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Paul Begala

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Paul Begala is a prominent American political consultant, strategist, and television personality, best known for his role as a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, he has been influential in shaping political discourse and strategy in the United States. Begala has also made a name for himself as a commentator on various news networks, where he provides insights on political issues and campaigns.

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Sep 29, 2004

You have to pay down the deficit that Bush has run up, and guys and some women, your age, Ryan (ph), are over there in the desert tonight. And you know, as long as we have this president there, they're going to be stuck in the desert…

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Sep 29, 2004

He needs to have a big, fat reality sandwich tonight, and realize that we're in a lot of trouble in Iraq, and it's young people who are paying the price.

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Sep 29, 2004

I think there's been too much talk about Vietnam. I think we ought to have a lot more talk about the quagmire we're in today than the quagmire we were in 35 years ago.

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Sep 29, 2004

Kerry wants to tell those voters is, look, I have a plan to get us out of Iraq, I have a plan to win the thing.

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Sep 29, 2004

George W. Bush outsourced the writing of our environmental laws to Enron and Exxon and all the big polluters. And so anybody who likes to go hunt or fish or actually breathe, they ought to be for John Kerry.

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Sep 19, 2004

I have a hard time believing that Osama bin Laden is following the South Dakota Senate race very closely.

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Sep 19, 2004

Bush hasn't been fully candid. If the reports that have leaked out from the Pentagon are to be believed... there is a plan to launch a major offensive in Fallujah... after the election.

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Sep 19, 2004

If, in fact, his people are planning to pull troops out after Election Day, it really would make him the most profoundly dishonest President since Richard Nixon.

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Sep 16, 2004

Yes. Edwards is a guy who's really good in smalltown America. They're sending him to those battleground states in small towns. That's actually where the election is going to be won.

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Sep 16, 2004

Kerry goes right into the lion's den, gives a very tough anti-Bush, anti-Iraq war speech.

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Sep 16, 2004

Hence, John Kerry, really gutsy move, go into a very conservative group, the National Guard Association, and really tearing into President Bush on Iraq.

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Sep 16, 2004

Edwards is a guy who's really good in smalltown America. They're sending him to those battleground states in small towns. That's actually where the election is going to be won.

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