the flip flop canidateFollow

lil something I found on Kerry's website

Here's a list of Bush flip-flops:

FLIP: Bush opposes campaign finance reform.
FLOP: Bush signs campaign finance reform.

FLIP: Bush opposes and stalls a 9/11 commission.
FLOP: Bush supports it.

FLIP: Bush is against deficits
FLOP: Bush's policies create the highest deficits ever.

FLIP: Bush is against nation building.
FLOP: Bush engages in it.


FLIP: Bush opposes an Iraq WMD investigation.
FLOP: Bush grudgingly supports it.

FLIP: Bush is for free trade.
FLOP: Bush supports tariffs on steel.

FLIP: Bush is against a Homeland Security Department
FLOP: Bush takes credit for it.

FLIP: Bush is for states' right to decide on gay marriage.
FLOP: Bush then proposes amending the Constitution so they can't.

FLIP: Bush is against the U.S. taking a role in the Israeli Palestinian conflict.
FLOP: Bush then pushes for a "road map" and a Palestinian State.

FLIP: Bush first says that 'help is on the way' to the military.
FLOP: Bush cuts Veterans benefits.

FLIP: Bush says he'll provide money for first responders (fire, police, emergency).
FLOP: Bush dramatically shortchanges law enforcement.

FLIP: Bush-"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden."
FLOP: Bush-"I don't know where he is. I have no idea and I really don't care."

FLIP: Bush says he'll take care of the environment.
FLOP: Bush then guts laws that protect the environment.

FLIP: Bush talks about helping education.
FLOP: Bush increases mandates while cutting funding.

FLIP: Bush said he would demand a U.N. Security Council vote on whether to sanction military action against Iraq.
FLOP: Bush then changes his mind and announced he would not call for a vote.

FLIP: Bush said the "mission accomplished" banner was put up by the sailors.
FLOP: Bush later blames his advance team.

And that's just one president from Texas...

To be honest my favorite part of the campaign so far is both guys attacking the other for running negative campaigns. Bush says something like, "Kerry, that dirty flipflopper, is running a purely negative campaign." and Kerry retorting back that "Bush that corrupt liar is running a purely negative campaign." Sigh makes me wish there was a viable third canidate, I like John McCain and John Edwards match up so much better. Once again it looks like a vote for the lesser of two evils to me. One thing is for sure it will be entertaining, look for Stewart, Leno, Letterman, Obrien etc to have a hayday.

lol didnt say it wasnt biased in fact I made a point to advise right off the get go that it was =)

Lol, kiss my a$$, sumbitches!

Totem

Let me guess, you just happen to have a chainsaw, a 'che geuvera' mask, and know the words to "God save the Queen" right?

You wouldn't know coy if it was ******* you in the *** with a chainsaw while wearing a che geuvera mask and singing "God save the Queen".

At least Fox News has the balls to stand up and say they're biased where as a lot of the other "news" stations claim they aren't biased.

Well, they are balanced. It's been proven! They took all of the cnn staff, the fox news staff, and the MSNBC staff and weighed them each on an industrail scale. CNN came up a little short in the weigh in, so they had to hire larry king back.

Just as a note, isn't flipflopping good? it indicates the person in question is willing to recognize that their initial position may not have been the best one, or that even if they don't agree with something, they will support it.

Don't get me wrong, a dead fish would govern better than GBjr, but if you're going to call him out, use the plethora of good material.

It's a politician's job to flipflop. Otherwise they're being intransient. Besides, in what passes for democracy in north america, we don't elect people to lead us, we elect them to represent us.

This is why people should make only vague declarative statements.

Anyway, I personally think Bush should leave the flip flop thing alone. He's got a better horse to ride in the "Kerry as non-entity" line. "Oh, you mean you've been on investigative panels and stuff? That's why you never sponsor anything important that gets passed?" Lot's of Americans would rather have a guy who does the wrong thing once in a while than someone who just sits in the back ground and studies things without accomplishing anything.

I sure as hell hope they do. If it happens the entire left side of the political teeter totter will cry foul, but were it there guy you can bet the same would happen. I think it's just one of those things that makes an incumbent president tough to beat. Good on him if he can pull it off.

It has been fun to listen to Cheney and Powell excoriate Ker-ry over his unsubstantiated boasts and alleged conversations with his imaginary world leader friends (does Mr. Nobody ring a bell?), not to mention his flipflop on an $87 billion dollar spending bill.

"I voted for it, then I voted against it..." Intransient much, Senator Ker-ry?

I wonder when he's gonna start blasting his wife for the "outsourcing" that's been going on at the Heinz company. Hmmm, maybe never? Could it be because these supposed soft spots in the Republican underbelly happen to be the very same soft spots the Dems have?

Gee, let's talk about Haliburton now. Senator Diane Feinstein's husband's company was awarded a juicy contract over in Iraq recently. Ya, I know. His company deserved that one-- it certainly wouldn't have anything to do with his wife's Congressional contacts since those Dems are so far above reproach, would it?

