The One and Only Presidential Endorsements Thread

[BUTT 0]

There's going be a lot of endorsements for both candidates, and we don't need a new thread for each one, so put them here, please.

[Special K 0]

You mean campaign mailings and the like? Or our own personal endorsements? Cause I don't like either of 'em.

[Styles 0]

There's going be a lot of endorsements for both candidates, and we don't need a new thread for each one, so put them here, please.

You mean there will be a lot of endorsements for Kerry because that's all the papers have and will endorse. I don't think anyone goes to the polls based on who the editor of their local paper is voting for, anyway, and if they do, I'd rather they not vote.

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

although if Kerry gets the majority of newspaper endorsements, he'll join Johnson (1964) and Clinton (1992) as Democrats who have achieved that

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

I endorse W.

 

And I can tell you right now the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is going Kerry and the Tribune-Review is going Bush...

[BUTT 0]

I figured there's going to be a lot of "USA Today endorses Kerry", "New York Post endorses Bush" type stories here, and I didn't think that there needed to be a new thread for each one, so that's what this thread is for. Newspaper endorsements and discussions of such. Here a good site which keeps track of them: http://www.explog.com/

[claydude14 0]

Nader. NY is always Democrat so meh.

[Big Ol' Smitty 0]

Don't know if this has already been discussed but the Union of Concerned Scientists has over 5,000 signatories condemning the Bush administration's attitudes toward science and the scientific community.

 

source: http://www.ucsusa.org/global_environment/r...cfm?pageID=1320

 

Also, several nobel laureate economists have endorsed Kerry.

 

source: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0825-06.htm

 

186 former ambassadors have endorsed Kerry.

 

source: smh.com.au

 

And "148 Military Brass and Veteran Luminaries Endorse John Kerry for Commander-in-Chief; Kerry-Edwards Campaign Announces Veterans National Steering Committee" as Kerry so repetitively reminded us in one of the debates.

 

Source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/9/prweb161396.htm

[2GOLD 0]

Good news!

 

Kerry has been endorsed by Ashton Kutcher! It's all coming together now.

[sfaJack 0]

Houston Chronicle endorses Bush, despite the majority of their editorial page being filled with anti-Bush letters and articles for the first nine months of this year.

 

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/p...dations/2862496

 

Re-elect Bush

Because of national security imperatives, the Chronicle editorial board endorses President Bush for a second term.

Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle

 

Four years ago the Houston Chronicle was pleased to endorse Texas Gov. George W. Bush for the presidency of the United States. That endorsement drew upon Bush's successful governorship that sought and found pragmatic, bipartisan solutions to pressing problems.

 

Since then, the most devastating terrorist attack on the United States, eclipsing even Pearl Harbor, has placed new imperatives on the voters' choice of the nation's chief executive. Despite the Chronicle editorial board's disagreements with some of the president's policies, both foreign and domestic, the Chronicle believes today's criteria, combined with Bush's long record as chief executive of Texas and the United States, again recommend President Bush to lead the nation. The Chronicle endorses his candidacy for re-election to a second term.

 

President Bush had not been in office a year before the nation found itself reeling from a recession, which began before his watch, and the national calamity of 9/11, which took the world by surprise. In the days and weeks following Sept. 11, 2001, Bush displayed the courage, resolve and leadership that the nation will require during the next four years.

 

The Chronicle questioned the timing and justification for the invasion of Iraq. But now that one of the world's most ruthless dictators, Saddam Hussein, has been overthrown, the United States and its allies must ensure that a stable government is formed and the roots of self-government firmly planted. As commander in chief, Bush retains the trust and support of the vast majority of men and women in the armed forces — an essential component of eventual victory for the United States, the people of Iraq and the cause of freedom in the Middle East.

 

The news from Iraq has been discouraging, but the recent election in Afghanistan — a nation almost as unstable and dangerous as Iraq — shows the potential of freedom's urge to triumph over chaos and insecurity. With its troops battle-worn and materiel stretched thin, the United States needs the aid of its oldest allies and the community of nations. President Bush faces the difficult task of re-establishing the nation's esteem in the world, but the task could be made easier with the founding of self-government in Afghanistan and Iraq — examples terrorists in their hatred would be hard-pressed to disparage.

