posted October 19, 2004 09:45 AM            

BTW, who knew John Kerry served 4 months in Vietnam?

NAME: John Kerry

RESIDENCE: 7 mansions, including one in Washington DC, worth multi-millions. I served in Vietnam (four months).

EXPERIENCE:
Law Enforcement. In my career as a U.S. Senator, I've voted to cut every law enforcement, CIA, and Defense bill. I ordered the city of Boston to remove a fire hydrant in front of my mansion, thereby endangering my neighbors in the event of fire. I served in Vietnam (four months).

MILITARY:
I served in Vietnam (four months). I used three minor injuries to get an early discharge from the military and service in Vietnam (as documented by the attending doctor). I served in Vietnam (four months). I then returned to the U.S., joined Jane Fonda in protesting the war, and insulted returning Vietnam vets, claiming they committed atrocities and were baby killers. I served in Vietnam (four months). I threw my medals, ribbons, or something away in protest. Or did I? My book "Vietnam Veterans Against the War: The New Soldier", shows how I truly feel about the military. I served in Vietnam (four months).

COLLEGE:
I graduated from Yale University with a low C average. Unlike my counterpart George Bush, I have no higher education and did not get admitted to Harvard nor graduate with an M.B.A

PAST WORK EXPERIENCE:
After College and Vietnam, I ran for the U.S. Congress and have been there ever since. I have no real world experience except marrying very rich women and running their companies vicariously through them. I served in Vietnam (four months).

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
As a U.S. Senator I set the record for the most liberal voting record, exceeding even Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton. I have consistently failed to support our military and CIA by voting against their budgets, thus gutting our country's ability to defend itself. Although I voted for the Iraq War, now I am against it and refuse to admit that I voted for it. I voted for every liberal piece of legislation. I have no plan to help this country but I intend to raise taxes significantly if I am elected. I served in Vietnam (four months).

My wealth so far exceeds that of my counterpart, George Bush, that he will never catch up. I make little or no charitable contributions and have never agreed to pay any voluntary excess taxes in Massachusetts, despite family wealth in excess of $ 700 million. I served in Vietnam (four months).

I (we) own 28 manufacturing plants (Heinz) outside of the U.S. in places like Asia, Mexico and Europe. We can make more profit from the cheaper cost of labor in those Countries, although I blame George Bush for sending all of the other jobs out of Country. I served in Vietnam (four months).

Although I claim to be in favor of alternative energy sources, Ted Kennedy and I oppose windmills off Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard as it might spoil our view of the ocean as we cruise on our yachts. I served in Vietnam (four months).

RECORDS AND REFERENCES:
None. However, I served in Vietnam (four months).

PERSONAL I practice my Catholic faith whenever cameras are present. I ride a Serotta Bike. I love to ski/snowboard. I call my Gulfstream V Jet the "Flying Squirrel". I call my $850,000 42-foot Hinckley twin diesel yacht the "Scarmouche".

I am fascinated by rap and hip-hop and feel it reflects our real culture.

I own several "Large" SUVs including one parked at my Nantucket summer mansion, though I am against large, polluting, inefficient vehicles and blame George Bush for our energy problems. I served in Vietnam (four months).

posted October 20, 2004 05:04 AM              

His daddy got him into the National Guard, and then dubya couln't even do THAT right...tsk. tsk....

posted October 20, 2004 06:28 AM              

George W. Bush Resume

Past work experience:

Ran for congress and lost.

Produced a Hollywood slasher B movie.

Bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas, company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.

Bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using tax-payer money. Biggest move: Traded Sammy Sosa to the Chicago White Sox.

With fathers help (and his name) was elected Governor of Texas.

Accomplishments: Changed pollution laws for power and oil companies and made Texas the most polluted state in the Union. Replaced Los Angeles with Houston as the most smog ridden city in America. Cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas government to the tune of billions in borrowed money. Set record for most executions by any Governor in American history.