On and on it goes. If y'all are accusing the 'Publicans of misbehavior, perhaps you might open your eyes to the graft, greed, and corruption in your own ranks?

Totem

The good reason he probably does not want to is because it's possible that it is the Chinese, North Koreans, French, Iranians and the others that do not like the US. That is defintely not the list of countries I would put out there. If it was the U.K., Russia, Japan, S. Korea, Canada or Mexico then he would probably want these countries leaked out.

IMHO of course.

The crowd, made up of mostly illiterate and unemployed welfare recipients, warms up to the cheerleading staffer wearing a black T-shirt with "SECURITY" emblazoned upon it. He is egging them on as they anticipate the arrival of their hero. Blood is in the air, you can smell it.

"Ker-ry! Ker-ry! Ker-ry! Ker-ry!"

All at once, he bursts onto the set and the enthralled, non-voting, dead weight, young Democrats go into a frenzy.

"Ker-ry! Ker-ry! Ker-ry! Ker-ry!

Each of them wonders, what will this Democratic Party Everyman discuss on this day's show? Paternity? Cheating ho's and their equally repulsive men? Boyfriends who sleep with their girl's best friend? What will it be?!? After all, there are only a few topics which even interest this mercurial crowd.

As the chanting dies down the candidate opens his mouth and begins to spin in that sonorous and vaguely familiar voice-- check that --it's not just the timbre of his voice, there's more to it. It nags on the edge of your conscienceness until it hits you. They made a TV show with this guy in it years ago! The incongruity of it makes you laugh, but there it is-- he is Hermann Munster.

Hermann Munster Goes To Washington. This goes beyond incredible, this is firmly planted in the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction section, where the Batboy who gives birth to a cat and Elvis is really an Alien comfortably roam. The shock of it has you shaking your head.

As you begin to focus on what he is saying you realize that he's playing a game so many of us played when we were little: the Mr. Nobody Game. This game serves many purposes, Mr. Nobody keeps us company when we are alone or scared, he takes the blame when someone says or does something which might get us in trouble, and, of course, he's a perfectly wonderful unimpeachable source of all sorts of information and gossip. Best of all, he talks to no one but you!

What's great about Mr. Nobody is that he can't be pinned down on anything he says. And not only that, but his title Mister gives him a credibility that makes it sound real! Oh! Oh! But he is real, sorry 'bout that.

Anyhow, it becomes quite clear a couple of moments into his spiel that Mr. Nobody has been doing a lot of whispering in Ker-ry's ear as of late. In his status as official diplomat Mr. Nobody has been couriering many world leader's implicit and openly stated desire for Ker-ry to be president to our shining candidate. But Mr. Nobody is a gentleman to the core. He'd never tell or inform on his sources. What a guy!

Mr. Nobody also has been helpful in setting future policy. When it becomes plain that Ker-ry has been duped by those evil Republicans on spending bills put before him in Congress, Mr. Nobody helps him see the light of day and makes him understand why he should in a manner which appears arbitrary to others, change his mind without reason. But we all know Mr. Nobody played a big big part in that decision and many others like it.

As the speech winds down, it becomes very clear that we are lucky indeed! While Algore had done many important things like invent the internet and so forth, he had nothing on Ker-ry. With Mr. Nobody at his side Senator Ker-ry has changed the course of human history.

We tune in as Hermann Munster wraps it all up neatly with a bow and tells us what it all means.

"I am one of you. I know where you come from. I know what you are going through. With my wife Lilly's millions and millions of dollars I have experienced your pain and suffering under the Bush tax relief plan. I keenly feel the anguish of losing your job to Pakistanis and Brazilians. How do I know? Because my wife's company has expressly done this very thing so that I am able to truly know what you are feeling. She has kindly taken it upon herself to further the problem so that I can so much better commiserate with you, the Great Unwashed.

"With your's and Mr. Nobody's help I will make it to the White House some day soon. But I need your vote! Yes, I know that your demographic tends not to actually do anything, but this time, this time I know it will be different.

"We can change this country, yes, we can. And I promise you that if elected I will make TV Land run The Munsters 24/7 so that you will be up-to-date on your government in action, you'll see your president at work, and Grampa and that creepy little boy Eddie who seem to serve no purpose but to annoy us. That is what we will do-- TOGETHER!"

With that Hermann laughs that stilted laugh where his hands are kinda out in front of him and his head rocks side-to-side. "Ha-ha! Ha-ha! Ha-ha!"

The crowd goes wild with adulation shouting, "Mun-ster! Mun-ster! Mun-ster!"

Thus ends another day on the stump with the bright hope of our country's future.

Totem

Edited, Thu Mar 18 00:14:01 2004 by Totem

Wow, you make this sound fun, damn now I regret voting for Edwards =)