Next President of the United States.
JFK
Dean finally wins something!!!
He wins Vermont. :k:
Edwards and Kerry are pretty close in GA. The rest are a slam-dunk.
The big question left now is, will Kerry pick Edwards as his running mate?
Even thought both are senators, one is dude from the north and one from the south? Do tou think this partnership can oust Bush from the White House?
Kerry-Clark ticket is final. You can sue me if he picks soemone else.
NO MATTER which yank comes to power the american foreign policy will be based on its national interest or israels natioanl interest
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*Originally posted by kabir: *
NO MATTER which yank comes to power the american foreign policy will be based on its national interest or israels natioanl interest
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hmm there's nothing wrong with a policy based on national interest... every nation looks out for their better interest.. why shouldn't the US do the same?
YES - COME ON! what's the deal of Bush congratulating Kerry on win aye? i hope he means it and even so when Kerry nailed him against the wall in November!
who Kerry is going to nominated as VP? we may not get the answer till early July when the Democractic convention meets but there are certainly few candidates on paper.
- John Edwards
- Richard Gephardt
- Jim Johnson
- Bob Graham
- Tom Vilsack
though Edwards does have appeal but doesn't have much experience - and in that case he ain't a match for Chenney to be honest - but i certainly can see him a contender for President down the lines.....
The Battle has just started - COME ON KERRY!
Maybe he should pick Al Sharpton for comic relief and the Black vote!
In reality, Kerry and the Democrats DO have some things to offer:
Higher taxes...
Socialist welfare state...
Weak national defense...
Vulgarity in public discourse...
Legalized murder of unborn children...
So-called "marriage" of the gender confused...
And, numerous other concepts that seem to appeal to the lowest common denominators in American society!
America belongs to George Washington and Norman Rockwell - Not the likes of "Slick Willie" Clinton (oops!), I mean "Hanoi John" Kerry and Eminem!
Not that I'm opinionated, mind you!
Bush in '04!
Peace To All Who Read This...
well at least Clinton didn't screw healthcare system - and the last time i checked 23 million jobs were produced by the Clinton administration - when you have jobs - you can pay taxes.
Clinton did lie about his personal issue - not that it screwed peoples lives however Bush lied about Saddam's connection with 9-11 - and still shamelessly smiles as the deficit piling up high to the sky.
finally America doesn't belong to George Washington or whoever the hell you want to - it's belong to its people.
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YES - COME ON! what's the deal of Bush congratulating Kerry on win aye? i hope he means it and even so when Kerry nailed him against the wall in November!
who Kerry is going to nominated as VP? we may not get the answer till early July when the Democractic convention meets but there are certainly few candidates on paper.
- John Edwards
- Richard Gephardt
- Jim Johnson
- Bob Graham
- Tom Vilsack
though Edwards does have appeal but doesn't have much experience - and in that case he ain't a match for Chenney to be honest - but i certainly can see him a contender for President down the lines.....
The Battle has just started - COME ON KERRY!
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I would like to see Dick Gephardt as Vice. Not only because he is from my home town, but because he has years of D.C. political experience.
And on taxes.. Absolutely if you have jobs you gain tax base. And.. taxes also IMHO can also be used to create jobs.
Real jobs. Real Progress.
Not bottom line profits for CEO's and pharmacuetical companies.
Jobs that repair infrastructure. Jobs that repair communities. Jobs with Justice that in return, in the long term benefit all.
i’d take higher taxes if I have job security and the system doesn’t rob me of more money in other rising hidden costs of living.
yes i disagree with the programs to support bums.. but better spend on the poor than on the rich
BALONEY! .. what “defence”.. let’s say weaker defence contract money to military contractors or other pimps of war.
what’s that?? at least they can construct a sentence.
yeah .. we can’t let no slave unborn.. 
how the hell does it effect us and our lives? How does it even effect the other marriages as if that institution isn’t already hosed?
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America belongs to George Washington and Norman Rockwell - Not the likes of "Slick Willie" Clinton (oops!), I mean "Hanoi John" Kerry and Eminem!
