Flip Flops                                                                       Back
I don't know if campaign promises that aren't kept can be considered Flip Flops, but I do know that a first time president with another election in his future should at least try to live up to some of them. (a lame duck president doesn't have to.) George Bush has kept very few of his during his first term. In fact he has even fought against some of them. He promised to pass a National Patient's Bill of Rights, not only has he not passed one, but sent White House lawyers to fight in the Supreme Court against the very Patient's Bill of Rights, he claimed credit for as governor of Texas. He claimed that though he was against the Kyoto Protocol he would, if elected president, do something about C02 omissions. CO2 is the number one cause of the greenhouse effect. He has since stated that it would be to costly to implement any change in laws affecting C02 & there are more. Just how many promises will he make, then break, this time.
John Kerry	George Bush
1. "I did vote for the appropriations bill before I voted	On the 9/11 Commision
against it." The Bill had way more votes then needed to	1. We don't need a commission, The legislative branch can
pass & since John Kerry had added an amendment, on	handle the investigation.
where the money for the bill would come from. (He	Under pressure from the public & the 9/11 Families He
suggested that they roll back the tax cut for the top ten	appointed a commission then made it seem as if it was his
percent of Americans.)	idea.
Since the votes were there to pass it (His vote didn't	2. The commission will be headed by Henry Kissinger.
matter.) & even though it would have been politically	More pressure and Tom Kean ended up chairing the
beneficial to vote for the bill. He used his vote as a protest	commission.
2.  8/6/04 I just found out from Tucker Carlson on CNN's	3. Condoleezza Rice will not testify, she has executive
Crossfire that John Kerry stated that he approved of a	privilege as National Security Advisor and it would set a
constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Can't	bad precedent.
Tucker pay attention or is he distorting facts to mislead the	Again under pressure (even a photo of  Franklin D.
viewer. What I heard Kerry say was that it should be left	Roosevelt's NSA testifying at the Pearl Harbor
up to the states. That we shouldn't have a constitutional	Commission hearings.) he allowed her to testify
amendment that is clearly discriminatory.  This was clearly	4.  The commission has been allotted enough time.  Again
not a flip flop & may I remind you that the Vice President	under pressure, this time from the commission itself, he
said the same thing.	gave in and gave them more time.
	5.  The Vice President & I will meet with the top two
3. 9/4/04: I heard during the RNC that Kerry voted for the	commissioners at the White House.
Patriot Act and now he's against it. Well He's not alone a	Again public pressure and they ended up meeting with
lot of the people who voted for it are now asking that it be	the full commission.
reviewed. It was voted in very fast after the attack &	6. All we can give the commission is 1 hour.
nobody realized just how it's powers could be abused.	He finally, under pressure, gave the commission all the
They apparently didn't know (Joseph McCarthy Ashcroft.)	time they needed.
What John Kerry said was that the act shouldn't be just	Question, why did they have to meet with the commission
renewed without being reviewed. If there are some changes	together, have White House lawyers present & not testify
that need to be made to protect our freedoms they should	under oath.
be made. He never said he was against the bill as a whole.
I don't know about you, but I for one don't want to give	The War in Iraq:
the terrorist even a little bit of my freedom. That's one
victory they won't get on John Kerry's watch.	1. Ba‘ath  party members will not be allowed in the new
(Not a Flip Flop just common sense.)	government. Now some senior members of the party will
	be allowed in both the army & government.
4. John Kerry has had many different positions on the war	I don't mind this, some members of the Ba‘ath Party will
in Iraq. He's flip flopping daily. This from the administration
	be needed. Remember they are the only Iraqis that have .
"Sorry guys, but I'm going to give away your little secret."	any experience in governing, but it is a flip flop
I say to you that "Patty is a very good-looking girl, it's a	2. The United Nations will have no part in the
shame she's such a snob." Now you can tell Patty that I	reconstruction of Iraq. Only nations who are part of the
said she was pretty and you wouldn't be lying but she
	coalition will help.
would still be getting the wrong idea about how I felt about	Now he's asking for the help of the U. N.
her. I think she is a snob.	3. Muktada al Sadar is a murdered & a criminal who will
What John Kerry did & says he would do again was to	be caught & brought to trial. (We placed a reward on his
give the president (a big stick.) the authority to go to war.	head. Dead or Alive.)
He and a lot of other legislators thought that he would use	Now his (George Bush) position has changed & Al
that authority at the U. N. to get weapon inspectors back	Sadar will be a part of the new government.
into Iraq, which he did. That authority was working.	Aug. 5th. update: the truce is off. Followers of al Sadar
He and most of the other legislators never thought that the	attacked Iraqi & American troops. I guess well have.
President would take the country to war without giving the	another flip flop & go back to the reward on his head
inspectors enough time. Not give us the time, to give our	Aug. 12th. update we are now talking of a another truce,
troops the body armor they needed. To go in without a	Muktada al Sadar appears to have been wounded in recent
	fighting & now is talking truce. Are we really that gullible?
plan to win the peace. To go in without an exit strategy.
To go in without a majority coalition.	4. When he was a candidate for president he made a
George Bush has taken many, many of John Kerry's	statement that he was implacable opposed to Nation
strategies for the war and months later put them into effect.	Building. So what is he doing in Iraq & Afghanistan.
Now he claims that he is already doing what Kerry says, so	We have to but he still made a flip flop.
there no difference. There is. Kerry had it right from the	5.  He said he wouldn't negotiate, under any circumstance,
very beginning and that's decisive.	with North Korea. He did. how many flip flops can this
	man make. I don't mind, sometimes you have to but
	"People in glass houses, etc."  Now he's back to not
	negotiating with them.
	I have a problem with a president that thinks I'm so stupid that I'd buy his ads about John Kerry being a flip flopper when he makes a decision change after new facts come in or a vote as a  protest. when he (George Bush) for political reasons or because events or facts change, does the same.
	Oh! no not again. He just called for the creation of a national intelligence director. didn't he use to oppose that?
	He promised to get a national patient's bill of rights & has since fought in every way he could to make sure one never gets passed. Going as far as fighting the Texas law he lauded while debating Al Gore.
	He claimed he was for responsible government then ran up the largest national debt the United States has ever seen.
	He claimed he was going to unite the country not divide it. Yet we are more divided now then I can ever remember. I don't think it was this bad even during the Vietnam War.
	8/07/04 CNN: Lou Dobbs stated that George Bush "Adjusted his thinking on the National Intelligence Director having full budgetary control. Isn't adjusting your thinking the same as Flip Flopping? I mean that's what the Republican Party has been saying about John Kerry. Oh! I forgot they're Hippocrates.
	8/09/04 CNN: I found out that the last presidential campaign George Bush said he was for the assault weapon ban & would fight to keep it. The ban will end in a few days & he hasn't asked congress to renew it. He knows it won't be brought to the floor. The republican legislature has said that even if the president ask that the bill be renewed they still wouldn't bring it up. A good way to protect the President from having to keep his promise. If he honored his promise he would still ask congress to renew the ban. So by not asking, he's FLIP FLOPPING.
	I Just remembered. He didn't think we needed a Dept. of Homeland Security until it was almost a reality then he suddenly thought it was a good idea.
	9/24/04 (AP) George Bush decided to lend oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to refineries. This just 6 weeks before the elections. Earlier this year when the price of crude skyrocketed he was asked to tap the same reserve. His answer then was that the reserve was only to be used for a national emergency. A big Flip Flop for political reasons?
More Flip Flops to come.