Bill Clinton's third term

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Brokaw: President Clinton announced today that he will not run for a 4th term. Here's what he said.

Clinton: Today I have decided that I will not seek another term as your President. While there are things what will be needed to addressed after my current term ends, I dont believe they will be great enough for me to seek a 4th term and make me the longest serving president even more than FDR, who was one of the best president we have ever had. It has been a great honor being your president but in two years it will be time to pass the torch to someone else.

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Breaking News:Recount shows Thune wins by 39 votes in South Dakota Senate race



Brokaw: A state wide recount in South Dakota shows that Thune has prevailed by 39 votes , and Tim Johnson has decided to concede meaning that the Senate composition for the next two years will be 52 Republicans and 48 Democrats.

[Kamala]

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Look at it this way , Tom Dashale will likely have a better chance to win in 2004.

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Breaking News: Trent Lott steps down as Majority Leader due to saying that a segregationist should have won in 1948.

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Breaking News: Senator Bill Frist to be new Senate Majority Leader

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President Clinton announces the top priorities of his administration during the last two years after meeting with congressional leaders:

1. Winning the War on Terror

2. Passing the Indian -American Trade Deal

3. Expanding Broadband coverage in the US

4. Cutting Wasteful Spending

5.Get AWB renewed

6. Immigration Reform

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Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders talks about a possible run in 2004, and Clinton's legacy on Meet the Press




Tim Russert: Today , our guest will be congress's only socialist Senator Bernie Sanders .

Bernie: Nice to be on

Russert: You have been very disillusioned at late with the Clinton Administration  , why is that

Bernie: Well the fact is President Clinton on the vast majority of the issues has governed to the right of where the Republicans of the 60s and 70s including Nixon governed let alone the Democrats of the time. In fact on some issues he has moved to even the right of where the president everyone believes is the most conservative post war president , Ronald Reagan governed.

Russert: How has he been to the right of Ronald Reagan

Bernie: The fact is he gutted welfare in ways Ronald Reagan wouldnt have believed was possible,  he passed so called tough on crime bills which made Reagan crime policy look soft , and under his presidency the prison population increased more then it did in the 12 years of Reagan and Bush. He also signed trade deals which are such a big gift to corporations if Reagan proposed them they would have been defeated , and got more large scale deregulation passed.

Russert: Well every time there is a president , Democrat or Republican we have people from their base say tehy didnt go far enough

Sanders: Its not that he didnt go far enough or fail to change the status quo , he moved the country more to the right and has almost no progressive success which in the 20th century every democrat except him had .

 President Woodrow Wilson passed laws restricting child labor, increasing worker safety, passed the 8 hour work day , and built the framework for international cooperation in the future. Franklin Roosevelt passed the New Deal which brought this country out of the terrible depression , passed social security , built much of this country's infrastructure with public work projects and defeated fascism. President Truman de-segregated our armed forces , rebuilt western Europe  , made housing more affordable for poor Americans , and passed the GI bill , President Kennedy saved us from a possible nuclear war , and could have done much more if not for tragedy . President Johnson gave us the civil rights act, Medicare and Medicaid , and created programs bring people out of poverty . President Carter brought trust back to the white house , and greatly reduced our use of force which has staed that way ofr years .

Clinton on the other hand , passed right wing legislation and those are what he is most proud of .

Russert: Well those presidents had their downs too : Woodrow Wilson supported many racist laws , FDR had the interment camps, and LBJ had Vietnam .

Sanders: Yes they have their downs, but its no doubt that at the end of each of their presidency they made they made the country more porgressive.

Russert: Ok what will you do to stop it then

Sanders: Well over the next few months , Senator Feingold ,Senator Bradley, Congressman Kucinich , Congressman Brown , and I will decide which one of us will run

Russert: Wait you may run, and of which party

Sanders: As a democrat as you have to be a nominee of either party to win , and I will only run if none of the candidates I will be talking to decides to run.

Russert: Ok thanks to having you on .

[Don Vito Corleone]

It would be cool if Sanders, Feingold, Kuchinich, and Bradley started a new Progressive Party.

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Great work. Keep it up. One of the best TLs here.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

Sanders, Feingold, Kuchinich, and Bradley

Sanders, Feingold, and Kuchinich are awesome
Bradley is terrible

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President Clinton 2003 State of the Union:





President Clinton: Mr.Speaker , Mr. Vice President , Members of Congress, and the American people today we gather together in the sanctuary of democracy , and we gather not as representatives of the Democrats or Republicans but representatives of the American people (Applause). I am also required to report to you the state of our union is as strong as it ever has been(Applause). 16 months after those terrible attacks on the morning of September the 11th, we have captured all the leaders behind those terrible attacks that day, and removed the people who harbored them from power(Standing Ovation). Currently our soldiers in Afghanistan is rebuilding the war struck nation and taking out boxes of resistance to the rebuilding effort , so it can be ready to join the list of democracies  all around the world(Standing Ovation ). While we may have dealt with Afghanistan , they werent the only countries in the world who collaborate with terrorists .