 

The Democratic candidate, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, promises to gain the support of France, Germany, Russia and other key U.S. allies. However, Kerry has articulated neither vision nor tactical plan for winning in Iraq and bringing U.S. forces home.

 

Some of the president's critics rightly say Bush allowed the war in Iraq to distract him from bringing Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table. However, most Israelis supported the toppling of Saddam. Distracted or not, Bush has never wavered in his support for Israel and its right to defend itself against a wave of suicide bombings.

 

The global nature of the terrorist threat makes national security and energy policy inseparable. The president has an energy plan that leans heavily on tax incentives for domestic production of oil and gas. Strained supplies of crude oil going for above $50 a barrel give him a powerful motive to begin a national effort on the scale of World War II's Manhattan Project to develop alternative fuels and technology.

 

The United States faces severe problems at home, as well as abroad. The Chronicle implores Bush to use a second term, if voters grant him one, to regain the bipartisan spirit on which he based his earlier success in Texas.

 

One way to do that is to broaden his range of advisers. Bush recently told Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward that the war on terror had caused him to live inside a bubble that shielded him from outside voices. In Texas, one of Bush's principal mentors and allies was a Democrat, the late Lt. Gov. Bob Bullock. The Bush administration and Republicans in Congress are not solely to blame for the partisan rancor that prevails in Washington and across the nation. Given a second term, however, Bush would be in the best position to foster cooperation.

 

Experience and temperament have equipped the president well to deal realistically with immigration and, a factor that bears heavily upon it, the need to improve the performance of students in the public schools.

 

During a second term, Bush must work to expand health insurance to all Americans. Rising health costs are draining employers' resources and depriving millions of Americans of coverage. This, in turn, drives up the burden on taxpayers as the uninsured turn to public hospitals and crowded emergency rooms when their illness becomes a crisis.

 

During a second term, Bush must balance his desire for extended tax relief with the necessity of the federal government to pay as it goes. Neither Kerry nor Bush has a persuasive blueprint for regaining fiscal discipline.

 

Perhaps Bush's strongest qualities are his decisiveness and clarity. As Bush proudly proclaims, for him or against him, everyone knows where he stands. Like many people, Bush finds it difficult to admit a mistake, particularly when under attack on all sides. However, history is replete with instances in which imperfect but confident national leaders proved preferable to cautious, indecisive ones.

 

In Kerry's case, many of his supporters are dismayed by their candidate's seeming inability to speak his mind in a way that conveys and inspires confidence. Kerry often crafts positions based on calculated expediency, and then has a hard time explaining the basis for them.

 

The ticket of George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney has a proven if flawed track record. The nation is taking demonstrative steps to defend itself, and the economy and job market are improving. The John Kerry/Sen. John Edwards team's appeal is that it is not Bush/Cheney. That is slim grounds for entrusting the nation's security and prosperity to the challengers.

 

The Chronicle believes Bush, if granted a second term and freed of the need to appeal to the extreme factions of his party, will regain his bipartisan effectiveness at solving problems. That is not an idle hope but rests on the experience of an earlier Texan who occupied the White House, Lyndon B. Johnson. As long as he was a U.S. representative and senator elected by Texans, he never strayed far from the conventional wisdom of his constituents. In the White House, Johnson remained true to his populist roots but, freed from the common prejudice of that era, became one of the nation's foremost champions of civil rights and opportunity for all.

 

In his final debate with Kerry, Bush recalled a Western artist who preferred to live on the east side of the mountain so he could view the promising start of each day rather than its close. That is the forward-looking spirit in which the Chronicle again gives its presidential endorsement to George W. Bush.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Kerry has been endorsed by Ashton Kutcher! It's all coming together now.

Damnit, Damnit, Damnit. It's all over now...

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

Good news!

 

Kerry has been endorsed by Ashton Kutcher! It's all coming together now.

I'm surprised that Ashton voted for Bush and still got so much work since 2000.

 

Must have been a secret.

 

Ashton is probably the only celebrity involved with these voter drives with a record of having voted before.

[Guest MikeSC]

Good news!

 

Kerry has been endorsed by Ashton Kutcher! It's all coming together now.

