.....of France!

I think that is a picture of our buddy Larrymartin. Has anyone seen the two of them at the same time??? miles

That is truly priceless.

John Kerry has my total support for president, and that's a whole lot better than supporting a lowlife draft dodging self-proclaimed born-again Christian drunk.

I did'nt know Clinton was a drinker on top of everything else?. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

"I did'nt know Clinton was a drinker on top of everything else?. "and I didn?t know Clinton was running for president again.

I guess the "lowlife draft dodging,self proclaimed born again christian" part just rang a bell. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

There's only one difference between Clinton and junior Bush, one is a druggie, the other a recovering drunk. LOL

Larry, or whatever your name is....you're entitled to your opinion. Just don't expect much support on a gunner's forum supporting a Dem, especially one like Kerry. Oh wait, I don't think you came here looking for support in the first place, troll.

Larry,



Clearly, many share your view on this.

Your preference is duly noted and filed. Thank you. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />



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Jacques Chiraq



Sarah Brady



Ted Kennedy



Rosie O'Donnel



Gray Davis



Hillary Clinton



Howard Stern



Jerry Springer



Jane Fonda



Chuck Schumer



Michael Moore



Saddam Hussein



Ted Turner



Al Franken



Osama Bin Laden



Adam Clymer



Cruz Bustamante



Barbara Lee



Louis Farrakhan



Peter Arnett



Robert Mugabe



Communist Party U.S.A.



Jimmy Carter



Sami Al-Arian



Al Sharpton



Jesse Jackson



Fidel Castro



Kim Jong II



Baghdad Bob



Larry Martin

All I have to say is "A fool sits and is thought a fool until he opens his mouth and removes all doubt." And, Anyone who gives up liberty for a little security, has not yet even begun to deserve either. NO member of congress or the senate had a single son fight in Vietnam during the war. Just remember this, as long as we fight and argue with eachother lieing polititions will always have a game to play. That game is "Which lie's will get me elected." I do have a question, What jungle or desert did Kerry fight in.

You may be right about the fighting part, I dunno. But here's Al Gore working on a Purple Heart in Viet Nam. Photo was likely taken by one of his bodyguards. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />



His daddy served as a member of both the Congress and the Senate, I think.



Somebody said he was in Viet Nam.

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I do have a question, What jungle or desert did Kerry fight in.


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Somebody said he was in Viet Nam. "


Um, yeah...for about - what was it - 90 days?

-FreeMe

He was not there long. I think that they are claiming four months. I wonder about the four (I think) purple hearts and never had to stay overnight in the hospital. If I remember correctly, you can get a purple heart if you cut yourself while a firefight is going on. miles

OH NOOOOOOO! This idiot troll has invaded the forum again. Energize force fields and push "ignore this illiterate moron" button.

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Hmmmm,
"wounded" 3 times in 90 days, not to mention he put in for his purple hearts himself.................
Sounds like a true man of principle & valor to me <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />
NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
badger

Larry you are certainly entitled to your opinion, it's just that it's wrong! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> I'm sure we're not going to change it. any more than you're going to change ours, it's just ARE YOU NUTS?
Another president that leads by checking the winds of opinion rather than a set course. Running polls to see what to do.

There's one very big difference about my name being added to that list of protesters , my protest will be done in the voting booth and between now and then unlike the majority here, I paid my dues.LOL

It may not have been that long, even. We'll probably never know, because, unlike G.W. Bush, Kerry refuses to allow his military records to be released to the public.

I wonder why that is? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

"It may not have been that long, even. We'll probably never know, because, unlike G.W. Bush, Kerry refuses to allow his military records to be released to the public."

What, the records of a drift dodging lowlife drunk! LOL

Rock on, Larry. The mentally incontinent can always use another spokesperson.

Please give my regards to Daryl and Daryl, by the way, ... I'm a big fan. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />



(Hmmmm, .... may have to try out that "ignore" button, myself.)

Walker--it was made for people like Larry. Life is too short to argue with idiots.

[color:"red"] *** You are ignoring this loser. ***
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Nice feature. I like it! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

*** You are ignoring this loser. *** O.K. LOL

Hey Larryboy! What's a "drift-dodger"?

Why won't your boy Kerry release his service record?
Why do you start calling Bush names when asked Kerry-questions?

You often mention that, unlike most on this board, you've paid your dues. Can I take that to mean that only folks like you are productive and eligible members of society?
If you really feel that way, why not reinstitute a draft, so everyone will pay their dues?

"If you really feel that way, why not reinstitute a draft, so everyone will pay their dues? "


Buttercup, I am all for reinstating some kind of draft similar to that of yesteryears. During the 50s/ 60s and early 70s every young guy going through high school knew it would need to be addressed sooner or later. Without it the rich pay no dues and say charge on enlistee, will build another Memorial wall with your names. Then after the rich make their fortunes dress up like hell angels , buy motorcycles and take Memorial day off with their friends to drive around the wall saying to themselves, we could have done a better job.

