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Archived Quotes
"An Essay on President Bush
and Death"
"...He is the President who does
not feel. He does not feel for the families of the dead; he
does not feel for the thirty five million of us who live in
poverty; he does not feel for the forty percent who cannot
afford health insurance; he does not feel for the miners whose
lungs are turning black or for the working people he has
deprived of the chance to work overtime at time-and-a-half to
pay their bills---it is amazing for how many people in this
country this President does not feel.
But he will dissemble feeling.
He will say in all sincerity he is relieving the wealthiest
one percent of the population of their tax burden for the sake
of the rest of us, and that he is polluting the air we breathe
for the sake of our economy, and that he is decreasing the
safety regulations for coal mines to save the coal miners`
jobs, and that he is depriving workers of their time-and-a-
half benefits for overtime because this is actually a way to
honor them by raising them into the professional class.
And this litany of lies he will
versify with reverences for God and the flag and democracy,
when just what he and his party are doing to our democracy is
choking the life out of it...."
-- Excerpt from Alachua Post.
For the complete article, click
here.
The
latest zinger from Tom Delay - "We've got Justice Kennedy
writing decisions based upon international law, not the
Constitution of the United States? That's just outrageous.
And not only that, but he said in session that he does his
own research on the Internet? That is just incredibly
outrageous."
(Quoted
on salon.com - see the article
here)
Did I
read this right - web research = "incredibly
outrageous", not to mention the international law (as
in treaties to which we have agreed to abide) slam?
"I've only got an 8th grade education
and I can see through that George Bush."
- the guy at Whataburger the morning after the Sept. 20
debate
"Sometimes I
think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case,
the thought is staggering." Buckminster Fuller
The Texas Republican Party Platform
2004 Quotes
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The conservative principles of our Party are
tested and proven.
The Party supports legislation that
would make it a felony to issue a marriage license to a
same-sex couple and for any civil official to perform a
marriage ceremony for a same-sex couple.
Life begins at the moment of fertilization
and ends at the point of natural death.
The Federal Government has no
constitutional jurisdiction over education. We call for the
abolition of the U. S. Department of Education and the
prohibition of the transfer of any of its functions to any
other federal agency.
The Republican Party of Texas affirms that
the United States of America is a Christian nation, and the
public acknowledgement of God is undeniable in our history.
Our nation was founded on fundamental Judeo-Christian
principles based on the Holy Bible.
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For more excerpts from the platform,
click
here.
For the entire text of the platform
click here.
Excerpts from Al Gore's speech at New York University (May
26, 2004):
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He promised to "restore honor and integrity to the White
House." Instead, he has brought deep dishonor to our country
and built a durable reputation as the most dishonest
president since Richard Nixon.
We are less safe
because of his policies. He has created more anger and
righteous indignation against us as Americans than any
leader of our country in the 228 years of our existence as a
nation -- because of his attitude of contempt for any
person, institution or nation who disagrees with him.
When a senior, respected military leader like Joe Hoar uses the
word "abyss", then the rest of us damn well better listen. Here is
what he means: more American soldiers dying, Iraq slipping into
worse chaos and violence, no end in sight, with our influence and
moral authority seriously damaged.
In his upcoming book, Zinni blames the current catastrophe on the
Bush team's incompetence early on. "In the lead-up to the Iraq war,
and its later conduct," he writes, "I saw at a minimum, true
dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worst, lying,
incompetence and corruption." ------------
Click
here for the text
of the entire speech.
"The trouble
with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the
intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970),
British philosopher, logician, essayist
But this is
the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one
nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city
against suburb, region against region, individual against
individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants. If that
happens, who then will speak for America? Who then will
speak for the common good?
- Barbara
Jordan, Keynote Address, Democratic Convention, July 12, 1976
A recent
defense of Mr. Bush by Mrs. Bush -
In an interview with the Associated Press on Thursday, she said of
the National Guard flap: "I think it's a political, you know, witch
hunt, actually, on the part of Democrats."
Talking to ABC's Terry Moran, Mrs. Bush harshly responded to Terry
McAuliffe's AWOL charge: "I don't think it's fair to really lie about
allegations about someone." She stated flatly that W. was
pulling Guard duty in Alabama. When Mr. Moran asked how she
knew, she replied, "Well, because he told me he was.
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from Maureen Dowd, "I Read, I Smoke, I Spin", The New York Times,
Sunday, February 22, 2004
"See, Free nations are peaceful nations. Free
nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons
of mass destruction." — George W. Bush, Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003
(After reading the quote above, VisionDog was found banging his knee with a
hammer and mumbling, "Granada! Hiroshima! Nagasaki! The man really is a dumb ass." Fortunately, he
was sedated before he hurt himself - VisionDog, that is.)