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America belongs to dead people? Sorry to burst your bubble but President Clinton told fewer (and much less serious) lies than the current president and Senator Kerry was dragging Americans out of the line of enemy fire in the jungles of Vietnam while your Republican heroes were pulling strings to dodge their responsibilites to their country. In your perfect world I suppose bigoted and self righteous Americans like Rush Limbaugh, Pat Robertson or David Duke would make great presidents?
I think I can put up with Kerry if only he will start some plain talking, use fewer words and in general pick up a personality. Time mag had an apropo name - Flannel Mouth. I think he has stuff but has a hard time saying it simply.
Ofcourse that's better than the Cheney gang.
Every time John Kerry opens his mouth, he is more concerned about sound bites than what he is actually saying. All he needs is to fix an echo-making system in his throat and he is all set to issue commandments for all mankind at the drop of a hat. "Bring .... 'emmmmmm.... Onnnnnnn"
Seminole, my dear sir! While having respected your opinion on many other posts, I must take issue with your conjectures…
Clinton was a sod! If not literally, at least morally. The pre-war intelligence has already been proven to be the best we had - not only US intelligence, but intelligence from the international community. If we didn’t have better intelligence, it was due to the likes of Kerry - whom the voting records prove to be more liberal than “Muddy Waters” Kennedy and Hillary Clinton combined! And, totally contrary to anything remoteley resembling being the great patriot that the liberal left is proclaiming him! Just ask the majority of Vietnam veterans! And, I can’t wait until authorizes the release of his FBI files!
Bush inherited a recesion thanks to the ignorant fiscal policies of the
Democrats, and was then hit with 9/11. God save us had we been saddled with Al Gore!
PAG, you seem to be buying into the liberal media - I’ll post an article from a liberal who can’t quite bring himself to lie about the economic recovery and a link - just for you! Let me know how many more you want!
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/3/2/181514.shtml
Tuesday, March 2, 2004
Lou Dobbs Jabs ‘Chronically Liberal Media’ for Attacking ‘Bush Bonanza’
Lou Dobbs, who has “reviled” the Bush administration’s economic policies on CNN and has become an outspoken protectionist on the airwaves, sings a far different tune in his popular newsletter, Economic Times reported today.
Those willing to pay $100 to $200 a year for Lou Dobbs Money Letter got to read this: “Investors, often misled by the chronically liberal media, are making a huge mistake right now. They are underestimating the good that George Bush is doing for the economy. …”
Economic Times reported, "Here he is all praise for George Bush for ushering in the greatest economic boom since Ronald Reagan in 1982. …
“Dobbs named the impending boom ‘the Bush Bonanza.’ And it is happening, says Dobbs, because of the Bush policy of ‘Let Business Do Business!’”
So much for jobs and the economy…NEXT!!!
The attempts at secular social engineering, income redistribution, and societal blame - rather than personal responsibilty - that are the hallmarks of the Democrats; along with the attempt to force decent citizens to redefine century old terms like “marriage” to accomodate the depravity of the Saphos and Sodomites, are unconscionable and unacceptable.
The attempt to purge America of the Abramhic (for our Muslim friends!) Judeo-Christian traditions on which all of it’s most basic laws are founded - which all the Founding Fathers acknowledged - even Deists like Franklin - to support a secular humanist agenda are unaceptable.
America doesn’t belong to the ideals of George Washington? Read some history! They wanted to make him Emperor - a Ceasar! He chose rule of law! Something many of the liberal anarchists currently performing “gay marriage” should think about! They could not stand in his shadow…
Read some Eric Sloane - the greatest chronicler of what America is that ever lived! We are the spoiled generations of those who survived the 60’s, the decimating Womens Liberation movement. so-called Affirmative Action that has robbed so many of any initative and self-reliance! Like so much of the Arab world, it’s so much easier and comfortable to be able to blame some one else for all your ills, rather then take personal responsibility!