You are profusely full of s h i t. Think about what you're proposing.
A draftee military would be inferior in just about every way possible to the professional volunteer military we have now.
It may not be this conscientious debt to society that you envision, but it's small, tough, and mean. And full of people that actually want to be there.

Hey Buttercup, if you don't like the answer ,don't ask the question . LOL

Don't be ridiculous now....try to answer the points I brought up.
I predict you will ignore them, just like you have been doing ever since you joined, troll.

Matt, it's like arguing with a dog. Give yourself a break---use the force. Hit the ignore button.

I did for a while, actually. But I like bashing the troll. He is being ridiculous and shows it, post for post.

Sooooo.....Larry? Care to answer my points about a draftee military?

No?

Thought so.

I finally did! BP meds are too expensive to waste on the likes of him!

Hey Buttercup, tell us about yourself?

I take it then that you think he's a step up from Clinton?

See Larry...can't answer my points, can ya? Ya old drift dodger you.

There is no question our volunteer military is superior to a military loaded with draftees, all of us draftees know that. Myself, I volunteered for the draft, but, the fact is, draftees served for 2 years, about enough time to train you to do a job, then we got out of the service. From a fiscal prospective, why train someone only to loose them in 2 years? A volunteer force is better trained, and probably higher motivated than a drafted soldier, sailer, airforce or marine. This isnt to take away from a draftee's service, that isnt my point.

I thought that being a "former drunk" was a good thing. He turned his life around and committed himself to becoming a better person. He is not perfect but much better than he was.

I'll give credit where credits do, however I don't want a recovering alcoholic as commander-in-chief!

I think you'll have a hard time finding a perfect person. I think you just like to bitch.

What is this recovering alcoholic crap? GB got busted ONCE for DWI. If that makes him an alcoholic it puts him in with a lot of other people.
Ever get a traffic ticket? Ever have a drink Larry?
Christ, I don't think a lot of you libs could pass a rabies test
BTW what are these "dues" you claim? Union?

"Ever have a drink Larry?"
Lot's of times, but I'm not president or commander-in-chief. LOL

Let me know when you find a sin-less person for the position, will ya, Drift Dodger?

Matthias,
There's probably something you better get used to, unlike our counterparts (the veterans of World War II and Korea) that turned their backs on us. Come November the veterans of Vietnam will send Junior Bush packing back to Texas. LOL

First I will say I have never voted for any party but the Republican Party, but that is about to change.
GWB has too many unanswered queations why He invaded Iraq and now has us stuck in yet another Political quagmire while the Terrorist Bin laden still happily herds his goats in Afghanistan, Pakistan or where our they think He is this week.
As far as I'm concerned they are both "Peas in the same Pod", and either would sell you out for their own or a Major contributors profit. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />
Both are filthy rich, both born Liars, albeit poor ones, and neither will get my vote.
It is a said state of affairs when we cannot come up with Better than these two JOKES to lead our Country and the Free world.
For your entertainment, here are their respective "War" records. BTW it was common USN/USMC practice to return stateside after your third "Heart" I got back after Two but spent the rest of my Tour in Bethesda Naval Hospital laying on my back in a Ward.
This is a Liberal site but the facts are correct......
Enjoy..... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2004/02/02_400.html

"Peas in the same Pod",

I can appreciate your anger,frustration and/or discussed towards the Republican Party, far too many times I've compromised my true feelings towards a particular candidate to stay loyal. Twice, I voted for senior bush basically against my will. Then there was Bob Dole, again another sorry candidate for the Republicans, especially considering how bad diehard conservatives wanted Bill Clinton out. Alan Keyes and John McCain have always been my two favorite candidates over the last ten years or so. I'm done being loyal to Republicans and will not waste my vote voting for third party. Therefore, I'm left with no alternative but to support Mr Kerry


best regards
Larry Martin

Inspector, citing Mother Jones as a source doesn't do much for your credibility <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> It's not a "liberal" site, it is the mother church of the Looney Left, home of bizarro world conspiracy theories and fly blown 60s refugees.

Hey Steve,
come on now, don't hold back, tell him what you really think. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

You will find my friend Inspector can take care of himself. Hey Insp. you come across our friend Larry here yet? You might have some fun there Sir!

Actually, Mother Jones may be where Larry does his "research"---if it wasn't before, he'll surely be citing it now <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />
Rick, after trying to decipher Larry for a few days (before I discovered the "ignore" button) I have come to truly appreciate you, IIFID, Stetson, heck, even Haggis and Barak. You guys wear me out, but at least you're lucid and sane (and you can spell and speak English).

You are a simplemind, Drift Dodger. Running out of words?

My feelings are likewise.

"You guys wear me out, but at least you're lucid and sane (and you can spell and speak English)."

