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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 08:43 PM
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Democrat (Kaine) Tells Bush There's a 'Better Way' (in SOTU response)
NYT/Reuters: Democrat Tells Bush There's a 'Better Way'
By REUTERS
Published: January 31, 2006


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - ``There is a better way'' to deal with the challenges confronting the nation, Timothy Kaine of Virginia, a brand-new Democratic governor of a conservative southern state, said on Tuesday in his party's response to the president's State of the Union address.

Democrats selected Kaine to respond to President George W. Bush even though he has been in office less than three weeks. In his election victory in November, he won over independents and some Republicans in a state that has not voted for a Democratic president in more than 40 years.

Kaine sounded the theme that there is a different, better way to fight terror, improve health care and promote a strong economy....

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Kaine called for more bipartisanship, more cooperation, and a focus on service.

But he also criticized Bush's management failures in relation to Hurricane Katrina, job creation and Iraq, and referred to the lobbying and corruption scandals hanging over congressional Republicans....


http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-bush-speech-democrats.html
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 08:53 PM
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1. In California Kaine would be considered a republican nt
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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 08:58 PM
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2. That looks better than the press detailed it yesterday
They made it sound like he'd be supportive, or something.
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BlueStater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 09:11 PM
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3. Oh god, stop trying to compromise with him!
Haven't you learned by now that the idiot does what he wants and doesn't give a shit what anyone else thinks? Stop being so polite to a man who doesn't deserve it.
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SaveElmer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 09:37 PM
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4. He's not appealing to Bush...
He is speaking to the country. It's why McCain is so popular...people don't view him as an idealogue (even though he is).
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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:03 AM
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5. a.m. kick
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clar8130 Donating Member (36 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-01-06 10:54 AM
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6. left me flat
Remember the movie "The Candidate?" "There's a better way with Bill McKay!" I know little about Kaine, but I found him an unconvincing and certainly uncharismatic speaker (he might be better in person). I wish the Dems had fronted someone else.
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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-03-06 08:04 PM
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8. Welcome to DU, clar8130 -- I think many here share your view!
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MetsMatt Donating Member (19 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-03-06 08:00 PM
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7. Blue State of the Union
My fellow Americans, I am evil.

I only care about rich people, and rich people only care about other rich people -- unless, of course, your name is Kennedy. In fact, it is misleading to say that I only care about the rich. I truly only care about Republican, white, Christian males who are rich.

I would say that I am truly the president of Halliburton, except I'm having the darndest time spelling the word "Halliburton." I'm corrupt, incompetent and racist. Oh, sure, in order to help deal with the problem of illegal aliens, I have offered a guest worker program, but "guest worker program" spelled backwards means "shoot to kill." Or at least I think it does.

The black Democratic congressman from New York, Charlie Rangel, nailed it when he called me "our Bull Connor." Donna Brazile, the black lady who ran the presidential campaign for Al Gore, also got it right. I am the titular head of the Republican Party, the party of the "white boys."

I stole the election in 2000. I conspired with the governor of Florida to steal votes. The governor of Florida just happens to be my brother. I stole the election in Ohio in 2004 by conspiring with my buddies at Diebold, who make the voting machines, which they rigged in my favor. When you think about it, those white boys at Diebold, well, they're my brothers, too.

Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation is Islam is right. I ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to blow up the levee in New Orleans in order to flood and kill black people. Oh, sure, we snagged a lot of whites -- that's why they came up with the term "collateral damage."

I'm pretty stupid. Martin Sheen, the man who played a real president on "West Wing," got it right -- I am a "moron." Aaron McGruder, who illustrates the comic strip "The Boondocks," also got it right when he called me "functionally illiterate." Maybe someday I'll wake up from this dream in which I make an SAT verbal score higher than Rhodes Scholar Bill Bradley, get better college grades than Al Gore, graduate from Yale, and get an MBA from Harvard.

I've been a lousy economic steward. I came into office with an economy headed towards recession, and shortly thereafter we endured the 9/11 terrorist attacks. We then invaded two countries, Iraq and Afghanistan. And, most recently, our economy endured hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Since I've been in office, our productivity growth has averaged over 3.5 percent per year, with inflation remaining low. Unemployment stands at 4.9 percent, 400,000 new jobs were created in the last two months, and homeownership is at an all-time high. But, I agree with nearly half of Americans who believe we are already in a recession. And I expect to go down in history -- as I should -- as presiding over the worst economy since Herbert Hoover.

I agree with Harry Belafonte and Cindy Sheehan that I am the world's greatest terrorist. I'd have to go some to emulate my idols -- Joe, Mao and Adolf -- but a fella's gotta start somewhere.

Sen. Ted Kennedy is right. I lied us into the war. Repeatedly. I intentionally sent men and women in harm's way, so that I could be a wartime president, because -- unlike Michael Dukakis -- I sure look spiffy in a flight suit. As Sen. John Kerry puts it, our military terrorizes Iraqi civilians. Meanwhile, I should tell you the real reasons for going into the war: to steer defense contracts to my buddies; to get the SOBs who tried to kill my daddy; to engage in torture; to find a justification to spy on American citizens who have no connection to terrorism whatsoever; and to send soldiers into the field with no body armor and no exit strategy.

How our military managed to topple two governments and free 55 million people just beats the dickens out of me. How Iraq and Afghanistan managed to hold free elections -- well, that's a head-scratcher. And how about that Oxford Research International poll showing almost 71 percent of Iraqis say their own life is "good"? Boy, I could use numbers like that. And even though I'm a warmonger, polls show support for terrorism is falling in the Arab world.

Yep, I not only lied, I got the British to lie. I also got the worldwide intelligence community -- the United Nations, the French, the Germans, the Egyptians, the Jordanians, and the Russians -- all to deceive the world by agreeing that Saddam possessed WMD. And who says I can't bring the world together?

I would recommend impeachment, but then you'd just get Cheney. I would go to my White House bedroom and kill myself, but then you'd just get Cheney. Oh, if only I hadn't been born. But then, as my daddy used to say, if a dog's butt were square, he'd poop bricks.

Thank you, and God bless.
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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-03-06 08:11 PM
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9. I don't like to bash our Dems, but is there a LAMER slogan...
than There's a better way? What the hell does it say?
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MODemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-03-06 09:16 PM
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10. He didn't say what the better way is
Jon Stewart had Kaine's response on his show; and it was really pathetic.:think: :shrug:
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