Perfectly Positive Primary Politics~~In Their Words and Other's

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  SixofNine

  Little Rock - Sunday, at a "Women for Clark" event in Manchester, New Hampshire, Dr. Mary Frances Berry officially endorsed General Clark. Dr. Berry will serve as a member of the Clark for President National Steering Committee.
  

  "I've never endorsed a presidential candidate before," said Dr. Berry. "But when I talk to General Clark, and when I listen to him, I can see him as a president for all Americans."

  General Clark was thrilled to receive Dr. Berry's endorsement.

  "For years, Dr. Berry has been a powerful voice for justice - in the classroom, in our courts, and in the halls of Congress. She's devoted her career to standing up and speaking out for those who all too often are not heard, and we're a better nation because of her work," saidClark. "Dr. Berry is one of the greatest civil rights leaders of our time, and it's a profound honor to have her on my team."

  Dr. Berry is Chair of the United States Commission on Civil Rights and a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Berry led the Commission's investigation of voting rights violations in Florida in the wake of the 2000 election. The United States Commission on Civil Rights investigates civil rights violations and works to ensure that all citizens are afforded equal protection under the law.

  Dr. Mary Frances Berry Responds to Senator Kerry's Remarks On Affirmative Action:

  Today, in a conference call with reporters, Dr. Mary Frances Berry, Chair of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, made the following remarks:

  Back in 1992, when I read what Senator Kerry was saying about affirmative action, I felt like someone had kicked me in the stomach. I was deeply disturbed, because Senator Kerry was saying exactly the same thing that opponents of affirmative action were saying - that it was reverse discrimination, that the policy was a failure, that all it did was perpetuate racism. And even worse, he made no suggestions about what legal steps should be taken to improve it.
  

  Last night, at the debate, I was surprised when he invoked the name of Bill Clinton in discussing the "mend it, don't end it" approach to affirmative action. President Clinton was not yet in office when Senator Kerry made that 1992 speech. And once Clinton was in office, and we were engaged in the difficult debate about the future of affirmative action, Senator Kerry was nowhere in sight. While we were struggling to do all we could to make progress on these issues, he was simply missing in action.
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  Amazing

  I doubt this thread will be heavily moderated ... political freedom of speech is healthy. What I suspect is that it will be a good thread for Current Affairs section of the board.

  Go Bush ... beat the Democrats. Yeah!!!!
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  Seven

  Democrat "Soft" Delegate Votes

  Need to Nominate 2,162.0

  (available) 4,255.0

  Kerry, John F 32.0

  Edwards, John 18.0

  Dean, Howard 17.0

  Clark, Wesley K. 0.0

  Kucinich, Dennis J. 0.0

  Lieberman, Joe 0.0

  Sharpton, Alfred C."Al" 0.0

  Uncommitted 0.0

  Total 4,322.0

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  imallgrowedup

  Six,

  I seriously considered doing an essay on why my candidate should be re-elected, but as the only conservative in here (and with Yeru oddly silent on the topic), I would be severely out numbered.

  But that's the beauty of this thread, you can say anything good you'd like about Bush, and no one can trash him in response. I almost hate myself for even starting it!

  Well, fwiw, it speaks volumes to me! The only boards I ever posted on prior to JWD were political boards, so I feel pretty safe to say that this is the first time I've ever seen a thread which actually encourages intellectual political discussion without fear of persecution.

  Good idea, Six!
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  simplesally

  Just2laws,

  No you only re-register when you move. Otherwise, you're good to go!
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  jst2laws

  Thanks Sally,

  Steve
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  czarofmischief

  Bush - after 9/11, when even the most pacifist of us was screaming for some kind of immediate revenge, he sat down and calmly assessed the situation. He figured out who the enemies were, he figured out what needed to be done, and then he went to afghanistan and did it. After TWO months.

  And then he set about preventing future disasters by analyzing the world and deciding where the next blow would be coming from and what could be done to prevent it. And then he invaded Iraq, in the teeth of the liberal hippie protestors that claim to speak for all of America. And he captured Saddam.