Will at least that proves I've been educated by the public school system. As to wearying out , I've only just begun. LOL! Just think we have several more months to ago and every veteran I personally know feels exactly the same way about Junior boy Bush, so to coin a phrase "don't let the door hit him in the ass on the way out! " LOL

Well, Larry, I undid my ignore button since you replied to me (to a message not addressed to you). I sincerely hope you're not around here much longer--if I can get you on everybody's "ignore" list I assume you'll troll off into the sunset.
I'm not surprised that the other "veterans" there on the "psych" floor agree with you. Give my best to Napolean and Caesar. And how's General MacArthur down the hall doing?

Hey DriftDodger, he wasn't talking about you!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Geez you are funny.

In case you still haven't got it figured out, you are the one he is referring to as not sane and lucid.

For those supporters of John Kerry who can read:

In Search of a Cause

I hope this helps to clear up some misconceptions.

In keeping with the spirit of this thread, ....

A hot new piece of survival equipment (or conversation piece,as the case may be), available for a limited time only:



The French Army Knife !!



Get one while supplies last!

Judgin by the way you refer to men as buttercup, you lookin to go to the GAY BAY and get married. You fit in the catagory with DFC and a few others. PIECE OF [bleep]. Go home and sell your bullshitt opinions to your buddies that dont know any better. You blowing smoke in the wrong place pal. No way in hell I would even consider voting for a commie liberalist bastard like KERRY.

All,
Greet..........ing, Uncle Sam Needs You!

We don't discriminate, sorry but homosexuals and bed wetter ( buttercup) need not apply.. LOL

The post title says it all.

Tony

BTW, kerry will get my vote for dog catcher. I think it will be an appropriate job for a liberal demo............you know, dog cleanup duty with a shovel.

Tony.

Larry, this vietnam vet wont vote for pussy's, and Kerry is a pussy.

Larry,
There are a great many Bushi'ite clerics on this site, and no one can win an arguement against a Bushi'ite religious fanatic.

Haggis, at least you actually argue and respond to logic put forth. Larry won't or can't.

Hicountry,

Hey man, speak for yourself - my dog has standards <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />.

Guy's, don't take me wrong here and this doesn't mean I am supporting Kerry, I will no doubt vote Bush unless he drops dead between now and election day but, If Kerry spent one day in Vietnam or even spent time in the military during the Vietnam Conflict he is a Vietnam veteran. I cannot take anything concerning this away from him, this is something he earned if he was in as stated. There are many veterans out there that only spent a few days in Nam and others that spent countless days over there but they all are deserving of any rights they may obtain from this. Just the state of your mind that the words "You are going to Vietnam" put you in is worth much more than they will ever get from any Tax supported VA Benefits. If he wants to use it as a Political thing to get him elected then that is his right and as of right now I don't see it infringing on any of my rights. On the other hand if Bush spent time in the Military he is deserving as well wether he spent it in a reserve unit, National Guard unit or what ever as long as it was U.S. Military. I cannot see one veteran throwing off on another veteran about his military tour what ever it may have been, as we all know it is a big wheel and all the spokes are need to support the total weight. Yes one might carry more weight today or for several days but in time the others will have to do their job. Regardless of Bush and Kerry's military careers if one uses it against the other then I feel like they are too "Low Down" of a person to serve as a President. This also applies to any American citizen throwing off on a Person's military career, are they deserving to be an American citizen?

Nice shot 7400,

I wish I had been stationed stateside or europe at the time! I even believe some that were never in the military are "Vietnam Veteran". I know my wife is, she had to watch "Film at eleven" every night for 9 months and 11 days hopeing a Chaplin didn't show up at the front door with the post Sgt Major and one of the ladies from the NCO wives association.

T LEE, While I was with the Third Marine Division, 1/4 MAU in SEA I also thought the same thing and then my 13 month tour was up and I got orders to the 8th Marines in North Carolina, Boy-O did my mind change fast I wanted to go back to the third and take what ever they dished out. The state side duty for me as a 0311 sucked big time it was a completely different Corps. I would have stayed in and made a career out of it if they would have left me outside of the U.S.

Thats the difference between the Army and the Corps. I was a 95 Bravo primary MOS (Military Police) but was qualified expert on the M-60, thus I was a door gunner in 'Nam!

7400--I would agree but for one thing--Kerry has made his 90 days in Vietnam the centerpiece of his public persona--it defines him and makes him a leader and means we should listen to him on security and defense issues. That's his spiel, not the RNC's. And it was his hacks who decided to flyspeck W's unremarkable Air Guard service as if it were something sinister.
Now, putting aside his craven slander of his comrades when he returned (and after discovering you can't get elected in Massachusetts as a war hero, quickly became a war protester), and putting aside the pathetic theatrics of throwing away someone else's medals for the TV cameras while saving his own for his office wall, if he is basing his entitlement to leadership on his illustrious war record, which he clearly is---then that record is open to scrutiny and comment. The fact that he racked up 3 PHs and a Silver Star without ever darkening a hospital door is relevant, since he uses those medals in every speech.
Just as in the courtroom, you can't usually put on character evidence to show your adversary is a bad person, but once they"open the door" by putting reputation and character at issue, it's open season. And of course the DNC and it's media lickspittles have been savaging Bush's reputation since he ws governor of Texas, pretty much non-stop.

