Here's a question I've been asking for a while now: "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"
Take the idea of producing "20 percent of the country's electricity from renewable resources by 2020"
Kerry has talked about the idea since at least 2002, repeating it again in June. Last month, Dean incorporated the idea in a speech on national security, saying it would be improved by reducing the country's dependence on foreign oil through concepts like the 2020 plan.
Then there's the Healthcare Plans : Edwards also has released a health care plan that focuses on cost control, a centerpiece of Kerry's proposal, and he also has taken to using phrasing Kerry has long employed to criticize Bush's economic record.
"Did anybody ask the firefighters and the police officers, all of whom were union members, whether they thought once about that before they went into those burning buildings on Sept. 11 and risked their lives, whether they were going to choose between the unions and security? No way!" the Connecticut senator said in Philadelphia, during a candidate forum arranged by the Sheet Metal Workers International Association.
A few minutes later, Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts expressed similar outrage.
"This president is so quick to give speeches about the heroes of New York City," Kerry said. "Well, I look forward to reminding him that every single one of those heroes that went up those stairs and gave their lives so that someone else might live was a member of organized labor."
To the audience, it may have sounded like Kerry was lifting from Lieberman, but in reality, it was Lieberman who was clipping from Kerry. Kerry has been talking about this with Firefighters for a while now.
No one's hands are completely clean. Lieberman is not the only offender, and Kerry is not the only victim. So far, everyone is laughing about it, for the most part, with no candidate suffering serious repercussions. On Tuesday in Mason City, Kerry ripped off Senator John Edwards of North Carolina as he blasted Bush for not supporting family farmers. Kerry accused the president of being an urban cowboy out of touch with average Americans.
"We need a president who understands that connection to the land, for whom it's not just a question of sashaying around a ranch, recently bought, with a big belt buckle," Kerry said.
Edwards lifted an eyebrow when told of the comment, recalling what he said June 22 as he and Kerry attended a candidate forum in Newton. "This president is a complete, unadulterated phony," Edwards said at the time. "He believes that because he walks around on that ranch down in Crawford with that big belt buckle that he's standing for working people."
In an interview, Edwards chuckled and said: "It's politics. Those kinds of things happen."
Glen Johnson of the Boston Globe, tells us the whole story on "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" in the Boston Globe:
Democrats recognize a good line - Candidates recycle campaign material
Take the idea of producing "20 percent of the country's electricity from renewable resources by 2020"
Kerry has talked about the idea since at least 2002, repeating it again in June. Last month, Dean incorporated the idea in a speech on national security, saying it would be improved by reducing the country's dependence on foreign oil through concepts like the 2020 plan.
Then there's the Healthcare Plans : Edwards also has released a health care plan that focuses on cost control, a centerpiece of Kerry's proposal, and he also has taken to using phrasing Kerry has long employed to criticize Bush's economic record.
"Did anybody ask the firefighters and the police officers, all of whom were union members, whether they thought once about that before they went into those burning buildings on Sept. 11 and risked their lives, whether they were going to choose between the unions and security? No way!" the Connecticut senator said in Philadelphia, during a candidate forum arranged by the Sheet Metal Workers International Association.
A few minutes later, Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts expressed similar outrage.
"This president is so quick to give speeches about the heroes of New York City," Kerry said. "Well, I look forward to reminding him that every single one of those heroes that went up those stairs and gave their lives so that someone else might live was a member of organized labor."
To the audience, it may have sounded like Kerry was lifting from Lieberman, but in reality, it was Lieberman who was clipping from Kerry. Kerry has been talking about this with Firefighters for a while now.
No one's hands are completely clean. Lieberman is not the only offender, and Kerry is not the only victim. So far, everyone is laughing about it, for the most part, with no candidate suffering serious repercussions. On Tuesday in Mason City, Kerry ripped off Senator John Edwards of North Carolina as he blasted Bush for not supporting family farmers. Kerry accused the president of being an urban cowboy out of touch with average Americans.
"We need a president who understands that connection to the land, for whom it's not just a question of sashaying around a ranch, recently bought, with a big belt buckle," Kerry said.
Edwards lifted an eyebrow when told of the comment, recalling what he said June 22 as he and Kerry attended a candidate forum in Newton. "This president is a complete, unadulterated phony," Edwards said at the time. "He believes that because he walks around on that ranch down in Crawford with that big belt buckle that he's standing for working people."
In an interview, Edwards chuckled and said: "It's politics. Those kinds of things happen."
Glen Johnson of the Boston Globe, tells us the whole story on "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" in the Boston Globe:
Democrats recognize a good line - Candidates recycle campaign material
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