OMG! YOU'VE BEEN "PUNK'D"!

-=Mike

[Dr. Tom 0]

That would be awesome if Kutcher showed up at a Kerry rally doing the rah-rah act, then "punked" Kerry and brought out the Pro-Bush signs and riled everyone up. It would be more awesome still if Kerry's security people shot him in the face for making such a disturbance.

[2GOLD 0]

That would be awesome if Kutcher showed up at a Kerry rally doing the rah-rah act, then "punked" Kerry and brought out the Pro-Bush signs and riled everyone up. It would be more awesome still if Kerry's security people shot him in the face for making such a disturbance.

 

Kutcher cannot be killed by conventional weapons. I'm sure someone already tried.

 

I find it hilarious how we know there are celebrities who endorse Bush and yet they are never heard. Meanwhile, I'm getting my news box crammed with crap about "so and so worthless no talent endorses John Kerry!"

 

I want to know who Gallanger is endorsing, that could totally change the tide of the election.

[Guest MikeSC]

That would be awesome if Kutcher showed up at a Kerry rally doing the rah-rah act, then "punked" Kerry and brought out the Pro-Bush signs and riled everyone up.  It would be more awesome still if Kerry's security people shot him in the face for making such a disturbance.

 

Kutcher cannot be killed by conventional weapons. I'm sure someone already tried.

 

I find it hilarious how we know there are celebrities who endorse Bush and yet they are never heard. Meanwhile, I'm getting my news box crammed with crap about "so and so worthless no talent endorses John Kerry!"

 

I want to know who Gallanger is endorsing, that could totally change the tide of the election.

I find it even better than Kerry has all these big-name celebrities --- yet is losing.

 

Maybe people DON'T look to Cameron Diaz for deep political insight...

-=Mike

[bob_barron 0]

It's all cause Norm Macdonald is endorsing W. He's turning the tide

[Guest MikeSC]

It's all cause Norm Macdonald is endorsing W. He's turning the tide

That's only because Hasselhoff isn't running. We know Norm would drop Bush for David.

-=Mike

[2GOLD 0]

It's all cause Norm Macdonald is endorsing W. He's turning the tide

That's only because Hasselhoff isn't running. We know Norm would drop Bush for David.

-=Mike

 

Which would just go to prove my theory

 

Norm MacDonald loves David HasselHoff

[Dr. Tyler; Captain America 0]

Awesome idea to make this thread, at least now I know which one to avoid!

[CheesalaIsGood 0]

100 Facts and 1 Opinion

The Non-Arguable Case Against the Bush Administration

by Judd Legum

 

IRAQ

 

1. The Bush Administration has spent more than $140 billion on a war of choice in Iraq.

 

Source: American Progress

 

2. The Bush Administration sent troops into battle without adequate body armor or armored Humvees.

 

Sources: Fox News, The Boston Globe

 

3. The Bush Administration ignored estimates from Gen. Eric Shinseki that several hundred thousand troops would be required to secure Iraq.

 

Source: PBS

 

4. Vice President Cheney said Americans "will, in fact, be greeted as liberators" in Iraq.

 

Source: The Washington Post

 

5. During the Bush Administration's war in Iraq, more than 1,000 US troops have lost their lives and more than 7,000 have been injured.

 

Source: globalsecurity.org

 

6. In May 2003, President Bush landed on an aircraft carrier in a flight suit, stood under a banner proclaiming "Mission Accomplished," and triumphantly announced that major combat operations were over in Iraq. Asked if he had any regrets about the stunt, Bush said he would do it all over again.

 

Source: Yahoo News

 

7. Vice President Cheney said that Iraq was "the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault for many years, but most especially on 9/11." The bipartisan 9/11 Commission found that Iraq had no involvement in the 9/11 attacks and no collaborative operational relationship with Al Qaeda.

 

Source: MSNBC , 9-11 Commission

 

8. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said that high-strength aluminum tubes acquired by Iraq were "only really suited for nuclear weapons programs," warning "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." The government's top nuclear scientists had told the Administration the tubes were "too narrow, too heavy, too long" to be of use in developing nuclear weapons and could be used for other purposes.