I appreciate your point 7400, but I gotta side with Steve on this one.

-FreeMe

Hey Steve,
If you can get the Boot polish from King Georges boots off your tongue and out of your eyes. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
You will note that I specified they are "Liberal" but the service records are ACCURATE.
Obviously your a supporter of the regime, however I will vote for "Daffy Duck"before I vote for the Moron in the Oval Office again. They fooled me Once, but it won't happen again.
Name ONE thing that Bush has done for America since He took office? Forget about the "Tax cut", that has been absorbed a hundred times over in Fuel costs and items related to fuel, Cost (every thing) and the "War on Terror" which they only started again since Iraq has become a "problem child"
What happened to the Three Million Jobs that have gone overseas since 2000, and the People that have lost everything to his Friend KEN LAY and the Enron board execs that stole BILLIONS and have not been called to answer for their crimes?
The People in this Country are no longer going to be duped by a Fool that when there is no answer wraps himself in an American Flag, blames the Klinton regime and expects to be respected. Like I said this Country is in a SAD state of affairs when the best we can come up with is GEORGE BUSH or JOHN KERRY to lead our Nation. Our Founding fathers would drag the scum we vote for to the nearest tree and Hang them if they were alive today.
I spent my entire life trying to make a difference in this Country, and others fighting the War on Drugs, if you Folks knew the half of what our Govt. allows yet we maintain the sham of fighting drugs. The head of the largest Drug Cartel (the Mexican Army) in the World is now having regular meetings with Our esteemed leader almost monthly about opening the Mexican border to free ingress and egress. Bush is also in favor of it.
I guess the way to keep "Terrorists" out of the Country is to open the Borders? If this happens and you live within two hundred miles of the Mexican Border, MOVE because the fallout from the Nuclear weapon that WILL be detonated in One of our Cities will have a Mexican accent. I live too far North to worry about things like that, but the possibility is already here for it to happen. There is only one way to stop Terror and that is with Nuclear Weapons. Kill fifty of us and we will kill Millions of your People. Every time you attack Us we will turn one of the Major Muslim cities into cosmic dust. Leave us alone and we will return the favor. You say it will kill too many innocent Civilians? That never stopped us before did it? This is a War. It will work, but that is too easy to do and doesn't put any Money in Political pockets.
Radical? You bet,but it is time to drop this PC bullsh*t and start effectivly using our resources to Protect the USA not Iraq, Israel, or any other Country.
It is time for AMERICA FIRST!!!
Now where the hell is this Larry Miller?

Inspector, Mother Jones is "liberal" in the same sense that Hitler was "impolite" to Jews. In other words, it's kind of like citing High Times as authority.
Your diatribe is so long and so factually wrong that I don't have time to do a point by point reply, and your post indicates it would probably be a waste of my time, which I should spend doing something I can bill to a client to pay the outrageous taxes imposed on us to support the criminal war of occupation to benefit Bush's oil cronies so they can afford to send more jobs overseas where they'll secretly manufacture backpack nukes to smuggle across the border, which was rendered porous by Bush's treasonous immigration scheme to destroy American jobs and make sure he doesn't get reelected.
You guys really believe this stuff, or do you just want to get a rise out of us? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

I can see that ingesting "Boot Polish" has an effect on ones capability to reason. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
"Get a rise out of us?"............ If difference of opinion gets you excited you should really think about getting a Woman to meet your needs rather than a computer keyboard.
If you don't want a full time night woman, spend a few bucks for a "Temp" maybe you can write it off? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

One Thing GW has done for America?

No more terror attacks since 9/11.....

Hey Buttercup,



Are you sure you're not on the Republicans party payroll? LOL

Hey Drift Dodger! Can you refute what I said, or would you prefer to ignore it? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Inspector, in dry fly fishing, which I'm guessing you know even less about than you do politics, one casts the fly so that it will drift over the fish and "get a rise" out of same. It has no sexual connotation, at least not among us heteros. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />You might want to check it out with Larry, though.

Oh [bleep]!, I know Inspector from way back and watching Steve_no here I believe it is time to "DUCK AND COVER!"

Steve,
I'm glad you qualified yourself as Hetrosexual because I was starting to wonder about your "Bush" fetish.
Since I have some of the most hightly touted Fly fishing areas in the USA at my back door, I actually am quite familiar at putting my hackle where I want it to go. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
I see that you are not only a "Politcal expert" but that your probably the head of your local Isaak Walton League too. And I thought you were just another mislead Bush Supporter?
Why would I bother to check with Larry about anything when your such a wealth of Information, even if it is wrong? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
I can admit to being wrong about one or perhaps two things in my life, but re electing TMB(the Moron Bush) is not either of them.:D <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
I think that you might benefit by turning OFF your Computer, and either turn on your TV or pick up a Newspaper and find out what is happening in the "Real World", or God forbid go talk to a Neighbor. Of course since all the Media is Leftist, or Socialist they usually won't agree with what you "think" is happening. Try to access some non biased news from Canada or the BBC as they have no interest in our Political scumballs and rate them accordingly. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Now I have to go back to real life activities like listening to my Wife bitch about everything from the Dog shedding to the mowing the Lawn, and cause me to consume adult beverages. I will be back tomorrow so sharpen your retort or you'll be charged with assault with a "blunt" instrument.:D <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

One thing??

