Friday, Sep 5, 2008
Horowitz threw Bush only softballs; firing back at gun ban proposal.
May 12, 1999 |
"I'm a uniter, not a divider"
BY DAVID HOROWITZ
(05/06/99)
Easy does it, Horowitz. Those hardballs you throw to George W. Bush are going to knock him over. "How did you do it?" "Why did you work hard?" "You come from an aristocratic lineage, but there is a democratic element in the history of your family." Come on David, you had 45 minutes with a man who hasn't answered a meaningful question in five years of politics. You could have at least made an attempt to find out who George W. Bush really is.
Ask him about Harken Energy. How did he make $1 million for himself while the company went under? Ask him about turning $600,000 into $14 million by forcing the taxpayers of Arlington to pay for a ballpark for his Texas Rangers. Ask the great "uniter" why he completely failed to move his property tax cut plan through the Texas Legislature. Ask him why he claims his biggest environmental victory is a program that politely requests that big polluters clean up, but in no way forces them to. Ask him why his version of campaign finance reform is to remove all limits on campaign contributions.
There are many real questions George W. Bush needs to answer if he wants to be president. No one knows if Bush has the courage to answer them, though, since his interviewers don't have the courage to ask.
-- Bill Medaille
Austin, Texas
George W. Bush is a "uniter"? He says, "My goal is for every unborn child to be protected in law, and welcomed in the world." Except, apparently, if they're gay.
When George promotes equal rights for gay and lesbian Americans in military service to their country, in employment, housing and marriage -- and ends ugly discriminatory "state religion" laws that in the past two years alone deported 290,000 foreign spouses of gay and lesbian Americans because they can't get "married" -- I'll vote for him.
Till then, he's like the rest of 'em: hypocritical and full of shit.
-- Robert Glass
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