Spider
07-09-2007, 02:47 PM
a few quotes caught my attention ......
MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: The strategy you followed in the 1970s did eventually end the war. You cut off funding, the war ended, but a lot of Democrats fear that the party paid a price. And it kept them out of the White House for years.
SEN. GRAVEL: Well George, you just put your finger on it. What's more important? Getting office or doing the moral thing and stop people from dying? I'll tell you, if that's the sacrifice we've got to pay to stop these Americans from dying and killing these Iraqis, I'll pay that sacrifice every day of the week.
MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: I've been watching you in these debates and you seem to be having the time of your life.
SCOTT SPRADLING (Debate moderator): (From tape.) If you are elected president, how, if at all, would use former President Bill Clinton in your administration?
SEN. GRAVEL: (From tape.) Well, I'd send him as a roving ambassador around the world. He'd be good. He could take his wife with him, it will still be in the Senate. (Laughter.)
SEN. GRAVEL: I don't know if I would say - characterize it as "the time of my life." I'm a passionate person. I feel deeply. And so what I want to do is I want to fight. We are a great country, and we are at the tipping point. I don't know which side we're going to tip on, but '08 is as important election as 1877 when they made the decision that changed the South. Right now, we're going to make a decision in '08 whether we continue to go downhill with our empire building, and I will tell you very frankly that with respect to Hillary and the president, I view them as a package of one. They knew what was going on, but they made a political vote. And that political vote was to give Bush the power to go to war. That's what it was all about. In my mind that is a vote that showed they were morally tone- deaf - the both of them.
MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: So Hillary Clinton's not going to get your vote. Who is?
SEN. GRAVEL: I'm going to vote for myself. What are you talking about, George?
MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: The strategy you followed in the 1970s did eventually end the war. You cut off funding, the war ended, but a lot of Democrats fear that the party paid a price. And it kept them out of the White House for years.
SEN. GRAVEL: Well George, you just put your finger on it. What's more important? Getting office or doing the moral thing and stop people from dying? I'll tell you, if that's the sacrifice we've got to pay to stop these Americans from dying and killing these Iraqis, I'll pay that sacrifice every day of the week.
MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: I've been watching you in these debates and you seem to be having the time of your life.
SCOTT SPRADLING (Debate moderator): (From tape.) If you are elected president, how, if at all, would use former President Bill Clinton in your administration?
SEN. GRAVEL: (From tape.) Well, I'd send him as a roving ambassador around the world. He'd be good. He could take his wife with him, it will still be in the Senate. (Laughter.)
SEN. GRAVEL: I don't know if I would say - characterize it as "the time of my life." I'm a passionate person. I feel deeply. And so what I want to do is I want to fight. We are a great country, and we are at the tipping point. I don't know which side we're going to tip on, but '08 is as important election as 1877 when they made the decision that changed the South. Right now, we're going to make a decision in '08 whether we continue to go downhill with our empire building, and I will tell you very frankly that with respect to Hillary and the president, I view them as a package of one. They knew what was going on, but they made a political vote. And that political vote was to give Bush the power to go to war. That's what it was all about. In my mind that is a vote that showed they were morally tone- deaf - the both of them.
MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: So Hillary Clinton's not going to get your vote. Who is?
SEN. GRAVEL: I'm going to vote for myself. What are you talking about, George?