Bush 2, Kerry 0

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Better yet, Kerry was off balance all the way thru. I guess he expended too much mental fact-checking and anti-flip-floping to sufficiently focus on the questions.

I loved when J Kerry invoked Michael J Fox…
You could almost see him trying to think of someone he knows that most Americans like, so that he could jump on their coat tails…
Teddy Kennedy… no, too many bridge and date rape jokes
Ben Affleck… no, even more smug than me
Alec Baldwin… too Alec Baldwiny
Michael J Fox… hey, that’s the ticket! People love him still, right? Little Alex Keaton… he even played a Regan republican!!!

Jim R, I got a better suggestion, don’t vote on the online polls and let the DEMs stack it. Let them have this laugh and get cocky whilst we get the last laugh on 11/3

I think Bush handily won the debate. Kerry had a few moments but Bush promptly shot back on almost all attacks.
Bush looked good and seemed to have his ducks in a row. I am glad Bush finally went after Kerry’s extremely poor senate record. There isn’t much to defend there.
Nice blog La Shawn. Thanks

Got to love Bush, best part of the debate was when Kerry said the President owned a lumber company. Bush says, “hey, wanna buy some wood?” LOLOL

Okay. I have now watched the debate six ways from
Sunday. Heard all the blather. At least twice.

What struck me was that Kerry was hard put to put
cogent sentences/arguments together. He babbled.

Lots of cliches and talking points but STILL …
mostly incoherent. I have talked to others who
viewed the same thing I saw and they found him …
on point. Dead right on.

Bush was speaking real time with his mouth well
connected to his brain. And well. VERY well.

I see the spin and have to surmise that the
pundits are … SHOCKED that W had it in him to
perform so well.

Here is the bottom line.

Bush did exceedingly well in both presentation
AND delivery. His content was almost without …
question.

Kerry was taken aback and on the defensive from
word one. He relied on hackneyed sound bites like
a man on crutches. And stumbled more. It is a
good thing he wasn’t trying to navigate an icy
sidewalk.

The pundits on one side call it a draw and truly
believe that. THEY were not listening to Kerry,
only watching with rapt attention his demeanor.

On the other side, they say Bush FINALLY saved
his bacon and thank Gawd for that.

Neither is correct.

Bush kicked Kerry’s ass. Pure and simple. No
holds barred. AND in a VERY entertaining way.

The people who viewed it will come away with a
feeling of confidence in W. And a … disdain
for the smallness of Kerry.

It will take until next week to show this to be
so.

It is the weekend. Thank Carl Rove for that.

Everybody’ll be trying to squeeze the last bit
of summer out of this fall and too busy to worry
about the debate.

But when they come back to work on Monday and rehash it all … Bush’s numbers will gain 7 points across the board. Across the country.

Now, all we have to worry about is the NEXT 3
weeks.

Nice blog La Shawn. Stay with it. It is the …
best way to be heard in a cacophony of mutes.

Steel

I’m actually now thinking of the theory that the president actually THREW the first debate simply to lower expectations for this … pass it around. >:)

Too late, Jim R. The Dems are almost certainly using a bot …

Listening to CSPAN this morning and I am hearing some interesting things. Many of the callers are either saying that Bush won or came across much stronger. Wow!!

Read the debate, and once again thought that the President had more substance to his points.

Once again, I was surprised by how Kerry came across as babbling. No, this is REALLY attempting to be objective. Kerry is known for being an excellent debator. Well, he seemed to give just talking points last night. He had that “used car salesman” attitude. Toothy grins,long wandering replies, and too much salesmanship.

Ok Ok I am a hopeless hack

I think that the bar for debate success was set so low from Bush’s performance in the first debate, that as long as he does better than that, some will say Bush wins subsequent debates.

That doesn’t make it true. Bush doesn’t appear to grasp policy questions and real world nuance as well as his opponent, and his mistakes, in debate and policy, stem from that.

Bush 0, Kerry 2.

Andy: “Jim R, I got a better suggestion, don’t vote on the online polls and let the DEMs stack it.”

Notice that many of the poll sites I listed are in the ’swing’ state media. Undecideds are persuaded by what others are saying in the media, because they don’t know what they want.

I was watching MSNBC after the debate, and they kept repeating their online poll results of about 70% for Kerry.
This has an effect on people who are not sure. The ones who count!

