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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.

Oct 12, 2004

If you think we are doing a good job of creating jobs and balancing the budget, and expanding health care, you should vote for Bush. If you want a direction, and new idea's to create more jobs and provide more health care you should vote…

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Oct 12, 2004

The record is clear. President Bush was warned about bin Laden by President Clinton, by Sandy Berger the national security adviser, the Hart Rudman Commission, by the Gilmore Commission, Dick Clark, his own top terrorism expert and by…

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Oct 12, 2004

The president has gotten us into this quagmire by misleading us. He told it was a grave and growing threat, his words. And it wasn't a grave and growing threat.

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Oct 12, 2004

The problem is, we do have an incumbent, and he has a four-year record, and it's that record that's on trial.

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Oct 12, 2004

Now, he promised us he'd create 6 million new jobs. He's 7 million jobs short of that.

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Oct 12, 2004

It's George W. Bush who took the largest surplus in history and took into the largest deficit in history.

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Oct 12, 2004

If you don't like it, you need to vote against him. If you do, you need to vote for him.

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Oct 12, 2004

He said something that's unusual for a politician. He said, you know, if the deficit is larger than we're projecting, I'll trim back on my new spending initiatives. I wish the president would be as responsible and trim back on some of his…

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Oct 12, 2004

Kerry's is economic. It's jobs, it's health care, it's outsourcing.

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Oct 12, 2004

I mean, George W. Bush was AWOL from the National Guard, John Kerry was fighting in Vietnam.

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