White House rhetoric is frightening.
“[W]hich is more frightening: the horror that engulfed New York City [on 9-11] or the apocalyptic rhetoric emanating daily from the White House?”
- Eric Foner , A short time after 9-11-01.
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Bush is using 9-11 for his own political gain.
“We’ve been treated to some astonishingly vile images over the last two weeks: office workers hurling themselves into a hundred-floor-high abyss. A gaping, smoldering hole in the financial center of our greatest city. George W. Bush passing himself off as a patriot, even as he disassembles the Constitution with the voracious glee of a piranha skeletonizing a cow. Now we know why 7,000 people [initial casualty estimates were high] sacrificed their lives — so that we’d all forget how Bush stole a presidential election. . . . Bush has capitalized on a nation’s grief, confusion and anger to extort a political blank check payable in young American blood.”
- Ted Rall , Following 9-11-01.
Comparing George Bush to Saddam Hussein.
“Saddam Hussein, influenced by fascism, ordered the deaths of tens of thousands of people, fought two disastrous wars, turned his nation into an international pariah and ruined his country’s economy. In other words, his record is identical to George W. Bush’s.”
- Ted Rall , October 2005.
George Bush winning in 2004 is unthinkable.
“I am preparing myself for either outcome today. Should Kerry win [the 2004 election], I will post an important statement called ‘Time for Healing,’ or something equally noble sounding. Should Bush win, I shall post a statement of philosophical resignation tentatively titled ‘Good, Go Ahead, America, Choke on Your Own Vomit, You Deserve to Die.’ The latter will probably require a little more tweaking.”
- James Wolcott , November 2, 2004.
Comparing George Bush with Adolf Hitler.
“I’m not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler — because George Bush, for one thing, is not as smart as Adolf Hitler.”
- David Clennon
Comparing the Bush election to 9/11.
“[The 2000 Florida vote recount] has done as much damage to our country as any terrorist attack could do. [. . .] I believe that what happened in 2000 did as much damage to the pillars of democracy as terrorists did to the pillars of commerce in New York City.”
- Alec Baldwin
Democrats will cure diseases.
“We will stop juvenile diabetes, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and other debilitating diseases. . . . When John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.”
- John Edwards , 2004.
I voted for and against the funding.
“I actually did vote for the 87 billion dollars [funding for troop operations in Iraq], before I voted against it.”
- John Kerry
We’ll take from the “haves” and give to the “have nots”.
“We are going to try to take all the money that we think is unnecessarily being spent and take it from the ‘haves’ and give it to the ‘have nots’ that need it so much.”
- Lyndon Johnson , January 15, 1964.