Lets All Raise A Glass To JK & The DNC Convention Festivities

Let me get this straight, there, ronbo - you actually went back and edited that post? Man, you really tweaked it! Outstanding!

 

I wish people would stop clinging to the falsehood that Gore ever claimed to have invented the internet. It never happened. Gore never made that claim.

I do realize that you were being lighthearted in your response about editing the title, and it was a joke. But sadly many people believe the spin that Gore did actually make the claim that he invented the internet, so I was just bringing up the truth anyway.

 

Claim: Vice-President Al Gore claimed that he "invented" the Internet.

Status: False.

Origins: No, Al Gore did not claim he "invented" the Internet, nor did he say anything that could reasonably be interpreted that way. The derisive "Al Gore said he 'invented' the Internet" put-downs are misleading distortions of something he said (taken out of context) during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "Late Edition" program on 9 March 1999. When asked to describe what distinguished him from his challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, Gore replied (in part):

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

He did however popularize the term "information superhighway" and introduced several bills that involved the internet.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.htm

 

double post

 

Should be entertaining to watch the most liberal politician in the Senate try to flip-flop his way to portraying himself as centrist.

Let's look at his positions:

Vote to raise taxes 350 times
Many votes to weaken defense
Wants to turn the keys to our military over to France, Syria and the other UN Security Counsel members (he calls it 'generating international support')
Not fund troops in action (voted against body armour)
Aiding and abbedding the enemy during a time of war with Jane Fonda
Severely weaken energy policy
Over regulating American businesses
Increase healthcare costs for all while weakening the system
Support racial quotas which discriminate against achievers

I could go on and on. Let's just hope America doesn't buy into this man's misguided plans for our country.

 

Just curious T_J.....will you keep your sig "Supporting America and it's Leaders" when the White House is handed over to Kerry? Will you be as ADAMANT for blind-support of our president and call out desenters as UN-PATRIOTIC or TRAITORS?

 

While I don't want to derail this thread, T_J's post demands a response...

GWB's accomplishments as president:

Attacked and took over two countries.

Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.

Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.

Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.

Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.

First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.

First president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.

First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history.

After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in US history.

Set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips than any other president in US history.

First two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job.

Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in US history.

Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12 month period.

Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history.

Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.

Signed more laws and executive orders circumventing the Constitution than any president in US history.

Presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.

Presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.

Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.

Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind. (http://www.hyperreal.org/~dana/marches/)

Dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history.

My presidency is the most secretive and un-accountable of any in US history.

Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. (the 'poorest' multi-millionaire, Condoleezza Rice has an Chevron oil tanker named after her).

Had more states to simultaneously go bankrupt than any president in the history of the United States.

Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world.

Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.

Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in US history.

First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the human rights commission.

First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the elections monitoring board.

Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history.

Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.

Withdrew from the World Court of Law.

Refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.

First president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 US elections).

All-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.

My biggest life-time campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).

Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history.

First president in US history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.

First president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1)

First US president to establish a secret shadow government.

Took the biggest world sympathy for the US after 911, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history).

With a policy of 'dis-engagement' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.

Fist US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view the presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.

First US president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US than their immediate neighbor, North Korea.

Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.

Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.

Failed to fulfill pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive'.

Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capitol building. After 18 months I have no leads and zero suspects.

Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history.

In a little over two years created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the US has ever been since the civil war.

Entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.

GWB's Records and References:

At least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas driving record has been erased and is not available).

AWOL from National Guard and Deserted the military during a time of war.

Refuse to take drug test or even answer any questions about drug use.

All records of tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to fathers library, sealed in secrecy and un-available for public view.

All records of any SEC investigations into insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and un-available for public view.

All minutes of meetings for any public corporation served on the board are sealed in secrecy and un-available for public view.

Any records or minutes from meetings attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and un-available for public review.

For personal references please speak to my daddy or uncle James Baker (They can be reached at their offices of the Carlyle Group for war-profiteering.)

Shall I continue?

 

Hell no he won't. He will do the same thing he does when we all nail him to the wall. Declare VICTORY and run away.

 

He got booed last night in Fenway -- on his home turf in Beantown. Amazing.

 

Dick Cheney Booed When Shown On Screen At Yankees Game

POSTED: 11:09 am EDT June 30, 2004
NEW YORK -- Vice President Dick Cheney was on hand for Tuesday's sell-out game between the Yankees and Red Sox in New York.

But the VP probably didn't win any votes in New England as he donned a Yankees baseball hat.

Cheney visited both clubhouses after batting practice and watched part of the game from the box of Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.

He also spent time in first-row seat next to the Yankees dugout, where he sat between New York Gov. George Pataki and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

Cheney was booed when he was shown on the right-field videoboard during the seventh-inning stretch.

Your right, not his home town, doesn't count...

 

I was fortunate enough to have read ron413's first version and I must say I was floored ~ pure poetry. Then he comes back and fine-tunes his work of art and somehow makes it even more superior. The neocons have set the bar high today my friends…

 

Yeah Mulder, I noticed that you had to pull Cheney's pitch in order to 'rebut' my point about Forbes Kerry being booed on his home turf. Nice try, but obviously Cheney wasn't on his home turf.

Remember when Bush threw out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium? THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE. A far, *far* cry from the boos that Forbes Kerry heard *on his home turf*. Telling....

 

Thanks for the link. It goes to show how wrong the news can be. The link posted was dead wrong. By now the correct information has already been posted by mc mark. Of course most of the papers and news services that made the bogus claim, and then kept repeating it once it caught on, have since apologized.

You don't need to apologize, but hopefully you will be better informed next time you hear that lie.

 

Classic.

 

Hilarious, you start a thread to attack the Democratic convention and all that are on that side of the aisle and then say retorts are misdirected.

btw you misspelled editted and editting