Roddimus Prime

"You've heard Al Gore say he invented the internet.
Well, if he was so smart, why do all the addresses begin with "W"?"
--10-28-00 Headline News - Mimi
Nov. 2, 2000, SEATTLE --

"If you don't stand for anything, you don't standfor anything!"
Gov. George W. Bush said to a packed rally at Bellevue Community College on Tuesday night.
--Thanks, Michael.

"They said this issue wouldn't resignate with the People. They've been proved wrong, it does resignate." ("resonate"?!)

"I believe a military of high morale is conducive to keeping the peace..."
not the worst but...

"...when we find a senior who has to choose between food and medicine-that's not our vision of America." Am I missing something? Aren't the two parts of this statement disconnected?

"A surplus means there'll be money left over. Otherwise, it wouldn't be called a surplus."
-- Kalamazoo, MI 10/27/2000 - Jack

If we are going to save a generation of young people, our children must know they will face bad consequences for criminal behavior. Sadly, too many youths are not getting that message. Our juvenile justice system must say to our children: We love you, but we are going to hold you accountable for your actions. --Bush campaign literature.
(Mr. Dubya: should you be held accountable for your youthful indiscretions when you were a 30 year old "child"?!)
"I'm not going to talk about what I did as a child. What I am going to talk about -- and I am going to say this consistently -- [is that] it is irrelevant what I did 20 to 30 years ago. What's relevant is that I have learned from any mistakes I made. I do not want to send signals to anybody that what Gov. Bush did 30 years ago is cool to try."
--Gov. Bush in an interview with WMUR-TV in New Hampshire, when asked if he had used "drugs, marijuana, cocaine"

"I don't want nations feeling like that they can bully
ourselves and our allies. I want to have a ballistic defense
system so that we can make the world more peaceful, and at
the same time I want to reduce our own nuclear capacities to
the level commiserate with keeping the peace."
—Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 23, 2000
"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take
dream."
—LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000 "If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care,
we're going to have gag orders." "Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicines as we used to
know it." "It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term." "I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a
gun." "Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is—I'm not sure 80
percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent
will get it if I'm the president." "Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all
about." "If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for,
then I'm for it."
—St. Louis, Mo., October 18, 2000 "Our priorities is our faith."
—Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000 "I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial
profiling, which is illiterate children."
—Second presidential debate, Oct. 11, 2000 (Thanks to Leonard Williams.) "It's going to require numerous IRA agents."
—On Gore's tax plan, Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000 "I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to
answer questions. I can't answer your question."
—In response to a question about whether he wished he could take back any of his answers in the
first debate. Reynoldsburg, Ohio, Oct. 4, 2000 (Thanks to Peter Feld.) "I would have my secretary of treasury be in touch with the
financial centers, not only here but at home."
—Boston, Oct. 3, 2000 (Thanks to M. Bateman.)
While speaking about KIPP Academy in Houston, Texas during the debate
last night, would-be president Bush said:
"It's a school full of so-called at-risk children. It's how we,
unfortunately, label certain children. It means basically they
can't learn. ... It's one of the best schools in Houston."
So he thinks that "at-risk" means "can't learn?" And that one of the
best schools in Houston is filled with students that can't learn? What an idiot. (Thanks Derek Brandon)
... I've been talking to Vicente Fox, the new president of Mexico... I know him... to have gas and oil sent to U.S.... so we'll not depend on foreign oil...
-- on the first Presidential debate, 10/03/2000 "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."
—Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000 "I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy."
—Redwood, Calif., Sept. 27, 2000
"One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations
rise above that which is expected." --Los Angeles, Sept. 27, 2000
"...more and more of our imports are coming from overseas."
-- On NPR's Morning Edition (9/26) - (Thanks Paul ...)
Larry King: "What do people misunderstand about you most"
George Walker Bush: "That I'm running on my dad's name... (!?!)
I'm proud of my dad... I reconciled my love for my dad a long time ago"
-- What the heck is he talking about? (Thanks Dave...)
"Well, that's going to be up to the pundits and the people to make
up their mind. I'll tell you what is a president for him, for example,
talking about my record in the state of Texas. I mean, he's willing
to say anything in order to convince people that I haven't had a
good record in Texas."
--MSNBC, Sept. 20, 2000 (Thanks to Gregory H. Monberg.)
"I am aperson who recognizes the fallacy of humans...,"
apparently meaning fallibility."
--from "Bush courts women in cozy 'Oprah' visit" by William Goldshclag
printed in the New York City edition of the Daily News, September 20, 2000, page 5 (Thanks Michael...) "A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an
economic illness."-- The Edge With Paula Zahn, Sept. 18, 2000 "The woman who knew that I had dyslexia--I never interviewed her."
--Orange, Calif., Sept. 15, 2000
"The best way to relieve families from time is to let them keep some
of their own money." —Westminster, Calif., Sept.13, 2000
"They have miscalculated me as a leader." —Ibid.
"...I don't need to be subliminabable.." Orlando, FL, Sept. 12 -- when caught using subliminal technique in his dirty ads against Gore... (read more)
"This is what I'm good at. I like meeting people, my fellow citizens, I like interfacing with them."—Outside Pittsburgh, Sept. 8, 2000
"That's Washington. That's the place where you find people getting ready to jump out of the foxholes before the first shot is fired."
—Westland, Mich., Sept. 8, 2000
"Listen, Al Gore is a very tough opponent. He is the incumbent. He represents the incumbency. And a challenger is somebody who generally comes from the pack and wins, if you're going to win. And that's where I'm coming from."
—Detroit, Sept. 7, 2000 (Thanks to Michael Butler, Houston, Texas.)
"We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers."—Houston,Texas, Sept. 6, 2000

