Bush Raises Issue of Edwards' Experience to Be VP

[underpants]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&e=2&u=/nm/20040707/pl_nm/campaign_bush_dc

RALEIGH, N.C. (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) criticized Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards (news - web sites) in his own home state on Wednesday by questioning whether Edwards has sufficient experience to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.

A day after Edwards was picked by Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry (news - web sites) as his running mate, Bush raised the experience issue when asked how Edwards stacked up against his own vice president, Dick Cheney (news - web sites).


"Dick Cheney can be president," Bush said briskly

He said Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, does not share the same values as southerners.


"I'm going to carry the South because the people understand that we share values," Bush said. "I'll do well in the South this time, because the senator from Massachusetts doesn't share their values, and that's the difference in the campaign."

[cthrumatrix]

1. the "boy puppet" moves his lips....FU can be president....what a bonus!

[rfranklin]

2. Yeah, since the VP is now head of government, he has a point...

right on the top of his empty little pinhead.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

3. Bwhahahahahahaha!

Oh, Chimpy, we all know you had SO MUCH experience yourself in the largely ceremonial job of Texas governor. Go Cheney yourself!

[frylock]

4. heartbeat away from the presidency..

interesting phrase to use considering crashcart's delicate condition.

[OSheaman]

5. As opposed to being the governor of Texas

. . . which, frankly, a relatively-well trained parakeet could do.

[Bertha Venation]

6. Hey, George. You're no Jack Kennedy. Christ, you're no DAN QUAYLE!

Jesus Christ on toast! That guy is such an asshole . . . he makes my ass want to chew tobacco.

[MaineDem]

7. This is the best the GOP can come up with???

I guess I mean both the statement and the candidate.

The Republicans are running scared, I believe. THey have very little to run on and now they're trying this. WOn't work.

Edwards has more foreign policy experience than Boy George ever had before he was named President. No contest here at all.

[underpants]

Short. Simple. Decisive.

That is the MO. Yes this is the best they can come up with.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

32. In regards to FratBoy, the emphasis is certainly on "simple".

[Carni]

8. Oh! I SEE...

So now bush...that great uniter has chosen to turn this into a north/south issue???

What a typically fabulous chimp style approach to bringing the country *closer* together.

Isn't it treasonous to try to start another civil war BTW?

What the hell are Southern values anyway?

[underpants]

17. God guns and gays

To paraphrase Mr.Dean. ON EDIT-That is the conventional wisdom anyway.

I love the implication that people in Massachusetts eat children or something.

[Carni]

22. I hear you

No offense to Southerners (that are NORMAL humans...not bushites)

Dumbya's "Southern values" remark pissed me off even more than usual (and I didn't think that was possible!)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

9. That oughtta be anough to scare the crap out of America

Dick Cheney can be president

[Carni]

11. I thought he already was?

When he isn't in his bat cave that is...

[chiburb]

12. LOL!

As much as I hate Shrub, I ALWAYS hope that the SS is vigilant for that very reason!

[chiburb]

10. Yeah, but Edwards can spell potato!

What a slime-bucket we have in the People's House...

[JM]

13. Hmmm...Graduated with Honors vs. C's

Successful trial lawyer vs. failed businessman

You go George. Keep pushing that line of thought. Pot or kettle. Call it in the air.

JM

[tlcandie]

14. Because Cheney could be prez? LoL

He's living on borrowed time! As for sharing values... * has none except how better to line his wallet.

[mac56]

15. He's a uniter, not a divider...

(/sarcasm...)

and he's no one to be evaluating anyone on their qualifications for office.

[underpants]

19. Yes but you CAN be POTUS with a criminal record

W is the first to enter that way anyway

DUI-Kennebunktport
DUI in Texas? -We will never know, record wiped clean
Threat of a wreath while at Yale

[Doosh]

16. Bush took a break from his Playstation 2 to make a comment!

gadzooks!

[MaineDem]

18. Thanks for the great laugh

That cartoon is priceless!!!

[Qutzupalotl]

20. Really? Southerners value

profiting from wars they lied to start and sending other people's children to die in them?

