politics from the vaults

[rm]

I am looking at a debate from 2000 as practice for the work we'll be doing on this year's debates, and I want to share with you several choice quotes from this event.

If you doubt my veracity, I'm sure you can find transcripts online -- these are all from the second presidential debate in 2000.

GWB: "I'm going to be judicious about how I use the military. It needs to be in our national interest and the exit strategy needs to be obvious."

GWB: "I'm not so sure the role of the United States is to go around the world and say this is how it's got to be."

GWB: "I don't think it's the role of the United States to walk into a country and say we do it this way and so should you."

GWB: "There are other kinds of racial profiling that go on in America... and my friend Senator Spencer Abraham of Michigan is pushing a law to make sure Arab-Americans are treated with respect."

I think the hypocrisy of those statements in light of the last four years speak for themselves.

Comments

yup GWB needs to go

[timmybuk2.livejournal.com]

i really hope your feeling about that is true across the nation enough that we can say goodbye to him in the white house.

Re: yup GWB needs to go

[rm.livejournal.com]

I hope so too, but I have to say, with the amount of media I read, I think it's a real toss up. That said, after a couple of disasterous weeks for Kerry, his campaigning and the attendent poll numbers have radically improved.

Re: yup GWB needs to go

[sethg]

The polls that had Bush leading by 8-12 points also had a high proportion of Republicans in the polled sample. If you adjust the results of those polls for a more realistic D/R ratio, you get a neck-and-neck race. Donkey Rising has been all over this.

Re: yup GWB needs to go

[rm.livejournal.com]

*nod**nod* I pretty much rely on electoral-vote.com -- it's not perfect, but it works hard to be honest and current, and it aggregates multiple polls.