 

Source: New York Times

 

9. The Bush Administration has spent just $1.1 billion of the $18.4 billion Congress approved for Iraqi reconstruction.

 

Source: USA Today

 

10. According to the Administration's handpicked weapon's inspector, Charles Duelfer, there is "no evidence that Hussein had passed illicit weapons material to al Qaeda or other terrorist organizations, or had any intent to do so." After the release of the report, Bush continued to insist, "There was a risk--a real risk--that Saddam Hussein would pass weapons, or materials, or information to terrorist networks."

 

Sources: New York Times, White House news release

 

11. According to Duelfer, the UN inspections regime put an "economic strangle hold" on Hussein that prevented him from developing a WMD program for more than twelve years.

 

Source: Los Angeles Times

 

TERRORISM

 

12. After receiving a memo from the CIA in August 2001 titled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack America," President Bush continued his monthlong vacation.

 

Source: CNN.com

 

13. The Bush Administration failed to commit enough troops to capture Osama bin Laden when US forces had him cornered in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan in November 2001. Instead, they relied on local warlords.

 

Source: csmonitor.com

 

14. The Bush Administration secured less nuclear material from sites around the world vulnerable to terrorists in the two years after 9/11 than were secured in the two years before 9/11.

 

Source: nti.org

 

15. The Bush Administration underfunded Nunn-Lugar--the program intended to keep the former Soviet Union's nuclear legacy out of the hands of terrorists and rogue states--by $45.5 million.

 

Source: armscontrol.org

 

16. The Bush Administration has assigned five times as many agents to investigate Cuban embargo violations as it has to track Osama bin Laden's and Saddam Hussein's money.

 

Source: sfgate.com

 

17. According to Congressional Research Service data, the Bush Administration has underfunded security at the nation's ports by more than $1 billion for fiscal year 2005.

 

Source: American Progress

 

18. The Bush Administration did not devote the resources necessary to prevent a resurgence in the production of poppies, the raw material used to create heroin, in Afghanistan--creating a potent new source of financing for terrorists.

 

Source: Pakistan Tribune

 

19. Vice President Cheney told voters that unless they elect George Bush in November, "we'll get hit again" by terrorists.

 

Source: Washington Post

 

20. Even though an Al Qaeda training manual suggests terrorists come to the United States and buy assault weapons, the Bush Administration did nothing to prevent the expiration of the ban.

 

Source: sfgate.com

 

21. Despite repeated calls for reinforcements, there are fewer experienced CIA agents assigned to the unit dealing with Osama bin Laden now than there were before 9/11.

 

Source: New York Times

 

22. Before 9/11, John Ashcroft proposed slashing counterterrorism funding by 23 percent.

 

Source: americanprogress.org

 

23. Between January 20, 2001, and September 10, 2001, the Bush Administration publicly mentioned Al Qaeda one time.

 

Source: commondreams.org

 

24. The Bush Administration granted the 9/11 Commission $3 million to investigate the September 11 attacks and $50 million to the commission that investigated the Columbia space shuttle crash.

 

Source: commondreams.org

 

25. More than three years after 9/11, just 5 percent of all cargo--including cargo transported on passenger planes--is screened.

 

Source: commondreams.org

 

NATIONAL SECURITY

 

26. During the Bush Administration, North Korea quadrupled its suspected nuclear arsenal from two to eight weapons.

 

Source: New York Times

 

27. The Bush Administration has openly opposed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, undermining nuclear nonproliferation efforts.

 

Source: commondreams.org

 

28. The Bush Administration has spent $7 billion this year--and plans to spend $10 billion next year--for a missile defense system that has never worked in a test that wasn't rigged.

 

Sources: www.gao.gov/new.items/d04409.pdf, Los Angeles Times

 

29. The Bush Administration underfunded the needs of the nation's first responders by $98 billion, according to a Council on Foreign Relations study.

 

Source: nationaldefensemagazine.org

 

CRONYISM AND CORRUPTION

 

30. The Bush Administration awarded a multibillion-dollar no-bid contract to Halliburton--a company that still pays Vice President Cheney hundreds of thousands of dollars in deferred compensation each year (Cheney also has Halliburton stock options). The company then repeatedly overcharged the military for services, accepted kickbacks from subcontractors and served troops dirty food.