Have I missed anyone? Anything else? Fire at will…
Peace To All Who Read This…
mr pockets, did you empty out your pockets and smoke what they contained? Bush did what any President would have done after 9/11, other than the fact he alienated the world in the process. Clinton used force when deemed necessary so to question if the same would have been done had Gore been President is asinine thinking. You blame Clinton for Bush's economic failures and I'm going on a stretch (not really ) and guess you give Reagan credit for the longest economic expansion in U.S. history (during the Clinton administration), as that is the old song and dance the Republicans like to spew out of their orifices (which orifice that is I am often confuse by the matter that comes forth from it). But America should be fine under Bush, after all, his administration told the public that 2.6 million job will be created this year, right? So 4 years later, 3 million jobs lost, plus a trillion plus dollars in deficits, coupled with the alienation of the world, you have the audacity to claim that Bush is the 'man' to lead the United States? Bin laden wants to destroy America, he went wrong by attacking America, he should of lined Bush's pockets with money to get that goal achieved, after all it's only fair he return the favor to a long time family friend.
have you missed anything mr p?? well you've missed 3 million jobs in this 'recovery' of yours.. where is this recovery.. please lead me to it before my job is outsourced to some code coolie in India.
PA, your percieved problems stem from faulty counting! Jobs have increased under Bush!
"The problem is the areas of biggest job growth are usually not even being counted at all.
Though 75 percent of jobs are created by small companies, according to the Small Business Administration, this sector’s entrepreneurial activity and the jobs it creates are left out by Washington bean counters when calculating official new job numbers.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) does its Payroll Survey by phoning businesses to crunch the number of jobs that have been gained or lost. This is where Democrats grabbed onto their lifeline, the 2.3 million figure. Look only at the Payroll Survey, and there has been a gain of only 522,000 jobs since Bush took office.
But here’s the rub. The Household Survey is used to determine the unemployment rate and accounts for those who are self-employed, and small emerging businesses that might be overlooked by the Payroll Survey. But the number of U.S. firms isn’t static, and the “fixed list” used by the BLS for phoning established businesses does not reflect new entrepreneurial activity.
People are called at home and asked if they have jobs, or if they are in the market for a job. In contrast to the Payroll Survey, the Household Survey shows that 2.4 million jobs have been created so far during Bush’s time in office.
As Economy.com writer Haseeb Ahmed recently wrote, “something is amiss in the [Payroll] survey.”
Credit Where Credit Is Due
That’s not all. When doomsayers, and media spoiling for a fight in an election year, laughed at Bush’s prediction of 2.6 million new jobs this year, not everyone was scoffing.
Ahmed, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and others hardly batted an eye. Greenspan said it was “probably feasible” the economy would reach the Bush administration’s forecast of adding 2.6 million jobs this year, provided growth continues and the productivity rate slows to more typically levels.
“I don’t think it’s ‘Fantasyland,’” Greenspan said.
“I agree with him,” said John Ryding, chief market economist at Bear Stearns. “I think that we will create 2.5 million, possibly more, jobs over the balance of the year.”
Ahmed is convinced that “the revision patterns of the early-1990s recovery cycle” will be repeated. A total of 1.4 million job gains were revised upward to 2.9 million in the first 21 months after the end of the last recession, just after Bush Sr. was voted out of office. "
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/2/25/171833.shtml
If I’m smoking anything, UTD, you must surely have overdosed on latte’! 
Peace To All Who Read This…
John Kerry: A thorn in India’s side
By Indrajit Basu
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/FC06Df03.html
KOLKATA - When Massachusetts senator John Kerry captured the Democratic nomination on Tuesday to challenge United States President George W Bush in the November fight for White House, those who want to see change come to America may have cheered, but it has certainly raised concerns in India, which, following three years of sharing an unexpectedly cozy relationship with the Bush administration, foresees considerable diplomatic challenges in the months ahead.
Kerry has forced the country’s money-spinning outsourcing industry to experience renewed worry pangs as his win, which could turn his obsessive singling out of the outsourcing of jobs to countries such as India as the principal cause for American unemployment, into a ticking time bomb. And for the country as a whole, there are other strategic concerns, such as Kerry’s insistence on India signing the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT); Kashmir, where Kerry’s policy is not very clear; and the issuing of H1-B visas to Indians wanting to work in the US.
Already, India’s back office - or business processing and outsourcing service providers - are squirming in their seats. “Part of the popular enthusiasm for Kerry in the unfolding presidential campaign stems from his promise to stop outsourcing American jobs to India and other countries,” said a member of TiE, an association of Indian software outsourcing entrepreneurs. “And on Tuesday, when Kerry was crowned as the presidential nominee of the Democrats scoring a string of coast-to-coast wins, it became clear that outsourcing would become an explosive poll issue.”
