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PretzelWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-10-04 11:53 PM
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3+ years. Reminder of the lies/issues/ripoffs.
Stole the election in Florida. YEs, supposed to move on...but who are you kidding? A whole Democratic base is still p!ssed.

Promised to maitain environmental and health protections. Then bags the Kyoto treaty, loosens Carbon monoxide restrictions, raises amount of arsenic coal mining ops can throw into the groundwater.

Lied about nucyalar weapons in Iraq. Lied about other WMDs, lied about al queda connections to Saddam.

Did NOTHING to prepare our country for possible Al Queda attacks.

Choked on a dam pretzel.

Screwed with US foreign policy stance on China/Taiwan issue.

Gave cabinet jobs to a bunch of oil barons.

Helped pay for the public destruction of one brave soldier from Vietnam who gave his body and limbs, Max Cleland.

Skipped out of Vietnam. Guilty of insider trading of Harken Energy. Good buddies, enabler, and servant of Enron men SKilling and Lay.

Supports rolling back diversity in US colleges because he hates blacks.

Supports rolling back abortion rights because he hates women.

Supports rolling back gay rights because he hates homosexuals.

Perpetual wars in Muslim countries because he hates nonChristians.

The man is both dumb AND evil. He really knows enough to understand his evil actions, and he does them because he realizes he is an unprincipled part of the machine grinding under it's gears all of the "regular folks" he pretends to be.

I think he laughs with his buddies over glasses of brandy about how the "salt of the earth" eat the shit he dishes out with such enthusiasm.

He is also literally dumb about the complexities of our modern world and really couldn't give a rats ass about any of it. He just works with the media ownership to massage public opinion along the lines of "I want a likeable president. That Gore/Kerry is just too smart for his own good. He spouts all them 'facts' like he's some kind of elite". Again, the little people just eat this up when he shouts about GOD and Jesus and sayin' a prayer for all them poor Iraqis our army is snuffing daily.

I lost my track. There are many miniscandals we should stay on top off and get daily visibility to. Help me to spread the word. It's amazing how enough water has gone under the bridge that a little sensible talk with your neighbors and coworkers wil get many reasonable ones to think twice. May even get them pissed off enough to vote for the alternative.

We must never forget. We must not let them get away with their high crimes. think of those hundreds of faces. those many bright young men and women, fathers, husbands, grandfathers who will come home no more because of this man's sins.

You must be outraged. and that outrage must move you to action. You should be compelled to put your shoulder to the wheel and push this country forward and back on the right track.

Thank you.
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Egnever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 12:04 AM
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1. Heres a little gem for you
Edited on Tue May-11-04 12:05 AM by Egnever
http://www.wage-slave.org/scorecard.html

Everytime I get down thinking about how much kerry sucks I look at that site and regain my focus on why bush must go even if the alternative doesnt look a whole lot better.
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PretzelWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 12:15 AM
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2. THANK YOU! I will bookmark this and send this to others with
plea to send it on to still others. The record when stacked up is appalling. And it's all well-documented. Not like thos clinton-hater sites about all the people Clinton's killed in Arkansas and DC filled with rumor and inuendo.

This is the truth. IF Al Franken, John Stewart, Molly Ivins, Ellen Goodman, John Kerry, Dennis Kucinich, Howard Dean, Michael Moore, and others can keep up the flow of truth and facts...we can win this thing in a landslide.

Can we somehow get Kerry to offer a high level cabinet position to Ralph Nader or something? I want that guy neutralized.
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Egnever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 01:05 AM
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8. It is a fairly scary record when you go back through it
I only wish he hadnt stoped updating it at the end of 2003 still it goes back through the first three years pretty thouroughly, and even provides links for reference on most items.
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crossroads Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 12:33 AM
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6. That link almost shut down my PC.
Wonder if it was my security settings for my virus protection. Hate to try it again. Just wanted you to know about it.
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Egnever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 01:02 AM
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7. No clue why
It must be settings on your end. My system runs very clean and I have absolutely no problems with that site.
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crossroads Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 02:21 AM
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10. Could be, I have em set high.
I'm just chicken to try it again. LOL... Thanks tho!
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 12:19 AM
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3. Got mad when he was called out on his lies and had a CIA agent outted
Took REVENGE on a critic by committing TREASON against the United States by outting a CIA agent, whose AREA was WMD.
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zaj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 12:21 AM
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4. Another fantastic list of actions taken by Bush here too...
I thought it was a great summary of the actions taken by this administartion...
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In the most simple terms, (the Bush Administration) discourages political opposition through the practice of intimidation, character assassination, and secrecy. They show a remarkable disrespect for civil liberties, worker's rights, and free speech. They are self-righteous and display contempt toward anyone that crosses them. They mask the harmful details of their policies behind appeals to patriotism/nationalism or morality/religion. They pay lip service to the public interests while simultaneously undermining those interests for ideological reasons. They ignore the facts. They practice aggression and deception. They arouse our base emotions. They mislead us.

Intimidation = Valerie Plame; maybe systematic torture of noncombatants, etc.

Character assassination = Anyone who dares speak out. Really, do you think it is necessary that I answer this one?

Secrecy = Energy Task Force, etc.

Self-righteous = Iraq. Ignore facts, press ideology. This has been proven time and again. The consequences of the Bush team's behavior and decisions has been predicted well in advance by many critics of the administration's tactics and policies. Have you ever heard Bush or this administration say they made a mistake? Hell no! They are self-righteous ideologues, unwavering in pursuit of imposing their ideals.

Disrespect for civil liberties = Patriot Act, conduct of interrogators, American citizens denied guaranteed rights, TIPS program, Total Information Awareness Program, etc.

Worker's rights = C'mon, really? OK. Benefits, over-time, health care, pensions, workers comp, full-time vs. part-time, minimum wage, environment, etc.

Contempt = democrats, liberals, political opponents, whistle-blowers, political dissenters, gays, etc.

Contempt leads to stonewalling, lying, character assissination, and petty spite = Joseph Wilson or anyone else that crosses them. Or maybe they target family members.

Lip service = paid to freedom while simultaneously undermining our freedoms. Lip service paid to environment while simultaneously undermining our environment. Lip service paid to working Americans while simultaneously pulling the rug out from underneath working Americans.

Ignore the facts = Ignoring the warnings about the haphazard way in which we intended to invade Iraq. Warnings about no plan to win the peace. Warnings about low troop levels. Warnings about just about everything bad that has happened since. Experts in all fields have been treated with disdain when they have pointed out the folly of Bush's Way.

Aggression = Axis of Evil. Unilateralism. Hasty withdrawal from numerous international treaties for ideological reasons. Overzealous desire for war with Iraq. Veiled threats toward Korea, Iran, and Syria. Unconcealed desire to develop new breed of nuclear weapon.

Deception = Again, do I have to. We'll just use the build up to war with Iraq. Nothing more needs to be said.

Base emotions = Morality, religion, patriotism, human compassion. All of these emotions are exploited for the purpose of building a sense of shared values. Meanwhile, there policies are detrimental to the very same people whom they appeal to for votes.

An appeal to base emotions brings many single issue voters on board (i.e. pro-life, NRA, tax-cutterss, religious fundamentalists, militant commando's, etc.).

Misleading = Iraq. Medicare, etc.

They appeal to our base emotions so they can mislead us.
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crossroads Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 12:27 AM
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5. I bookmarked this thread!
I will spread the word. This is good stuff!

:kick:
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JCMach1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 01:11 AM
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9. Don't forget to add destroying the environment, the budget, and our
economy...
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