CNN: Kerry and Clinton say "Fire Rove" at Press Conf. - (VIDEO)

[dzika]

July 12, 2005

Video - CNN: Kerry and Clinton say "Fire Rove" at Press Conf.

Kerry makes an excellent statement about how Rove's leak relates to national security.




Video in Windows Media format (1 minute)

[BlueWolff]

1. Can you post a written article

I cannot use the video here at work...Is there a transcript to this press conf.
THNAK YOU

[FreedomAngel82]

2. Awesome

If you haven't sign Kerry's petition too!

[Sapphire Blue]

9. Link...

http://www.johnkerry.com/petition/rove.php

[graywarrior]

13. That is the most awesome signature EVER.

And lets hope the dems squeeze the balls a little tighter.

[Sapphire Blue]

25. Thanks

Just curious... have you visited any of the links?

[graywarrior]

28. no, but I will now

[ananda]

29. Too bad the CIA isn't..

.. up in arms about this. Now, who's the new CIA chief.. Porter Goss?

Suprised? Not.

Sue

[seabeyond]

32. tenet got taken down. lets remember. plame reaches to so many

cover ups

tenet was with dick clarke. he was the one saying no iraq. cheney took over cia, with his shadow government and started hangin there. powell in state went down about that time too. cia outing comes out. tenet was mad about it, then tenet shut up about it. sat behind powell at u.n. tenet left with his mouth shut, i believed tape shut. i think there is a whole story or two or three, there

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. He should have asked why Bush waffled on firing WH leakers

[CitrusLib]

5. Waffled or flip-flopped?

[ginnyinWI]

24. I love the way JK always points to what's good for America

Not what's good for politics, or the Dems, or himself, or even the world at large, but first and foremost, what is good for the American people. He really has the heart of a good president.

Bush is irrelevant, except for what harm or good he does to the American people. It's got to be mainly about America to reach the American people, especially the ones who voted for *.

[globalvillage]

36. Ginny, that is an excellent observation. n/t

[Mass]

4. Thanks for posting that. \nt

[second edition]

6. Ok,Ok,Ok, this is good!

I hope the MSM picks up on this!! Alright, Kerry and Clinton! Oh, I signed his petition too!

[brainshrub]

7. So Rove gets fired. Then what?

Rove is at the top of his career. Even if fired, he'll go on to write books and give speeches at Chickenhawk conventions.

Rove needs to be arrested, not fired.

[Mass]

12. BOTH...

He has no place staying where he is. The rest cant be done except by the special prosecutor.
What is there with you people that you cannot get that people like Conyers, Waxman, Kerry, Reid, Slaughter, ... understand.

[lancdem]

14. The Dems know Rove will not be fired

because he's too integral to how the WH operates. This is just an effort to ratchet up the heat on Bush and Turd Blossom.

[pgh_dem]

16. Think the point of the Kerry/Clinton conf would be that if Rove is fired

Then it would be seen as an admission of guilt, and the criminal case would gain momentum (in the press anyway) as a result.

I don't think they implied that firing Rove would be sufficient.

[fob]

20. Actually once he's fired he loses all the protection of his government

position and then...

[KittyWampus]

8. Revoke Rove's Security Clearance & Shut Him Out Of Classified Meetings

[Pirate Smile]

10. It sounds good. Nominated. Keep up the pressure and tie it to

National Security and the Iraq War intelligence fiasco.

[Parche]

11. Presidential

Damn I wish we would have got rid of those electronic voting
machines before the last election, he is looking awesome
Maybe we can finally do something now

[lancdem]

15. National security is exactly the way to approach this

Rove jeopardized our national security for political reasons, period. That's all we have to say; that's the issue in a nutshell.

[fedupinBushcountry]

17. Can't view it

link doesn't work for me. Is there another way to view it ?

[Kokonoe]

18. Those are good words from John Kerry

Notice how the reporters had to minimize the report and turn it on Hillary ( the giddy shield ) before you could even see what happened.