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The Bush Administration 2001-2004


Abortion & Traditional Values

1. Banned Partial Birth Abortion � by far the most significant roll-back of abortion on demand since Roe v. Wade.
2. Reversed Clinton's move to strike Reagan's anti-abortion Mexico Policy.
3. By Executive Order (EO), reversed Clinton's policy of not requiring parental consent for abortions under the Medical Privacy Act.
4. By EO, prohibited federal funds for international family planning groups that provide abortions and related services.
5. Upheld the ban on abortions at military hospitals.
6. Made $33 million available for abstinence education programs in 2004.
7. Supports the Defense of Marriage Act � and a Constitutional amendment saying marriage is between one man and one woman.
8. Requires states to conduct criminal background checks on prospective foster and adoptive parents.
9. Requires districts to let students transfer out of dangerous schools.
10. Requires schools to have a zero-tolerance policy for classroom disruption (reintroducing discipline into classrooms).
11. Signed the Teacher Protection Act, which protects teachers from lawsuits related to student discipline.
12. Expanded the role of faith-based and community organizations in after-school programs.


Budget, Taxes & Economy

1. Signed two income tax cuts, one of which was the largest dollar-value tax cut in world history.
2. Supports permanent elimination of the death tax.
3. Turned around an inherited economy that was in recession, and deeply shocked as a result of the 9/11 attacks.
4. Is seeking legislation to amend the Constitution to give the president line-item veto authority.
5. In process of permanently eliminating IRS marriage penalty.
6. Increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new people.
7. Initiated discussion on privatizing Social Security and individual investment accounts.
8. Killed Clinton's "ergonomic" rules that OSHA was about to implement; rules would have shut down every home business in America.
9. Passed tough new laws to hold corporate criminals to account as a result of corporate scandals.
10. Reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains.
11. Signed trade promotion authority.
12. Reduced and is working to ultimately eliminate the estate tax for family farms and ranches.
13. Fight Europe's ban on importing biotech crops from the United States.
14. Exempt food from unilateral trade sanctions and embargoes.
15. Provided $20 million to states to help people with disabilities work from home.
16. Created a fund to encourage technologies that help the disabled.
17. Increased the annual contribution limit on Education IRA's from $500 to $2,000 per child.
18. Make permanent the $5,000 adoption tax credit and provide $1 billion over five years to increase the credit to $10,000.
19. Grant a complete tax exemption for prepaid or college tuition savings plans.
20. Reduced H1B visas from a high of 195,000 per year to 66,000 per year.


Character & Conduct as President

1. Changed the tone in the White House, restoring HONOR and DIGNITY to the presidency.
2. Has reintroduced the mention of God and faith into public discourse.
3. Handled himself with enormous courage, dignity, grace, determination, and leadership in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 hijackings and anthrax attacks. He almost single-handedly held this country together during those searing days:

Just three days after the attacks, in his address at the National Cathedral, the President reassured the nation when he said: "War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing."


On Friday, September 14, 2001, President Bush visited Ground Zero. Standing on a crushed and burned fire engine atop the smoldering pile at Ground Zero, he put his arm around a retired firefighter who had volunteered to help, and began speaking to the crowd. Rescue workers shouted that they could not hear him. Someone handed him a small American flag and bullhorn. The President spontaneously shouted: "I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." The crowd roared with cheers and chants of "USA! USA! USA!" Then he raised that American flag and rallied a nation.


Education & Employment Training

1. Signed the No Child Left Behind Act, delivering the most dramatic education reforms in a generation (challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations). The very liberal California Teachers union is currently running radio ads against the accountability provisions of this Act.
2. Announced "Jobs for the 21st Century," a comprehensive plan to better prepare workers for jobs in the new millennium by strengthening post-secondary education and job training, and by improving high school education.
3. Is working to provide vouchers to low-income students in persistently failing schools to help with costs of attending private schools. (Blocked in the Senate.)
4. Requires annual reading and math tests in grades three through eight.
5. Requires states to participate in the National Assessment of Education Progress, or an equivalent program, to establish a national benchmark for academic performance.
6. Requires school-by-school accountability report cards.
7. Established a $2.4 billion fund to help states implement teacher accountability systems.
8. Increased funding for the Troops-to-Teachers program, which recruits former military personnel to become teachers.