It is not too late to vote in most of these polls. Go to:
TV.MSNBC.COM to vote all weekend.

Mr. Lamb Jr.,

“Bush doesn’t appear to grasp policy questions and real world nuance as well as his opponent, and his mistakes, in debate and policy, stem from that.”

Not only does Bush grasp policy questions, he outclassed Kerry on that very topic. Kerry’s “nuance” is the same ideology Carter used to lose the cold war. In a world of jihad, we have to be strong against our enemy, not “nuanced”.

Factcheck Kerry Mr. Lamb Jr., and you’ll find his “mistakes and policies” are the more disingenuous of the two.

The only thing that comes out of Kerry’s pie hole is:

I HAVE A PLAN I HAVE A PLAN I HAVE A PLAN
I HAVE A PLAN I HAVE A PLAN I HAVE A PLAN
I HAVE A PLAN I HAVE A PLAN I HAVE A PLAN
I HAVE A PLAN I HAVE A PLAN I HAVE A PLAN
I HAVE A PLAN I HAVE A PLAN I HAVE A PLAN
I HAVE A PLAN I HAVE A PLAN I HAVE A PLAN
I HAVE A PLAN I HAVE A PLAN I HAVE A PLAN
I HAVE A PLAN I HAVE A PLAN I HAVE A PLAN
I HAVE A PLAN I HAVE A PLAN I HAVE A PLAN

Well I have a question as does most of America:

WHAT THE HECK IS YOUR PLAN?

All blather and no substance. Oh and don’t get it twisted podna’. We ALL heard you say you would not raise taxes..PERIOD, yet your boyz in the media are trying to put the words in your mouth that you would not raise “middle class” taxes. CNN in particular is spinning your words big time. Don’t even try it Senator. You are on record as saying you will not raise taxes. A lie like that makes even Bill Clinton look like Mother Teresa.

Good job Mr. President in finally exposing this SUPER-LIBERAL’S RECORD. About time someone held this lightweight accountable.

Oh and one last thing, did I actually here poodle boy say he has been “CONSISTENT” on every issue? Please tell me he was just making light hearted humor, but I am sure that not even his psycho wife (Da Rayza) doesn’t even believe that garbage. To see someone lie so easily like Kerry and Clinton simply amazes me. What amazes me more are the number of morons in this country who actually fall for it. To say the US educational system needs fixing is an understatement. Now I know what some of you are saying. What about Bush’s lies? And I say to you, when you can produce the actual lie or lies that he has told then we have a discussion.

Ray Coleman
Tampa, FL

I’ve asked it a million times…what exactly is “winning the peace?” I thought Bush did a great job coming back and not letting Kerry slap him around so much. The panicked expression was replaced with a more confident smirk. The media will never be happy with him, so I take their communal “he was too aggressive” comments with a grain of salt.

Raise your conservative voices on multiple campaign issues at:

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Easy on the upper case letters Ray Coleman. Like your candidate, you tend to shout. President Bush should steer clear of analysis of the Dred Scott Decision, the tax laws for small businesses, and school funding. Karl Rove has his work cut out for him.

Easy on the condescension, Mr. Bayne, like your candidate, you tend to talk down to folks while looking down your nose.

Raymond, you’re scaring me again.

200 pages just to tell us what the plan is? What a waste of time and effort in putting that together. We shouldn’t have to go to the website, we should hear it short, simple & sweet.

Just as in war, the first thing to get tossed out after an election is the plan. Battles are driven by the realities on the ground, yet guided by a strategic objective. I don’t give a hoot for sKerry’s plan, let alone Bush’s.

The makeup of the legislature is going to drive either administration’s outcome. What matters is each candidate’s vision for where we ought to be at the end of game.

Bloviating on 200 pages about a plan is just a bunch of hi-falutin garbage to disguise his overarching moonbatic vision for gubmint-run everything — a royal PapaStaat in the mold of Chirac and Schroeder. Either that is evidence of a profound cluelessness as to how things are run in DC, or a cynical condescension of Joe Q. Public’s desire and wishes concerning the direction we as a country take.

