Mud tossed at Kerry might stick to Bush

Killarney

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Wed Mar-10-04 07:03 AM
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Mud tossed at Kerry might stick to Bush

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/03/10/mud_tossed_at_kerry_might_stick_to_bush/
THE BUSH CAMPAIGN has a problem. Almost any unflattering issue they bring up about John Kerry tends to reflect worse on President Bush. One thinks of the old proverb, "Never mention a rope in the house of a man who was hanged."

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molly

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Wed Mar-10-04 07:27 AM
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1. What an incredibly dumb F

"In America, some rich kids grow up to be adults who genuinely care about the poor -- the names Roosevelt and Kennedy come to mind -- and others couldn't care less. As Kevin Phillips's best-selling book, "American Dynasty," recounts, Bush father and son both fall into the latter category."

"Bush junior, by his own account, was a dissolute who didn't get serious about his life until he was 40, when he got religion and sobered up. His family connections then allowed him to fall upward. When Kerry, at age 25, was testifying before the Senate, Bush was partying. So maybe family affluence isn't such a great topic either."

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meti57b

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Wed Mar-10-04 07:28 AM
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2. Great article!! Useful for countering repubs on other message boards

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ayeshahaqqiqa

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Wed Mar-10-04 07:28 AM
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3. Love the Globe!

And this paragraph from the article:

Locating the GOP convention in New York (out of similar motives) could turn out to be an epic political blunder. Bush shouldn't expect a hero's welcome from New York's first responders, the real heroes of 9/11. Bush walked away from financial commitments to New York; the firefighters union is very pro-Kerry; and Bush is resented by New York's cops and EMT's for his opposition to urban aid and public-sector unions.

Do you suppose the GOP will have to hire actors to portray firefighters and other first responders to come and clap for Shrub at the convention?

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BeatleBoot

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Wed Mar-10-04 07:32 AM
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4. I forget who posted this one, but

Someone said something to the effect:

"Lincoln dedicated a cemetery at Gettysburg, he didn't hold the 1864 Republican convention there"

These neo-cons are ghouls. Bush thrives on disaster.

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Divernan

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Wed Mar-10-04 08:10 AM
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5. That would make a GREAT bumper sticker!

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Warren Stuart

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Wed Mar-10-04 10:02 AM
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10. That would be Josh Marshall

He said that last week on his blog.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/

I forget which day, it was a great line.

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catmandu57

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Wed Mar-10-04 08:32 AM
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7. If I saw a firefighter there clapping

that would be my first thought, that he or she was a paid actor. The second thought would be I wonder what they bought them with.
You don't suppose there's going to be a flood of money hit the nyfd, nypd, and emergency services between now and aug ????

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nostamj

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Wed Mar-10-04 09:52 AM
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9. "the GOP will have to hire actors"

and THEN they'll claim they are creating jobs in the 'entertainment manufacturing' industry!

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NewJeffCT

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Wed Mar-10-04 08:17 AM
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6. let's hope it does

I already have a bad feeling that Bush is going to walk through mostly unscathed...

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rasputin1952

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Wed Mar-10-04 09:25 AM
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8. I hold a different opinion on that...

I think bush will get crushed in NYC, It is a liberal bastion, Ground Zero is there to remind everyone that those who perished were being watched by a guy in a bunker in NE and I will be there yelling my lungs out at how he is the rotten spawn of an evil family that exists only to enhance their fortune at the expense of the Republic.

EVERYTHING this monster touches, turns out to be a failure, his 'presidency' simply follows the time line to its predictable outcome.

O8)

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rocktivity

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Wed Mar-10-04 10:18 AM
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11. The only flaw in the Bush campaign strategy

is the that mainstream media MIGHT point out the hyprocrisy of it. As long as the "alternative" media outlets and lowly peons like us are the only ones proving that Bush has no grounds on which to call Kerry a flip-flopper or a money-crazed New England elitist, he can get away with it. For example, last night I saw a little of Tweety talking about how Bush would start "attacking" Kerry where he was "vulnerable." Did he mention that Bush was equally vulnerable to the point of sounding like an idiot? Of COURSE not!

:headbang:
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wabeewoman

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Wed Mar-10-04 10:42 AM
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12. Thanks for posting!

Great article. Sent it to my address book names -even those I know support Kerry. If you live in a glass house its best not to throw stones....

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