One of those nations is Syria who repeatedly works with Hamas whose goals is to destroy Israel , fight an illegal war which terrorizes the people of Lebanon and continues to build WMD . If we want to defeat terrorism we must stop the Syrian regime first. In my  opinion Sanctions, and limited airstrikes will not stop them and the only way to stop them is too complete defeat them in an air war(Applause). To accomplish this though we need as many allies as possible and one of those allies is India , who have dealt with problems like this ever since they got independent.  One way we can do that is to approve the trade deal with India which not only helps their country but our home. This trade deal will create millions of new jobs that it will eventually cause another boom(Cheers).

Lastly I want to talk about is our failing infrastructure .  Infrastructure is the backbone of our economy, as without the necessary infrastructure we never would have made leaps we did both in the technological or financial (applause) . Today we need to expand broadband coverage all around the US because that may be the future of the economy which means we need as large of a customer base as possible(Applause). People accuse this of more deficit spending, but I disagree as we can always make up for the cost of the necessary infrastructure with spending cuts in other areas. So not only will this plan improve our infrastructure , it will create new jobs, and make us cut spending in other areas. God Bless you , and May god bless America

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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist Response to the President's Speech:





Frist: God evening , today I am here to talk about the issues the President talked about and my thoughts about his speech. The President talked about how investing in infrastructure, and how he believed investing in it would help our economy. He is right , but he left out an important point about why we have had difficulties in doing so. One difficultly the government has when it comes to rebuilding or even building new infrastructure is all the regulatory agencies we have to go through to get the project approved in the first place. This means that it could take in many cases years before we even start on the project , and even then we have to go through multiple regulatory agencies every step of the project before it finally gets built. In many cases we have to go through different regulatory agencies which are similar making it a redundant process.   So I want to tell the President , the Republicans are willing to spend money on infrastructure but you must agree to cut all the unnecessary red tape as well so we arent just wasting money.


Another Issue the President talked about is Syria , and his talk that we need to get tougher. I totally agree with the President that we need to get tougher but what we also need is a strategic plan which will make their government give in and agree to all the terms the US government set to it. That means we must improve our foreign intelligence agencies , so we can track down where Assad is keeping his WMD, so we know which sites to destroy. If we do that , along with Sanctions then yes I believe the Syrian Government will cave, but just doing airstrikes at places what dont do anything to accomplish our ultimate goal will not result in Syria listing to us. Anyway I pray for the President success , because his success means a better America , and I will also pray to the people because at the end of the day its not Washington that makes America great , but its people. Thank you and goodnight.

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Breaking News: House overwhelmingly the Free Trade Agreement between America and India:




Brokaw: The House passed the 2001 free trade agreement between the United States of America and India on a vote of 293-142. We are also getting news that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist will put the Free Trade agreement on the Senate floor for debate tomorrow ,and hopes that they can pass this agreement within the week. Now to speak with NBC's David Gregory about the chances of it passing the Senate this time around unlike in 2001


Gregory: Well Senate Majority Leader Frist has indeed told me he believes with the Senate having 2 more Republicans in the Senate that they indeed will have the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster , while last time they only had 58-59 senators at most, which meant that the agreement could not overcome a filibuster. He also wants to get this done as fast as possible , as he very well remembers during the summer of 2001 , as more time passed the stronger the opposition got . This time he does not want that to happen , and he believes that it will once again fail to pass if more and more time passes.


Brokaw: So he will likely speed this up


Frist: Yes , and as of now debate on this agreement  has started , and the Senate Majority Leader is hoping to take a vote on this agreement by the beginning of next week.

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Breaking News: Free Trade Agreement passes Senate , as there are enough votes to overcome filibuster. President Clinton to arrive shortly at signing ceremony.



Clinton: Today thanks to the efforts of both our parties , we will have a new ally both in the military side and economic side . This free trade agreement will mean that the US will be trade partners with the 2nd most populated country on earth, and a country growing really fast. This free trade agreement will strengthen our economy and India's meaning everyone will win , and that at the end of the day is what the goal of this agreement was. Clinton Signs Bill

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AFL-CIO files a lawsuit , claiming that this free trade agreement is unconstitutional .

AFL-CIO statement on the passage of the bill:

The passage of this bill is a terrible day for the working class of this country, as thanks to this bill large corporations will be able to drive down wages by outsourcing jobs to India . We also believe that this bill is unconstitutional as the Constitution states that all treaties must be ratified by 2/3 of the Senate and for this bill only 61% of the Senate voted to ratify  this agreement.

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Russ Feingold and Dennis Kucinich to run for President whille  Sanders, Dodd, and Brown will not run




Feingold : Yesterday , was an example of how much to the right the Democratic Party has moved to the right during the Clinton years. I want people to remember that during the Reagan and Bush years the Democratic party opposed these so called free trade agreements and did our best to make sure they never pass . Now under Clinton, not only has he made sure even worse trade agreements then what Reagan proposed  passed he actively worked with the Republicans to make sure they pass despite the majority of his own party opposing it.