[janx]

21. This is incredibly WEAK!

Is this all they have?

[Dr Fate]

23. What experience did (does) Bush have? PLEASE!!!

!!!

[young_at_heart]

24. Bush did not know any foreign leaders names in 2000

No one seemed to care then that his knowlege was extremely borderline. Something tells me that Edwards is far ahead of Bush in this area!

[FlaGranny]

42. Now, Bush knows

a handful of names of foreign leaders - but he's still working on the pronunciation of their names. I think he DOES have Blair and Fox down pat, though. Anything over one syllable and he starts to have a problem.

[fortyfeetunder]

55. Remember his Canadian gaffe?

when that chimp thought the Canadian PM's name was poutine (a French-Canadian potato dish)? Hell, if I were him, I wouldn't even go there on an intellectual bent with his opponents. Maybe not even a spelling bee?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

47. I heard Clinton on CNN this afternoon...

...right before they interrupted with the important announcement that Al Quaida has plans to attack us sometime.

His comment about Edwards was that he has more experience in international affairs than Dingbat had when he ran in 2000. (Okay...Clinton didn't say dingbat.)

My feeling is, I'd rather have someone totally inexperienced, with Edward's charm, candor, and dignity than all of Dumbyass's blundering "experience". He has destroyed our reputation on a global scale.

We need elected, yes, elected officials who can restore the credibility of the United States with the rest of the world.

[74dodgedart]

25. Repubs complain about Washington "insiders", support term-limits

and then complain because somebody hasn't spent enough time in Gov't ?

Give me a break... What was Bush's experience ?

[Lugnut]

26. LMAO!!!

Dumbhead is the last person who should criticize someone else's inexperience. Even his own on-the-job training has failed miserably. This is really funny.

[Bridget Burke]

27. Bush's Southern values?

Born in Connecticut, he did live in Midland as a child. Then to Houston to attend Kinkaid (pricey private school) for a year until Andover could find room for him. Yale, Harvard, etc. Bush Sr's official Texas address was a hotel suite until he was booted out of the White House.

Oh, I'm forgetting that year in Alabama!

[Ripley]

29. Good biography...except the only thing he learned in Alabama..

was AWOL-ing, p*ssy (according to his buds), liquoring it up with politicos and maybe paying for another abortion or two.

I flipped on the tube for a brief moment today and caught that part of his questioning where he was asked about Edwards comparison to Cheney...

He has lost it!...he was surly and arrogant and snippy and it showed...big time. I mean if he wanted to woo voters, he should have answered something about unca dicks many years in federal govenment, CEO, blah blah blah...but his quick dismissive snit shows his true colors. And I know NC and they'll see his game.

[rocktivity]

28. You'll carry HALF the South if you're lucky, Georgie

By the way, how much experience did YOU have when YOU became president?

:headbang:
rocknation

[arikara]

30. That is so cheney'n hilarious!

This from the moran who thought that Jean Poutine was PM of Canada, and no doubt thinks its Tim Horton now. And do they have blacks in Brazil? Pooty poot! Border relations between Canada and Mexico have never been better...

[SammyWinstonJack]

40. And ,

"I will have a foreign handed foreign policy." I believe that was the quote Dumba$$ made when asked the question about what his foreign policy would be. Wasn't that during the debates? Vague as ever and just as stupid now as then.

[struggle4progress]

31. Cheney lacks the decency needed to be a good president.

He lacks the integrity, too.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

33. Heck, Cheney isn't even legally the vice president!

[UpInArms]

34. great points made by all DUers!

the thing from the swamp that has no heart and bad health is more capable of taking over the presidency from the nitwit that currently illegally occupies the office?

and these things have what?

oh, I guess that Southerners love having someone with the class to say F*** Yourself in the Senate to a senator?

Been to the southland many times and thought they were much more gentile than that.

Clueless... just clueless.

If I lived in the south I would be embarassed to be compared with these incompetent twits.

[Kenneth ken]

35. here's a different question to ask

"I'm going to carry the South because the people understand that we share values," Bush said. "I'll do well in the South this time, because the senator from Massachusetts doesn't share their values, and that's the difference in the campaign."