Environment & Energy

1. Killed the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty.
2. Submitted a comprehensive Energy Plan (awaits Congressional action). The plan works to develop cleaner technology, produce more natural gas here at home, make America less dependent on foreign sources of energy, improve national grid, etc.
3. Established a $10 million grant program to promote private conservation initiatives.
4. Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops.
5. Changed parts of the Forestry Management Act to allow necessary cleanup of the national forests in order to reduce fire danger.
6. Part of national forests cleanup: Restricted judicial challenges (based on the Endangered Species Act and other challenges), and removed the need for an Environmental Impact Statement before removing fuels/logging to reduce fire danger.
7. Killed Clinton's CO2 rules that were choking off all of the electricity surplus to California.
8. Provided matching grants for state programs that help private landowners protect rare species.


Defense & Foreign Policy

1. Successfully executed two wars in the aftermath of 9/11/01: Afghanistan and Iraq. 50 million people who had lived under tyrannical regimes now live in freedom.
2. Saddam Hussein is now in prison. His two murderous sons are dead. All but a handful of the regime's senior members were killed or captured.
3. Leader by leader and member by member, al Maida is being hunted down in dozens of countries around the world. Of the senior al Qaeda leaders, operational managers, and key facilitators the U.S. Government has been tracking, nearly two-thirds have been taken into custody or killed. The detentions or deaths of senior al Qaeda leaders, including Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, the mastermind of 9/11, and Muhammad Atef, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command until his death in late 2001, have been important in the War on Terror.
4. Disarmed Libya of its chemical, nuclear and biological WMD's without bribes or bloodshed.
5. Continues to execute the War On Terror, getting worldwide cooperation to track funds/terrorists. Has cut off much of the terrorists' funding, and captured or killed many key leaders of the al Qaeda network.
6. Initiated a comprehensive review of our military, which was completed just prior to 9/11/01, and which accurately reported that ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE capabilities were critical in the 21st Century.
7. Killed the old US/Soviet Union ABM Treaty that was preventing the U.S. from deploying our ABM defenses.
8. Has been one of the strongest, if not THE strongest friend Israel has ever hand in the U.S. presidency.
9. Part of the coalition for an Israeli/Palestinian "Roadmap to Peace," along with Great Britain, Russia and the EU.
10. Pushed through THREE raises for our military. Increased military pay by more than $1 billion a year.
11. Signed the LARGEST nuclear arms reduction in world history with Russia.
12. Started withdrawing our troops from Bosnia, and has announced withdrawal of our troops from Germany and the Korean DMZ.
13. Prohibited putting U.S. troops under U.N. command.
14. Paid back UN dues only in return for reforms and reduction of U.S. share of the costs.
15. Earmarked at least 20 percent of the Defense procurement budget for next-generation weaponry.
16. Increased defense research and development spending by at least $20 billion from fiscal 2002 to 2006.
17. Ordered a comprehensive review of military weapons and strategy.
18. Ordered a review of overseas deployments.
19. Ordered renovation of military housing. The military has already upgraded about 10 percent of its inventory and expects to modernize 76,000 additional homes this year.
20. Is working to tighten restrictions on military-technology exports.
21. Brought back our EP-3 intel plane and crew from China without any bribes or bloodshed.


Globalization & Internationalism

1. Challenged the United Nations to live up to their responsibilities and not become another League of Nations (in other words, showed the UN to be completely irrelevant).
2. Killed U.S. involvement in the International Criminal Court.
3. Told the United Nations we weren't interested in their plans for gun control (i.e., the International Ban on Small Arms Trafficking Treaty).*
4. The only President since the founding of the UN to essentially tell that organization it is irrelevant. He said: "The conduct of the Iraqi regime is a threat to the authority of the United Nations, and a threat to peace. Iraq has answered a decade of UN demands with a decade of defiance. All the world now faces a test, and the United Nations a difficult and defining moment. Are Security Council resolutions to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence? Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?" We all know the outcome and the answer.
5. Told the Congress and the world, "America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country."


Government Reform

1. Improved government efficiency by putting hundreds of thousands of jobs put up for bid. This weakens public-sector unions and cuts undeserved pay raises.
2. Initiated review of all federal agencies with the goal of eliminating federal jobs (completed September 2003) in an effort to reduce the size of the federal government while increasing private sector jobs.
3. Led the most extensive reorganization the Federal bureaucracy in over 50 years: After 9/11, condensed 20+ overlapping agencies and their intelligence sectors into one agency, the Department of Homeland Security.*
4. Ordered each agency to draft a five-year plan to restructure itself, with fewer managers.
5. Converted federal service contracts to performance-based contracts wherever possible so that the contractor has measurable performance goals.


Health

1. Strengthen the National Health Service Corps to put more physicians in the neediest areas, and make its scholarship funds tax-free.
2. Double the research budget of the National Institutes of Health.
3. Signed Medicare Reform, which includes:

A 10-year privatization option.