Another of Ronald Reagan's dream was to pass welfare reform , and repeal New Deal banking regulations. Those dreams did indeed come true but they did not come true under his presidency , or the presidency of his Vice President it came under the presidency of his Democratic successor Bill Clinton. I oppose so called free trade agreements, I will repeal this so called welfare reform , and reinstate the New Deal  and for that Reason I am going to run for President (Cheers) , cause we need a Democratic President for the first time in 24 years.


Dennis Kucinich released why he was running in a press release and here it is


Kucinich: After 12 years of so called Centrist rule, we have gone further right in every area despite having a Democratic President.In the past 12 years this administration has passed corporate friendly trade agreements at expense of the people, has gutted welfare for poor people, has increased the prison population at a far greater rate then even Reagan/Bush did , and its time to reverse those policies and move America back to the left. That is why I am running for the presidency of the United States.

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Great work. Keep it up. One of the best TLs here.

Thanks

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In light of the welfare reform and the India free trade agreement, I'd probably be inclined to support Feingold, even if I disagree with him on trade. Though, because Clinton is not running, I'd have to see where Gore or any of the other contenders stand.

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In light of the welfare reform and the India free trade agreement, I'd probably be inclined to support Feingold, even if I disagree with him on trade. Though, because Clinton is not running, I'd have to see where Gore or any of the other contenders stand.

Why would you oppose the India free trade agreement if you support free trade deals in general.

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In light of the welfare reform and the India free trade agreement, I'd probably be inclined to support Feingold, even if I disagree with him on trade. Though, because Clinton is not running, I'd have to see where Gore or any of the other contenders stand.

Why would you oppose the India free trade agreement if you support free trade deals in general.

India =! Israel or Europe or Canada or even Mexico. The conditions in the labour market there, combined with the huge population, make outsourcing very comfortable, and I wouldn't be comfortable with it, especially since free trade with India doesn't seem like something that would considerably lower prices. Maybe if they reform their trade market, or if the agreement doesn't make outsourcing that easy, I'd support it.

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Senator John McCain and Governor George W Bush announce that they are running for President:



McCain: Thank You Thank You for the warm welcome. Today we stand here at a time where our country is facing many challenges both at home and abroad , and all I can say is that America will overcome those challenges (Applause). To do so as quickly and effectively as possible , we need to have a leader who enters the White House with the experience needed to solve those problems. We also need a leader who will always put the interests of our country  , over the interests of their political career and that is why I am running for President (Applause).

I have the experience needed to help us win the war on terror, and get legislation passed through congress what helps grow our economy. I also will never put my own political interests over what I believe is good for the country , and I will be willing to rebuke the special interest groups of my own party if that means making our country better(Applause).  People tell me that since I lost I cant run again, but what they forget is that 5 months before the election people said we would be lucky to get 200 electoral votes and by November we were one state away from winning the presidency, and the reason for that is that they know I wont put polls ahead of country. Thank You and May god bless America.


George W Bush Speech:





Bush : Thank You , Thank You. Today America is at a crossroads :where we have to decide if we want 4 more years of a president who puts polls over convictions , a President who continues to act tough in the war on terror, but in reality just makes the problem worse , and a President who believes that we should tax the American people more or do we want change. I am running for President because I am offering a change from the past 12 years and a return to the successful policies of Ronald Reagan and my father who inherited the worst economy since the depression and turned that into the greatest 20 year boom in our history. Over the past 12 years we have had a president who rode the tech bubble out in the 90s and now since the bubble has burst have left us with the worst economy since Reagan took office. Also I plan to reverse the current policy of acting tough , but not being really tough , as we will sternly tell Assad and Suddam that if they continue to be an adversary to our nation by directly helping our enemies who want to destroy us , that they will be removed from power . If we do that they will no longer be an enemy , just like Russia is no longer an enemy.

I also have the skills need to pass legislation as I have a record of bringing both sides together to pass education policy, crime policy, and economic policy and I believe we can do that in Washington where both sides have become way to adversarial to each and other. Just because I am a conservative does not mean that I do not believe in Bi Partisanship. The fact is the reason we dont have Bi Partisanship is that people are putting politics over convictions , and I will always put convictions first as that is the only way any meaningful legislation can pass. Thank You and May god Bless America

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President Clinton speaks to his aide about candidates running so far(Private Conversation).


Clinton: We must be as united as possible as we cant let George W Bush or god forbid Newt Gingrich become President of the United States. Right now it looks like Former Vice President Al Gore and Senator Russ Feingold are on a path to having a very bitter , close and divisive primary.We cant let that happen, so I want to know which candidate can beat Feingold in Iowa .

Aide: Well right now Vice President Kerrey is losing to Feingold in Iowa, and so is Secretary of State Joe Lieberman , Attorney General Biden, and HHS Secretary Howard Dean.

Clinton: Well what about outside my admin

Aide: There is Gephardt who is even with Senator Feingold in Iowa polls

Clinton: Then we must hope he runs and takes Iowa as if Gephardt wins Iowa the primaries will be done by Super Tuesday.


Aide: Ok I will tell Gephardt that you are fine with him running .


Clinton : Thanks

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Great TL! What date did McCain and W announce? Is W in his third term as governor?

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Great TL! What date did McCain and W announce? Is W in his third term as governor?

They announced on April 18th that they were running(2 weeks after Feingold Announced)