Babs blasts Bush

Kevin Robert Dean qualiall_2 at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 3 09:33:37 PDT 2001


Monday April 2 3:42 PM ET Streisand Blasts Bush in Memo Sent to Top Democrats

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010402/re/streisand_dc.html

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Calling President Bush a ''destructive man,'' singing legend Barbra Streisand on Monday fired off a blistering three-page memo to top Democrats in Washington calling for a ``strong, strategic, targeted offense against the Republican revolution.''

``This is not the time to be weak,'' Streisand writes in the memo titled ``Nice Guys Finish Last'' sent last week to several dozen top Democratic legislators and released to media outlets Monday through her publicist.

``Unless we win, we'll be consistently on the defensive with our fingers holding the dike against the resurgence of the far right. ... You don't have to be ruthless like the Republicans, just be strong.''

In her note she blasts Bush's record on environmental issues, reproductive rights and the protection of people with disabilities, children, and U.S. workers. She lambastes the record of Bush's father, former President George Bush, on pardons, and urges Democrats and journalists to investigate Republicans vigorously, charging that they are controlled by big business.

Streisand writes: ``We have a president who was selected rather than elected. He stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.''

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Full story http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010402/re/streisand_dc.html

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