How can Bush attack Kerry on Special Interest money?

[IronLionZion]

How the hell can the pot call the kettle black? Bush is the undisputed king of special interest donations and he obviously scratches their greedy corporate backs.

Is there any intelligent life out there? Americans have to be smart enough to know this is a crock of shit.

Check out the new attack ad, but keep a vomit bag handy.

http://www.georgewbush.com/News/Newscasts.aspx
click on Unprincipled chapter 1

[MurikanDemocrat]

1. Really! Bush/Cheney are the antithesis of special interests!

I can't IMAGINE how this can POSSIBLY be a winning issue for them. I am truly baffled.

[4morewars]

2. how do you know when bush* is lying ?

...his lips are moving !! :bounce:

[stickdog]

3. Because Bush has always admitted that he's a special interest whore.

The next question is:

how has the corporate media allowed Bush to get away with this?

(Hint: they are one of them!)

[SadEagle]

4. Hypocrisy has never stopped them.

eom

[Eric J in MN]

5. Because Bush has no ties to the oil industry or the

Because Bush has no ties to the oil industry or the beef industry or the pharmaceutical industry or the logging industry...

...no wait, he does. Never mind.

[quaker bill]

6. How you ask?

On the internet, on paid media, on free media, in print, on video, and live and in person.

Amazing what $150 million will buy.

Accuracy has never been a big thing for them. (See Iraq / WMD)

[madrchsod]

7. just read my team leader e-mail

did you know the democrats have spent 40 million dollars in the last 10 days attacking the boy-king? and that 7 million came from "third party" groups??? i`m shocked -i`m notifying my team right now.....

[For PaisAn]

8. He can't but

you also need to look at the reverse. Kerry cannot freely attack Bush on this issue and others without the Republicans throwing the same back at Kerry. Take notice that this RNC video is in response to Kerry criticizing Bush on his ties to special interests.

On many of the issues when Kerry cricizes Bush the Repugs will point to Kerry voting for those issues. IWR, Patriot Act, etc. If Kerry then states "Well, I voted that way because Bush lied to us" or "Well, I thought Bush would have gone about it the right way and not abused the power we gave him" Kerry will appear to lack good judgement and to be lacking in leadership qualities.

I believe this is a real problem for Kerry.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

9. 'Clear Skies' 'Healthy Forests' 'Mission Accomplished'

Bush can attack Kerry on special interest money because Bush is a liar.

But as my favorite Republican President said:

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the
people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

[4morewars]

10. Lincoln?

the last(only?) great republican !!

[Feanorcurufinwe]

11. Yep.

There's Teddy Roosevelt as well, they had two good ones.

[4morewars]

12. i stand corrected !!!!!!

mea culpa :smoke:

[aldian159]

13. who did say that?

TR, the only other good GOP

[Eric J in MN]

14. The quote about "fool all of the people" is often attribute to Lincoln but

The quote about "fool all of the people" is often attribute to Lincoln, but I read an article recently which said the first time that occurred in print was about 40 years after Lincoln died, so while it's possible people were accurately recalling something Lincoln had said 40 years earlier, there is also a good chance Lincoln never said that.

[4morewars]

16. i love this web sight :

www.bartleby.com/100/448.16.html

it's a great source. i'm not saying you are wrong though !
NUMBER: 6679
AUTHOR: Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
QUOTATION: You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
ATTRIBUTION: Remark attributed to Lincoln.
BIOGRAPHY: Columbia Encyclopedia.

heres another one:
www.toostupidtobepresident.com/shockwave/fool_me.htm

[Feanorcurufinwe]

20. I've read about it, and there's no definitive answer

so I'm willing to give the Lincoln theory the benefit of the doubt.

[WiseMen]

15. Howard Dean. All Repub need is for Other Dem to LEGITIMIZE the Slime.

Kind of like what goes on here seems credible because we are supposed to be democrats.

[slinkerwink]

17. funny....

because that's exactly what I was saying when Dean was the frontrunner and Kerry/Clark/Edwards/Kucinich/Gephardt/Sharpton were doing their best to slime him...

[notbush]

18. Dunno, but smirkey

doesn't even claim not to take money from special interests. Does he?

[MrSlayer]

19. Because he's a dope.

The really don't know how to fight a defensive battle. We're going to crush them this year even with OBL showing up.

[IronLionZion]

21. We can beat them even if they try to cheat

Kerry has plans to start reviewing the election process long before the election to make sure every vote is counted and everyone who wants to vote can. They can't pull off Florida again because we'll be watching very closely this time.