"We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans."—Scranton, Pa., Sept. 6, 2000

"I regret that a private comment I made to the vice presidential candidate made it through the public airways." —Allentown, Pa., Sept. 5, 2000.
Is he regreting what he said? Oh, no... he's regreting that we heard...
who is an *******? (Bush's list of ******** must be very loooong...)

"The point is, this is a way to help inoculate me about what has come and is coming."
--on his anti-Gore ad, in an interview with the New York Times, Sept. 2, 2000

"As governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public
schools, and I have met those standards."
--CNN online chat, Aug.30, 2000 (what are ya' laughin at?)

"Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do
it, that's trustworthiness."--Ibid.

- "exemplarary"...
-- On 60 Minutes, 09/10/2000, after a rather interesting "expose" of the Texas schools and
the terrified kids waiting to take the TAAS (?) test... I wonder what his SAT's were? The debates will most certainly win an Emmy for best comedy series.- Frank
(Thanks Frank)
The Texas governor, who spoke passionately of the need for
"plain-spoken Americans in the White House," tried to appear more
Southern gentleman than good-ol' boy as he and running mate Dick
Cheney shook hands with supporters at Naperville North High School
before cantering among the crowd at the city's Last Fling 2000
parade.
But "plain-spoken" took on quite an ironic meaning just before
Bush addressed the estimated 7,500 people who gathered in and
about the makeshift outdoor arena south of the high school.
A live microphone picked up an aside in which Bush described a
New York Times reporter who had written critically of his campaign as
"a major-league *** hole." The microphone also recorded Cheney's
rejoinder of "Oh yeah, he is, big time."
The disparaging words could not be heard by most observers over
the spirited playing of a marching band and the earsplitting roar of
the crowd. Cheney later refused to discuss the incident, saying
only that Bush "made a private comment to me."
...sounds very "presidential".. ---Naperville Sun - 09/06/00 - Thanks Chris
"I don't know whether I'm going to win or not. I think I am. I do know I'm ready for the job. And, if not, that's just the way it goes."
—Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 21, 2000

"We cannot let terriers* and rogue nations hold this nation hostile
(hostage) or hold our allies hostile.''
—Ibid. *Thanks for the correction, Phyllis (09/09/00)

juddz

I want to choose the lesser of two evils, but I am confronted with the evil of two lessers...

Matty Mooling

so matty, i think we all know how you feel about Bush but what's your thoughts and opinions on John Kerry?

juddz

Personally, I think that Bush is not intelligent enough to lead our country. He is terrible at diplomacy, and while I admire a man of conviction, action and decisions are dangerous without vision. Has any real thought been given to nation building in Iraq?

Kerry, on the other hand, lacks conviction. It's true that he takes both sides on every issue. This disappoints me greatly... he even admitted that his decision to take a stand against Vietnam was an error of judgement and chalked it up to being young and insolent. I have to ask, though, where is that young, twenty-something man that spoke out against the conflict he fought in? That (long gone?) courageous, wise fellow is the one I would want elected president, not this shell of a man thirty years on who lives off the Heinz fortune and tells the American public what he thinks they want to hear.

It's a damned shame that there never has been a Roosevelt in my lifetime... like I said, stuck with the evil of two lessers.

Racing Beat

were gonna end up the loser of two evils

Roddimus Prime

Telling the american people what they want to hear is how you become a president.

John Kerry is NOT my choice for president but the DNC chose Kerry for president and he is the only person who stands a chance right now to get Bush out of office.

My vote for president would've gone to Carol Mosely Braun. Yes, the racist white redneck from alabama said he'd rather vote a black woman president. She is so much wiser and worldly than any of the other candidates. During the Democratic primaries moderators tried to insite some mudslinging between the candidates in a little exchange that went someting like this:

MRs. Braun, your opponants here feel that they would do the job of president better than you do you have anything you wish to say to them?