What’s sKerry gonna do if he wins the White House but solidly loses both houses in the Lege? Odds are very strong that regardless of who wins the WH, congress is going to be firmly controlled by the GOP. Is he gonna whine about the bad ole GOP meanies that won’t pass any of his proclamations?

At least he has a plan. What’s the alternative? Medicare dashed to the HMO’s? More children and teachers Left Behind? No exit plan for Afghanistan? Hatred of us abroad?

Take heart ya’ll. sKerrie (sKerry’s sister) utterly failed to derail the Howard administration down under. Howard won by a landslide.

Word has it that Lantham (ozKerry) was so sure of victory, he didn’t even have a speech prepared to concede his miserable failure. bwwwahahaha.

Let’s see how the MSM tries to spin this on the Sunday morning circuit.

*Carol Burnett and Friends theme song playing in the background*

We see Bush mopping the floor with Kerry and his fluffy mop hair.

For those who’s attitude about the war on terror has softened over the last 3 years, as well as those who need a reminder of why it is worth fighting, the Deterrence article at EjectEjectEject.com is a good read.

Make your conservative voice heard in the Media at PollingPoint.Com.

Make a real difference in the election by doing what you can to help the President and his Local/State/Congressional candidates at Gop.Com/GetActive.

Did anyone else notice how Kerry shook his head “NO” in response to the Bush question about buying wood? He needs none, already in possession of a headful.

I just emailed the White House to ask if they could send some firewood for the winter. They responded that since I live in Los Angeles they thought the wood could be put to better use elsewhere.

I think Kerry won. Bush seemed rattled on more than one occasion. There wasn’t a lot in it though

Talk about clutching at straws….i cant believe people are STILL rambling about Kerry’s ‘lack of plans’ despite the fact hes detailed them specifically. Much more so than Bush. ‘More of the same’ and ‘its hard work,’ anyone?

You’re absolutely right, Omar. Just look at Don’s post. The problem is, people don’t want to wade through 200 pages on Kerry’s website to finally get to the core of what he plans for our great country. Too bad, if more people knew what Kerry stands for instead of just that he’s “anybody but Bush,” they might think again about voting for him.

When I speak to Kerry supporters, I usually argue the facts, as in whatever his current position is. Almost 100% of the time they have no clue what Kerry stands for.

Good post Carl. I think it will help here also. Add Australia to England as a friend in ‘deed’.

With Germany and France declining to support us, how short the memory of WWII and reconstruction, Berlin Flights, Normandy, etc. etc. Even if they doubted our move into Iraq, we earned their benefit of the doubt. I won’t forget.

Regarding lack of support by the political opposition in our own country, from the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant:

“Experience proves that the man who obstructs a war in which his nation is engaged, no matter whether right or wrong, occupies no enviable place in life or history. Better for him, individually, to advocate ‘war, pestilence,
and famine’ than to act as obstructionist to a war already begun. The history of the defeated rebel will be honorable hereafter, compared with that of the Northern man who aided him by conspiring against his government while protected by it. The most favorable posthumous history the stay-at-home traitor can hope for is - oblivion.”

Kerry wants to race taxis…lol that was great.

Allan, Omar is the resident troll. But unlike the troll in the Billy Goats Gruff saga, Omar has a bungee cord and bounces back only to get re-butted.

THIS is how you fight a war!!!!!!

GEN GEORGE PATTON’S SPEECH

“Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bu%%sh$#. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. You are here today for three reasons. First, because you are here to defend your homes and your loved ones. Second, you are here for your own self respect, because you would not want to be anywhere else. Third, you are here because you are real men and all real men like to fight.

When you, here, everyone of you, were kids, you all admired the champion marble player, the fastest runner, the toughest boxer, the big league ball players, and the All-American football players. Americans love a winner. Americans will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise cowards. Americans play to win all of the time. I wouldn’t give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor will ever lose a war; for the very idea of losing is hateful to an American.”

The General paused and looked over the crowd. “You are not all going to die,” he said slowly. “Only two percent of you right here today would die in a major battle. Death must not be feared. Death, in time, comes to all men. Yes, every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he’s not, he’s a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watching men fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared. Some men get over their fright in a minute under fire. For some, it takes an hour. For some, it takes days. But a real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood. Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base. Americans pride themselves on being He Men and they ARE He Men. Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are, and probably more so. They are not supermen.”

