Author Topic: I just watched Kerry's speech... (Read 2112 times)

rpm · « **Reply #45 on:** July 29, 2004, 11:38:05 PM »

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Originally posted by Masherbrum
Why dictate a SPEECH, when you READ the Transcript? But to think all this time I was listening to it?!

Huh?

Masherbrum · « **Reply #46 on:** July 29, 2004, 11:40:58 PM »

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Originally posted by rpm371
Huh?

Let's spell it out for you. The PURPOSE of LIVE SPEECH is to HEAR IT, not to READ IT LATER.

Karaya

I thought the cussing at the end was a nice touch to the party of Jackprettythanges.

TweetyBird · « **Reply #47 on:** July 29, 2004, 11:42:06 PM »

This is the problem I have. Deep down in my soul, I believe the Iraq war is a war of revenge. And I really cant fault George W. for that. Saddam DID put a bounty on his father's head. His father SHOULD have went to Bahgdad (or so the Hawks thought). And George W. was schooled, crammed, and sythesized by the group of "Hawks" (from the first Bush's administration) arriving in the dead of night in Texas. But he did a half- donkey (gotta watch that censor) job. He had NO exit plan. He sold us a bill of goods. We'd be welcomed as liberators and waltz out on a bed of roses. There IS NO EXIT from Iraq. We will be there forever, and we will constantly take casualties. Someone, anyone, tell me how the United States can EVER leave Iraq. It can't be done. We are the new Israeli army, and Iraq is the new Gaza strip. You know - maybe - just maybe, his father was smarter when he resisted the Hawks in the first Bush administration who told him to go to Baghdad. Maybe he knew, if we did, we could never leave.
And now we can never leave.

Toad · « **Reply #48 on:** July 29, 2004, 11:46:09 PM »

LOL RPM. He surely didn't provide any workable solution for "fixing" the job loss situation.

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close the tax loopholes that reward companies for shipping our jobs overseas

Yeah, you bet; raise their dang TAXES! That'll endear them to the US! Close enough and you'll simply cause the entire company to move out of US tax jursidiction. Curval over in Bermuda can explain this to you.

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we will reward companies that create and keep good paying jobs where they belong

Oh? So we'll like... subsidize them or something?

That might be a problem when he goes around to our world trading partners and tries to

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trade and compete in the world. But our plan calls for a fair playing field – because if you give the American worker a fair playing field, there's nobody in the world the American worker can't compete against.

Subsidizing our industries isn't exactly "leveling the playing field" from say a ... Canadian point of view, is it Thrawn?

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there's nobody in the world the American worker can't compete against

right?

Surely not that Chinese steel worker that gets $20/month (your number) and whose country has MFN status with the US right? And we can absolutely count on the Chinese to scrupulously follow the "fair trade" rules themselves in any event.

How long is it going to take you guys to figure it out?

Springsteen told ya in '84.

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Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores

Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more

They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks

Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back to your hometown

Nobody's going to change it.. not Bush or Kerry. It's the "world economy" everybody wanted. Get used to it.

B17Skull12 · « **Reply #49 on:** July 29, 2004, 11:48:05 PM »

WE MUST NEVAR FORGOT, BOOSH IS HILTER, LIKE KERRY SAID!!!1

demaw1 · « **Reply #50 on:** July 29, 2004, 11:57:02 PM »

TWEETY......REVENGE

I dont think it was revenge for 1 thing there is another reason we went in very hush hush. Gee I am a nobody that has read a lot of history and warfare history since 6 th grade I pretty much came to same conclusion bush did before he did .I wasnt taught by hawks, doves or tweety birds. We were treated as liberators and there were flowers ask anyone who was there.
there is so much going on there that is good but you dont here that.Even that great liberal geraldo R. says so.

There are 3 ways I know to get out it just isnt that hard.gees tweety sometimes I think you all give the muslims the power of a god.

rpm · « **Reply #51 on:** July 30, 2004, 12:08:22 AM »

You must not have understood what Springsteen was writing about. He was talking of the industrial decay that occured in the 80's and is happening again. Altho he endorses no candidates, he seems to not care for Dubya much.

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Springsteen has been openly critical of the Bush administration.

A May 26 speech by Gore criticizing Bush is reprinted on Springsteen's Web site, http://www.brucespringsteen.net, preceded by a message from The Boss.

"A few weeks ago at N.Y.U. Al Gore gave one of the most important speeches I've heard in a long time," Springsteen tells fans. "The issues it raises need to be considered by every American concerned with the direction our country is headed in. It's my pleasure to reprint it here for my fans."

The speech is then quoted: "George W. Bush promised us a foreign policy with humility. Instead, he has brought us humiliation in the eyes of the world."

Toad · « **Reply #52 on:** July 30, 2004, 12:10:08 AM »

Where'd that textile mill go, RPM?

Seen any textiles around lately that say "Made in China" on the tag?

rpm · « **Reply #53 on:** July 30, 2004, 12:16:07 AM »

Yep, I'd like to see more that say "Made in the USA". That's why I'm voting Kerry/Edwards.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #54 on:** July 30, 2004, 12:24:09 AM »

Edwards gave a better speech....but then again edwards has a personality. Not to mention he actually sounded like he will FIGHT the war on terror.

Kerry sounded like he was going to form the best committe EVAR and with the support of france we will make some arrests.

maybe kerry's flip flop video says more than his speech did.

BUT.....he's speaking to his crowd so his opinion at the time has to fit the crowd......does he even have an opinion on the war on terror?

demaw1 · « **Reply #55 on:** July 30, 2004, 12:45:55 AM »

RPM.....try reading once in a while the dems are pushing much harder for 1 world gov than repubs. Along with th E.U. they are the force that will bring it about if its to be.I already said outsourcing started under clinton what did you not understand about that? or you just dont what to understand. Darn rpm you are goofy at best humility went out the window when the towers came down...you dont understand that?

Booky · « **Reply #56 on:** July 30, 2004, 12:50:58 AM »

Thes best part is that Kerry will change his views about 5 more times between now and November.

Anyone who votes for someone who does not maintain a steady belief is a fool.

rpm · « **Reply #57 on:** July 30, 2004, 01:04:03 AM »

Demaw, I didn't know Bill Clinton was running for office again. All of us want OBL and the rest of Al-Queda brought to justice. Nice attempt at a troll, but poor choice of bait.

Dnil · « **Reply #58 on:** July 30, 2004, 01:08:51 AM »

still didnt answer the questions I asked rpm....toad tried and I appreciate it.

KBall · « **Reply #59 on:** July 30, 2004, 03:09:01 AM »

"And I will appoint an Attorney General who actually upholds the Constitution of the United States."

Great...I feel another Janet Reno otw. Ruby Ridge, Waco, Elian Gonzalez.

"We will add 40,000 active duty troops — not in Iraq, but to strengthen American forces that are now overstretched, overextended, and under pressure. We will double our special forces to conduct anti-terrorist operations."

Congress has already voted and approved this.

"You don't value families by kicking kids out of after school programs and taking cops off our streets, so that Enron can get another tax break."

Huh?? Can someone explain that last one? What does Enron have to do with that?