well connected as Dean had heard much more.

Give it a rest. Most politicians to my dismay didn't attack Bush from the get go. Dean included. Democrats abandoned Gore.
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jfiling Donating Member (34 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 01:27 AM
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37. ?
A "radical neoconservative" is a contradiction. BTW, I'd love to know your definition of "neoconservative", because from what I've seen, Bush is no kind of conservative at all. He's a panderer, but not just to conservatives. Conservatives don't toy with illegal immigrant amnesty or expand the welfare state. They also tend to be fiscally conservative, which is half of what I want in a president, along with a social liberal.
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 08:05 AM
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63. I never thought Bush was a moderate.
Anyone who did could not possibly have known anything about his actions in Texas.
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Eric J in MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 08:35 AM
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71. which actions in Texas? (nt)
nt
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 11:28 AM
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88. How about bankrupting the state through giveaway
tax cuts to the very wealthy, how about destruction of the states social service network (health dept, employment service, welfare dept), how about appointments of rightwing cronies to serve as agency heads, run the courts and manage state government, how about ignoring environmental laws and letting polluters slide? I don't live in Texas but I can read newspapers.

Try asking a Texan if you want the rest of the story. He has devastated the state, both financially, legally, and environmentally.
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 12:59 AM
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15. of all the places to see that MSNBC garbage promoted
DU?

We should be laughing our asses of and firing off angry letters.

Promoting this crap? Here?

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dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 12:59 AM
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16. What is simply unbelievable is you
Dean actually said we shouldn't dismiss the idea Bush would be reelected.
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RevolutionStartsNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 01:00 AM
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20. If you miss the tapes, read this article...
These tapes may be dynamite for Dean, and I mean that in a good way. Of course Drudge and the other campaigns will take stuff out of context and ignore the best parts, but these tapes appear to show the real Howard Dean, and I just like him more and more.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/Default.aspx?id=3908334&p1=0

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GobGoober Donating Member (78 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 01:01 AM
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21. Man, based on this place, I thought it was over for Dean
I actually liked what I saw on those tapes. I don't know what the hell the guys dissin Dean over these tapes were smokin, but they should not bogart.

Share with your leftist buddies. we're all out to get those Bush bastards together.

:evilgrin:

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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 01:09 AM
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28. Bush is a moderate. Bush is a moderate.
Bush is a moderate.

Bush is a radical. Bush is a radical. Bush is a radical.

Hey. If Clark can't say nice things about republicans. Neither can Dean.
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JaneQPublic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 01:05 AM
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27. Hell, I'd show these videos at the next Dean Meetup!!!
Get real, do you think Iowans have never questioned the caucus system themselves on occasion?!?!

The most important thing these clips shows is that the Dean we see today speaking his mind is the way Dean has always been. He's not a media creation, he is the real deal.

True, he may not always say the most politically correct or politically expedient thing (translation in DC-speak: he utterse "gaffes") but he can't help but speak his mind. And that in itself is the secret to his success.
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mb7588a Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 04:09 AM
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50. Iowans are smart enough to figure them out... Why the diss?
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JaneQPublic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 08:34 AM
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70. What 'diss? (n/t)
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deminflorida Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 01:15 AM
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30. If Dean or his supporters Ever say anything about Clark saying
nice things about Republicans again this tape is going to replay more than old epsisode of I Love Lucy....

That much I promise...

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bowens43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 10:01 AM
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79. LOL!
You aren't suggesting that this in any way equates to Clark's lavish praise for this administration are you? You can't be serious.

'And I'm very glad we've got the great team in office, men like Colin Powell, Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice... people I know very well - our president George W. Bush. We need them there.'"