 

Sources: The Washington Post, The Tapei Times, BBC News

 

31. The Bush Administration told Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan about plans to go to war with Iraq before telling Secretary of State Colin Powell.

 

Source: detnews.com

 

32. The Bush Administration relentlessly pushed an energy bill containing $23.5 billion in corporate tax breaks, much of which would have benefited major campaign contributors.

 

taxpayer.net, Washington Post

 

33. The Bush Administration paid Iraqi-exile and neocon darling Ahmad Chalabi $400,000 a month for intelligence, including fabricated claims about Iraqi WMD. It continued to pay him for months after discovering that he was providing inaccurate information.

 

Source: MSNBC

 

34. The Bush Administration installed as top officials more than 100 former lobbyists, attorneys or spokespeople for the industries they oversee.

 

Source: Source: commondreams.org

 

35. The Bush Administration let disgraced Enron CEO Ken Lay--a close friend of President Bush--help write its energy policy.

 

Source: MSNBC

 

36. Top Bush Administration officials accepted $127,600 in jewelry and other presents from the Saudi royal family in 2003, including diamond-and-sapphire jewelry valued at $95,500 for First Lady Laura Bush.

 

Source: Seattle Times

 

37. Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge awarded lucrative contracts to several companies in which he is an investor, including Microsoft, GE, Sprint, Pfizer and Oracle.

 

Source: cq.com

 

38. President Bush used images of firefighters carrying flag-draped coffins through the rubble of the World Trade Center to score political points in a campaign advertisement.

 

Source: The Washington Post

 

THE ECONOMY

 

39. President Bush's top economic adviser, Greg Mankiw, said the outsourcing of American jobs abroad was "a plus for the economy in the long run."

 

Source: CBS News

 

40. The Bush Administration turned a $236 billion surplus into a $422 billion deficit.

 

Sources: Fortune, dfw.com

 

41. The Bush Administration implemented regulations that made millions of workers ineligible for overtime pay.

 

Source: epinet.org

 

42. The Bush Administration has crippled state budgets by underfunding federal mandates by $175 billion.

 

Source: cbpp.org

 

43. President Bush is the first President since Herbert Hoover to have a net loss of jobs--around 800,000--over a four-year term.

 

Source: The Guardian

 

44. The Bush Administration gave Accenture a multibillion-dollar border control contract even though the company moved its operations to Bermuda to avoid paying taxes.

 

Sources: The New York Times, cantonrep.com

 

45. In 2000, candidate George W. Bush said "the vast majority of my tax cuts go to the bottom end of the spectrum." He passed the tax cuts, but the top 20 percent of earners received 68 percent of the benefits.

 

Sources: cbpp.org, vote-smart.org

 

46. In 2000, candidate George W. Bush promised to pay down the national debt to a historically low level. As of September 30, the national debt stood at $7,379,052,696,330.32, a record high.

 

Sources: www.georgewbush.com , Bureau of the Public Debt

 

47. As major corporate scandals rocked the nation's economy, the Bush Administration reduced the enforcement of corporate tax law--conducting fewer audits, imposing fewer penalties, pursuing fewer prosecutions and making virtually no effort to prosecute corporate tax crimes.

 

Source: iht.com

 

48. The Bush Administration increased tax audits for the working poor.

 

Source: theolympian.com

 

49. In 2000, candidate George W. Bush promised to protect the Social Security surplus. As President, he spent all of it.

 

Sources: georgewbush.com, Congressional Budget Office

 

50. The Bush Administration proposed slashing funding for the largest federal public housing program, putting 2 million families in danger of losing their housing.

 

Source: San Francisco Examiner

 

51. The Bush Administration did nothing to prevent the minimum wage from falling to an inflation-adjusted fifty-year low.

 

Source: Los Angeles Times

 

EDUCATION

 

52. The Bush Administration underfunded the No Child Left Behind Act by $9.4 billion.

 

Source: nwitimes.com

 

53. In 2000, candidate George W. Bush promised to increase the maximum federal scholarship, or Pell Grant, by 50 percent. Instead, each year he has been in office he has frozen or cut the maximum scholarship amount.