This is an actual obituary published in
The Times-Picayune, New Orleans on 10/2/2003:
"Word has been received that Gertrude M. Jones,
81, passed away on August 25, 2003, under the loving care of the
nursing aides of Heritage Manor of Mandeville, Louisiana. She was a
native of Lebanon, KY. She was a retired Vice President of Georgia
International Life Insurance Company of Atlanta, GA. Her husband,
Warren K. Jones predeceased her. Two daughters survive her: Dawn
Hunt and her live-in boyfriend, Roland, of Mandeville,LA; and Melba
Kovalak and her husband, Drew Kovalak, of Woodbury, MN. Three
sisters, four grandchildren and three great grandchildren, also
survive her. Funeral services were held in Louisville, KY.
Memorial gifts may be made to any organization that seeks the
removal of President George Bush from office."
(Gertrude Jones'
on-line "Guest Book" can be accessed
here.)
A similar statement
was contained in the
obituary of 71-year-old
Sally Baron, published August 21, 2003 in Capital Times
of Madison, Wisconsin.
Don't you just hate that
"LIBERAL MEDIA" that has taken over DUh'merica -
"According to the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, the top five radio
station owners that control 45 powerful, 50,000-watt or more radio
stations broadcast 310 hours of nationally syndicated right-wing talk. But
they broadcast only a total of five hours of countervailing talk..."
(Source: Salon August 15, 2003, "The right wing's summer of hate", by
Sidney Blumenthal)
There are leaders and then there is -
"...DeLay held a fundraiser at a steak restaurant for his political action
committee. When he lit up a cigar, the manager meekly told him that it was
against the law. "I am the federal government!" bellowed DeLay." (Source:
Salon August 15, 2003, "The right wing's summer of hate", by Sidney
Blumenthal)
Quotes from "Illogical
Reasoning of a War Against Iraq" An NPR Commentary by
Peter Freundlich ("All Things Considered", March 13, 2002)
"All right, let me see if I
understand the logic of this correctly. We are going to ignore the United
Nations in order to make clear to Saddam Hussein that the United Nations
cannot be ignored. We're going to wage war to preserve the UN's ability to
avert war. The paramount principle is that the UN's word must be taken
seriously, and if we have to subvert its word to guarantee that it is,
then by gum, we will....
"Further, if the only way to
bring democracy to Iraq is to vitiate the democracy of the Security
Council, then we are honor-bound to do that...
"We cannot leave in power a
dictator who ignores his own people. And if our people, and people
elsewhere in the world, fail to understand that, then we have no choice
but to ignore them."
See the complete commentary at
http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/transcripts/2003/mar/030313.freundlich.html
"Basically,
the average American does not care if they are fed propaganda. They
are happy with it as long as the coverage is patriotic."
-- Garth
Jowett, director of the School of Communications at the University of
Houston
(from "U.S.
Gets Potent War Message Machine in Place" by Sue Pleming, Yahoo News,
3/18/2003)
"Patriotism
in the next to last refuge of the scoundrel and the fool - religion
being the last."
--
VisionDog
"When a whole nation is
roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the
cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the
loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how
passionately I hate them!"
-- Albert Einstein
"For the
intelligent and sincere person war is absolutely the last option.
Unfortunately, for the not so bright person who allows dogma, prejudice,
and apparent self interest to replace sincerity, war is much more easily
justified" --
VisionDog.
"I'm very
depressed. I just feel we're entering a new sort of ugly phase where
America attempts to be a unilateral power. But we do not realize that
the United States was the chief beneficiary of an international system
that found alternatives to violence -- the idea that the United
Nations provided hope for peaceful resolution. We have just told [the
world] that that's no longer operative, and that violence is the last,
best resort. And I'm afraid we'll be victims of that violence far more
than we are the beneficiaries of that violence."
-- John Brady Kiesling, career U.S. foreign officer
who recently resigned from his post as political counselor, U.S.
Embassy in Athens, Greece
( from
"Odd Man Out"
By Eric Boehlert, www.salon.com, 3/19/2003)
The Bush
administration now presides over unprecedented American military
might. What it risks squandering is not America's power, but an
essential part of its glory.
(from "War in the Ruins of Diplomacy"
editorial in The New York Times, 3/18/2003)
``Today, I weep for my country.
No more is the image of America one of strong, yet benevolent,
peacekeeper. Around the globe, our friends mistrust us, our word is
disputed, our intentions are questioned.''
-- Senator Robert C. Byrd
(from
"2 Iraqi Missiles Are Shot Down by U.S. and 1 Lands in Desert", David
E. Sanger & John F. Burns, New York Times, 03/20/03)
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