May 19, 2004
"Should George W. Bush lose in November, keeping
the Senate to block any major shifts in social
policy by a Kerry White House is imperative,"
said William J.
Murray, Chairman of the socially conservative PAC
Government Is Not God (GING).
"We are at war with a vicious enemy and the
alternative to George W. Bush is a man who would
depend upon the despots who run the United Nations
to protect our country,"
Murray said.
"Four years of John Kerry as president would set
back the war on terror by 20 years and move the
nation even faster toward a complete social
meltdown.”
"In the end, I hope I can make people aware that a
vote for Ralph Nader is a vote for George Bush,"
Kerry said.
"A vote for John Kerry is a vote for the
principles and values they care about."
"He's a gentleman and he understands we all have
to do what we have to do, as he put it,"
Nader said,
regarding Kerry not asking him to bow out of the
race.
The Nader-Kerry meeting
Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader met
for an hour today with presumptive Democratic
presidential nominee John Kerry. Prior to the
meeting, Kerry told the Associated Press:
"In the end, I hope I can make people aware that a
vote for Ralph Nader is a vote for George Bush,"
Kerry said. "A vote for John Kerry is a vote for
the principles and values they care about." and
that he believes he will "reduce any rationale"
for Nader's candidacy, but he would never ask
another candidate to abandon an election bid.
Duly noted in the AP report following the meeting,
Kerry (avoiding another flip flop) did not request
Nader to drop out.
Both candidates maintained the meeting had been
friendly:
"He's a gentleman and he understands we all have
to do what we have to do, as he put it," Nader
said in a telephone interview with The Associated
Press.
What did Nader and Kerry talk about? Reportedly,
they discussed Nader’s sucking [politically
correct term... ‘siphoning’] votes away from Kerry
– a contentious issue amongst the Democrats, who
hold to the belief that Nader was the “spoiler”
who ruined Al Gore’s bid in 2000.
According to Nader:
"We talked about that and I told him of my belief
that I would take more votes away from Bush than
from him," Nader said. "He basically said it all
comes down to what happens just before the
election."
Other topics of discussion: Kerry and Nader’s
common battles – corporate welfare, consumer and
abortion rights. As for the much-anticipated
subject of the War in Iraq, both candidates
maintain they did not discuss it.
Both men have agreed to meet again at some point
in the future, pointing out their common goal to
oust Bush from the White House.
Moveon.org: fire Rumsfeld
MoveOn.org is asking its members to call their
Representatives and Senators to push for the
firing of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld:
Dear MoveOn member:
As America learns more about the prisoner abuse
scandal, it's becoming
clear that the path to the crimes committed at Abu
Ghraib prison began
at Donald Rumsfeld's office in the Pentagon.
According to an article
in the New Yorker magazine, a policy put in place
by Secretary Rumsfeld
"encouraged physical coercion and sexual
humiliation of Iraqi prisoners
in an effort to generate more intelligence about
the growing insurgency
in Iraq."
Despite this horrible scandal and the cascading
failures of U.S.
military policy in Iraq, President Bush says that
Rumsfeld is doing "a
superb job." In the absence of presidential
leadership, Congress must
step in and hold the administration accountable.
Please call your Senators and Representative today
and tell them to
call on President Bush to fire Donald Rumsfeld.
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