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PatriotforGore
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Gore lashes out at Bush, Goss
« Thread started on: Aug 16th, 2004, 8:40pm » |
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Give it to them, President Gore. Mr. Gore isn't the only one who sees this for the partisan pick it is to divide us even more, and the Bush syncophants know it. I would just ask Mr. Gore to truly consider what the 9.11 commission didn't even bring up in this report, and realize that the Bush White House had much influence on the language in it being toned down. They haven't begun to be held accountable, and frankly, I think it is a farce that they are getting away with their responsibility in allowing it to happen, and so many points that were not even explored regarding what they knew.
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http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cfm?section_id=9&screen=news&news_id=34946
Gore lashes out at Bush, Goss
By Skip Cauthorn, scauthorn@nashvillecitypaper.com
August 13, 2004
Former Vice President Al Gore Jr. lashed out at President Bush Thursday saying the administration’s CIA director nominee named this week would “foster fear” and “divide” the nation.
Gore, speaking before a partisan group of more than 300 “Music Row Democrats” at the historic Belcourt Theatre, criticized Bush, saying he had “thumbed his nose” at the recommendations submitted by the independent 911 Commission. And Gore said the nomination of Republican U.S. Rep. Porter Goss of Florida Tuesday shouldn’t have been of a partisan nature leading up to the November election where Bush will face Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.
“I'm telling you that a President of a United
States who was genuinely and deeply concerned with healing the wounds in our nation and bringing us together as a people and doing everything possible to learn the lessons of 911, [implementing] the recommendations of that commission and [making] sure that it never happens again would not appoint a partisan political player on the eve of the election to head the CIA and ignore the recommendations of the 9/11 commission,” Gore said.
“That’s what he’s doing - using the war, using division, fostering fear, dividing us as a people. And I know that in today’s modern political climate saying things like this drives the pollsters up the wall; I don’t care,” Gore added. Goss, the House Intelligence chairman, at the behest of the Bush/Cheney campaign, openly criticized Kerry’s national security policies earlier this summer in Congress.
Wednesday Kerry asked for a fair confirmation process, which he and running mate Sen. John Edwards may cast votes on during the Senate confirmation process. Also Kerry requested that Goss help in implementation of all of the 911 commission recommendations, some of which he has been criticized by Democrats for opposing.
Congress is currently in recess and confirmation hearings have yet to be scheduled.
State Republican Party Chairman Beth Harwell of Nashville said Goss’ resume speaks for itself and that he is perfectly capable of acting in a bipartisan fashion in the best interests of the nation.
“It just continues the image Al Gore has developed,” said Harwell of Gore’s statements. “He’s just very negative and partisan. President Bush appointed someone who has tremendous background in that area. It’s difficult to find someone with a background like that.”
Gore, a native Tennessean, lost his home state to Bush by roughly four percentage points in the 2000 presidential election and ultimately the presidency in a bitter vote-counting scandal in Florida.
Gore strongly criticized the administration’s policies, in particular, the war in Iraq saying the White House was “using the war” for personal and political gain.
Republicans are underestimating Tennessee, said Gore, which is currently considered to be in the Bush column and not one of the handful of battleground states being targeted by both parties.
Nashville attorney and a Kerry campaign chairman Bob Tuke said some money would be spent here by the Democratic National Committee and that a Kerry visit is expected here at month’s end.
- Reuters contributed to this report
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Re: Gore lashes out at Bush, Goss
« Reply #1 on: Aug 17th, 2004, 03:19am » |
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Kerry would be wise to make sure he visits here...there is a feeling among Dems here that Tennessee is being written off as a Republican state, when in fact it is more of a swing state....consider the fact that we have a Dem governor, just for starters!
The 2000 election results here in Tennessee are just as questionable as those of Florida, it just never got the press that Florida did.
As for the 9/11 commission, I'm frankly disgusted with the wimpy results, and they are wimpy. Bush fought even having the commission or any real investigation into 9/11, yet now wants to take the watered down results and spin it to his advantage.
There are far too many unanswered questions, and there are far too many politicians on both sides of the aisle wimping out on taking any truly strong stand against the actions of this administration.
I'm frankly baffled that there is still nearly half of our population supporting Bush. How can anyone support an administration that has been exposed in so many lies? It engenders in me a complete loss of respect for my fellow Americans, who seem unable to think for themselves any longer and just absorb whatever the media tells them to think.
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