Kerry won the Democratic presidential nomination in a huge victory on “Super Tuesday” after sweeping nine out of the 10 states in California, New York, Connecticut, Ohio, Rhode Island, Maryland, Massachusetts and Minnesota, defeating his main rival John Edwards, forcing him to withdraw from the race. With this, the 60-year-old senator has won 27 of 30 primaries and caucuses held so far. Kerry is expected to be formally named later this summer as the party’s choice to challenge President George W Bush during the November national election. Although primaries are still due in 20 states, since Kerry has no viable opponent in the fray, analysts say that Tuesday’s victory makes him the only contender against Bush, and possibly, as many predict, “a sure fire winner for the president’s office”.
There’s another reason why Kerry stands a good chance; he has the backing of most major labor unions and middle class working families for his anti-outsourcing views. Protests by anti-outsourcing factions have kicked off again with renewed vigor following Kerry’s presidential nomination. In Florida on Wednesday (the day after Kerry won), reports say the fight over the export of American jobs spilled over into the streets, when, encouraged by Kerry’s victory, a group of protesters chanting “stop outsourcing” trespassed into Walt Disney property to attack those attending an outsourcing conference.
On the same day, the state of Minnesota joined the group of half-a-dozen other states in the US that have introduced anti-outsourcing bills. Senator Norm Coleman introduced yet another bill before US Congress that aims to prevent federal, state and local governments from outsourcing contracts for goods or services.
There is one interesting feature in that bill though: Coleman is a Republican (like Bush), generally known for their commitment to the principles of free market, and therefore not supporters of protectionism. However, Coleman called the bill “common sense legislation”.
What’s more, shortly after his triumph, Kerry launched a major attack on Bush’s domestic, economic and foreign policies. He also said he now wants the government to deny tax breaks to multinationals outsourcing jobs and wants the companies to notify employees and the federal labor department before moving jobs overseas.
Kerry’s view on India and the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT) is another irritant for the country. He has already gone on record asking India to sign the NPT, and has made his endorsement of India’s claim to a permanent seat in the US Security Council conditional and half-hearted. “While I think that in may ways India would be a good candidate, there is one notable problem, India is not a party to the NPT,” said Kerry. “All the nuclear powers on the council not only directly shape the NPT, but also are parties that abide by it. This may be the most serious issue with respect to India’s candidacy and one that must be addressed by India.”
On the issue of Kashmir, Kerry feels that India should practice tremendous restraint because there is already “enough blame to go around”. Besides, India will also have to give the H1-B visa an added push because, “those who oppose the import of Indian professionals have a major voice among Democrats, whose pleas Kerry will find hard to ignore”, fear many software industry experts.
The H1-B visa issue - work permits that the US issues to foreign professionals to work in that country - has become an additional irritant for India since the US reduced the number of visas issued drastically (from 165,000 to 95,000) this year, a move that has had a negative impact on India’s information technology (IT) industry. India’s IT sector is the highest user of these visas globally, used to send its software professionals to the US for providing outsourced services onshore.
With some 200 trade bodies, including the US Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable, the American Bankers Association, the National Association of Manufacturers and the Information Technology Association of America, all of which support outsourcing, India has created a Coalition for Economic Growth and American Jobs, which has been trying to reverse this H1-B visa cut for the past few months.
Meanwhile, a section of the Indian diaspora is trying hard to contain the increasing popularity of Kerry. As reports suggest, US-based top executives of Indian IT and business process outsourcing (BPO) outfits have started boycotting all fund-raising dinners for the democratic frontrunner in the presidential election, who is privately referred to as a “BPO party spoiler” within the community.
Therefore, a second term for Bush is clearly what India favors, particularly given the improvement in bilateral relations over the past few years. But as there is the possibility that may not happen, the Indian embassy in Washington, its lobbyists, the Indian ambassador-at-large - with his political contacts across the board - and the Indian American community are all gearing up in the mean time to promote India’s views to Kerry in the coming months.
^^ have to give it to you Marathi my man.. if ever there was a shameless plugger..
mr p you’re right.. when i’m fired from my job.. i’d babysit neighbors kids.. yes.. i’d be employed.. i was wrong .. you’re right.