Became president after losing the popular vote by over 500,000 votes, with the help of my fathers appointments to the Supreme Court.

Accomplishments as president:

Attacked and took over two countries.

Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.

Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.

Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.

Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.

First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.

First president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.

First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history.

After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in US history.

Set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips than any other president in US history.

In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job.

Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in US history.

Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12 month period.

Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history.

Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.

Signed more laws and executive orders circumventing the Constitution than any president in US history.

Presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.

Presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.

Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans during wartime

Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind. (http://www.hyperreal.org/~dana/marches/)

Dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history.

My presidency is the most secretive and un-accountable of any in US history.

Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. (the 'poorest' multi-millionaire, Condoleezza Rice has an Chevron oil tanker named after her).

Had more states to simultaneously go bankrupt than any president in the history of the United States.

Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world.

Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.

Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in US history.

First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the human rights commission.

First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the elections monitoring board.

Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history.

Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.

Withdrew from the World Court of Law.

Refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.

First president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 US elections).

All-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.

My biggest life-time campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).

Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history.

First president in US history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.

First president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1)

First US president to establish a secret shadow government.

Took the biggest world sympathy for the US after 911, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history).

With a policy of 'dis-engagement' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.

Fist US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.

First US president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US than their immediate neighbor, North Korea.

Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.

Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.

Failed to fulfill my pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive'.

Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capitol building. After 18 months I have no leads and zero suspects.

In the 18 months following the 911 attacks I have successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States.

Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history.

In a little over two years created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the US has ever been since the civil war.

Entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.

Records and References:

At least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas driving record has been erased and is not available).

AWOL from National Guard and Deserted the military during a time of war.

Refuse to take drug test or even answer any questions about drug use.

All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to my fathers library, sealed in secrecy and un-available for public view.

All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and un-available for public view.

All minutes of meetings for any public corporation I served on the board are sealed in secrecy and un-available for public view.

Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and un-available for public review.

posted October 20, 2004 07:44 PM              

One good thing about John Kerry - He's a better speaker.

posted October 21, 2004 11:41 AM              

152 Executions as Governor

152 Claude Jones 12/07/2000
151 Daniel Hittle 12/06/2000
150 Garry Miller 12/05/2000
149 Tony Chambers 11/15/2000
148 Stacey Lawton 11/14/2000
147 Miguel Flores 11/09/2000
146 Jeffery Dillingham 11/01/2000

