Interesting endorsement

Former New York Mayor Ed Koch Endorses President's Re-election

Three-term New York City Mayor and lifelong Democrat Ed Koch explains in The Forward why he will be voting for President Bush in 2004:

I intend to vote in 2004 to reelect President Bush... President Bush has earned my vote because he has shown the resolve and courage necessary to wage the war against terrorism...

President Bush has confronted the terrorist threat head on. Immediately following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the president presented the core principle of what has become known as the Bush Doctrine, an articulation of American foreign policy that rivals in importance the Monroe Doctrine, which barred foreign imperialism from the Western Hemisphere, and the Truman Doctrine, which sought to contain communism around the world. The Bush Doctrine, simply stated by the president, is: "We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them."

President Bush has lived up to that credo. Under his leadership, Afghanistan was liberated from Al Qaeda's patron, the Taliban. The president also has demonstrated, through the liberation of Iraq from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein, that he is willing to wage a preemptive war when he believes the national interests of the United States are endangered.

He never was the same after the stroke in '87.

Does Ed still live with his Mom? :*

Methinks he's looking for yet another 15 minutes of fame. Once a shameless self-promoter, always a shameless self-promoter. Reminds me of Jesse Ventura. :*

Just saw him on his 37 seconds of fame on CNBC Reports. He's as loony as ever. Says he "doesn't agree with Bush on a single domestic issue." Says his primary issue is the "war on terorism."

Too bad he doesn't mention that his favorite "war" isn't funded adequately. He's obviously forgotten the problems that unfunded mandates cause for Mayors.

More to the point, ole Ed is a has been just looking for some attention. Just my opinion. }(

>He never was the same after the stroke in '87.

I'm with you, Donnie. Koch should do something useful in his golden years, like serving as a double for the now deceased Frank Perdue, peddling chickens. For some time now, he's been more than a little wacky.

>Once a shameless self-promoter, always a shameless

>self-promoter. Reminds me of Jesse Ventura. :*

Jesse showed more common sense when he was governor than enfeebled Ed has in a long time.

< Jesse showed more common sense when he was governor than enfeebled Ed has in a long time. >

I endured 4 verrrrry looooong years at close promixity to Jesse.

Jesse showed petulance.

Jesse showed anger.

Jesse showed theatrics.

Jesse showed really thin skin.

Jesse showed he doesn't have a clue how to govern.

Jesse showed (on very rare occasions) guts (thanks to his VERY common sense wife)}(

If your point was that Ed is even worse than that, I agree. :7

Interesting that Koch is looking for his 15 minutes of fame and Gore is not.

>If your point was that Ed is even worse than that, I agree. :7

No, I admit I was taken in by Jesse. At long distance he didn't look so bad. The theatrics must have played better to the 2nd balcony than up close.

Not to give Ed a pass, though.

To be fair, Jesse did have his moments (albeit most of them because of his wife), but in the end it was always about Jesse. In his last appearance as Governor, at a farewell gathering in the state Capitol, he refused to utter a word - his wife had to emcee the goddamn thing. He later "explained" that he was tired of "the local media" being unfair to him, so he refused to say anything on camera.

Go figure. x(

Dick, no double standard here. They're both has beens who can't yet admit it. :7

>More to the point, ole Ed is a has been just looking for some

>attention. Just my opinion. }(

That's always true for Ed - but for a lot of other politicians as well.

This endorsement should surprise nobody. Ed Koch, like a lot of former liberal jews, cares about one thing only: Israel. Anything good for Israel, he likes. Bush supports Israel's Government and attacks Israel's enemies; therefore, Koch supports Bush.

It's really just as simple as that.