| Mainstream Media | Bias Revealed! |
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| Can I get a witness ?!
Discuss Convictions : Profess Faith |
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Wednesday Nov 10, 2004 10:34 AM ET
By MARC HUMBERT, Associated Press Writer | |
| CLINTON, N.Y. - Former President Clinton, noting an "astonishing turnout among evangelical Christians" in this year's election, warned Tuesday that Democrats "cannot be nationally competitive when we don't feel comfortable talking about our convictions." | This is Marketing-101.
I don't know anyone that thinks Kerry didn't talk about his convictions, and very comfortably. No, this sentence as quoted: "cannot be nationally competitive when we don't feel comfortable talking about our convictions" means ' ... if Dems want to gain market share (be nationally competitive), they're going to have to change their message ... ' in fact, the quote doesn't even make sense unless "convictions" is pc for "Faith." Read through this article, this is a surprising message ... or maybe not so surprising considering Bill's recent open heart surgery! You know he's preaching drastic change, though, when Democratic poster-boy Bill Clinton has to chill his message about 90 degrees reducing "witness the Faith" to "discuss convictions" just so's he doesn't lose his audience at the get-go. |
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| "I do not believe either party has a monopoly on morality or truth," Clinton told an audience of more than 4,500 at Hamilton College in upstate New York. | Dems are entitled to jump on the bandwagon! |
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| He spoke one week after President Bush won re-election over Democratic Sen. John Kerry and the Republicans bolstered their majorities in the House and Senate. | |
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| "I think the current divisions are partly the fault of the people in my party for not engaging the Christian evangelical community in a serious discussion of what it would take to promote a real culture of life," Clinton said. | ... recommending softening the pro-choice position? Backing off the embryonic stem-cell research issue? |
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| While the Kerry loss has left Clinton's wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, as a possible front-runner for the Democratic nomination for president in 2008, both the former president and the former first lady have avoided discussing that in public. | |
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| Clinton, in discussing her future, said only: "I'll do what I can to help Hillary, because I'm really proud of her." | Not because he believes in what she stands for, or that she would make a good Madame President! |
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| She is expected to seek re-election to the Senate in 2006. | |
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| The former president spent most of his more than one-hour talk looking back at the election and the problems he said still face the nation and the world. | |
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| He had harsh words for Bush's tax cuts in the face of rising national debt that he had successfully reduced while president. | This is reflective of the short-sighted mis-understanding that government revenue comes from the individual citizen, rather from the economy at large; when the economy improves ... that's when government revenues can expect to increase, not on the backs of the individual taxpayer! |
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| "The current policy has turned me into a raving right-winger on budget stuff," he said with a laugh. | Not exactly! Tax and spend is the mantra of the left; he's raving against reduction of tax, so that's still left wing ... the claim comes because he's not advocating any new programs; it's already spent! |
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| The former president also discussed how his life changed after his quadruple bypass surgery Sept. 6. | |
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| "It made me feel once again overwhelmingly grateful because one more time I got another chance at life. ... It's a gift. Every day is something I had no right to," Clinton said. | |
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| On Friday, in a speech in New York City, Clinton said the Democratic Party needs to rework its image. He attributed Kerry's loss to the Democrats' failure to combat how they were portrayed by Republicans to rural and small-town America. |
They didn't fail to combat it ... they fought it tooth and nail! But in the end rural and small-town American's weren't duped by the rhetoric. Too bad city folk aren't similarly perspicacious! |
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| "If we let people believe that our party doesn't believe in faith and family, doesn't believe in work and freedom, that's our fault," he said. | Your voting record is your soul, Mr. Kerry! ... bared for all to see ... You can 'improvise', but you can't hide your record! |
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