[proud patriot]

19. Kerry would of been a good President

I'm glad he and Hillary agree

[bunkerbuster1]

33. would HAVE been a good one.

(sorry to nitipick, I just don't want our folks making Freeperific usage errors.)

And I agree wholeheartedly with your sentiment. Every time I see him before the cameras, I'm filled both with pride in his dignity, and rage at an electorate that allowed the last election to be close enough for those ratfuckers to steal.

[proud patriot]

38. Thank you

I make that mistake quite a bit .

[lovuian]

21. It has to make Kerry's and Clinton's day to give Rove back

what his has given them!!!

[Frederik]

22. I believe a toast is in order

for president Kerry!

:toast:

Hell, I'll even toast to Mrs DLC's nod.

:toast:

[kerrygoddess]

23. John Kerry Works to Secure America's Ports

John Kerry Works to Secure America's Ports
12 July 2005



Senator John Kerry will offer an amendment to the Homeland Security Appropriations Bill today that aims at fixing gaping holes in the agency's work to secure America's ports.

"Almost four years after September 11th, our port security is in alarming shape, and the attacks on soft targets in London are a chilling reminder why there is no time to wait. The Administration has been asleep at the switch while shipload after shipload of cargo slips into our ports uninspected. We've spent more on the Capitol Visitors' Center than on the Port Security Grant Program. The Department of Homeland Security's own Inspector General said that only a fraction of the money awarded for port security grants has actually been spent, and much of what has been spent has been badly mismanaged. We have to fix this mess, fix it right away, and hold the administration accountable for getting this right," said Senator Kerry.

MORE - http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/default.asp?view=plink&id=1242

[Disturbed]

27. Yes, fire that traitor Rove so the Amerikan Tax Payers,

the non-wealthy, don't have to pay for his Defense team.

[Sapphire Blue]

30. Or his salary... Rove's 2004 salary was $151k

White House Office Staff List

The following information is from a White House report to Congress on White House office staff. (It does not include household staff.) The information is accurate as of June 20, 2003; several staff members have since left or changed jobs. It is presented here sorted by job title. The list may also be viewed sorted alphabetically or by salary. By statute, the president's salary is $400,000; the vice president's is $181,400. Asterisks (*) mean the person is on detail from another government agency.

{Rove Karl C. Senior Advisor to the President $151,000}

Staff salaries: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/administration/whbriefing/stafflista.html

[understandinglife]

26. Thank you David, once again! -nt

WATCH IT; SPREAD IT http://www.bushflash.com/right.html

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - How ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists their cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

[lebkuchen]

31. Fire him AND prosecute to the extent of the law

Then, force The Twirp to pardon the traitor.

[MelissaB]

34. Thanks, Dzika!

:kick:

[globalvillage]

35. Thanks Pres Kerry

That was awesome!!!
:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[AnnInLa]

37. Did you hear Kyra Phillips' "Smear Campaign" comment?

CNN's Kyra Phillips: "definitely a major smear campaign going on" against Rove

CNN anchor Kyra Philips responded to a call by Democratic senators for President Bush to fire White House senior adviser Karl Rove for his alleged role in the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame by saying: "definitely a major smear campaign going on."

Phillips made her comment on the July 12 edition of CNN's Live From ..., following footage of Sens. John Kerry (D-MA) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) calling for Rove to be fired:

KERRY: Is the value of day-to-day politics, and the value of political advice, and the value of his position greater than the national security of our country, and the protection of the identity of people, as well as their own word and their own policy? The White House's credibility is at issue here. I believe very clearly Karl Rove ought to be fired.

CLINTON: I'm nodding.

BOB FRANKEN (national correspondent): And just a nod from the president, but no answer, Kyra, when he was asked about Karl Rove today at a photo op. Kyra?

PHILIPS: Bob, definitely a major smear campaign going on. I mean, what's the chances of hearing from Karl Rove? Could he speak? Could he come forward? A lot of people said that could just clear the air if he just came forward and gave the facts.

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