IPW Daily Report – Saturday, February 28, 2004
"I'm going to be in Boston with delegates because
I don't want people just telling me who looks
nice. I want us to have an America that treats
everybody right,"
Al Sharpton
said.
"I don't have a list [of possible V.P.
candidates]. I'm running for the nomination … and
when I win the nomination, if I do, then I'll sit
down and think about who I ought to run with,"
said John Kerry.
President Bush
said, "Ages of experience have taught
humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife
to love and to serve one another promotes the
welfare of children and the stability of society.
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural,
religious, and natural roots without weakening the
good influence of society."
"I think the actions of the president, which are,
you know, in my opinion, the most vile and hateful
words ever spoken by a single president in my
opinion," Rosie
O'Donnell said.
The California Debate
Benedict Arnold
Rosie’s thorns for Bush
Racism charged by FL Rep. Brown
The California Debate
Senators John Kerry and John Edwards stated in a
debate in California’s USC campus that they both
were against the President’s call for a
Constitutional Amendment to ban gay marriages.
"This is a president who always tries to create a
cultural war and seek the lowest common
denominator of American politics, because he can't
come to America and talk about jobs," Kerry said.
"He can't talk about healthcare — he doesn't have
a plan. He can't talk to America about the
environment, the legacy to our children, because
he's going backward."
Edwards said, "This is clearly nothing but
politics."
Kerry pressed Edwards on whether he regretted his
vote to go to War in Iraq. Edwards left the
question vague after being asked. Kerry used the
opportunity to once again say the vote was right
but the President’s actions following the vote
were wrong:
"I regret that we have a president of the United
States who misled America and broke every promise
he made to the United States Congress," said
Kerry.
It was seen as a response by Kerry to divert the
debate that Republicans have been waging over
Kerry’s past actions gutting America’s military
capabilities.
Edwards took his class-warfare campaign to new
lengths in the debate as well. He suggested that
Kerry’s life of privilege made it so that he was
the one who could best represent the Democrat
Party in November.
Edwards was also asked the regional question about
whether Kerry could win votes in the South? The
questioner brought up Kerry’s opposition to the
death penalty and the Defense of Marriage Act.
Edwards responded, "I think that's his test to
meet. I think it depends what's happening at the
moment. What I know is that I can."
By and large, Edwards continues to be an also-ran
who has no chance of taking down Kerry and winning
the nomination. However, it was Edwards’ best
opportunity to date to go one-on-one with Kerry,
due to the limited number of candidates on the
stage.
Benedict Arnold
It seems that Sen. John Kerry is: a) a Benedict
Arnold; b) just a hypocrite; or c) not rational.
Kerry frequently addresses crowds telling them how
he is going to stick it to the Benedict Arnold
companies who send jobs oversees. No lesser
liberal light than the Washington Post reports
that Kerry is fond of taking their money to
support his political future:
On Monday, Kerry was asked why two of his biggest
fundraisers were involved with "Benedict Arnold"
companies. "If they have done that, it's not to my
knowledge and I would oppose it," Kerry told a New
York television station. "I think it's wrong to do
[it] solely to avoid taxes."
Then he sought to clarify his position: "What I've
said is not that people don't have the right to go
overseas and form a company if they want to avoid
the tax. I don't believe the American taxpayer
ought to be giving them a benefit. That's what I
object to. I don't object to global commerce. I
don't object to companies deciding they want to
compete somewhere else.''
David Roux, who has raised more than $250,000 for
Kerry since 2002, is co-founder of a California
company that helped purchase Seagate Technology
Inc. four years ago and incorporated it in the
Cayman Islands, one of the world's best-known tax
havens. Roux described himself in an interview
last fall as the "anchor tenant in John Kerry
fundraising mall."
Rosie’s thorns for Bush
Rosie O’Donnell has taken to the talk-shows and to
City Hall in San Francisco to celebrate her
marriage and play Bash the Bushes. O’Donnell
complained she had her gay friend’s correspondence
used against her in her trial over her failed
magazine venture. She equates the need to extend
the right for gays to marry to the prohibition of
interracial marriage.
First Lady Laura Bush said last week that the
sight of scores of gay couples waiting to be
married in San Francisco was "very, very, very,
very shocking."
"I would like to tell Laura Bush and her husband,
I find the proposed amendment very, very, very,
very shocking and immoral," O'Donnell said.
Racism charged by FL Rep. Brown
Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL) charged Wednesday that
President Bush is employing a racist policy toward
Haiti. It was reported in Roll Call, that in a
closed-door meeting she told Bush official Roger
Noriega that the Haitian people are in desperate
straits "because of all you white men" who have
under-funded relief programs.
"They were all white men," Brown said. "Well, he
says he's not a white man. Whatever. He's says
he's Mexican-American. I wasn't questioning who he
was. I was saying, 'You're all alike. And your
racist policy is all alike. You're anti-Haitian
people.'"
Rep. Henry Bonilla (R-TX), a founding member of
the Congressional Hispanic Conference, is
demanding Brown resign her seat in Congress after
her remarks were reported in Roll Call.
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