“All through your Army careers, you men have bitched about what you call “chicken s@#$ drilling”. That, like everything else in this Army, has a definite purpose. That purpose is alertness. Alertness must be bred into every soldier. I don’t give a @#$% for a man who’s not always on his toes. You men are veterans or you wouldn’t be here. You are ready for what’s to come. A man must be alert at all times if he expects to stay alive. If you’re not alert, sometime, a German son-of-an-@$$%$&*-@#$%^ is going to sneak up behind you and beat you to death with a sockful of s*#$!” The men roared in agreement.

Patton’s grim expression did not change. “There are four hundred neatly marked graves somewhere in Sicily”, he roared into the microphone, “All because one man went to sleep on the job”. He paused and the men grew silent. “But they are German graves, because we caught the bastard asleep before they did”.

The General clutched the microphone tightly, his jaw out-thrust, and he continued, “An Army is a team. It lives, sleeps, eats, and fights as a team. This individual heroic stuff is pure horse @#$%. The bilious @#$%^&*@ who write that kind of stuff for the Saturday Evening Post don’t know any more about real fighting under fire than they know about @#$%ing!”

The men slapped their legs and rolled in glee. This was Patton as the men had imagined him to be, and in rare form, too. He hadn’t let them down. He was all that he was cracked up to be, and more. He had IT!

“We have the finest food, the finest equipment, the best spirit, and the best men in the world”, Patton bellowed. He lowered his head and shook it pensively. Suddenly he snapped erect, faced the men belligerently and thundered, “Why, by God, I actually pity those poor sons-of-@#$%^&@ we’re going up against. By God, I do”. The men clapped and howled delightedly. There would be many a barracks tale about the “Old Man’s” choice phrases. They would become part and parcel of Third Army’s history and they would become the bible of their slang.

“My men don’t surrender”, Patton continued, “I don’t want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back. That’s not just bull @#$% either. The kind of man that I want in my command is just like the lieutenant in Libya, who, with a Luger against his chest, jerked off his helmet, swept the gun aside with one hand, and busted the hell out of the Kraut with his helmet. Then he jumped on the gun and went out and killed another German before they knew what the hell was coming off. And, all of that time, this man had a bullet through a lung. There was a real man!”

Patton stopped and the crowd waited. He continued more quietly, “All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters, either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don’t ever let up. Don’t ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain. What if every truck driver suddenly decided that he didn’t like the whine of those shells overhead, turned yellow, and jumped headlong into a ditch? The cowardly @#$%^&* could say, “Hell, they won’t miss me, just one man in thousands”. But, what if every man thought that way? Where in the hell would we be now? What would our country, our loved ones, our homes, even the world, be like? No, @#$%^&*@!, Americans don’t think like that. Every man does his job. Every man serves the whole. Every department, every unit, is important in the vast scheme of this war. The ordnance men are needed to supply the guns and machinery of war to keep us rolling. The Quartermaster is needed to bring up food and clothes because where we are going there isn’t a hell of a lot to steal. Every last man on K.P. has a job to do, even the one who heats our water to keep us from getting the ‘G.I. @#$@$’.”

Patton paused, took a deep breath, and continued, “Each man must not think only of himself, but also of his buddy fighting beside him. We don’t want yellow cowards in this Army. They should be killed off like rats. If not, they will go home after this war and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed more brave men. Kill off the @#$$%^&$! cowards and we will have a nation of brave men. One of the bravest men that I ever saw was a fellow on top of a telegraph pole in the midst of a furious fire fight in Tunisia. I stopped and asked what the hell he was doing up there at a time like that. He answered, “Fixing the wire, Sir”. I asked, “Isn’t that a little unhealthy right about now?” He answered, “Yes Sir, but the Goddamned wire has to be fixed”. I asked, “Don’t those planes strafing the road bother you? And he answered, “No, Sir, but you sure as hell do!” Now, there was a real man. A real soldier. There was a man who devoted all he had to his duty, no matter how seemingly insignificant his duty might appear at the time, no matter how great the odds. And you should have seen those trucks on the road to Tunisia. Those drivers were magnificent. All day and all night they rolled over those son-of-a-@#$%^ing roads, never stopping, never faltering from their course, with shells bursting all around them all of the time. We got through on good old American guts. Many of those men drove for over forty consecutive hours. These men weren’t combat men, but they were soldiers with a job to do. They did it, and in one hell of a way they did it. They were part of a team. Without team effort, without them, the fight would have been lost. All of the links in the chain pulled together and the chain became unbreakable.”

