I found a very interesting diary (http://dailykos.com/story/2004/10/11/141546/36) posted on the liberal blog DailyKos (http://www.dailykos.com)

Kerry Should Tell Bush to Stop Bashing Massachusetts
by dansac

Mon Oct 11th, 2004 at 18:15:46 GMT

Bush is going around the country now trying to spin his new meme - that Kerry is a tax and spend liberal out of the "mainstream." And by doing this, he's saying, "This is exactly the sort of thing you'd expect from a Senator from Massachusetts."

Let's hope Scheiffer throws them the question about how divided we are as a country. I'd love to see Kerry turn to Bush and say the following:

"You've been going around this country speaking ill of Massachusetts. I love Massachusetts and I'm proud to have represented them these past 20 years.

I would never say anything disparaging about Texas, yet you somehow feel it's alright to denigrate Massachusetts. Massachusetts is just as much a part of America as anywhere else. The people of Massachusetts were the first to fight for freedom for this country.

As President you are supposed to represent all Americans. And here you are going around bashing one of the states. I don't understand how you can call yourself President of the United States of America. And people wonder why we're so divided."

It just chaps my ass that Bush talks this way - I don't understand how a president can mock a state like that and no one calls him on it.

I agree 100%. How pathetic is it when the president of the United States pokes fun at a state just because the people there don't care for his policies. Bush is the president of all the states, not just the red ones. I find this insulting and I hope Kerry calls him on it.

I don't think he was bashing the people of Massachusetts as much as he was making a point about the preponderance of liberal wasters that come from that state. It's just a cold hard fact. Deal with it.

Originally posted by The Praetorian
I don't think he was bashing the people of Massachusetts as much as he was making a point about the preponderance of liberal wasters that come from that state. It's just a cold hard fact. Deal with it.

America should not have to deal with the President of the United States insulting them. 22 brave men and women from Massachusettes have given their lives in Iraq. Massachusettes was where the revolution started.
Republicans like to talk about class warfare. This is culture warfare.This president has more nice things to say about Saudi Arabia than MA. If Kerry made fun of Texas, Bush would slaughter him. I don't understand why the south and midwest are the "heartland" but the northeast is considered a whole different world by some people.

Originally posted by Idioteque
America should not have to deal with the President of the United States insulting them. .


LMAO!!!!!! What about Kerry calling all vietnam vets war criminals

Originally posted by Idioteque

Republicans like to talk about class warfare. This is culture warfare.This president has more nice things to say about Saudi Arabia than MA. If Kerry made fun of Texas, Bush would slaughter him. I don't understand why the south and midwest are the "heartland" but the northeast is considered a whole different world by some people.

I'd agree with you if it weren't for the multitude of posts on this board from hard-core liberal east- and west-coasters informing us that everyone in the middle of the country are uneducated racist rednecks.

Originally posted by LionelHutz
I'd agree with you if it weren't for the multitude of posts on this board from hard-core liberal east- and west-coasters informing us that everyone in the middle of the country are uneducated racist rednecks.

I live in Florida, hardly a liberal paradise. Jere is in Kentucky, a very red state. I don't think that Massachussets Republicans like William Weld and Mitt Romney like being associated with John Kerry. The point I was trying to make is that people from all over the spectrum live in all parts of the country and our president who is supposed to unite all of us should not insult certain regions of the country to fire up his political base. It is a very negative stereotype to say that people in the south have values while people in New England are elitist snobs. It should not be a part of the president's stump speech.

Taxxachussets certainly needs to be bashed about for sending their unwanted legislators into national politics. Keep them up in New England.

Originally posted by Decka
LMAO!!!!!! What about Kerry calling all vietnam vets war criminals

I’m sick of the Right Wing repeating the same old lies. Decka you are incorrect, wrong, and have fallen to the hands of propaganda.

What John Kerry was reading to Congress, was every war-crime-claim by people in the Vietnam Veterans for Peace. The quote “lies” the republicans say Kerry made, were not lies, for he was reading claims made by men in that organization. It just so happens Kerry was the representative of that group. Again, they were not his personal claims (maybe a few) but the vast majority, were made by numerous people in the Vietnam Veterans for Peace.

Get your facts straight, Decka.

PS: The Vietnam Veterans for Peace, never said all men in Vietnam committed war crimes. That's yet another lie by the right wing.

I wouldn't be offended if Kerry said "Jesse Helms was a right wing pro-lifer, but that's what I'd expect from a senator from NC!" So I really doubt many people from MA are offended when Bush charactarizes them as a liberal state. Politically he needn't worry about it anyway because there is no way in hell Bush could take MA.

Excellent point, Dave.