145 Ricky McGinn 09/27/2000
144 Jeffery Caldwell 08/30/2000
143 David Gibbs 08/23/2000
142 Richard Jones 08/22/2000
141 John Satterwhite 08/16/2000
140 Oliver Cruz 08/09/2000
139 Brian Roberson 08/09/2000
138 Juan Soria 07/26/2000
137 Orien Joiner 07/12/2000
136 Jessy San Miguel 06/29/2000
135 Gary Graham 06/22/2000
134 Paul Nuncio 06/15/2000
133 John Burks 06/14/2000
132 Thomas Mason 06/12/2000
131 Robert Carter 05/31/2000
130 James Clayton 05/25/2000
129 Richard Foster 05/24/2000
128 James Richardson 05/23/2000
127 Michael McBride 05/11/2000
126 William Kitchens 05/09/2000
125 Tommy Jackson 05/04/2000
124 Timothy Gribble 03/15/2000
123 Ponchai Wilkerson 03/14/2000
122 Odell Barnes, Jr. 03/01/2000
121 Betty Beets 02/24/2000
120 Cornelius Gross 02/23/2000
119 James Moreland 01/27/2000
118 Glen McGinnis 01/25/2000
117 Billy Hughes, Jr. 01/24/2000
116 Larry Robison 01/21/2000
115 David Hicks 01/20/2000
114 Spencer Goodman 01/18/2000
113 Earl Heiselbetz, Jr. 01/12/2000
112 Sammie Felder, Jr. 12/15/1999
111 Robert Atworth 12/14/1999
110 James Beathard 12/09/1999
109 David Long 12/08/1999
108 Jose Gutierrez 11/18/1999
107 John Lamb 11/17/1999
106 Desmond Jennings 11/16/1999
105 Domingo Cantu, Jr. 10/28/1999
104 Jerry McFadden 10/14/1999
103 Alvin Crane 10/12/1999
102 Richard Smith 09/21/1999
101 William Davis 09/14/1999
100 Willis Barnes 09/10/1999
99 Raymond Jones 09/01/1999
98 Joe Trevino, Jr. 08/18/1999
97 James Earheart 08/11/1999
96 Kenneth Dunn 08/10/1999
95 Charles Boyd 08/05/1999
94 Ricky Blackmon 08/04/1999
93 Tyrone Fuller 07/07/1999
92 Charles Tuttle 07/01/1999
91 Joseph Faulder 06/17/1999
90 William Little 06/01/1999
89 Clydell Coleman 05/05/1999
88 Jose De La Cruz 05/04/1999
87 Aaron Foust 04/28/1999
86 Excell White 03/30/1999
85 Charles Rector 03/26/1999
84 Norman Green 02/24/1999
83 Andrew Cantu 02/16/1999
82 Danny Barber 02/11/1999
81 George Cordova 02/10/1999
80 Martin Vega 01/26/1999
79 Troy Farries 01/13/1999
78 John Moody 01/05/1999
77 James Meanes 12/15/1998
76 Jeff Emery 12/08/1998
75 Daniel Corwin 12/07/1998
74 Kenneth McDuff 11/17/1998
73 Jonathan Nobles 10/07/1998
72 Javier Cruz 10/01/1998
71 David Castillo 08/23/1998
70 Delbert Teague, Jr. 09/09/1998
69 Genaro Camacho, Jr. 08/26/1998
68 Leopoldo Narvaiz 06/26/1998
67 Johnny Pyles 06/15/1998
66 Clifford Boggess 06/11/1998
65 Pedro Muniz 05/19/1998
64 Robert Carter 05/18/1998
63 Frank McFarland 04/29/1998
62 Lesley Gosch 04/24/1998
61 Joseph Cannon 04/22/1998
60 Jerry Hogue 03/11/1998
59 Steven Renfro 02/09/1998
58 Karla Tucker 02/03/1998
57 Michael Lockhart 12/09/1997
56 Charlie Livingston 11/21/1997
55 Michael Sharp 11/19/1997
54 Aaron Fuller 11/06/1997
53 Aua Lauti 11/04/1997
52 Kenneth Ransom 10/28/1997
51 Ricky Green 10/08/1997
50 Dwight Adanandus 10/01/1997
49 John Cockrum 09/30/1997
48 Benjamin Stone 09/25/1997
47 Jessel Turner 09/22/1997
46 James Davis 09/09/1997
45 Robert West, Jr. 07/29/1997
44 Irineo Montoya 06/18/1997
43 Eddie Johnson 06/17/1997
42 David Stoker 06/16/1997
41 Earl Behringer 06/11/1997
40 Davis Losada 06/04/1997
39 Dorsie Johnson, Jr. 06/04/1997
38 Kenneth Harris 06/03/1997
37 Patrick Rogers 06/02/1997
36 Robert Madden 05/28/1997
35 Larry White 05/22/1997
34 Bruce Callins 05/21/1997
33 Clarence Lackey 05/20/1997
32 Richard Drinkard 05/19/1997
31 Clifton Belyeu 05/16/1997
30 Anthony Westley 05/13/1997
29 Terry Washington 05/06/1997
28 Ernest Baldree 04/29/1997
27 Benjamin Boyle 04/21/1997
26 Kenneth Gentry 04/16/1997
25 Billy Woods 04/14/1997
24 David Spence 04/03/1997
23 David Herman 04/02/1997
22 John Barefield 03/12/1997
21 Richard Brimage, Jr. 02/10/1997
20 Joe Gonzales, Jr. 09/18/1996
19 Kenneth Granviel 02/27/1996
18 Leo Jenkins 02/09/1996
17 James Briddle 12/12/1995
16 Esequel Banda 12/11/1995
15 Hai Vuong 12/07/1995
14 Bernard Amos 12/06/1995
13 Harold Lane 10/04/1995
12 Carl Johnson 09/19/1995
11 Vernon Sattiewhite 08/15/1995
10 Karl Hammond 06/21/1995
9 John Fearance 06/20/1995
8 Ronald Allridge 06/08/1995
7 Fletcher Mann 06/01/1995
6 Noble Mays 04/06/1995
5 Samuel Hawkins 02/21/1995
4 Billy Gardner 02/16/1995
3 Jeffery Motley 02/07/1995
2 Willie Williams 01/31/1995
1 Clifton Russell, Jr. 01/31/1995