The General paused and stared challengingly over the silent ocean of men. One could have heard a pin drop anywhere on that vast hillside. The only sound was the stirring of the breeze in the leaves of the bordering trees and the busy chirping of the birds in the branches of the trees at the General’s left.

“Don’t forget,” Patton barked, “you men don’t know that I’m here. No mention of that fact is to be made in any letters. The world is not supposed to know what the hell happened to me. I’m not supposed to be commanding this Army. I’m not even supposed to be here in England. Let the first @#$%#@$#s to find out be the @#$%$#%$! Germans. Some day I want to see them raise up on their @#$$-soaked hind legs and howl, ‘Jesus Christ, it’s the Goddamned Third Army again and that son-of-a-@#$%^$#-@#$%#@ Patton’.”

“We want to get the hell over there”, Patton continued, “The quicker we clean up this @#$%^$# mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pi$$ing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the @#$$!#$%# Marines get all of the credit.”

The men roared approval and cheered delightedly. This statement had real significance behind it. Much more than met the eye and the men instinctively sensed the fact. They knew that they themselves were going to play a very great part in the making of world history. They were being told as much right now. Deep sincerity and seriousness lay behind the General’s colorful words. The men knew and understood it. They loved the way he put it, too, as only he could.

Patton continued quietly, “Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we can go home. The shortest way home is through Berlin and Tokyo. And when we get to Berlin”, he yelled, “I am personally going to shoot that paper hanging son-of-a-@#$%^ Hitler. Just like I’d shoot a snake!”

“When a man is lying in a shell hole, if he just stays there all day, a German will get to him eventually. The hell with that idea. The hell with taking it. My men don’t dig foxholes. I don’t want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don’t give the enemy time to dig one either. We’ll win this war, but we’ll win it only by fighting and by showing the Germans that we’ve got more guts than they have; or ever will have. We’re not going to just shoot the sons-of-@#$%^es, we’re going to rip out their living @#$%^$#@ guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We’re going to murder those lousy Hun @#$%#@$^ers by the bushel-@#$%^&*-basket. War is a bloody, killing business. You’ve got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts. When shells are hitting all around you and you wipe the dirt off your face and realize that instead of dirt it’s the blood and guts of what once was your best friend beside you, you’ll know what to do!”

“I don’t want to get any messages saying, “I am holding my position.” We are not holding a @#$%$#@#$ thing. Let the Germans do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything, except the enemy’s $@lls. We are going to twist his $@lls and kick the living @#$@# out of him all of the time. Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether we have to go over, under, or through the enemy. We are going to go through him like crap through a goose; like @#$% through a tin horn!”

“From time to time there will be some complaints that we are pushing our people too hard. I don’t give a good @#$$@#% about such complaints. I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood. The harder WE push, the more Germans we will kill. The more Germans we kill, the fewer of our men will be killed. Pushing means fewer casualties. I want you all to remember that.”

The General paused. His eagle like eyes swept over the hillside. He said with pride, “There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again. You may be thankful that twenty years from now when you are sitting by the fireplace with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in the great World War II, you WON’T have to cough, shift him to the other knee and say, “Well, your Granddaddy shoveled @#$% in Louisiana.” No, Sir, you can look him straight in the eye and say, “Son, your Granddaddy rode with the Great Third Army and a Son-of-a-@!#$%^$#$-Bi@#$ named Georgie Patton!”

Ahh, I feel much better! See Ya!

Raymond the Pattonist. Did you really doubt that Bush wouldn’t take off the velvet glove once he definitively won the re-election? Granted, the administration is denying the LAT report, but it does make sense that as long as he had the “stolen elction” hanging over his head, it’s been a game of nuanced political give & take, with sKerry & Co nipping and yapping at his heels like a pack of rabid Chihuahuas.

Nevertheless, letting it be known that our bullets are daubed in bacon grease ought to take some of the zeal out of the jihadiis.

Black folk are listening Mr. President!!!!

