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ShaneGR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-04 02:00 PM
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The one thing I want to see from a Kerry Administration
Just a little Bipartisan behavior. I'm just a tad bit SICK of ideologues demanding ideological purity on BOTH sides. The president is supposed to represent the WHOLE nation, not just his base.
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Goldmund Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-04 02:01 PM
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1. Oh, there's plenty "bipartisan" behavior
Just yesterday, unqualified support for *'s Israel policies...
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ShaneGR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-04 02:03 PM
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2. So what would you recommend on Israel?
Abandon the Israeli state? The roadmap, if followed properly by both sides, is a good plan. Unfortunately, neither side wants to live up to it. And I mean both sides, not just the Israelis.
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sangh0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-04 02:11 PM
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3. They have no ideas
Tjey just want to attack, which is why they never explain what Kerry could say that would help the Palestinians.
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Goldmund Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-04 02:25 PM
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7. Can you please not respond for me?
And let the "they" respond for themselves?

Here's one thing Kerry would say: "I will withdraw unconditional preferential support for Israel, and hold it accountable to the numerous UN resolutions concerning the territories it seized in the 1967 war."
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Goldmund Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-04 02:23 PM
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5. The question was not on the "roadmap"
...but on whether or not Kerry supported Bush in supporting Sharon in his unilateral withdrawal from only some of the Gaza territories. This move not only has nothing to do with the "roadmap", but is contradictory to it.

I'm at work and don't have the time for a long discussion right now -- I simply pointed out an example of "bi-partisanship" that you implictly allege is mising, and on an issue that there is nowhere near a consensus in the Democratic circles.

And yes, by the way, I'd like to see the US "abandon" the Israeli state as much as it "abandons" any other foreign state. If the US interests are Middle Eastern stability, it's high time that Israel stops getting preferential treatment and starts getting treated equivalently to every other state in the region -- according to their respect for international law, record on human rights, etc.
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-04 02:20 PM
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4. The Busheviks already explained what they think of "bipartisanship"
Bipartisanship = Date Rape

For myself, these fuckers DECLARED WAR on America when they decided to go with Hitler-type Propaganda of dehumanization/demonization of enemies.

They have converted me.

I DON'T NEGOTIATE with Bootlicking Totalitarian Scum and I don't want Kerry to, either.

I want those fuckers ROASTED, politically speaking.

They are NOT Americans, those Busheviks, and we should treat them like the hostile Foriegn Invasion that they ARE.

IF Moderate Decent Republicans can one day restore their Party from the hands of the Imperial Stooges who have destroyed it and now look to use it to destroy America, THEN AND ONLY THEN would I consider "bipartisanship".

No compromise with Bushist Totalitarians.

No compromise with thsoe who structured their Party-Lyal Right-Wing Sub-Media after the Nazi and Soviet Media.

NO COMPROMISE WITH LIARS!
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apnu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-04 02:23 PM
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6. don't hold back now!
Let it all out... /scarcasm off
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Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-04 02:26 PM
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8. Spoken like a true...
...fence-sitter.

- Are you suggesting we continue to compromise with those who have no desire to participate? How many times do you have to be slapped down before you'll stand up FOR the people and against their oppressors?
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