-WHAT YOU SEE BELOW IS AN EXCERPT FROM THE PROGRAM.AS GEORGE W. KEEPS SAYING OVER AND OVER AGAIN, THE U.S. ELECTIONS ARE OVER AND PAT BUCHANAN LOST.
-WHAT YOU SEE BELOW IS AN EXCERPT FROM THE PROGRAM.
AS GEORGE W. KEEPS SAYING OVER AND OVER AGAIN, THE U.S. ELECTIONS ARE OVER AND PAT BUCHANAN LOST.
ORIGINALLY I ONLY INTENDED TO QUOTE HIS BRIEF EXPLANATION FOR THE ROMAN CATHOLIC EQUIVALENT TO THE BUDDHIST PRINCIPLE OF "JEN" BECAUSE SUCH HUMAN FEELINGS--AND THE SUPPRESSION OF THEM--REMAIN TOPICAL AND RELATE, THEREFORE, TO WHAT YOU FIND IF YOU TAKE A BRIEF SIDESTEP HERE.
BUT HE RAISES SOME OTHER QUESTIONS, BY WHAT HE SAID--AND HE SAID THINGS IN RHETORICAL WAYS (I THINK IT'S FAIR TO SAY), SUGGESTING HE WAS DRAWING FROM HIS CATHOLIC FAITH...AN ISSUE HERE--ABOUT OTHER "CONCERNS" THAT AREN'T GOING TO GO AWAY ANYTIME SOON.
SO, I INCLUDE WHAT YOU SEE, WITH FOOTNOTES AND LINKS AS ARE NEEDED...
[THEN-CNN 'CROSSFIRE' CO-HOST AND PRESENT AIDE TO U.S. VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY] MARY MATALIN: Let me move to Gore, who's been running against--he's actually trying to tap into your voters with some success. He's running for the people, against the powerful; Jimmy Hoffa, Teamsters, had endorsed him. He seems to be getting some union support.
How is he getting the same populist voters that originally were Pat Buchanan's?1
BUCHANAN: Well, the truth is Al Gore is a fraud. Al Gore betrayed those workers with NAFTA. He sold them out with GATT. He sold them out with his China trade deal.
Mary, he sat there in the White House and made phone call after phone call in some rotten boiler-room operation shaking down corporate fat cats, who admitted they were being shaken down: 50,000 a pop, bring them into the White House and collect all that money. I mean, this is preposterous.
There's no doubt he's using this rhetoric. I'm sure it's been poll-tested, focus grouped, and everything: "I'm for the people, not the powerful." But under Bill Clinton and Al Gore, the Democratic Party--excuse me--has become as much a captive of K Street and Wall Street and big corporations, I regret to say, as has the Republican establishment.
[Washington editor of The Nation magazine] CORN: There's been a lot of talk in this political campaign about religion. Should faith be part of it? Should politicians discuss their own faith?
BUCHANAN: Let me say this: I'm on Lieberman's side on this. If Joe Lieberman wants to get up in a synagogue or a church every single day and speak his faith and heart and mind, that is how he campaigns. Let the American people decide these things. We don't need all these kibitzers telling us how he ought to campaign.
My problem with Joe Lieberman is he's an Orthodox Jew, and he's--they're tremendously conservative on social issues, and yet he votes for partial birth abortion, which even Pat Moynihan said is infanticide. That is a way of killing an unborn child I would not use on Ted Bundy or Gacy for the death penalty.
How Joe Lieberman reconciles that I don't know, but that's what he ought to answer to. But if he wants to speak about his faith, let him speak about it.
CORN: And should we be free to ask questions of the candidates about their faith?
BUCHANAN: You should be free to ask about my faith or his faith, especially if he brings it up and makes it an issue.
CORN: Let me ask you one question there.
BUCHANAN: Sure.
CORN: Is there only one true religion, or do you think all the major religions have a claim to the truth?
BUCHANAN: I think all major religions have part of the truth, clearly. Some have more than others. I think there is basically one holy Roman Catholic Church, which has the, in regards to the true faith, has a monopoly on absolute truth. Yes, I believe that. Otherwise, I wouldn't belong to it. Otherwise, why should people die for it if it's not the true faith?2
I think other people believe their faith is true. I happen to believe this is.
CORN: And what do you think about George W. Bush a few years back when he said that he thought only Christians get to go to heaven?
BUCHANAN: Well, that's not my faith. I believe you can--you can...
CORN: Only...
BUCHANAN: I mean, look, what is--as Christ himself said, "Greater love than he hath no man than he lay down his life for his friend." People do that in all cultures, give their lives to their friends. I think those people have an internal desire to know God and do right, and we call that in Catholic faith the baptism of desire.
(text of excerpt from September 12, 2000 edition of CNN 'Crossfire')
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1-THAT'S THE MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION HERE.
AND WHILE YOU DON'T HAVE REGIS TO ASK IF YOU CAN USE A LIFELINE, YOU CAN TAKE A BRIEF SIDESTEP HERE FOR ONE I CAN OFFER YOU.
link to Homolka lawyer thing and Gorbie gridlock re Barrett et al and link also Sovietarchives and Arbatov thing
link to faiths of our fathers last remark by Pat about "internal desire to know God and do right has to be linked to Martin Luther King, Jr. quote to C.M. Lloyd
explain here that previous unity referendum told Canadian people that every voice was being counted--link to Harcourt List--and apparently mine wasn't.
So, if all people have or are part of the truth, that's why i signed my guestbook as i did and why i am not willing to cross the street to piss in polio boy's mouth.