Granted, some of these people may have been bad. BUT the it has NEVER been proven that the capital punishment has any effect one way or the other on violent crime. It is quite fallible, in fact.

Since 1973, over 80 people have been released from death row with evidence of their innocence.

Researchers Radelet & Bedau found 23 cases since 1900 where innocent people were executed.

Retiring Florida Supreme Court Justice Gerald Kogan said he had "grave doubts" about the guilt of some of the people executed in Florida: "There are several cases where I had grave doubts as to the guilt of a particular person." . Kogan was a former homicide detective and prosecutor before eventually rising to Chief Justice.

The number of innocent defendants released from death row has been steadily increasing over recent years. Between 1973 and October, 1993, there was an average of 2.5 innocent defendants released. Since then, the average has increased to 4.6 released per year.

According to a 1987 study, three hundred and fifty people convicted of capital crimes in the United States between 1900 and 1985 were innocent of the crimes charged. Some prisoners escaped execution by minutes, but 23 were actually executed.

One of the most comprehensive studies on the death penalty in the country found the death penalty to cost North Carolina $2.16 million per execution over the costs of a non-death penalty murder case with a sentence of imprisonment for life.

On a national basis, this translates to an extra cost of over $1 billion dollars since 1976.

In Texas, a death penalty case costs an average of $2.3 million, which is about three times the cost of imprisoning someone in a single cell with the highest level of security for forty years.

A 1998 report from the Nebraska Judiciary Committee states that any savings from executing an inmate are outweighed by the financial legal costs. The report concluded that the current death penalty law does not serve the best interest of Nebraskans.

The Judicial Conference of the United States reported that the defense costs in cases where death was sought were about four times higher than in comparable cases where death was not sought. It was also found that the prosecution costs in death cases were 67% higher than the defense costs, without even including the investigative costs provided by law enforcement agencies.

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/costs2.html

posted October 21, 2004 01:23 PM              

The Republican smear machine never stops and they are not even concerned with whether it is the truth or not. They have accused John Kerry of everything but kicking his mother down the stairs. Jwhop keeps putting smear posts in this forum about Kerry from Newsmax and many of them are just laughable and completely off the wall. Just as the Democrats are fighting back against the Republican smear campaign by coming out with information that discredits what Bush has said and points out where it is the pot calling the kettle black that is what Kerry supporters have been doing on this forum.

Two wrongs don't make a right and I regret that the whole campaign has deteriorated to back and forth attacks but it was the Republicans who began the campaign with smears on John Kerry's war record and they have never let up. They set the tone for the campaign as such so they could avoid having to address the real issues. It's a distraction aimed at the voters just as the Iraq war and the war on terrorism was used as a distraction so that Bush could force his legislation through Congress for his own agendas behind the backs of the American people in most cases. Watch my right hand so you don't know or see what left hand is doing.

What would you have the Democrats and Kerry do if not counteract Bush's lies and smears? What would you have Kerry's supporters do when they hear or see things that they know not to be true? Just let it lie and say nothing to dispute it? If the smearing and lies are not addressed then it misleads the American people. In the case of this forum it misleads people who read these things. In short make jwhop stop it and we will too.