 

Source: Source: edworkforce.house.gov x

 

54. The Bush Administration's Secretary of Education, Rod Paige, called the National Education Association--a union of teachers--a "terrorist organization."

 

Sources: CNN.com

 

HEALTHCARE

 

55. The Bush Administration, in violation of the law, refused to allow Medicare actuary Richard Foster to tell members of Congress the actual cost of their Medicare bill. Instead, they repeated a figure they knew was $100 billion too low.

 

Source: Washington Post, realcities.com

 

56. The nonpartisan GAO concluded the Bush Administration created illegal, covert propaganda--in the form of fake news reports--to promote its industry-backed Medicare bill.

 

Source: General Accounting Office

 

57. The Bush Administration stunted research that could lead to new treatments for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes, spinal injuries, heart disease and muscular dystrophy by placing severe restrictions on the use of federal dollars for embryonic stem-cell research.

 

 

 

Source: CBS News

 

58. The Bush Administration reinstated the "global gag rule," which requires foreign NGOs to withhold information about legal abortion services or lose US funds for family planning.

 

Source: healthsciences.columbia.edu

 

59. The Bush Administration authorized twenty companies that have been charged with fraud at the federal or state level to offer Medicare prescription drug cards to seniors.

 

Source: American Progress

 

60. The Bush Administration created a prescription drug card for Medicare that locks seniors into one card for up to a year but allows the corporations offering the cards to change their prices once a week.

 

Source: Washington Post

 

61. The Bush Administration blocked efforts to allow Medicare to negotiate cheaper prescription drug prices for seniors.

 

Source: American Progress

 

62. At the behest of the french fry industry, the Bush Administration USDA changed their definition of fresh vegetables to include frozen french fries.

 

Source: commondreams.org

 

63. In a case before the Supreme Court, the Bush Administrations sided with HMOs--arguing that patients shouldn't be allowed to sue HMOs when they are improperly denied treatment. With the Administration's help, the HMOs won.

 

Source: ABC News

 

64. The Bush Administration went to court to block lawsuits by patients who were injured by defective prescription drugs and medical devices.

 

Source: Washington Post

 

65. President Bush signed a Medicare law that allows companies that reduce healthcare benefits for retirees to receive substantial subsidies from the government.

 

Source: Bloomberg News

 

66. Since President Bush took office, more than 5 million people have lost their health insurance.

 

Source: CNN.com

 

67. The Bush Administration blocked a proposal to ban the use of arsenic-treated lumber in playground equipment, even though it conceded it posed a danger to children.

 

Source: Miami Herald

 

68. One day after President Bush bragged about his efforts to help seniors afford healthcare, the Administration announced the largest dollar increase of Medicare premiums in history.

 

Source: iht.com

 

69. The Bush Administration--at the behest of the tobacco industry--tried to water down a global treaty that aimed to help curb smoking.

 

Source: tobaccofreekids.org

 

70. The Bush Administration has spent $270 million on abstinence-only education programs even though there is no scientific evidence demonstrating that they are effective in dissuading teenagers from having sex or reducing the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases.

 

Source: salon.com

 

71. The Bush Administration slashed funding for programs that suggested ways, other than abstinence, to avoid sexually transmitted diseases.

 

Source: LA Weekly

 

ENVIRONMENT

 

72. The Bush Administration gutted clean-air standards for aging power plants, resulting in at least 20,000 premature deaths each year.

 

Source: cta.policy.net

 

73. The Bush Administration eliminated protections on more than 200 million acres of public lands.

 

Source: calwild.org

 

74. President Bush broke his promise to place limits on carbon dioxide emissions, an essential step in combating global warming.

 

Source: Washington Post

 

75. Days after 9/11, the Bush Administration told people living near Ground Zero that the air was safe--even though they knew it wasn't--subjecting hundreds of people to unnecessary, debilitating ailments.

 

Sierra Club , EPA

 

76. The Bush Administration created a massive tax loophole for SUVs--allowing, for example, the write-off of the entire cost of a new Hummer.

 

Source: Washington Post

 

77. The Bush Administration put former coal-industry big shots in the government and let them roll back safety regulations, putting miners at greater risk of black lung disease.

