Bush Opens a Double-Digit Lead!

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Bush Opens a Double-Digit Lead!
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Fri, 09-03-2004 - 3:46pm
New York: For the first time since the Presidential race became a two person contest last spring, there is a clear leader, the latest TIME poll shows. If the 2004 election for President were held today, 52% of likely voters surveyed would vote for President George W. Bush, 41% would vote for Democratic nominee John Kerry, and 3% would vote for Ralph Nader, according to a new TIME poll conducted from Aug. 31 to Sept. 2. Poll results are available on TIME.com and will appear in the upcoming issue of TIME magazine, on newsstands Monday, Sept. 6.


http://www.time.com/time/press_releases/article/0,8599,692562,00.html


Edited 9/3/2004 4:13 pm ET ET by iminnie833

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Registered: 07-20-2003
Mon, 09-06-2004 - 9:30pm
"But the USS Gridley was not in Vietnam. During his first tour he served in the Gulf of Tonkin, and at Subic Bay in the Philippines and in Wellington, New Zealand."

And what was Bush doing at this time?

"I was not prepared to shoot my eardrum out with a shotgun in order to get a deferment. Nor was I willing to go to Canada. So I chose to better myself by learning how to fly airplanes." George Walker Bush

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Registered: 04-16-2004
Mon, 09-06-2004 - 10:59pm
Either the link is not right, or the site pulled the press release.
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Registered: 04-05-2004
Tue, 09-07-2004 - 12:07am
I don't think anyone's trying to discredit what Kerry did onboard the USS Gridley. I wasn't. I just mentioned that Kerry was only in Vietnam for 4 months (actually 4 months and 12 days for the hair splitters ;)) after someone had said that he was in Vietnam for 16 months. His service on the USS Gridley was not in Vietnam, although I'm sure he served honorably there. :)
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Tue, 09-07-2004 - 12:08am
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Tue, 09-07-2004 - 12:13am
I made no comment about whether or not he was in danger. All I said is that he was not in Vietnam. Close to Vietnam is not the same thing as in Vietnam. The comment I responded to was that he was in Vietnam for 16 months. My comment was mearly to set the record straight, not to get into a big debate about how much danger he was in or whether or not he could have been fired on.
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Registered: 04-05-2004
Tue, 09-07-2004 - 12:15am
Close is not the same thing as *in*. Why is this a big deal? I couldn't get your map to come up, btw, but I know the Gulf of Tonkin is off North Vietnam somewhere (because I saw that on Kerry's website, tee hee)
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Registered: 04-05-2004
Tue, 09-07-2004 - 12:16am
Bad news for Kerry is good news for our country.
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Registered: 03-31-2003
Tue, 09-07-2004 - 12:24am
I don't even know what you're talking about with Kerry's first purple heart. Even I can't keep up with the Bush smear machine and I pour over the political news everyday.

He didn't lie about Cambodia. Did you know that in '71 Swift Boat Veteran's for Bush's leader - John O'Neill told Nixon that HE was in Cambodia? (And now he denies it.)

""I was in Cambodia, sir. I worked along the border," O'Neill is heard telling Nixon in a conversation that was taped by the former president's secret recording system. The tape is stored at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland."

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/26/swift.boat.author.ap/

Do you think maybe the border was a bit vague, or that it was pretty routine for swift boats to cross into Cambodia?

I also have no idea what you're talking about with keeping his boat at the scene of the explosion. I find that usually people mistake reporters characterizations of events for statements by the actual people who were at the events.

As for the money for the troops - if you look at what Kerry actually said, he said it would be irresponsible for Congress not to fund the troops. He never said it would be irresponsible not to fund one specific proposal or another. It was never in question that Congress would fund the troops. Of course they would. They were going to fund the troops one way or another. Kerry just wanted to do it the responsible, accountable way, and Bush wanted to do it his way.

I don't even know why I'm bothering to write this. You've obviously made up your mind.

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Registered: 06-17-2004
Tue, 09-07-2004 - 12:53am

Oh those silly little monkeys over at the Kerry campaign are picking up the boss's penchant for indecisiveness!


When I found the page, it had already been removed once and replaced, and now they've gone ahead and done it again!


Good thing the bloggers are on the case:


http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/002440.php

Renee ~~~

Renee ~~~

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Registered: 04-05-2004
Tue, 09-07-2004 - 12:57am
He was clearly caught in a lie about Cambodia. He says he was there Christmas of '68 and that President Nixon sent him there. Nixon wasn't sworn in until January '69, and Kerry wrote in his own diary that he was in Sa Dec with "visions of sugarplums dancing in his head" that night. None of his "band of brothers" will confirm this tall tale either.

John O'Neill didn't serve with Kerry. He took over his boat *after* Kerry left the service.

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