BS: Remember How We Got Here?

Subject: BS: Remember How We Got Here?
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 02:54 PM

http://www.keithboykin.com/arch/000640.html

August 1, 2000

* The Republicans won't tell you that "compassionate" Bush is the nation's leading executioner.
*They won't tell you that Bush opposed hate crimes legislation in Texas.
*They won't tell you that he signed legislation to allow Texans to carry concealed weapons into churches.
*They won't tell you that Bush opposes laws that protect gays and lesbians from employment
*They won't tell you about Bush's appearance at Bob Jones University or his position on the confederate flag.
*They won't tell you that the man who wants to be the "education president" chose as his running mate a man who voted against creating the Department of Education.
*They won't tell you that Dick Cheney voted against affirmative action, against Head Start, against South African sanctions, against releasing Nelson Mandela from jail, against the Clean Water Act, against the Safe Drinking Water Act, against restrictions on cop-killer bullets, against restrictions on plastic guns that evade metal detectors, against the Equal Rights Amendment and against abortion even in cases of rape and incest.
*They won't tell you that Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has said that "Cheney's voting record was slightly more conservative than mine." You won't hear that from the stage in Philadelphia.

"Far too much weight has been placed on style instead of substance in this campaign. We've heard a lot about Dick Cheney's "moderate image" and George Bush's relative youthfulness. Dick Cheney may not look or sound like J.R. Ewing, but he's far more dangerous. And George W. Bush may not have been born in the "same generation as President Bush, but this is still his father's Republican Party.

"If Gov. Bush becomes president, you will see more tax cuts and corporate welfare for the wealthy and self-help speeches for the poor. We'll continue to spend more on prisons than schools. And we may get four new anti-choice, anti-affirmative action Supreme Court justices to rewrite the laws.

"No matter how much kinder and gentler the campaign may appear, if Bush and Cheney win, we're screwed."

(bulleting mine) Ebbie

Subject: RE: BS: Remember How We Got Here?
From: Amos
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 02:57 PM

Sounds like someone had their head on straight back then! :>)

A

Subject: RE: BS: Remember How We Got Here?
From: Strick
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 03:18 PM

Minor quibbles:

"* The Republicans won't tell you that 'compassionate' Bush is the nation's leading executioner."

The governor of the State of Texas is powerless to affect executions other than to issue a 30 day stay. All other power resides in the State Board of Paroles and has since there was a pardon scandal in the first have of the last century.

"*They won't tell you that Bush opposed hate crimes legislation in Texas."

All crimes involving violence are hate crimes. We should be more concerned with enforce the laws against violence aimed at anyone.

"*They won't tell you that he signed legislation to allow Texans to carry concealed weapons into churches."

Yeah, odd as it sounds, Texans were not allowed to have permits to carry concealed weapons even though they've been allowed in places with much stricter gun laws like New York City for decades. It's still illegal to carry a concealed weapon into a number of places including my church.

"*They won't tell you that Bush opposes laws that protect gays and lesbians from employment."

Even most Democrats running for state wide office in Texas don't support that. Sorry.

Subject: RE: BS: Remember How We Got Here?
From: GUEST,amergin
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 03:19 PM

"They won't tell you that Bush opposes laws that protect gays and lesbians from employment"

I thought Bush believes EVERYONE should be protected from employment....unless of course you aspire to work at McDona;ds or Walmart...

Subject: RE: BS: Remember How We Got Here?
From: Strick
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 03:30 PM

I let that one slide out of respect. I was already quibbling enough as it was.

Subject: RE: BS: Remember How We Got Here?
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 06:32 PM

Hey. I didn't edit it- I lifted it intact. (You should read our local university's campus newspaper if you are interested in seeing how clearly -or not- our young people are writing.)

The point remains, however.

Subject: RE: BS: Remember How We Got Here?
From: Amergin
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 02:09 AM

Sorry, Ebbie...I just couldn't resist ;)

Subject: RE: BS: Remember How We Got Here?
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 02:24 AM

Poo (pout)

:)

Subject: RE: BS: Remember How We Got Here?
From: Megan L
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 03:29 PM

We love oor wee grand folk bairns across the water but ach weans yer awfy strung up on thon fella. Noo ma folk on the ither hand were jist often strung up.

Subject: RE: BS: Remember How We Got Here?
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 03:44 PM

The study of genealogy is a wondrous thing, right, Megan L? I have no one to brag about and a few to hide.

Subject: RE: BS: Remember How We Got Here?
From: Megan L
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 03:49 PM

aye ebbie its grand mind you wee did have the few white shhep a right boring lot they were too :-)