Ducked Minimum Wage!

[A-Schwarzenegger]

Man, you gotta be slicker than that when you don't
want to answer the question.

[Stephan_Ketz]

1. Thats one point where Shrub definitely lost.

[donco6]

2. He wandered all over the place on that one.

A real groaner of an "answer".

[snowbear]

3. duck city

How about the Roe v. Wade question. The moderator came back to it expressely for the purpose of having dipshit answer it; citing that he DID NOT answer it the first time.

He completely evaded it again the second time as well. :puke:

[A-Schwarzenegger]

4. Here's *'s stupid-ass answer on minimum wage:

BUSH: Actually, Mitch McConnell had a minimum-wage plan that I supported that would have increased the minimum wage.

But let me talk about what's really important for the worker you're referring to. And that's to make sure the education system works. It's to make sure we raise standards.

Listen, the No Child Left Behind Act is really a jobs act when you think about it. The No Child Left Behind Act says, "We'll raise standards. We'll increase federal spending. But in return for extra spending, we now want people to measure -- states and local jurisdictions to measure to show us whether or not a child can read or write or add and subtract."

You cannot solve a problem unless you diagnose the problem. And we weren't diagnosing problems. And therefore just kids were being shuffled through the school.

And guess who would get shuffled through? Children whose parents wouldn't speak English as a first language just move through.

Many inner-city kids just move through. We've stopped that practice now by measuring early. And when we find a problem, we spend extra money to correct it.

I remember a lady in Houston, Texas, told me, "Reading is the new civil right," and she's right. In order to make sure people have jobs for the 21st century, we've got to get it right in the education system, and we're beginning to close a minority achievement gap now.

You see, we'll never be able to compete in the 21st century unless we have an education system that doesn't quit on children, an education system that raises standards, an education that makes sure there's excellence in every classroom.

[Nobody]

7. A PhD in the field of Everything in Existence won't pay squat

If no job exists.

He ducked that question three times.

And by the way, there has never been any money for Pell grants. I know. I was eligible for one and there was no funding.

[MO_Dem]

8. That was incredible

how he jumped from minimum wage to education. Jerk does NOT have a clue! And it showed tonight so sadly.

[Bleacher Creature]

5. Ducked isn't the word.

"Ran like a little girl away from it" is more like it.

[Nobody]

9. Little girls would have an answer and a solution

Bush ran away like the selfish greedy pig that he is.

[Technowitch]

6. Of course he ducked it!

His corporate fat-cat friends would've shit bricks if Dubya actually said he wanted a higher minimum wage.

Profits are way, way up precisely because the poorest Americans are getting dreg wages.

They'd repeal it entirely, if they thought they could get away with it.

Like perhaps during a 2nd ShrubCo term...

[Sparkly]

10. That was TOO funny!!! Notice how the media is ignoring it??

That was one big, waving, flapping-in-the-breeze RED FLAG!!

The Chimp not only has no answer to why millionaires get hundreds of thousands of dollars from his tax cuts while poor people can't get $7 measly bucks an hour and work two hard-labor jobs and still can't make it... Even more, he doesn't have the facile mind to do anything but change the subject. Do the shell game. Sleight-of-hand, where's the issue, abbracaddabra, you lose!

And the media's falling for it: "Well, the president scored some points." :wtf:

[VoteJohn04_com]

11. And where does he run to?

Where does the President run to to hide from the
question... NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND?!?!

I'm sorry, I wouldn't have hidden behind a failed
policy in order to not answer the question...

I think he would have done much better to have just
stated that he DOESN'T SUPPORT A WAGE INCREASE and
this is why...blah blah (insert lie) blah...

Yes, it's unpopular, but that would've been better
than what he did say! :)

I think it was important that people hear that Kerry's
plan to increase minimum wage to $7 SLOWLY over several
years as it is a crucial element...

Keep an eye out b/c you know we'll be seeing Republicans
spinning it to say that Kerry wants to raise the Minimum
wage to $7 and they'll present it in such a way as to make
it sound like he's doing it overnight!