Open invitation to the “Black Community”

John Kerry has NO RECORD, but President Bush does and here it is in detail. Be careful what you let your emotions make you do. Don’t let hate for Bush cause you to make a very bad choice on election day. We have asked Kerry for his record, he keeps hiding it. We asked President Bush for his and here it is.

I ask you to think about all of the people who bought homes during this administration at the lowest interest rates in history and with access to the most down payment assistance plans ever available. Do you really want to give that up by voting for Kerry just because someone says you are black and SUPPOSED to hate Bush?

How can we go to church on Sunday and learn to love and then have so much hate in our hearts for a Christian man over a man who denies his relationship with God.

MY GOD PEOPLE……THINK!!!!!!

http://www.georgewbush.com/AfricanAmericans/Default.aspx

The African American Team

Before you vote, know the facts. Before you vote, know what you will lose if you don’t vote for Bush. Before you vote, ask yourself and research, WHAT EXACTLY has Kerry done. What is his record. What legislation bears his name? Why is he rarely at work? What is he doing when he is not on the job doing what he is being paid to do?

EDUCATION: The President pushed through the “No Child Left Behind” Act to reform education by insisting every child be taught to read and every child receive a quality education.

FOR JOBS AND GROWTH: President Bush signed the largest tax relief package in history to help drive the economy forward.

THE VALUES OF THE HEARTLAND: Ending discrimination against faith-based charities.

HEALTH CARE: Expanding access to affordable, quality health care with Health Savings Accounts and more community health clinics.

OWNERSHIP: Low interest rates and pro-growth economic policies have helped minority home ownership to rise to over 50% for the first time ever.

Mrs. Laura Bush Helps Dedicate the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

More detail….

JOBS AND EMPLOYMENT

Over the past three years, President Bush has proposed and signed into law three separate tax relief measures, resulting in the significant reduction in tax burdens for millions of American families and businesses.
Efforts to repeal this tax relief would result in an immediate increase in taxes on these same families and businesses.
The unemployment rate among African American workers has decreased in the past year from 10.9% in August of 2003 to 10.4%in August of 2004 (Bureau of Labor Statistics; 9/3/04).
Close to 15 percent of America’s small business owners are minorities, and the trend of minority ownership is accelerating. Under the President’s plan, small business owners would receive tax cuts averaging $3,000 this year.
An estimated one in five women-owned businesses is owned by a woman or women of color. As of 2002, there are an estimated 1.2 million privately-held firms that are majority-owned by women of color. These firms employ over 822,000 people and generate over $100 billion in revenues. In number, they are growing at twice the rate of all women-owned businesses and four times the rate of all U.S. firms. (Source: Small Business Administration/Center for Women’s Business Research)
African American buying power from 1990 to 2002 was $316.5 billion in receipts. Moreover, African Americans investing the stock market rose 30 percent in the past 5 years, according to Ariel Schwab Black Investor Survey.
The President will not be satisfied until every American looking for work has found a job.

In an effort to meet this goal, the President’s FY 2005 budget also includes:

More than $500 million for an initiative called Jobs for the 21st Century – designed to help current and future workers receive the skills and training they need to succeed in increasingly skilled jobs in the fastest growing industries;
Over $24 billion in small business lending and equity programs to encourage job creation.
An additional $6 million for the Minority Business Development Agency to continue to strengthen partnership with the private sector and other Federal, state, and local entities that help promote the growth of minority businesses.
HOMEOWNERSHIP

The President, in June 2002, announced the goal of increasing the number of minority homeowners by at least 5.5 million families before the end of the decade. Less than 18 months later, the Census estimated an increase of 1.53 million minority homeowners.
In the second quarter of 2004 – for the first time ever – the majority of minority households are now homeowners. The minority homeownership rate set a new quarterly record of 51%.

President Bush is working to increase homeownership.

