AUDIO/MP3- Kerry on Port Security from Presid. Debates

[liveoaktx]

Read the thread below and thought it was excellent, so I looked up the portions of the speech dealing with this and compiled them into an MP3

This all needs to be a DEMOCRAT issue. Notice that Bush's emphasis on fighting terror was "bringing peace and democracy" to the Middle East while Kerry was practical. Republicans (Bush) were WRONG on terror.

DU thread about this

From TheDemocraticDaily

[Coexist]

1. Wish I could see this on news shows.

People's jaws would drop. They would be pissed.

[blm]

2. And the news media REFUSED TO DISCUSS Kerry's criticisms of Bush whenever

he questioned Bush's competency fighting terror for real.

Instead they repeated the lie EVERYDAY that Dems couldn't touch Bush on the terror issue. Completely ignoring the debate on Bush's competency.

[fedupinBushcountry]

3. The media failed America bigtime

Kerry knew exactly what he was talking about through his investigations that lasted a decade.

In his book "The New War" (which by the way he mentioned often, if people were really paying attention, you couldn't rely on the media to repeat that) he just hits it right in so many ways. He knows, and damn the media.

From his book:
pg. 29

Crime can triumph by seizing partial control of a country's presidency and congress, as it has in Columbia. (I think we can use the USA as an example now, JMO)

Crime can triumph by bringing down a nascent democracy like Russia, thereby throwing the international polital scene into tension and turmoil.

Crime can triumph by corrupting everyone in a society- from high officials to fisherman who prefer making $10,000 a night smuggling drugs to earn $700 a week chasing thinning stocks of fish. When he was a state legislator, Abe Lincoln once threw a man out of his office who had kept upping his bribe offer. Was I offering to little? the man asked. No, explained Lincoln, you were getting to near my price.

pg. 25

Criminals have always tried to corrupt the social process by bribing politicians, judges, and witnesses, but they never had any intentions of challenging the social order as a whole. That is not true of the new globalized crime and its fraternal twin, terrorism. Now crime often uses methods of terrorism, the assaination of political candidates in Columbia being the most obvious example. And though terrorism is the use of criminal means for political or ideoologicalends, the distinction often blurs. It is no accident that my subcommittee investigated crime and terrorism as parts of a single sinister assault on society.

Kerry knows and he would have been going after the terrorists, and we would be safer now. I would encourage everyone to read this book.

[blue cat]

4. Maury and Connie

lying fucks, just had someone on that said noone has brought up port security before. I don't watch but just happened to have the tv on while dressing.

[blm]

5. What's the name of their show and do they have a production office?

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[blue cat]

7. MSNBC

but I'm getting tired of calling NBC and complaining. I'm in a bad mood this weekend because I realize that things will only get worse over the next 3 years, and probably longer when a republcian replaces Bush.

[blue cat]

8. nbc 888-355-3566

I called and asked to speak with someone with the show, and they sent me to voice mail and I left a message telling them that they were not factually correct and needed to correct their mistake. I know that they want us to give up, and sometimes I feel like it.

[blm]

11. giving up is not an option - they better get used to it.

Thanks, blue cat.

[FreedomAngel82]

6. Kerry's right again as usual

[blue cat]

9. The corporate media won't give Kerry any face time on TV

because they don't want Americans to realize their mistake. Instead the corporate media are trying to force their corporate president down our throats to help his sagging poll numbers.

[WildEyedLiberal]

10. John Kerry was right about everything

I think more and more moderate voters who decided to vote for Bush are realizing that and feeling ashamed. The wingnuts are still stridently pro-Bush, but anytime we encounter a moderate conservative, we should gently remind them that John Kerry warned them about everything that is happening now - it will be food for thought for 2006 and beyond...

[politicasista]

12. K&R

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