I will admit that both Bush and Kerry have played around with the facts regarding the issues. I know where Kerry has made statements about Bush where the facts don't exactly match what he says and I know where Bush has done the same thing to Kerry. That sort of thing happens in every political campaign. The facts are always distorted. But the smear campaign being waged by Bush and his supporters goes beyond decency.

Just yesterday I got an email from a Christian group saying that Kerry was excommunicated by the Roman Catholic church for his position on abortion which is just a total out and out lie. If they had any knowledge of Church teaching they would know better. For an organization that presents itself as Christian to do that is just horrible and it is also a very unchristian thing to do. So apparently they are not above out and out lying to promote their own agenda either. The Catholic Church is not in the business of excommunicating people for following their conscience. Besides, I happen to know that Cardinal Joseph Ratszinger who is head of the Congregation of the Divine Faith at the Vatican and represents the Vatican's stance on this election came out and said this:

According to a report by Catholic News Service, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger recently issued a memorandum that said it is not necessarily sinful for Catholics to vote for politicians who support abortion, as long as they are voting for that candidate for other reasons. Ratzinger is head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Besides all this, Kerry never said he was personally in favor of abortion as this Christian group and the RNC and Bush would have them believe. He never gave his own personal opinion about abortion at all. Kerry never said that in the debate in answer to the questions. What he did say is that while he is a Roman Catholic and his faith is big part of all he does, as President he would be the President of all the people and therefore could make no legislation concerning abortion. He was honest about it. He did imply though that having been raised in the Church and having been an altar boy he was formed by Church teaching regarding abortion. That is as close as he came to giving what his own personal opinion regarding abortion may be. And I agree with him about keeping moral mattters out of the hands of government because the government is designed to represent ALL of the American people. But the church postition on that would be that Kerry IS following his faith because he IS following his conscience which they deem the higher law and no man's land because the conscience is between God and the person and is not to be interfered with. The small group of bishops who came out and said that it would be a sin to vote for Kerry are more in danger of being excommunicated than Kerry is because they are not speaking for the Church but in fact going against what the Church said to promote their own agenda.

58 Karla Tucker 02/03/1998 - Libra, this is the one that really bothers me. I saw a documentary on the life of Karla Tucker and it covered the crime she committed, the trial and her conversion to Christianity while on death row. The murder she committed was no doubt brutal and senseless. She admitted that she should be punished for it after her conversion. If you saw that documentary and you saw what Karla Tucker looked like and talked like at her arrest and trial and then you saw her years later after her conversion you could easily see the difference in her countenance and how she spoke. You could see it in her eyes! It was like a completely different woman. I had no doubt of her conversion and neither did any of her jailors or lawyers. Neither did the group that worked for her clemancy.

Bush was governor and Karla's lawyers put her case before him to reduce her sentence to life in prison. Bush, a man who goes around telling everyone about his conversion and how Christianity changed him, would not believe that it could do the same for anyone else. Him yes. Karla Tucker no. And she was not asking to be released from prison. Just not to be lethally injected. What bothered me about it and stuck in my mind to this day was Bush's reaction to the question by the press when asked by a reporter what he thought Karla Tucker would say to him. Bush replied in a mocking tone as if she was begging, "she would probably say, 'please, oh please don't kill me.' " Then he laughed. That was in my mind a heartless and cruel thing to say about a woman who was about to die by lethal injection and who had claimed the same conversion as he goes around claiming all the time. I could see the conversion in Karla Faye Tucker the woman he refused clemancy to, but I have never seen the conversion in Bush and certainly not in those words and actions.

posted October 21, 2004 10:17 PM              

You have so clearly expressed my views.

Thank you for reminding us of Karla Faye Tucker and how bush, while governor of Texas not only allowed her death to take place, but made fun of her ta boot...This shows real character in a man! (I got my first inklings back then, to just what kind of man this was)

Karla Faye Tucker

Granted, Karla was not innocent of the crime she was charged with....but she was a totally changed person years later...I noticed it too...anyone who saw her couldn't help but notice. I saw her on TBN talking with Jan Crouch, and I saw her on Larry King Live...

