Dean says Bush is asleep on job

[jamesinca]

Dean says Bush is asleep on job


By Waltraud Kaserer
THE WASHINGTON TIMES



PORTLAND, Ore. — President Bush is asleep on the job, Howard Dean told cheering crowds of Democrats this weekend.
The former Vermont governor, who is leading the nine-candidate field for the Democratic presidential nomination, made the charge the centerpiece of a three-day, eight-city, coast-to-coast campaign swing.
The tour through Wisconsin, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Texas, Illinois and New York is not called the "Sleepless Summer Tour" because no one gets sleep but is a swipe at the president's policies and his four-week vacation at his ranch in Crawford, Texas.
"While the president is constantly sleeping in Crawford, there are many people sleepless all over the country because they don't have health insurance and don't have jobs," Mr. Dean told audiences in Boise, Idaho, and Portland yesterday, as well as in Falls Church and Milwaukee on Saturday evening. "While Bush is sleeping we're going to take our country back," he added in his stock speech for the tour.


http://washingtontimes.com/national/20030824-110939-2913r.htm

[dArKeR]

1. This is the kind of talk I want to hear! Instead of my last $50 donation

I'm going to give $500 this time. NOT. $50 more when he gets the nomination.

http://darkerxdarker.tripod.com/

[thebigidea]

2. coming up next on UPN... NAPTIME FOR NITWIT...

starring Clint Howard as George W. Bush

[jamesinca]

3. This is what I like about Dean

He will get up and say things. Dems have been taking it for the past 20 years. What is it that makes Limbaugh so listened to? It is his get in your face style. What makes O'Reilley so watched? It is his get in your face style. No none of us here like those guys, but that is the style that seems to be getting Americas attention. Do you remember awhile back they were talking of the FOX factor? Most cable news outlets were mimicking FOX because they were getting the viewership. Have any of you heard that talk radio is dominated by the Right? Why is it that they have such a hold on the public? It is the style of presentation. Notice Dean is right behind Bush in the campaign. 3 days or so after Bush goes to an area, Dean is there. Dean is running ads in TX against Bush. He is attacking his entire beign, his policys, his mnapping, his publicized vacations, everything about him he is attacking. What is Liberman doing, he is attacking Howard Dean, another reason I will never vote for Liberman. What are the rest of the candidates doing? I don't know but they sure are not running ads in TX. They are not spanking that donkey till it kicks I know that much. And I would still like to see Al Sharpton as Press Sect.

[stickdog]

4. Dean blasts Bush during Idaho visit

http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Aug/08252003/utah/86801.asp

Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean assailed President Bush's foreign policies Sunday in the first of several campaign stops in the Northwest. Playing to a crowd of about 500 Democrats at the Boise Airport, the former Vermont governor said he supported the first Gulf War and U.S. military action in Afghanistan, but he criticized Bush's decision to go to war against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq.

"I will never hesitate to send our troops anywhere in the world to defend the United States in America. But I will never send our sons and daughters and brothers and sisters to die in a foreign country without telling the American people the truth about why they are going."

Dean blasted Bush for failing to win the support of other countries in the Middle East. "We're in a tough spot in Iraq, losing eight or 10 soldiers every single week. Al-Qaida wasn't in Iraq when he sent our guys over there but they're there now and they're picking our guys off," Dean said. "This president needs to swallow his arrogant pride and go to the United Nations and get some foreign troops in there."

Dean was mindful of U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's scheduled stop in Boise today. Ashcroft will promote an extension of the USA Patriot Act, which he contends has helped block major terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. Idaho 1st District Republican Rep. C.L. Butch Otter is leading an effort in Congress to block parts of the Patriot Act from taking effect. Dean blasted the law and Ashcroft. "This is something conservatives and liberals can agree on, we don't want to lose our liberties just because we're fighting terrorists. I think John Ashcroft is wrong about this and he ought to admit it," Dean said.

[stickdog]

5. Dean visits Milwaukee, bashes Bush

http://www.wisinfo.com/postcrescent/news/archive/local_11919855.shtml

Democrat takes swipe at president’s monthlong vacation

The Associated Press

MILWAUKEE — Presidential hopeful Howard Dean brought his eight-city road trip to Wisconsin as he tried to get a jump on the traditional post-Labor Day presidential campaign season. The Democratic former Vermont governor spoke to a crowd that organizers estimated at 800 in a hangar Saturday night just off the tarmac of Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International Airport.