*snip*

At the Raleigh home of Peggy and Cliff Benson, Bush headlined a private event for 520 people that raised $2.35 million for the party. A similar event was to be held later in the day in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, in the Detroit suburbs.

*snip*

I wonder how many people in the south have homes that could accomodate a "private event" for 520 people?

ps - $2.35m spread among 520 people avaerages a little over $4,519 per person. Isn't there a $2,000 per person per cycle limit on campaigns? Shouldn't all these donors be investigated for campaign finance violations?

[Mithras61]

39. Re: Limits on contributions...

The $2000 per person per cycle limit is in direct contributions to candidates. You can give however much your little heart desires (and you can afford, of course) to the RNC, DNC, etc., but not directly to the candidate him/herself.

[FlaGranny]

41. It is $2000, but that is for EACH person.

A husband can give $2000, his wife can give $2000, and probably even each minor child.

[struggle4progress]

36. I'd bet most southern women don't believe they should be ...

... subservient to their husbands. And I bet once those women learn about Judge Holmes, they'll hardly be able to wait for November 2.

[Mithras61]

37. Sharing values?

I guess that would be why the latest independant, non-partisan poll in TX found you leading Kerry by a whole 2%, huh? (Yeah, that's right, only 2% in a poll with a +/- of 3%! In TEXAS!)

[Ganja Ninja]

38. Experience doesn't count for much when ...

You can't recognize, learn from, or admit your mistakes.

[dryan]

43. Southern values

Southerners put a high price on a person's honor and personal responsibility. Mr. Bush has neither.

[MountainLaurel]

44. Hello Pot, meet Kettle.

:eyes:

[St. Jarvitude]

45. All of these so-called "analysts" can shove it up their collective ass.

Hour after hour, I hear "CNN Analyst John Doe" going on and on about how the Bush (mis)administration is going to attack John Edwards citing a "lack of Washington experience." (despite his, what, six years in the U.S Senate?)

]: NEITHER BUSH NOR CHENEY HAD ANY "WASHINGTON EXPERIENCE" PRIOR TO THEIR (S)ELECTION! NONE! NOTHING!! THAT MEANS ZERO ("0"), A BIG GOOSE EGG, NUMERO CERO, NUMMER NULL, YEARS IN WASHINGTON!!!!!!!!!

But I haven't heard one of these "analysts" mention this. Ever. Why?

Because they're a liberal media, of course. :eyes:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

46. "Dick Cheney can be president," Bush said briskly...

But can Bush be president?

[TankLV]

48. Edwards has more experience than bunkerboy!

Bunkerboy shouldn't be president - he's already proven he can't hack it.

The least experienced democrat in the world would be better than what this idiot had proven!

Do they even listen to themselves?!

[Kool Kitty]

49. Oh, for crissakes, Georgie-

compared to you, Edwards' youngest child is qualified to be President.

[lumpy]

50. Dumb Dumb

should avoid the subject of who is qualified to be VP. Lazyass isn't qualified to clean a portable latrine.

[wildwww2]

51. Values of life, liberty and the persuit of happiness. Mean zip to Repukes.

Bu$h is lying proof. All he seems to persue is killing more of our troops and the brown Islamic people he insisted they invade. Excuse me. But the reasons keep changing. Maybe he just likes to murder people?
Peace
Wildman
Al Gore is My President

[Geo55]

52. Yeah ! ...that's the ticket ! ..the Dickster can be prisident

[Sparky McGruff]

53. Response from Joe Scarborough: "Bush's cheap shot at Edwards"

Check it out: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5389875

Joe "Dead Intern" Scarborough, Republican Whore for MSNBC, says it's a cheap shot. He says that Edwards is well qualified for the office.

The A/C just kicked on in hell.

[Lisa]

54. prediction -- he'll switch to "I have better people skills than Edwards"

... if enough people call him on the experience thing.


Personally, I think Edwards is both better-prepared, AND better at winning people over than * ever was. Bush is jealous!