"President George Bush had the courage and the vision... and we will always be grateful to President George Bush for that tremendous leadership and statesmanship."
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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 01:17 AM
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32. you people need a life.
You so much want Dean to be destroyed that you will grasp at anything. This won't do it. He will not implode like Kerry. And by the way, his comments on most children of unwed mothers not ending up on welfare. Great. Unwed moms are wonderful and caring people.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 01:17 AM
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farmbo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 01:31 AM
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40. If MSNBC doesn't cycle those tapes, the Dean campaign should.
They show a (young looking) Howard Dean forcefully articulating progressive values and giving absolutely no quarter to the conservative blunderbuss on the panel.

Sure he thought Bush was a moderate (in 2000) but as they say,fool me once...

The Iowa Caucus statements were pretty much on point and will not hurt him on the 19th.
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Printer70 Donating Member (990 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 02:33 AM
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43. Chill out
He said Bush was a "moderate"- so what? He was wrong. Wes Clark said he was sure Saddam had WMD's - he was wrong, and it was about something far more serious. And correcting the hateful generaliziation that children of unwed mothers are condemned to welfare is not a crime.
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DemBones DemBones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 09:40 AM
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76. Being wrong about Bush was more serious

than being wrong about Saddam. Think about it.
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bowens43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 10:13 AM
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81. And Clark was wrong about both of them.....
the general is striking out....
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incapsulated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 02:43 AM
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44. I never want to read shit about how Clark praised Republicans
AGAIN!!!


I never, not once, thought anything like this, most certainly not after the election:

In an appearance after the 2000 presidential election, Dean made this comment about his former fellow governor, George W. Bush. “George Bush, I believe, is in his soul a moderate.” That’s certainly a contrast from this remark, which he said this November: “I believe that George Bush's philosophy in life is, if you're rich you deserve it and if you're poor you deserve it.”


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Printer70 Donating Member (990 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 03:02 AM
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45. Point?
Dean thought Bush was a moderate. That's not a compliment- just an observation and Dean was wrong. He never said he supported Bush. Clark has said supportive things about Bush. All those things are relevant because when Clark attacks Bush now, it doesn't seem genunine- just another political calculation...like his flip-flop on the Iraq war.
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incapsulated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 03:23 AM
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46. oh, please
If anyone other than Dean said this, Dean himself would have hurled it at him as the ultimate insult, and his minons would parrot it happily.

"like his flip-flop on the Iraq war"

You mean like when Dean said he would approve of "unilateral" action against Iraq if Saddam didn't "co-operate" with inspectors in "30 to 60 days"? That flip-flop?

"just another political calculation"

Don't even go there. Dean is the master of calculation.

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clarknyc Donating Member (393 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 03:28 AM
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47. Consider Clark?
With you as an ambassador for the Clark campaign? I don't think so.
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incapsulated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 03:29 AM
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48. I'm just crushed!
:cry:
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Printer70 Donating Member (990 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 03:35 AM
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49. You'll keep hearing Clark's praise..
...of Bush because it raises serious questions about his judgment, if not his allegiance. But as to Dean's support of "unilateral" war, I'm not aware of this quote- please cite the link. In any case, it's moot since Saddam allowed inspectors and they didn't find anything. In contrast, Clark supported the war resolution without qualifiers and supported the "blank check" authorization that caused the Iraq mess.
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slinkerwink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 04:27 AM
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51. this was a month before Bush was sworn into office
that fucking fucker had a lot of Americans thinking he was a moderate...
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incapsulated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 05:12 AM
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52. This was right after Florida and the recounts - December
Is this what you wanted to hear when it was still sinking in the the election was just stolen? Reassuring words about how Bush was a moderate in his soul?

I'm willing to never bring it up again as long as I don't have to hear how Clark said positive things at a Republican fundraiser anymore. He voted for Gore, period.
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Donkeyboy75 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 05:19 AM
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53. how do you know
he voted for Gore?
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SahaleArm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 05:21 AM
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54. That's a silly argument - You don't know how anyone voted n/t
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incapsulated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 05:26 AM
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55. I only know..
How you voted because you say so, Donkeyboy. You could've voted for Bush, for all I know.