No I do not. I came here to answer questions about how I would run the country not what I think of my opponants. I'm not here to insult anyone. Only display my platform. Do you have a serious question for me regarding policy? I'll be more than happy to answer THAT.


The moderator then said "Mr. Leiberman.....same question." ....HAHAHAHA

Carol Mosely Braun is AMAZING. She truely displays the characteristics that I DEMAND in a president. I could care less what her race/religion/background was. She commands respect and she has mine.


p.s. Kerry (IMO) is a much better leader due to the fact that he is able to change his mind (flip flop if you will). It's arrogant to think that a decision made on flase information should be blindly followed just because you said it would be. Continuing through with the war on Iraq after we know our pretenses to be false is just plain stupidity. Bush should kiss the UN's *** and beg for their forgiveness. He should denounce his position and apologize to the world for stirring up this much trouble. Maybe then the UN would come in and handle this as they should've from the get-go.

I love my country very much and I'm a registered republican but I will NOT accept Bush's term in office as anything less than dispicable and embarrassing on a global level. Bush is our generations Hitler.

Matty Mooling

even though i haven't really followed politics very much i don't like either one of them. i'm really not sure who i want to vote for or if i'll vote at all.

Roddimus Prime

I will actually NOT be voting. Living in Alabama there is no chance in hell that my vote (or even that of 100 of my friends) could swing the state in the elcetoral college. Sadly, our president isn't chosen by the people but the state. If popular vote chose a president then Gore would be ours right now.

Voting is a waste of my time now. It's not even close here...like 70-30%

juddz

Every vote counts.... just ask a citizen of Florida! I know that Alabama's got very few electoral votes compared with the other states, but I think it's better not to be apathetic about it. Doing something (however small) seems better to me than accepting whatever fate might come, especially since you have such strong feelings about the candidates. At least you would have the solace of knowing you voted against Bush if he comes back for round two. But if Kerry wins, you would be able to take a small piece of credit for that, too. Kind of like playing the lottery, you may never win, but gauranteed you'll never win if you never buy a ticket.

Kerry's got my vote, but as mentioned, without grand enthusiasm. You never know, though. He could become more confident and willing to stand for something once the race is behind him. I think at this point I would rather have a "wild card" in office than Bush's proven ineptitude.

Roddimus Prime

i understand what you're saying but I can't in good concience vote for either. I think Kerry is the better of the two candidates but my vote here would be sorely in vain. I would only feel bad about voting if Kerry lost AL by 1 vote. I've done a lot of publisizing for him and tried to swing other voters in key states.

That's my contribution to his campaign.

kargoboy

Oh, Matty, you gotta vote. Even if it's in a losing cause--I understand your predicament in AL, but I could not in good conscience bitch about what a moron Dubya is without knowing that I at least TRIED to keep him out of office.

I agree also that Kerry is disappointing as a candidate, but let's face it, Bush really is a stupid
guy and if, the gods forbid, something happens to him, you have that war-mongering, dishonest bastard Cheney right behind him. But he's smart and that's even scarier than stupid.

I am a lifelong rustbelt Democrat, but that does not preclude me from listening to both sides and I understand Kerry's weaknesses. Unfortunately, Democrats have a label, well-deserved at times, of being weak in foreign policy. Only FDR showed a real talent for that in this century, and that was under the duress of war, certainly not the platform for which he was elected. Look at how badly JFK handled Viet Nam and the Bay of Pigs (although you gotta hand it to a guy who's got a hottie like Jackie around and still found time to do the nasty with Marilyn!) And Carter, one of my favorite politicians ever, couldn't get past the Hostage crisis in Iran.
That said, this election has to be about more than just the situation in Iraq. This country is literally falling apart in many ways and domestic issues, the Dems strong point, needs to be moved to the forefront by both Kerry AND Edwards.

ghettopro

Stop With Your Presidenty Threads Rod!!! They Make My Head Hurt!!!!!!

kargoboy

Haha, pay attention, boy, this'll help you in SS class!

FlyinHawaiian071

That's Social Studies, not hitler's squad. Matty, I agree with you 100%. I like Kerry's abillity to change his mind on a subject. He listens to his constituents and what they say, and he votes according to that. And I also respect him for speaking out against Vietnam. He founght, he gave his blood to that cause. He was there, so he had EVERY right to speak out against it. This will be my first election, and I am certain where my vote is going. Matt, please vote, if you don't, then what right do you have to complain? Voting is a privlege, not a God-given right. If you don't excersise your privlige to vote, then IMO you give your right to complain. Besides, if the Electoral Votes are close enough, they'll go to the popular vote to determine the willer... Every vote DOES count! BTW, Georgy is our generation's Hitler... look at the signs...

Stueck

it reminds me of alien VS predator - whoever wins, we lose.