Dean accused President Bush of lying about the war in Iraq, leaving people without health care and handing out tax cuts to the wealthy. He also said 3 million people have lost their jobs while Bush has been president, including 2 million in manufacturing.

“It’s not only because the president can’t manage the economy, but also because he’s shipped many of our jobs overseas and we need to change that,” said Dean, standing in front of a large American flag.

“The president is sleeping comfortably in Crawford, Texas, tonight, but there are an awful lot of Americans who are kind of sleepless these days,” Dean said Saturday at his kickoff rally in Falls Church, Va. “They’re sleepless about wondering where their job went. They’re sleepless about wondering where their health insurance went or whether they are going to have health insurance. They are sleepless wondering whether their kid is going to be the next to die in Iraq.”

[stickdog]

6. Dean draws 3,000 to PSU

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1061812571258250.xml

Five months before the first votes will be cast in the 2004 presidential race, Howard Dean demonstrated his rising appeal among Democrats Sunday when he attracted as many as 3,000 people to a high-energy Portland rally. In a period when most candidates are concentrating on raising money and speaking to small groups in early primary states, Dean drew the kind of crowd that impressed local political leaders from both parties as he continued on a rock-concert style, four-day tour of 10 cities.

As supporters crowded into a Portland State University plaza under a hot midday sun, Dean charged that Oregon schools have been forced to close early because of President Bush's economic and budget policies. The former Vermont governor, following on the heels of Bush's visit last week to Oregon and Seattle, also maintained that the president's proposals to reduce the danger of forest fires are a cover for massive clear-cutting in the national forests. "We have a president who thinks healthy forests means it's okay to cut down old-growth forests," Dean said.

In an interview afterward with The Oregonian, Dean said he was willing to risk trade relationships with China -- a major trading partner with the Northwest -- in an attempt to force that country to adopt better labor and environmental standards.

Dean repeatedly hammered the president for approving huge tax cuts that he said were weighted toward the wealthy and were making it difficult for the government to afford needed services. "Here we are in a state where you had to close the schools five weeks early because the president of the United States gave $3 trillion of our money away" to big contributors such as former Enron Chairman Ken Lay, Dean said.

[stickdog]

7. Thousands turn out for Howard Dean rally (in Seattle)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001608243_dean25m.html

Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean told supporters at a Seattle rally last night that it did no good to "have a little fun at the president's expense" if he couldn't talk about what he would do instead.

By the time he got to the podium at Westlake Park, the crowd filled the plaza and a full city block between Pike and Pine streets. Angry at the delay, many started booing the local campaign volunteer who was introducing him. The former Vermont governor told the crowd he would offer health care to every American citizen, as many European countries do. "I'm tired of being a second-class citizen in the industrialized world," he said.

He went on to blast Bush's environmental record, tax cuts, the economy and the war in Iraq. He also criticized some Democratic candidates — U.S. Sens. John Kerry of Massachusetts and John Edwards of North Carolina and U.S. Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri — for supporting the war early on.

Paul Berendt, state Democratic Party chairman, said the crowd was the largest he had ever seen here for a presidential candidate so early in a campaign. "There's magic around Howard Dean because he's willing to go after Bush without reserve," Berendt said.

[JackSwift]

8. The Bush team being lazy is one of the themes the Dems

must hit over and over.

[neuvocat]

10. Should be "Lazy and incompetent."

[yellowcanine]

9. Dean can't miss with that theme

Bush was asleep as the terrorists planned and executed the worst attack ever on U.S. soil.

Bush was asleep as jobs were lost and moved overseas -

Bush was asleep as Ken Lay and the other kleptocrats were stealing investors and employees blind.

Bush was asleep when Enron was destroying the California economy by manipulating energy prices.

Bush was asleep when the largest surplus in U.S. history was turned into the largest deficit in U.S. history within 2 years, mostly as a result of his misguided tax cuts.

Bush was asleep as a record number of Americans lost their health care and the cost of prescription drugs spiralled out of the reach of millions of senior citizens.

Bush is asleep as Al-Quaeda and the Taliban regroup and plan more attacks.

Bush won't interrupt his month-long vacation to address terrorism and the collapse of the Middle East peace process but he will to raise money for his campaign even though he has already raised more than any sitting president (of course most sitting presidents were already elected once, so maybe we should cut him some slack....nah!).

Give em Hell, Howard!

[montana_hazeleyes]

11. The whistle-stop tour

to stop whistle-ass!