DesMoines Register 12/19/2002


"Though he claimed to be politically "right down the middle," he campaigned for only Democrats this year, including U.S. House candidate Katrina Swett in New Hampshire, where he also attended a private dinner with party activists. He campaigned in Georgia for Sen. Max Cleland, a Democratic Vietnam Veteran who lost, and in California for Rep. Tom Lantos.

A search of the Federal Elections Commission Web site also shows Clark made a $1,000 contribution to U.S. Senate candidate Erskine Bowles, a North Carolina Democrat and former chief of staff to President Clinton.
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Donkeyboy75 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 05:31 AM
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56. If you don't know,
you shouldn't state is as fact. Maria Shriver campaigned for her husband (R) in 2002, but that doesn't mean she voted for Bush in 2000.
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 08:04 AM
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62. How do we know who you voted for?
We take your word for it. We have a little something in this country known as the "secret ballot" which means that we don't have proof of how anyone voted, including you and me.
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Very Good Dem Donating Member (99 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 08:20 AM
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65. You can't have it both ways
You can't defend Dean for defending Bush as a moderate immediately following the Florida election while trashing Clark for defending Bush immediately after 9/11. You can try to parse the two situations all you want, but it doesn't wash. Just as you claim that, at the time Dean made the conmments, it wasn't yet clear that Bush was not a moderate, it can also be argued that at the time that Clark defended Bush's operation in Afghanistan, it wasn't yet clear that he planned to invade the rest of the world.

Both instances show how the candidates tried to give Bush the benefit of the doubt. It's easy to forget that, after the election, many Democrats consoled themselves with the notion (albeit misplaced) that maybe Bush "won't be that bad." And, after 9/11, most Americans, including Democrats, rallied around Bush in a show of solidarity against terrorism. So, it is silly to beat up on someone for saying, "We are united behind our president . . . George W. Bush is my commander-in-chief," in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.
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loyalsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 12:50 PM
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95. What did we know?
By 9\11
We knew Bush's tax policy, his assault on women, his trashing of the education system......
Clarks' comments may be fine for a person rallying behind a president in a national emergency, but it also highlights what has been on my radar screen for a long time. No matter how many position papers he comes out with, because of those comments I am not convinced that Clark has suddenly expanded his tunnel vision.
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 08:10 AM
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64. Oooh, is that an order?
Thanks, but since no one put you in charge, would you kindly PFO?
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bowens43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 10:04 AM
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80. Yes, just ignore it and it won't be true..........
You aren't trying equate clark's praise of the most vile members of the current administartion with Deans statement are you?

"President George Bush had the courage and the vision... and we will always be grateful to President George Bush for that tremendous leadership and statesmanship."

"I'm very glad we've got the great team in office, men like Colin Powell, Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Paul O'Neill, people I know very well. Our President George W. Bush. We need them there."

So you better not read this :-)
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quaker bill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 07:26 AM
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57. But But, this can't be...
Edited on Fri Jan-09-04 07:28 AM by quaker bill
"Yet he also shows that he’s much more consistent on issues — like affirmative action and trade — than some of his opponents give him credit for. And despite the constant complaints that Dean has no foreign policy experience, he demonstrates a good grasp of international affairs."

<<>>

"But other frequent guests on “The Editors” don’t believe that Dean ever demonstrated a temper. William Powers, a media critic at National Journal magazine, notes Dean always relished a good debate on the show. “He was combative and seemed to enjoy the combat.” But Powers, who wrote a 2002 article in National Journal about Dean’s appearances on the program, stresses he was never the angry person that his critics accuse him of being. “You never got a sense of real hostility.”"

<<>>

"And Dean seemed to display a sharp tongue a few times on the show. In an April 1998 discussion on welfare policy, one panelist remarked that 80 percent of children who are born to single mothers end up on welfare. Dean lashed out at that statement. “That is absolute crap. This is absolute unmitigated garbage.” (Welfare experts at the Brookings Institution and at the Center for Economic and Policy Research say Dean is most likely correct, certainly according to welfare rolls in the 1990s.)"