Prescription drug benefits: Prior to this reform, Medicare paid for extended hospital stays for ulcer surgery, for example, at a cost of about $28,000 per patient. Yet Medicare would not pay for the drugs that eliminate the cause of most ulcers, drugs that cost about $500 a year. Now, drug coverage under Medicare will allow seniors to replace more expensive surgeries and hospitalizations with less expensive prescription medicine.


More health care choices: As President Bush stated, "�when seniors have the ability to make choices, health care plans within Medicare will have to compete for their business by offering higher quality service [at lower cost]. For the seniors of America, more choices and more control will mean better health care. These are the kinds of health care options we give to the members of Congress and federal employees. What's good for members of Congress is also good for seniors.


New Health Savings Accounts: Effective January 1, 2004, Americans can set aside up to $4,500 every year, tax free, to save for medical expenses. Depending on your tax bracket, that means you'll save between 10 to 35 percent on any costs covered by money in your account. Every year, the money not spent would stay in the account and gain interest tax-free, just like an IRA. These accounts will be good for small business owners, and employees. More businesses can focus on covering workers for major medical problems, such as hospitalization for an injury or illness. At the same time, employees and their families will use these accounts to cover doctors visits, or lab tests, or other smaller costs. Some employers will contribute to employee health accounts. This will help more American families get the health care they need at the price they can afford.



Homeland Security, Border Enforcement & Immigration

1. *See Government Reform above. Under President Bush's leadership, America has made an unprecedented commitment to homeland security.
2. Has CONSTRUCTION in process on the first 10 ABM silos in Alaska so that America will have a defense against North Korean nukes. Has ordered national and theater ballistic missile defenses to be deployed by 2004.
3. Announced a 9.7% increase in government-wide homeland security funding in his FY 2005 budget, nearly tripling the FY 2001 levels (excluding the Department of Defense and Project BioShield).
4. Before DHS was created, there were inspectors from three different agencies of the Federal Government and Border Patrol officers protecting our borders. Through DHS, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) now consolidates all border activities into a single agency to create "one face at the border." This not only better secures the borders of the United States, but it also eliminates many of the inefficiencies that occurred under the old system. With over 18,000 CBP inspectors and 11,000 Border Patrol agents, CBP has 29,000 uniformed officers on our borders.
5. The Border Patrol is continuing installation of monitoring devices along the borders to detect illegal activity.
6. Launched Operation Tarmac to investigate businesses and workers in the secure areas of domestic airports and ensure immigration law compliance. Since 9/11, DHS has audited 3,640 businesses, examined 259,037 employee records, arrested 1,030 unauthorized workers, and participated in the criminal indictment of 774 individuals.
7. Since September 11, 2001, the Coast Guard has conducted more than 124,000 port security patrols, 13,000 air patrols, boarded more than 92,000 vessels, interdicted over 14,000 individuals attempting to enter the United States illegally, and created and maintained more than 90 Maritime Security Zones.
8. Announced the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), an internet-based system that is improving America's ability to track and monitor foreign students and exchange visitors. Over 870,000 students are registered in SEVIS. Of 285 completed field investigations, 71 aliens were arrested.
9. This week, the US-VISIT program began to digitally collect biometric identifiers to record the entry and exit of aliens who travel into the U.S on a visa. Together with the standard information, this new program will confirm compliance with visa and immigration policies.
10. Eliminated INS bureaucratic redundancies and lack of accountability.
11. Split the Immigration and Naturalization Service into two agencies: one to protect the border and interior, the other to deal with naturalization.
12. Signed the workplace verification bill to prevent hiring of illegal aliens.
13. Established a six-month deadline for processing immigration applications.
14. Information regarding nearly 100% of all containerized cargo is carefully screened by DHS before it arrives in the United States. Higher risk shipments are physically inspected for terrorist weapons and contraband prior to being released from the port of entry. Advanced technologies are being deployed to identify warning signs of chemical, biological, or radiological attacks. Since September 11, 2001, hundreds of thousands of first responders across America have been trained to recognize and respond to the effects of a WMD attack.


Judiciary & Tort Reform

1. Is urging federal liability reform to eliminate frivolous lawsuits.
2. Killed the liberal ABA's unconstitutional role in vetting federal judges. The Senate is supposed to advise and consent, not the ABA.
3. Is nominating strong, conservative judges to the judiciary.
4. Supports class action reform bill which limits lawyer fees so that more settlement money goes to victims.


Politics

1. His leadership resulted in Republican gains in the House and Senate, solidifying Republican control of both houses of Congress and the presidency.
2. Signed an EO enforcing the Supreme Court's Beck decision regarding union dues being used for political campaigns against individual's wishes.


Second Amendment

1. Ordered Attorney General Ashcroft to formally notify the Supreme Court that the OFFICIAL U.S. government position on the 2nd Amendment is that it supports INDIVIDUAL rights to own firearms, and is NOT a Leftist-imagined "collective" right.
2. Signed TWO bills into law that arm our pilots with handguns in the cockpit.
3. Currently pushing for full immunity from lawsuits for our national gun manufacturers.
4. *See Globalization & Internationalism.


