posted on November 2, 2006 01:19:54 PM new
Taken, today, from Factcheck.org
When Democrats Attack
When Democrats Attack
Ads accuse Republican House members of supporting oil and drug companies - and Bush. We find some factual stumbles.
November 2, 2006
Summary
Gauging by the attack ads flowing from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the party's House contenders are running against Exxon, Pfizer and Bush.
The ads tie Republican House candidates to unpopular industries and an unpopular President.
Some of these ads are exaggerations.
At times DCCC ads run completely off the rails of factual accuracy.
One falsely implies that an Illinois candidate tried to ban Dr. Seuss books from schools.
Another correctly states that an Ohio candidate was investigated "for abusing her position," but fails to mention that the investigation found "no substance" to the allegation.
Others claim Republicans voted to "raid the Social Security trust fund," a bit of misleading nonsense we've noted previously.
What follows is our analysis of 143 ads from the DCCC that have appeared since Labor Day, nearly all of them attack ads.
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Yep, once again they offer NO solutions....
While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation:
What would a Democrat president have done at that point? Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack.
Ann Coulter
posted on November 2, 2006 01:55:41 PM new
LOL!!!!!!!
Unfortunately, this story was aimed only at Democrats. Both sides are quite eager to smear the other Linduh... Nothing new.
I can speak of the candidate "Mike Erickson in Oregon" since I live in Oregon. Both sides have been mudslinging for months now. Both have misrepresented each other, just as many other campaigns across the country. Is it right? NO. But it happens, and it is up to us to make the right choice by educating ourselves.
The point is... Linduh again provides a one sided rant. Instead of using this to call out both sides of the fence, she again points to only one side. Shameful, absolutely shameful.
posted on November 2, 2006 02:32:06 PM new
I'm gonna have to laugh out loud at this one Linda
Your link says
We find some factual stumbles.
Did you scroll further down FactCheck's homepage??
Did you see the link titled:
Republican Mudslinging On An Industrial Scale
Well, didja??
Didja read it? Didja read where they said, rather than finding some "factual stumbles" :
... the National Republican Campaign Committee's work stands out this year for the sheer volume of assaults on the personal character of Democratic House challengers.
Did you read FURTHER, where they analyzed money spent and what percentage of ads were negative by each party? Did you notice the Republicans spent over twice as much and produced a HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF NEGATIVE ADS?
I know you'd like to believe that Republican ads are god given manifestations of universal truth and goodness, and Democratic ads are all lies and mudslinging, but you're wrong. Both sides do it, but your party's better at it.
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Grow your own Dope. Plant a Republican.
posted on November 2, 2006 02:44:05 PM new
The saddest thing is that it is the voters who suffer from the mudslinging, the dishonesty, the lies, and deception. They lose out, not only during an election, but in the future as well.
Decent, hardworking, honest candidates are obviously a thing of the past, with just few exceptions. Those who do run end up having every last bit of dirt dug up for a smear campaign. It is a very sick society that allows this to continue. It would be nice to see Americans coming together to fix this problem with the election process.
posted on November 2, 2006 03:04:29 PM new
For me, what matters MOST is which party SUPPORTS and DEFENDS America....and that is most clearly the republican one.
When we look to all the radical dems....they're always working WITH our enemies....not our own Nation. I don't like that. I want leaders who support what America stands for...not those always trying to CHANGE us.
We had clinton...who sold trade secrets to China....took ILLEGAL donations to his re-election from them.
We had carter...who LOVES getting warm an fuzzy with communist leaders and agrees with THEIR positions over Americas. AND in his Presidency HE allowed the TERRORISTS to KEEP our people for 444 days. Impotent against Iran.
We had kerry....a traitor to his own country during VN....slandered our vets....put our POWS more in harms way....and is still doing the same thing. He wanted to give NUCLEAR fuel to Iran....to HELP them build their NW program. Yea, that's working AGAINST Americas best interests...NOT for them.
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And it's NOT just the dem presidents that are so quick to sell America out....but rather MOST of the radical liberals in our congress.
Heck...they'd sell their own mothers if it meant they'd keep political power...to continue working to make America an Internationalistic CONTROL Nation.
They AREN'T PRO America....the Republicans ARE.
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How brothers can be so different.....JFK a US patriot....ted kennedy, a drunk communist supporter JUST like KERRY is.
These radical liberals work AGAINST Americas best interests EVEN UNDER A DEMOCRATIC WH/President - carter
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Kennedy Offered to Help Soviets Thwart U.S. Policies, KGB Papers Show
Kennedy Offered to Help Soviets Thwart U.S. Policies, KGB Papers Show
By Kevin Mooney
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
November 02, 2006
(CNSNews.com) -
While Soviet troops occupied Afghanistan in 1980, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) worked in close concert with high level Kremlin officials to alter the direction of U.S. policy, according to documents made available through a KGB defector.