We must be afraid amd offended, Dean said something about welfare, that while unpopular.....happened to be correct.

In 2000 GW Bush ran as a moderate, many people believed it. Just another Bush* lie. Like the WMD thing that so many of our candidates believed when the "trusted the president".


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stickdog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 07:47 AM
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58. The nomination is now Clark's to lose. (nt)
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Cheswick2.0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 08:27 AM
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67. Before the selection of 2000....Clark raised money for bush AFTER
the selection.
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kerry-is-my-prez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 08:33 AM
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69. "(If welfare recipients) had any self-esteem, they'd be working"
http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/001560.php
In 1993, he derided welfare recipients, saying that if they "had any self-esteem, they'd be working." He later apologized for the remark.
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snoochie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 11:41 AM
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90. He's evolved since then, though, right?
Will the real Howard Dean please stand up?
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jcgadfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 08:38 AM
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72. How does this differ from Clark saying that
the Bush administration "needs to be there (in power)" when the War on Terra began?
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RogueTrooper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 09:16 AM
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75. Astroturf Outrage
Shocked, Shocked I tell ya!

:eyes:
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bowens43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 09:53 AM
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77. What was it again that Clark said about bush?
Care to remind us? You know what I'm talking about and it was MUCH more recent then this tape. You want to tell us or would you like me to post it again and again and again.

Your attempts to smear Dean when your candidate has shown far greater errors in judgment then Dean makes you look disingenuous.

Unbelievable.
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Hep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 09:57 AM
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78. Where is the integrity? Where is the fair mindedness?
It's not in the heart of anyone who brings this up without even mentioning the dates or the context, that much is for sure.

Hateful, mean spirited, and they think they have a right to do it, because "It's the primaries".

I'm glad I've seen some of this come out. Now I know the people at DU who aren't worthy of saving from a flood.
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PatrickS Donating Member (269 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 10:17 AM
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82. Club For Growth/Wes Clark folks are working overtime
It's UNBELIEVABLE. SIMPLY UNBELIEVABLE!!!

:evilgrin:
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bitchkitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 10:23 AM
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83.  Puhleeeeeeeeeeze.
Actually, keep it up. I love the smell of lame Clark-supporter desperation in the morning.
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Snivi Yllom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 11:32 AM
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89. i dont believe it
:(
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liberalmike27 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 11:46 AM
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91. Clark
Is a Republican. I don't want to have to use a Republican to beat a Republican. I don't know how you guys can square this, he was trying to get a job in the Bush administration in 2001, and speaking positively about this bunch a couple of years ago. He voted for Reagan, a guy who wanted to consider a ketchup packet a vegetable, a guy who ran the deficit up to 3 Trillion, still unpaid. You must look at his past. We've had enough Republican-Democrats, like Clinton.

We need a Rooseveltian Pluralist like Dean now, who understands that spending in America is part of the necessity for capitalism to work. Raising a living-wage, and providing a 100 billion dollar job-plan, rather than letting the fat-cats have their huge tax-breaks, hoping they open a local business, when in actuality they invest in multinational, and transnational corporations who send our American jobs to foreign lands, and leave our borders setting up store-fronts to avoid taxes.

Besides, Clark stole his whole script from Dean anyway, coming on all the shows, giving the same anti-war, shouldn't have gone to Iraq thing. He had to, as being a Republican, he didn't have one himself!!
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 11:53 AM
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92. How Many DU Threads Asked "Did You Think Jr. Would Be This Bad"?
Edited on Fri Jan-09-04 11:53 AM by cryingshame
So many people, many with Dean avatars, would laud their own divinatory skills.

The MAJORITY of people would claim to have known from the get go Bush was a radical right wing piss-ant.
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creativelcro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 11:55 AM
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93. GWB is a moderate with brain damage, OK ?
He's surrounded by extremists and lack the brain power to do something about it.
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