Traditional Values, Compassion & Volunteerism

1. Endorses and promotes "The Responsibility Era." President Bush often speaks of the necessity of personal responsibility and civic volunteerism. He said, "In a compassionate society, people respect one another and take responsibility for the decisions they make in life. My hope is to change the culture from one that has said, if it feels good, do it; if you've got a problem, blame somebody else � to one in which every single American understands that he or she is responsible for the decisions that you make; you're responsible for loving your children with all your heart and all your soul; you're responsible for being involved with the quality of the education of your children; you're responsible for making sure the community in which you live is safe; you're responsible for loving your neighbor, just like you would like to be loved yourself."
2. Started the USA Freedom Corps, the most comprehensive clearinghouse of volunteer opportunities ever offered. For the first time in history, Americans can enter geographic information about where they want to get involved, such as state or zip code, as well as areas of interest ranging from education to the environment, and they can access volunteer opportunities offered by more than 50,000 organizations across the country and around the world.
3. Established the The White House Office and the Centers for the Faith-Based and Community Initiative � located in seven Federal agencies. The faith-based initiative supports the essential work of these important organizations. The goal is to make sure that grassroots leaders can compete on an equal footing for federal dollars, receive greater private support, and face fewer bureaucratic barriers. Work focuses on at-risk youth, ex-offenders, the homeless and hungry, substance abusers, those with HIV/AIDS, and welfare-to-work families.
4. The White House released a guidebook fully describing the Administration's belief that faith-based groups have a Constitutionally-protected right to maintain their religious identity through hiring � even when Federal funds are involved.
5. Issued an EO implementing the Supreme Court's Olmstead ruling, which requires moving disabled people from institutions to community-based facilities when possible.
6. Increased funding for low-interest loan programs to help people with disabilities purchase devices to assist them.
7. Revised the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Section 8 rent subsidies to disabled people, permitting them to use up to a year's worth of vouchers to finance down payments on homes. HUD has started pilot programs in 11 states.
8. Committed US funds to purchase medicine for millions of men, women and children now suffering with AIDS in Africa.
9. Heeding the words of our own Declaration of Independence, the president laid out the non-negotiable demands of human dignity for all people everywhere. On January 29, 2002, he said, "No nation owns these aspirations, and no nation is exempt from them. We have no intention of imposing our culture. But America will always stand firm for the non-negotiable demands of human dignity." As stated by the President, they are a virtual manifesto of conservative principles:

Equal Justice

Freedom of Speech

Limited Government Power

Private Property Rights

Religious Tolerance

Respect for Women

Rule of Law

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Inspector--if you aren't even aware of the Socialist International/UN/anti-US bias levels of the Canadian media and the BBC, you really should get out more. I'd suggest Andrew Sullivan's web site for a good place to follow both. Drudge is also instructive. But I think you'd probably like the Guardian--it's the kind of stuff you and Larry can use in your "arguments". <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
And how is it that Bush can be simultaneously a moron and an evil genius, master of a thousand conspiracies? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

Yea what Walker said.

Andrew

I hear he has prior experience at the profession, a "natural" so to speak, starting at an early age. By the way he will not need the shovel ,....he has his own technique. (See attachment) <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

If he wants to throw his or someone else's medals over the fence provided the person the medals belong to is in agreement then that is what we all fought for or served for, if he wants to protest or act as a protestor then I don't mind because I know we all have stood up for our rights as a American citizen and that is clearly one of our rights. If he can't win as a war hero in another state then the people either seen threw him and his act or just plainly don't want a war hero any longer, I have to agree to their decision here to because a person might make a good hero or war hero, leader or such but just cannot manage a state government or our country's government, Hero's are nice to meet and have around before they become a hero but sometimes that is all they are. Don't take me wrong here I am not taking any honor away from any civilian or war hero. NOW! If he received the PH and SS as I have heard stated and it is in question whether he rates these awards maybe someone out there can cause an investigation to see who recommended these awards also find anyone who witnessed his act of courage which should be in the write up for the Silver Stars. It is my understanding that the VFW will do investigations on some one that is claiming to be a veteran of war or claiming to have certain awards of war. If he doesn't rate any of these maybe he should be tared and feathered out of the country that is if any one else would have him.

As of right now from what the media has published about his remarks on Bush and his military stay, I don't think to much of the Man because of the slander he pushes on another veteran. Not much backbone here as far as I am concerned. I don't care if the other veteran was a slob, drunk, whore monger or what ever, he was there to serve his country and I'm sure if he had to put out he would have.

Does anyone remember the last highly regarded naval officer we elected? Do we really need another Jimmy Carter?

HA good point!!

of course the libs will say look at all the work he has done since!

Like N. KOREA

Time to inspect something other than your navel, Inspector.

The leftist bias of the main stream media is hardly a secret. To suggest otherwise destroys your credibility and, in fact, makes you look silly. The BBC is a joke. They, and too many other "news" outlets, give journalism a bad name.



Examples:



BBC Scandal



The Leftist Media