Bush to Go on the Offensive on Jobs, Trade

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-campaign-bush.html

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After months of Democrat attacks over slow growth in U.S. jobs, President Bush will fight back on Wednesday with a strong defense of his economic policies and will accuse his opponents of having a ``tired defeatist mind-set.''

Bush will make his argument in Ohio, an important battleground state in the Nov. 2 presidential election and one that was in Bush's camp in 2000 but now has an unemployment rate of 6.2 percent, significantly higher than the 5.6 percent national average.

Ohio has sustained heavy job losses in the manufacturing industry. During the Democrats' primary campaign, Bush's challengers complained about U.S. jobs being shipped overseas and about a White House economic report that said such ``outsourcing'' of jobs could be beneficial to the economy.

Bush will forcefully advocate what the White House called his ``pro-growth and free and fair trade agenda'' in a speech to women business leaders in Cleveland. He will say Democrats like the party's presumptive nominee, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, would respond in ``old ways'' to the economic challenges facing the country.
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to destroy jobs and fair trade.

...nice coincidence, yes...???

I'm sure they'll be convinced.

this too will fall flat. It's the emperor running on his sharp wardrobe. Truly they have lost it.

When all the facts are against him, what can he say?

I am going to enjoy seeing the spin he puts on this, just so I can tear it down.

I hope Kerry has a good answer for him, too.

lotsa lotsa LIES...

...the lies will continue.

Bush and his partners in crime are bad liars telling bad lies. It's surreal how the lies just keep coming.

When has he demanded that foreign countries let workers organize and work a humane number of hours in exchange for a trade agreement?

Never.

His record is millions of jobs lost and sent overseas. Who is he taking to when he defends it? Those unemployed with out health insurance and no more unemployment. Or those losing their overtime pay? Or those who have the new manufacturing jobs at McDonalds?

Imagine the guy out of work who can't pay his bills and he gets harrased by someone calling from India who has taken some American's job. That was me last month!

Some of them will get pissed and call back. They will then use all types of threatening and foul language. Then tape record the new calls and take the tape to the police.

I never thought this preface to speaking with a customer-service representative was about "quality service," but rather a "warning" to potentially angry customers to tone down the rhetoric, lest they be recorded for possible counter-action.

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How in the world can any campaign ad, no matter how well put together, make that kind of loss sound good?

,...Pro-corporate anarchy and greed,...all the bad stuff our country fought so hard to correct.

Just who are the tired defeatists here?

The Bush speech is filled with threadbare tax-and-spend imagery, a repetitious use of the word "old," variant uses of "isolate," "isolationism," and "wall building," and a not-too-subtle subtext of impending "disaster."

We have all heard this before. There is absolutely nothing new or original in Bush's agenda except that the phrase is getting longer: pro-growth and free and fair trade -- you know, like weapons of mass destruction-related program activities.

His "agenda" is going to be the equivalent of his staff taping over the "Made in China" print on the stacked cardboard boxes used as a backdrop in one of his fill-in-the blank speeches.

Duct tape anyone?

You sound like a good writer and funny too.

Because it sounds pretty funny.

wouldn't have the slightest idea what the word fair even means, seeing as how he's never experienced it himself. Unfair means, "everything stacked in my favor" or "money for nothing". I'm sure he thinks that's a good thing. I wish he was coming to Columbus. I'd go hold a HUGH sign that said EVIL LIAR GO HOME.

Pretending that he creates jobs.

Man, does this guy have balls or what? It takes a special kind of jackass to shit on a plate and call it chocolate. This too, will blow up on him. Just like when he went to Nascar, and he brought up how he was in the national guard, (not to mention how much he "likes speed", like we didn't know that already). He's been in a marketing blitz for a few weeks now, and he just keeps sinking and sinking.

:evilgrin:

because there is nothing he can defend about this joblessness. He has nothing to run on except his illegal war and that is a great big failure. His "war on terrorism" is a great big flop and actually it is the invention of a meme like that that is the flop, not the idea --the man is a miserable failure and the worst person we have ever had occupy our house. I can't wait until he and his dumassed wife leave.

like create twenty million new jobs.
that's defeatist for you.

n/t

It's so stupid only the emperor can make them do this and I'll bet they say "Yes sir! Great Idea! Let's Do It!"...Today they just announced that the trade deficit hit a record in January and the job creation numbers were dismal...Yes, now is the time for them to go on the offensive on jobs and trade :eyes:

Check it out:

http://news.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=45...

and if that note doesn't work he has no new ideas. I have to say I'm enjoying his nakedness imensely! In their arrogance they don't try to fix the problem-just keep telling us it isn't a problem. Georgie's only fair trade agenda is that its fair to trade our jobs to other countries to benefit his cronies.

http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/0304/10bush.html

WASHINGTON -- President Bush, defending his record on the economy, urged Americans on Tuesday to disregard "economic isolationists" who would discourage global trade.

"If we are to continue growing this economy and creating new jobs, America must remain confident and strong about our ability to trade," Bush said at a Commerce Department business awards ceremony in Arlington, Va.

"Given a level playing field, America will outperform the competition," he said.

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Underscoring the potency of the issue, 59 percent of people responding to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released Tuesday said they disapproved of how Bush was handling the economy.

Bush claimed in his remarks that "today, our economy is strong and it is getting stronger."

Because of growing profits, "stock market wealth has risen by more than $3 trillion since the beginning of 2003," he said. "The unemployment rate today is lower than the average rate in the 1970s, the 1980s and the 1990s."

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this buffoon is embarrassing - he is shameless and irresponsible.

know to be true, might just be the stupidest thing you have done yet, Mr. pResident!

Where does he get all these good campaign ideas? Bet he thinks them up all by himself, using nothing but his own pointy, little head.

Oh yeah, and his long, pointy, little nose!

I thought Rove did his thinking? Always kind of thought Rove was overrated. Neither of them are very bright, just willing to stoop to anything.

The only time their brand of politics can work, is if people are'nt paying attention-but they are being watched like a hawk, now, and every spin,twist, lie, or obfuscation only digs them a deeper hole with the American People!

First Bush was going to define Kerry, then Bush was going to annoint himself with the blood of the 9/11 victims, now it is jobs and trade. Bush is responding to the agenda set by Kerry.

FIRE THE LIAR

Every time Kerry gives a speech (which is everyday), Bush goes ballistic, has a temper tantrum, and veers off on another defensive tangent.

Very alcoholic behavior.

Rove must have completely lost it. This will help Kerry in Ohio. Go ahead, shrub, why not piss off everyone while you are at it.

Your comment and many others similar in reaction to the uttery buffoonery from bush*co lately has me thinking. The last four years of shit is GONNA hit the fan in 2005 - 2009, if bush* wins his first presidential election he will be a lame duck and it won't matter, however if a Dem is in there, 4 years isn't time enough to fix the mess but it is time enough to get the blame. Sounds like a setup to me.

eom

Yeah, that'll really bring people around. That'll show that you're really in touch with ordinary people, Chimpy.

Yet another manufactured photo-op or two filled with the same tired old bullshit. These people are clueless.

I think that the question should be "Why the hell hasn't he done it up to this point?"

Same question should be asked about why they are NOW going after Bin Ladden..

These are just more examples of the bush administration being a day late and $500 billion dollars short.