 

Source: New York Times

 

78. The Bush Administration said that even though the weed killer atrazine was seeping into water supplies--creating, among other bizarre creatures, hermaphroditic frogs--there was no reason to regulate it.

 

Source: Washington Post

 

79. The Bush Administration has proposed cutting the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency by $600 million next year.

 

Source: ems.org

 

80. President Bush broke his campaign promise to end the maintenance backlog at national parks. He has provided just 7 percent of the funds needed, according to National Park Service estimates.

 

Source: bushgreenwatch.org

 

RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES

 

81. Since 9/11, Attorney General John Ashcroft has detained 5,000 foreign nationals in antiterrorism sweeps; none have been convicted of a terrorist crime.

 

Source: hrwatch.org

 

82. The Bush Administration ignored pleas from the International Committee of the Red Cross to stop the abuse of prisoners in US custody.

 

Source: Wall Street Journal

 

83. In violation of international law, the Bush Administration hid prisoners from the Red Cross so the organization couldn't monitor their treatment.

 

Source: hrwatch.org

 

84. The Bush Administration, without ever charging him with a crime, arrested US citizen José Padilla at an airport in Chicago, held him on a naval brig in South Carolina for two years, denied him access to a lawyer and prohibited any contact with his friends and family.

 

Source: news.findlaw.com

 

85. President Bush's top legal adviser wrote a memo to the President advising him that he can legally authorize torture.

 

Source: news.findlaw.com

 

86. At the direction of Bush Administration officials, the FBI went door to door questioning people planning on protesting at the 2004 political conventions.

 

Source: New York Times

 

87. The Bush Administration refuses to support the creation of an independent commission to investigate the abuse of foreign prisoners in American custody. Instead, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld selected the members of a commission to review the conduct of his own department.

 

Source: humanrightsfirst.org

 

FLIP FLOPS

 

88. President Bush opposed the creation of the 9/11 Commission before he supported it, delaying an essential inquiry into one of the greatest intelligence failure in American history.

 

Source: americanprogressaction.org

 

89. President Bush said gay marriage was a state issue before he supported a constitutional amendment banning it.

 

Sources: CNN.com, White House

 

90. President Bush said he was committed to capturing Osama bin Laden "dead or alive" before he said, "I truly am not that concerned about him."

 

Source: americanprogressaction.org

 

91. President Bush said we had found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, before he admitted we hadn't found them.

 

Sources: White House, americanprogress.org

 

92. President Bush said, "You can't distinguish between Al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror," before he admitted Saddam had no role in 9/11.

 

Sources: White House, Washington Post

 

BIOGRAPHY

 

93. George Bush didn't come close to meeting his commitments to the National Guard. Records show he performed no service in a six-month period in 1972 and a three-month period in 1973.

 

Source: boston.com

 

94. In June 1990 George Bush violated federal securities law when he failed to inform the SEC that he had sold 200,000 shares of his company, Harken Energy. Two months later the company reported significant losses and by the end of that year the stock had dropped from $3 to $1.

 

Source: The Guardian

 

95. When asked at an April 2004 press conference to name a mistake he made during his presidency, Bush couldn't think of one.

 

Source: White House

 

SECRECY

 

96. The Bush Administration refuses to release twenty-seven pages of a Congressional report that reportedly detail the Saudi Arabian government's connections to the 9/11 hijackers.

 

Source: philly.com

 

97. Last year the Bush Administration spent $6.5 billion creating 14 million new classified documents and securing old secrets--the highest level of spending in ten years.

 

Source: openthegovernment.org

 

98. The Bush Administration spent $120 classifying documents for every $1 it spent declassifying documents.

 

Source: openthegovernment.org

 

99. The Bush Administration has spent millions of dollars and defied numerous court orders to conceal from the public who participated in Vice President Cheney's 2001 energy task force.

 

Source: Washington Post

 

100. The Bush Administration--reversing years of bipartisan tradition--refuses to answer requests from Democratic members of Congress about how the White House is spending taxpayer money.

 

Source: Washington Post

 

OPINION

 

If the past informs the future, four more years of the Bush Administration will be a tragic period in the history of the United States and the world.