President Bush signed the American Dream Down Payment Act into law in December 2003. This fund will help approximately 40,000 families a year with their down payment and closing costs.
Since 2001, President Bush has doubled the funding for housing counseling to help more than 550,000 families purchase their first home.
President Bush has proposed the Zero-Down Payment Initiative to help 150,000 families each year purchase their first home. The President’s plan would remove the greatest barrier facing first time, African American homebuyers — the lack of funds for a down payment on a mortgage.
President Bush has set a new public-private goal of increasing the supply of affordable housing by sever million over the next ten years.
The Homeownership Tax Credit will help develop nearly 50,000 affordable, single family homes annually.
EDUCATION

On May 17, 2004, President Bush honored the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education – the landmark Supreme Court case that changed history and bettered our nation. “We tend to think of them as the distant dramas of a different country. Yet, segregation is a living memory, and many still carry its scars. The habits of racism in America have not all been broken. The habits of respect must be taught to every generation. Laws against racial discrimination must be vigorously enforced in education.” (Quote from President Bush on May 17, 2004)

In the past, too many African American students have been shortchanged by our nation’s schools.

According to the most recent data, by the time African American students reach the 12th grade, only one in six can read proficiently and only 3% are proficient in math.
The “achievement gap” measuring the difference in academic achievement between white and African American students is large and has gone unaddressed for too long.
The bi-partisan No Child Left Behind law is making sure schools are held accountable for the academic progress of every child, regardless of income, background, or race.

Because of No Child Left Behind, closing the achievement gap is now a national priority.
Schools are now help specifically accountable for the annual progress of African American students.
The soft bigotry of low-expectations will no longer be tolerated. Schools must now focus on those students that they have traditionally ignored.
Parents have more options for their children.

Now, parents with children in low performing or persistently dangerous schools have the option of having their child attend another public school or chose from over 1,600 state approved tutoring providers. Students will be provided with transportation to the new school.
Urban schools are improving under No Child Left Behind.

A study by the Council of the Great City Schools reviewed test scores from 61 urban school districts in 37 states and found significant improvement in reading and math in the first year under NCLB.
More African Americans Attending College

President Bush is committed increasing minority enrollment in college. Currently, 58% of African American high school students who graduated in 2003 are attending college. (Source: “College Enrollment and Work Activity Of 2003 High School Graduates,” Bureau of Labor Statistics, 4/27/04)

Funding For College

President Bush is committed to keeping college affordable for America’s low- and middle-income families by increasing funding for grants, low-interest student loans and tax breaks for working families.

Under President Bush’s 2005 budget, student aid would increase to more than $73 billion - an increase of $25.9 billion (55%) since 2001. Almost 10 million students – 2.3 million more than when President Bush took office – will receive support. The President’s 2005 budget provides $12.9 billion for Pell Grants - a 47% increase over 2001 levels – which will help 5.3 million low-income students pay for higher education. Low-income students may also receive up to $5,000 in financial aid to study math or science.
President Bush’s 2005 budget request includes $419 million – an $18.8 million or 4.7 percent increase — to assist minority higher education institutions, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and Historically Black Graduate Institutions. The HBCU Board of Advisors passed a resolution commending the President for his commitment to historically black colleges demonstrated by increasing their funding by 30%.
COMPASSIONATE AGENDA

Faith – Based Initiative

Last year, approximately 100,000 men and women seeking treatment for drug addiction did not receive the help they needed. The President’s plan is designed to complement existing programs and ensure that Americans struggling with addiction have access to a comprehensive continuum of effective treatment and support service options, including faith-based and community-based programs, and ensure that these options are more readily available.
The Senate passed the President’s Faith Based initiative which encourages more charitable giving and rallies the armies of compassion. The President also wants to improve CARE Act legislation because Faith Based organizations have a track record of healing those in need of assistance.
Health Disparities. On April 20, 2004 the Honorable Tommy Thompson announced the creation of the Health Disparities Council, a new board charged with developing a plan to eliminate quality gaps in health care.
President Bush is committed to eliminating disparities in health care and is currently addressing racial disparities through support for research targeted at minorities’ health, providing more money for AIDS issues among minorities and increasing the number of community health centers in racial and ethnic minorities neighborhoods.
Expanding Community Health Centers. Since 2001, access has been extended to 2.2 million additional Americans — part of the President’s five-year plan to fund 1,200 new and expanded sites serving 16 million Americans.

Fight HIV/AIDS. The current HIV/AIDS pandemic combined with an inadequate health care system continues to handicap African, Caribbean, and other countries in pursuit of economic growth and poverty reducing policies.