Details concerning Kennedy's correspondence with KGB agents are included in the writings of the late Vasiliy Mitrokhin who defected to Britain in 1992. The Mitrokhin papers highlight a meeting that took place at the behest of Kennedy between former Sen. John Tunney (D-Calif.) and KGB agents in Moscow on March 5, 1980.
The exchange of information between Tunney and the KGB is included as part of a report Mitrokhin filed with the Cold War International History Project of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C. The former KGB man continued to work with British intelligence until the time of his death.
Noted Cold War author and researcher Herbert Romerstein told Cybercast News Service Mitrokhin was a "highly credible source" with vast knowledge of the now-closed KGB archives.
Prior to his defection, Mitrokhin made meticulous copies of KGB documents by hand, explained Romerstein, who headed the U.S. government's Office to Counter Soviet Disinformation and Active Measures during the 1980s.
The KGB defector smuggled out six cases of notes that formed the basis of his reporting.
The KGB files Mitrokhin retrieved indicate that Kennedy fixed the blame for heightened international tensions on the Carter White House, not on the Kremlin.
Kennedy at the time was challenging incumbent Carter for the Democratic nomination for president.
Tunney told his KGB counterparts that [b]Kennedy was impressed by the foreign policy statements made by then General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev[b]. Kennedy saw in Brezhnev a leader who was firmly committed to the policy of "détente," the report said.
But, in Kennedy's estimation, the Carter administration had assumed an overly belligerent posture toward the Soviet Union after the invasion of Afghanistan, Mitrokhin wrote.
In Kennedy's view, "the atmosphere of tension and hostility towards the whole Soviet people was being fuelled by Carter" as well as by some key advisors, the Pentagon and the U.S. military industrial complex, the Mitrokhin report states.
Throughout the meeting Tunney remained focused on the separation between Kennedy's proposals and the official stance of the Carter White House. While official U.S. policy called for the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan, Kennedy avoided "touching the question of the legality of the presence of Soviet troops," Mitrokhin reported.
Instead, Kennedy relayed through his envoy, Tunney, his support for a withdrawal of Soviet forces that would be coupled with policy directives that "guaranteed non-interference" by competing foreign powers in the internal affairs of Afghanistan.
Since there was intense disagreement between Kennedy and the administration on policy toward the Soviets, Tunney told the KGB that the Massachusetts senator had concluded "it was his duty to take action himself, which could force the Carter administration to act to de-escalate the crisis," Mitrokhin wrote.
In 1980 Kennedy lost to Carter in the Democratic primary, and the incumbent in turn lost to Ronald Reagan in the general election.
As was previously reported by the Cybercast News Service Kennedy also subsequently made overtures to Soviet officials aimed at thwarting Reagan's military buildup in the 1980s.
Kennedy had offered to help the Soviets organize a public relations campaign in the U.S. that would dilute support for Reagan's policies. Once again, it was Tunney who traveled to Moscow on Kennedy's behalf to relay the senator's proposals.
The particulars of Kennedy's proposals are discussed in a letter dated May 14, 1983, that was sent from the head of the KGB to Yuri Andropov, who was then general secretary. Romerstein acquired a copy of the letter from a contact in Moscow who had access to the Kremlin archives.
"The letter speaks to the degree of opposition and the lack of understanding liberals like Kennedy had toward Reagan's policies," said Lee Edwards, a distinguished fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
"Reagan knew we had to build up our armed forces before we could apply pressure to the Soviets." The notion of fighting to win the Cold War was an alien concept to liberals like Kennedy, Edwards added, because they had grown accustomed to the policies of containment.
A copy of the letter is reproduced in a new book entitled "The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism." The author, Paul Kengor is a professor of political science at Grove City College.
The pattern of behavior should concern members of both political parties, Kengor said, because it shows Kennedy was willing to work against American foreign policy, regardless of who occupied the White House.
In his book, Kengor points out that Tunney acknowledged making 15 separate trips to the Soviet Union where he acted as an intermediary not only for Kennedy but for other U.S. senators.
The rest of these anti-America liberals actions....continues here:
That's why I don't want to see ANY of the radial left in our Congress...they will only support our ENEMIES more than they already have.
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While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation:
What would a Democrat president have done at that point? Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack.
[ edited by Linda_K on Nov 2, 2006 03:14 PM ]
posted on November 2, 2006 04:05:37 PM new
Linda... spoken like the Nazi enablers.
Your own statement makes it very clear that you have absolutely NO interest in what is best for America. You are the very reason for the wedge in America. You are the very image of anti-american.
posted on November 3, 2006 12:47:46 AM new
I guess if your definition of "best for America" is drunken binges, treason, and the occasional bumping off of a chippy, "anti-American" has a unique definition. LOL
posted on November 4, 2006 09:35:57 AM new
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