  He started the Iraq war with a strike at Saddam's house, and he sent in the 101st Airborne, who found Saddam's evil ass sons and had them killed. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but the guy who kills bad guys is all right in my book.

  In response to the negative assertions being made about his actions, the Patriot Act and his motivations for the war, not a single actual fact that the liberal hack media throws around can be proven. There are no huge boatloads of Iraqi oil being shipped to America. There are no detention camps full of opposition politicians. He is not the boogeyman that the hip-libs wish he was.

  He faced down a huge crisis in american history, and we are safer and more powerful than ever before. The economy has recovered from what could have been a massively destructive blow, and now we are looking towards the future.

  He's an exciting politician, not afraid to take big chances, not afraid to kick somebody's ass if they deserve it. And his space program sounds both visionary and interesting to me. I want to be there when we go to the moon again. I want to live to see a Mars mission. These are things I'd given up on, and now suddenly they are being thrown around as options.

  Taxes are lower, too. While I'm not rich, I hope to be someday, and I resent the idea of working my ass off all my life just to fork over half of my income so the bespectacled perennial grad student Marxists can sit around coffee shops and plot the Revolution. So, lower taxes is a good thing, and I like it.

  As for his energy policies, well, frankly, a moon-based economy sounds just great for America, since we are the only ones that can get there.

  Plus, it looks like the assault weapons ban, the most blatant attempt of government to strip the citizenry of its ability to dictate terms to the feds, is going to expire. This Clintonesque socialist program that asserts, despite every fact to the contrary, that the average citizen cannot be trusted with weaponry, is going to die under Bush's lassez-faire approach. The second amendment is very near and dear to my heart. Don't take my guns. They are none of your concern. Don't touch them, don't label them, don't tell me how to use them. No leftist gun-hater is getting my vote, EVER.

  And environmentalism isn't all its cracked up to be. Its a lot of red tape put in place by people who don't live where they are ruling and have no clue what's going on and view all usage of any resources as being a bad thing and that humans have no right to utilize anything or change anything. Especially us peasants who actually live out in the fields that we work and just don't see the beautiful visions put down by the Marxist would-be central planners on their pretty notebooks. All we see is an opportunity to build a future for ourselves and our children on our property that we bought with our money that our parents saved - and these leftist control freaks want to tell us what we can and cannot do in ever-increasing entanglements. No, we are not serfs. We are citizens, and your equals, and I'm sorry that it pains you that your fancy degrees don't buy you an extra vote, but they don't, so leave us alone.

  Mostly, Bush has left me alone.

  CZAR
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  wednesday

  Everything Czar said. I just registered and am voting this year.!!!!!!!!! And i'm voitng for Bush.

  cause sometime u got to ".. round up all them bad boys and hang them high in the street, for all the people to see..."
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  Amazing

  CZAR,

  Well stated ... humor and seriousness blended in a good post ... you sound like I do. Thanks.
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  SixofNine

  A Chance encounter, but a blessing

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  By Alana [Add to my Buddy List] Posted to Virginia on Mon Feb 2nd, 2004 at 10:45:39 PM EST

  I am at the Arlington HQ, about 10 hours a day, 7 days a week. Some days, it all gets so formal, boring. And then something happens, that reminds you of why we are all here. Saturday, an elderly woman came in. I greeted her, as I would any person coming into HQ. I had the blessing of my life. This woman was a close personal friend of Harry Truman. She met some "young man" from MA, on a street, shaking hands, wanted to be President of the US. She ended up working for him. That "young man" was JFK. She was arrested with MLK, more times than she could remember, and ended up working at the White House. She had a "gift" for Wes Clark, and wanted to know if I could get it to him. (BTW, it will be put in his hand). A Christmas card, from her father, sent during WWII. She didn't tell me, but I did some research, this card was the last thing her dad was able to send, before he was killed in the death camps. And she wanted Wes Clark to have it. Come down, and give a few hours at HQ. These amazing moments happen all the time. In a few hours, you can change the course of history, and meet the people who have. Alana