In May 2003 President Bush signed into law the Global AIDS agreement providing $15 billion, over the next five years, to turn the tide against AIDS in the most afflicted nations of Africa and the Caribbean, virtually tripling the U.S. funding to fight HIV/AIDS.
Welfare reform means less poverty. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, there were 2 million families receiving welfare cash benefits in September 2003, the most recent month for which data is available. That is a 54 percent decrease from August 1996, when welfare reform was enacted, and a 1.2 percent decline from June 2003, when the previous report was released.
Child poverty rates are at or near historically low levels. Welfare reform has been a remarkable success and this is one of the most important outcomes we could have hoped to achieve. The overall child poverty rate has fallen from 20.5% in 1996 to 16.3% in 2001 - a 20% decline. The poverty rate for African American children is down 24% since 1996 and in 2001 reached it lowest level ever recorded.

I amd dead serious and who ever said this was a humanitarian mission? That kind of fluffy stuff comes AFTER you win the war. Death and destruction first and THEN you negotiate with what survives. But the good Iraqis have options.

In the words of the lead mobster in Ice Cube’s “Player’s Club”….

“Anyone who doesn’t want to get murdered? GET THE @!#$ OUT!! He then commenced to blasting. EVERYONE ran to get out of there including his target played by Bernie Mac. When Bernie MAc tried to sneak out, he was captured, thrown into the back of a car and never heard from again.

Omar,
Which cities have been leveled?

The president lost me when he joked about Supreme Court nominees, “I’m not gonna tell ya,”, then said. “the ones who vote for me”. His reference to the Dred Scott Decision wa incongruous, and he couldn’t tell the last questioner three mistakes he has made. To err is human (and to admit it is to sidestep an “I’m ever right” ‘tude for humility)

The President lost me when he joked about Supreme Court appointees, “I’m not gonna tell ya,”, then said “the ones who vote for me”. His explanation of the Dred Scott Decision was lacking, and he couldn’t tell a prospective voter three mistakes he has made. To err is human.

Bijan: Shouting being associated with CAPS? Come on. Is that all you’ve got. That is so passe’. What did you do? Take out your i-net etiquette book today? GEESH.

MECCA shoud be the next target if terrorists eve attack here in the US again. Personally, if I were president, it would have been destroyed as soon as I found out the terrorist were muslim.

When Clinton lied no one died…

“When Clinton Lied, Nobody Died” B.S.
The Democrat National Committee (DNC) is a past master at smear campaigns and predictably is the one that makes the most noise, like a child throwing a tantrum, when unvarnished truth comes back to haunt it. One of the hundreds of example of Democrat smears appears as a Bumper Sticker (B.S.), “When Clinton lied, nobody died,” with the clear implication being that it was okay for Clinton to lie then, and for them to continue to lie now, just as the B.S. itself is a lie.

As the reader should recall, it is Clinton who “loathes the military;” and, it is Clinton whose eight year “legacy” is so discredited that it is laughable, preposterous, even comical to even mention his name in any serious discussion of National Security; no B.S. about it!

Now, for those pathetic ignorant, or demented, or both, souls who invent the “cute” little Democrat smears, such as the instant case, it is a matter of record that as many as one hundred political associates and/or friends of Clinton died under dubious circumstances during his time as Governor of Arkansas and as Chief Executive of the US; but, B.S. states: “When Clinton lied, Nobody Died.” Sure, and the “Moon is made of cheese.”

Below is a listing of a number deaths that came about during the Clintons’ regime that their B.S. “conveniently” ignores:
• 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six and injured 1,000;
• 1995 bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed five U.S. military personnel;
• 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 and injured 200 U.S. military personnel;
• 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa, which killed 224 and injured 5,000;
• 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 and injured 39 U.S. sailors; and,
• Although Bill Clinton wasn’t president on September 11th, 2001, when 3000 died Clinton is reported to have wished that he was, because he lost an opportunity for greatness.
But, the B.S. states: “When Clinton Lied, nobody died;” right, if one was “not inhaling” through that 8 years of hell.

Earth to DNC: “Americans aren’t stupid despite Democrat efforts to make them so,” and that’s no B.S.!

Semper Fidelis

To those who dont understand; this is POLITICS! The Sunni Triangle will be leveled after Nov 2. I served in the Marine Corps and studied military history since I was old enough to read and the insurgents will bear the full weight of the US military come next month. Sadly to say, there will be many casaulties, but the military view is that this is necessary.