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Craig
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 Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 8:08 pm Post subject: Brotherhood of Police Officers endorse Kerry. |
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| Kerry on Friday gained the endorsement of the 12,000-member International Brotherhood of Police Officers, which backed Bush in 2000. |
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Me#1You#10
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| Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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...none of whom will actually VOTE for Kerry, but we must keep up appearances, musn't we?  |
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sparky
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Nah. Are you suggesting that they're just throwing in their endorsement just because they expect Kerry to win?
| Quote: | | After 3½ years of disappointing leadership under George Bush, we need to change course in November and elect a president with a real record of supporting police officers and a lifetime of standing with law enforcement," IBPO President David Holway said in a statement provided by the Kerry campaign. |
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Navy_Navy_Navy
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| Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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Yep, no doubt they'd rather have Clinton, again.
Remember Clinton's 100,000 extra cops on the street? Who were laid off when the federal funding dried up? They were barely trained before they were let go, because the local governments used the federal funding to hire new officers, but never planned to make them part of the city's permanent payroll. 
As with other union endorsements, their propaganda is misleading and rings hollow as it ignores the historically high levels of federal funding made available to local first-responders by President Bush's signature.
Public safety is a LOCAL issue - President Bush has supported vast amounts of funding to first responders since 9-11 - funds intended to prop up readiness and preparedness.
Now, it's become an "entitlement."
Why should VA funding remain part of the discretionary budget while public safety (historically and logically a function of local government) demands the same footing as Social Security and Welfare?
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sparky
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| Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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I think that we're also going to see more law enforcement officials for Kerry.
As a former prosecutor with a stellar record, he knows their issues inside and out. |
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Craig
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| Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 10:22 pm Post subject: Pathetic |
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| Me#1You#10 wrote: | | ...none of whom will actually VOTE for Kerry, but we must keep up appearances, musn't we? |
Does not matter how any of them vote. The endorsement is the thing.
Bit I really think that you should get out there ans shout it from the rooftops that them cops is wrong.
Point out all the unarmed people they have shot - or folks who got killed for reaching for a wallet or holding a cellphone.
There is a lot of things that you can smear them police just as you do Kerry like you did McCain. "You" know who you are.  |
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Me#1You#10
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| Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Ah yes...I forgot...smearing cops, a conservative's favorite indulgence |
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sparky
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| Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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| To say that cops trivialize their endorsements is "smearing them." They didn't endorse Kerry in order to "keep up appearances." |
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Me#1You#10
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| Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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| sparky wrote: | | To say that cops trivialize their endorsements is "smearing them." |
Strawman. Never said that. |
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sparky
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| Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Right...endorsing candidates to "keep up appearances" isn't trivializing that endorsement. |
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Craig
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| Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 12:16 am Post subject: |
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| Me#1You#10 wrote: | | Ah yes...I forgot...smearing cops, a conservative's favorite indulgence |
They smear their own quite well.
Just look at the McCain smear the bushites did.
McCain vs. Bush is a fair example that an honest man with personal honor and integrity does not stand a chance.
Your Bush crew will is well determined to destroy anything that gets in the way of its agenda.
And even you right wingers will come to be sorry if your darling Bush gets to pack the Supremes.
Have you taken notice that the Bush administration has so far managed to rally a great part of the world against the US?
You ain't seen nothing yet.
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sparky
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Carville is HILARIOUS!
And they said the same thing about Clinton. In fact, conservatives said those same things about implementing the minimum wage, child labor, permitting collective bargaining, medicare, and everything that keeps us from sliding a third world distribution of wealth. |
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| Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 3:11 am Post subject: |
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| Craig wrote: | [quote="
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"Back in 2000 a Republican friend warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and
he won, the stock market would tank, we'd lose millions of jobs, and our
military would be totally overstretched. You know what? I did vote for
Gore, he did win, and I'll be damned if all those things didn't come
true!"
--James Carville |
Keep repeating this mantra til you get it right: Gore-Tennessee-Gore-Tennessee-Gore-Tennessee..
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| Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 9:09 am Post subject: |
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I understand that alqeda is endorsing Kerry as well, and the sad part is if he gets elected they will be allowed to vote next time.
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Craig
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| Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 11:23 am Post subject: |
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| Marine4life wrote: | | I understand that alqeda is endorsing Kerry as well, and the sad part is if he gets elected they will be allowed to vote next time. |
Way cool!
Now we got someone so full of venom that he must equate International Brotherhood of Police Officers endorsment with al Qaeda endorsment.
You people would smear Jesus if he didn't support Republican.. |
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