I've brought it up on this forum before as I was truly moved by her conversion...which was so very obvious....she just radiated when she spoke about her love for Jesus...she shone...her eyes sparkled she was totally different than the drugged out messed up woman who was sent to prison...and as you say, I see nothing - NOTHING AT ALL in dubya's face that gives any indication that he's found that peace that Karla found, even tho he claims to be a Christian.

I see nothing in his "Ted Bundy type face," but cockiness, arrogance and a puffed up sense of omnipotence!

So glad to have you posting on this forum.

Welcome!

Your ability to see things so clearly and your courage to post your views here, is something that has been long needed..as most people who are anti-bush stay away from GU and do most of their posting on the other forums, just to keep the peace I would guess...I left for awhile...as I was chewed up and spit out several times...for daring to speak the truth about bush and his cronies...*sigh*

Love,
Rainbow

posted October 21, 2004 10:43 PM            

Did I mention that I read that Conservatives get angry when someone lies about them and Liberals get mad when someone tells the truth about them?

Rainbow, Tucker was guilty. Tucker admitted she committed a most horrible murder.

Governor Bush could not have commuted her sentence to execution. Such commutations are not within the power of the Governor of Texas...AND YOU KNOW THAT BECAUSE I'VE TOLD YOU BEFORE AND SHOWED IT TO YOU.

posted October 21, 2004 10:52 PM              

quote:

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Rainbow, Tucker was guilty. Tucker admitted she committed a most horrible murder.

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Did you read my post, Jwhop? I never said Karla was not guilty...here's what I said...

quote:

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Granted, Karla was not innocent of the crime she was charged with....but she was a totally changed person years later

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(pay more attention.. )

Okay?

posted October 21, 2004 10:57 PM              

Wow, JW... you really are a Republican. If you have nothing of real value to add, muckrake. That's really all a Republican like you is good for. Slinging $h!t.

posted October 21, 2004 11:25 PM              

Governor Bush could not have commuted her sentence to execution. Such commutations are not within the power of the Governor of Texas...AND YOU KNOW THAT BECAUSE I'VE TOLD YOU BEFORE AND SHOWED IT TO YOU.

Where did you get the proof that you offered, jwhop. I was not here then.

posted October 21, 2004 11:29 PM              

I like the picture. That is the way she looked in the documentary.

She admitted she was guilty, jwhop and that she should be punished. She was not asking to get out of prison. Only for life in prison in exchange for leathel injection. Not too much to ask was it?

posted October 22, 2004 12:19 AM              

He could have done that, and given Karla another 30 days to live, not to mention time for the Paroles Board to reconsider......(which they may have done....who knows?)
but no! he didn't even do that....he would rather get his rocks off envisioning her pleading to him (Mr. Omnipotence), for her life, with "Oh please don't kill me." (it's said that he sneared, when he made this comment)...

(Well Mr. Governor dude, you have the power. It's in your hands........and speaking of power....just wait til you get to be president! You can really throw your power around, then!)

posted October 22, 2004 01:17 AM              

Only the possibility of a last-minute stay by the Supreme Court, where an appeal is pending, or intervention by Texas Gov. George W. Bush stood between Tucker and the distinction of becoming the first woman executed in Texas since 1863.

I read the procedures of the State of Texas regarding clemency. No offense to Texans here but it's weird that Texas does not have a life in prison without parole law. It seems that it is either a sentence of a determined number of years or death. So that is why they did not stay her execution and reduce her sentence to life in prison. To do so would have meant that she would have been eligible for pardon in 2003.

The Governors and legislatures in the State of Texas must be kill happy or they would establish a life in prison without parole law.

From what it says above I get the distinct impression that Bush as governor could have intervened over and above the Supreme Court and the parole board.

I once heard a comedian from Texas say: