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A Troubling Quote
for the day of Thursday, September 30, 2004
33 days until the election - consider the following
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"No one took into account
the possibility that if you set the bar real low for Bush, all he had to do was
pronounce America properly and it would be a terrific thing. And that is in fact
what
happened." -
Marvin Kalb on the Bush-Gore debates - from Jim Lehrer News Hour, Campaign Coverage, November 7, 2000.
for the day of Wednesday, September 29, 2004
34 days until the election - consider the following
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"Step back for a moment from the cacophony of the election campaign and reflect: who got us into this mess? In spite of his Texas swagger, George W. Bush does not qualify to serve as our Commander-in-Chief."
George
Soros
from
President Bush is
Endangering our Safety, Hurting our Vital Interests, and Undermining American
Values
Prepared text of speech delivered September 28, 2004
National Press Club, Washington, DC,
A Challenging Quote
for the day of Tuesday, September 28, 2004
35 days until the election - consider the following
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"In recent years the Executive and Legislative branches of our federal government have been waging a war on women and their reproductive rights."
from
The War on Women: A Pernicious Web,
A Planned Parenthood Report on the Administration and Congress
An Obviously True Quote
for the day of Monday, September 27, 2004
36 days until the election - consider the following
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"Scott McClellan [President Bush's press secretary] is beginning to sound like Baghdad Bob, the infamous spokesman for Saddam who announced hallucinatory Iraqi victories as the American troops closed in on Baghdad. "
Bush's Iraq: A Powerful
Fantasy
Bush's argument is tight, concise and, so far, impregnable.
It is also a clever distortion of reality
An Ominous Quote
for the day of Sunday, September 26, 2004
37 days until the election - consider the following
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"Never in the almost three decades that I have been campaigning against the use of nuclear weapons and nuclear power have I felt that the world is in so much danger. "
Dr. Helen Caldicott writing about her most recent book, The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military Industrial Complex
A Frightening Quote
for the day of Saturday, September 25, 2004
38 days until the election - consider the following
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"As we continue to grapple with the United States'
vulnerability to
terrorist attack, we fail to recognize the most serious danger, one that is
overlooked by politicians and emergency management agencies alike. Thousands of
Russian nuclear warheads are targeted on the U.S."
from
Still on
Catastrophe's Edge by Robert McNamara and Helen
Caldicott
- Los Angeles Times - 04/26/2004
A Maddening Quote
for the day of Friday, September 24, 2004
39 days until the election - consider the following
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"George W. Bush will go down
in history as America's worst environmental president. In a ferocious three-year
attack, the Bush administration has initiated more than 200 major rollbacks of
America's environmental laws, weakening the protection of our country's air,
water, public lands and wildlife. 
"
from Crimes Against Nature by Robert F.
Kennedy Jr.
in the December 11, 2003
issue of Rolling Stone
Another Sobering Quote
for the day of Thursday, September 23, 2004
40 days until the election - consider the following
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"I fault this president for not knowing what death is. . . . He is the President who does not feel."
from The Unfeeling President
- by E.L. Doctorow
|
Published on Thursday, September 9, 2004 by the Easthampton Star / Long Island, New York |
A Sobering Quote
for the day of Wednesday, September 22, 2004
41 days until the election - consider the following
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"The American mainstream television news media, in whole and in part, has catastrophically failed the American people and is singularly responsible for the untimely deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people."
from Your Media is Killing You
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
A Prescient Quote
for the day of Tuesday, September 21, 2004
42 days until the election - consider the following
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"It's an obscene comparison,
but there was a time in South Africa when people would put flaming tires around
people's necks if they dissented. In some ways, the fear is that you will be
necklaced here. You will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around
your neck. It's that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the
tough questions,"
Dan Rather on the BBC - June, 2002
from THE LYNCHING OF DAN RATHER By Greg Palast
A Floridian Quote
for the day of Monday, September 20, 2004
43 days until the election - consider the following
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"I was prepared to accept the word of the president of the United States, but my reason for voting against the war was really a more strategic one: that al-Qaida was a greater threat to Americans than was Saddam Hussein, and that we should stay on the task of al-Qaida until we had finished it. I didn't think we should get into a situation where our prestige and reputation would suffer in the entire Middle East and into what now appears to be a quagmire which has no end in sight." ...
Senator Bob Graham: author of Intelligence Matters: The CIA, the FBI, Saudi Arabia, and the Failure of America's War on Terror
from Bush Covered Up Saudi Involvement in 9/11
A Penetrating Quote
for the day of Sunday, September 19, 2004
44 days until the election - consider the following
"The truth is that Bush is
actually soft on terror. When it comes to going after the men who were behind
9/11 and who continue to wage a jihad against the US, Bush has repeatedly turned
a blind eye to the forces behind terrorism, shielded the people who funded al-Qaida,
obstructed investigations and diverted resources from the battle against it." ...
by Craig Unger / The Guardian, Sept. 16, 2004
See the article: 'War president' Bush has always been soft on terror; His campaign says vote Republican or die - but he lets al-Qaida off the hook
A Compelling Quote
for the day of Saturday, September 18, 2004
45 days until the election - consider the following
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"This is far graver than Vietnam. . . Right now, the course we're on, we're achieving Bin Laden's ends." ...
Retired general William Odom, former head of
the National Security Agency:
See "Far Graver than Vietnam" with the header Most senior US military officers now believe the war on Iraq has turned into a disaster on an unprecedented scale from the 9-16-04 The Guardian.
A Telling Quote
from 911 Widows
for the day of Friday, September 17, 2004
46 days until the election - consider the following
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"President Bush Thwarted Our
Attempts at Every Turn"
The Jersey Girls
from 911 Widows Endorse Kerry
By Mary Jacoby, Salon.com
A Right-on Quote
by Stephen E. Flynn, author of America the Vulnerable: How Our Government Is Failing to Protect Us from Terrorism
for the day of Thursday, September 16, 2004
47 days until the election - consider the following
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"We always used to say, pre-9/11, perhaps it'll take an attack to get America to take this threat seriously. I think most of us who are involved in this are horrified by the fact that we're now saying it'll have to take another attack."
--- from America the Vulnerable: How Our Government Is Failing To Protect Us From Terrorism, a talk and discussion from the Council on Foreign Relations websitefor the day of Wednesday, September 15, 2004
48 days until the election - consider the following
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"The United States is fighting the war it prepared for in the twentieth century, rather than the one that is being waged upon it by al Qaeda. ... Meanwhile, protecting the rear -- the American nation itself -- remains largely outside the scope of national security even though the September 11 attacks were launched from the United States on targets within the United States."
The Neglected
Home Front
By Stephen E. Flynn
From Foreign Affairs, September/October 2004
An Inspirational Quote from George W. Bush
for the day of Tuesday, September 14, 2004
49 days until the election - consider the following
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"Had we to do it over again, we would
look at the consequences of
catastrophic success . . ."
- Time Magazine, Aug. 29, 2004
from Washington Post via the
state.com
An Inspirational Quote from George W. Bush
for the day of Monday, September 13, 2004
50 days until the election - consider the following
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"And when America gives its
word,
America keeps its word."
- (Source: The Whitehouse)
BROKEN AMERICAN treaties under Bush,
not to mention promises
An Inspirational Quote from George W. Bush
for the day of Sunday, September 12, 2004
51 days until the election - consider the following
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"I'm the commander — see, I don't need to explain — I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being president." — George W. Bush, as said to Bob Woodward and quoted in his book, "Bush at War"
An Inspirational Quote from George W. Bush
for the day of Saturday, September 11, 2004
52 days until the election - consider the following
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"I'm working a lot of issues -- national security matters. . . Saddam Hussein is a menace. He's still a menace, and we need to keep him in check, and will. He's been a menace forever, and . . . he needs to open his country up for inspection so we can see whether or not he's developing weapons of mass destruction."
Crawford, Texas, Sept. 7, 2001. Bush talking to reporters while playing golf, one day after receiving the briefing entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US," a report which mentioned the use of hijacked airplanes. From the Washington Post, Sept. 8, 2001