 

 

------------------------------------------------------------

 

Therefore I endorse George W. Bush.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Can't wait for Mike's reply to this.

 

Oh, and Arafat endorsed Kerry to lock up the "terrorist" vote (like he hasn't done that already)...

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Celebrities who have endored John Kerry:

Just about everyone in Hollywood

 

Here's a list of a few celebrities who probably will endorse Bush.

 

Also add Mel Gibson and Ric Flair to the list.

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It's all cause Norm Macdonald is endorsing W. He's turning the tide

That's only because Hasselhoff isn't running. We know Norm would drop Bush for David.

-=Mike

 

Which would just go to prove my theory

 

Norm MacDonald loves David HasselHoff

You know who else loves David Hasselhoff?

 

 

 

 

 

 

You guessed it

 

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Megadeth legend Dave Mustaine endorses Bush, goes on a tangent.

 

Pit Magazine: Speaking of politicians, it is an election year in the United States and that has many famous people endorsing presidential candidates. You did the opposite because you recently said, "musicians should shut the fuck up and play music because they don’t know anything about running a country."

 

Dave Mustaine: "You see Al Jourgensen of MINISTRY going around saying 'Fuck Bush.' And I've always liked MINISTRY but I know that guy has a legendary drug problem so you can't really take what he is saying seriously. The United States is the strongest country in the world for a reason. Now I'm gonna vote for Bush. I voted for Clinton, but I don't give a fuck because I vote for the lesser of two evils. Kerry is a mistake. He will ruin our country. But the fact that people would vote based on who a celebrity endorses is just stupid. Don't vote for Bush because I'm voting for him. Don't vote for Kerry because you hate me."

 

Pit Magazine: More celebrities should take your stance, but they don’t.

 

Dave Mustaine: "Yeah you've got Tom Morello from AUDIOSLAVE walking around talking about freeing the people in South America while he is walking around in his fucking Gucci silk suits. Spare me, what do you know about that? Talk about hypocrisy. Natalie Maines from the DIXIE CHICKS said that she is ashamed to be from the state of Texas; well I'm ashamed that you are fucking from America. I saw her at a Nashville Predators game, talk about somebody who needs to go on a diet. I don't know if she was pregnant at the time, but she sure looked it. But the fact is unless you are a politician, shut up. What do they know about politics? (With a southern accent) Oh well I'm gonna vote for a guy that gonna raise taxes on the fucking rich. You stupid twat. You are in the upper income bracket in America, you are gonna get taxed. And when small business owners get taxed, jobs are lost. How stupid is that? You don’t know what the fuck you are talking about, shut up.

 

Oh, and Alice Cooper endorses Bush...sort of...

 

Launch Radio Networks is reporting that ALICE COOPER thinks one presidential candidate is better qualified than the other this year — but he's not talking about their politics. Cooper serves spicy foods at his Alice Cooper's Town locations in Phoenix and Cleveland, and he told Launch that George W. Bush can probably handle the spicy dishes better that John Kerry. "Now, you know George Bush is gonna take the heat," he said. "He's from Texas — this guy eats raw chilies, and probably likes them. He eats habaneros, which is the hottest chili. John Kerry — I keep seeing him going, 'No no no! Oooooh — that's way too hot for me! No no! Give me some of that smoked salmon, and some of that New England clam chowder. The creamy kind — not the hot kind.' I've got a feeling John Kerry's got a very delicate stomach."

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Former Senator Bob Smith (R-NH) endorses John Kerry

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Bruce Springsteen endorsed Kerry. He gave a nice lil speech in between songs yesterday explaining his endorsement. This took place at the rally in Madison that drew more than 80,000 people.

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Hunter S. Thompson has endorsed John Kerry.

 

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story...eregion=single7

[Guest MikeSC]

Hunter S. Thompson has endorsed John Kerry.

 

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story...eregion=single7

"Shitty, Over-the-Hill Writer Endorses Kerry!"

 

Yup, that's a headline for the ages.

-=Mike

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Dave Mustaine isn't a legend (Oh boy I know that will steer the thread off-topic) and he sounds like a moron.

 

I wonder how Neil Young feels, even though he is a Canadian, or Bob Dylan, or any other 60s political activist rocker really.