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U.S. election--it's the beer, stupid!
Canada Free Press ^ | November 9, 2004 | Arthur Weinreb

Posted on 11/09/2004 8:21:05 AM PST by MikeEdwards

In the weeks, months and probably years to come, pundits and academics will be discussing how the greatest war hero that ever lived got 3.5 million less votes than the most despised man that ever lived. Despite all of the talk about moral values, Iraq, terrorism and the economy, the recent presidential election came down to just one thing--beer.

Allan Gotlieb, who served as Canada’s ambassador to the United States during the 1980s opined that the Democrats have to stop selecting privileged Massachusetts intellectuals as presidential candidates. Said Gotlieb: “I’ve always said that the very important quality in U.S. politicians is a figure of likeability--who do you want to have a beer with?”

Although Gotlieb’s description of John Kerry as an “intellectual” is certainly debatable, there may be something to the former ambassador’s theory of the beer factor. Although George W. Bush gave up drinking years ago . . . . .

To read the Canada Free Press column, click on U.S. election--it's the beer, stupid!

(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...


TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: beer; bush; george; humor; kerry; likability; personality; president; warhero
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1 posted on 11/09/2004 8:21:09 AM PST by MikeEdwards
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To: MikeEdwards
J.C. Watts said pretty much the same thing.

"Which one would you want to go fishing with, if you knew you weren't gonna catch any fish?"

So9

2 posted on 11/09/2004 8:24:00 AM PST by Servant of the 9 (What I just said.)
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To: MikeEdwards
...the greatest war hero that ever lived...

Words cannot capture the utter contempt, disgust, and rage I feel at that phrase being used to refer to John Kerry.
3 posted on 11/09/2004 8:25:28 AM PST by Thrusher (Remember the Mog.)
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To: MikeEdwards

There is a story told in MA that when John Kerry was running for office (I think, Lt Gov.) and was seeking union support, he was not getting much of it. Some experienced politician took the union head aside and literally said: "Look, its not like you have to have a beer with him -- just vote for the guy."


4 posted on 11/09/2004 8:26:15 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: MikeEdwards
“I’ve always said that the very important quality in U.S. politicians is a figure of likeability--who do you want to have a beer with?”

Definitely not this one:


5 posted on 11/09/2004 8:27:45 AM PST by dirtboy (Tagline temporarily out of commission due to excessive intake of gin-soaked raisins)
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To: Thrusher
...the greatest war hero that ever lived...

I took it as sarcasm, even if the author didn't intend it to be.

6 posted on 11/09/2004 8:28:06 AM PST by marvlus
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To: marvlus

"Canadian Humor".

John Kerry will be nothing more than a skid-mark on the undershorts of history.


7 posted on 11/09/2004 8:32:02 AM PST by bigbob (2)
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To: bigbob

LMFAO


8 posted on 11/09/2004 8:34:21 AM PST by AirForceMom
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To: MikeEdwards

Kerry forgot that REAL MEN don't drink chardonnay!


9 posted on 11/09/2004 8:34:41 AM PST by JimRed (Investigate, overturn and prosecute vote fraud; turn more counties red!)
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To: JimRed

Forgot the < /sarcasm >.


10 posted on 11/09/2004 8:35:26 AM PST by JimRed (Investigate, overturn and prosecute vote fraud; turn more counties red!)
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To: marvlus
Even in jest, I find it unconscionable.
11 posted on 11/09/2004 8:35:35 AM PST by Thrusher (Remember the Mog.)
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To: dirtboy

Remember all those bird hunts Kerry was photographed enjoying ? No one could find evidence that he had ever bought a hunting license in Massachusetts in 25 years.


12 posted on 11/09/2004 8:36:09 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: bigbob
That's "Canadian humour"

The writer is clearly ridiculing how Kerry and his gang were portraying Kerry's war record.

13 posted on 11/09/2004 8:36:22 AM PST by MikeEdwards
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To: ClearCase_guy

My mother in law went back to college and to help pay for that she took a parttime job waiting tables. She waited on Kerry several times. She told me last night he always stiffed her for the tip on left just a dollar or two. He has no clue about middle class values.


14 posted on 11/09/2004 8:37:54 AM PST by TXBSAFH (Never underestimate the power of human stupidity--Robert Heinlein)
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To: MikeEdwards

It an anti class thing...we don't want a leader that thinks there part of an elite class


15 posted on 11/09/2004 8:39:38 AM PST by tophat9000
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To: MikeEdwards

I could not imagine setting at my favorite watering hole and having a Budweiser with Hanoi John. Maybe at the country club with a Dom Perignon
– if I were wealthy enough.
President Bush would fit right in at the Junction Café.


16 posted on 11/09/2004 8:39:47 AM PST by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: MikeEdwards; scripter; little jeremiah; EdReform; mhking

More rants from another fudge packing gay who hates conservatives and GW. He has spent the last 25 years pushing the Gay agenda.

http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=Arthur%20Weinreb%20Gay


17 posted on 11/09/2004 8:42:57 AM PST by Grampa Dave (FNC/ABCNNBCBS & the MSM fishwraps are the Rathering Fraudcasters of America!)
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To: MikeEdwards
Said Gotlieb: “I’ve always said that the very important quality in U.S. politicians is a figure of likeability--who do you want to have a beer with?”

Uh...Someone who would talk TO me, not AT me?

( Why do Dims insist on making these questions so darn tough for us poor-redneck-religous-whacko-unteachable-ignoramuses, anyway?)

18 posted on 11/09/2004 8:45:16 AM PST by MamaTexan (I am NOT a 'legal entity'!)
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To: dirtboy

I've just finally noticed this. Look at the background of the photo. You see "Kerry" and below it "Edwards." Then you get a few letters of a couple of words..."lie" and "in."

Taken out of subliminal mode: Kerry/Edwards...lying.

Now THAT appeals to my sense of humor.


19 posted on 11/09/2004 8:57:32 AM PST by edfrank_1998
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To: Thrusher

(greatest war hero that ever lived)

I thought Audy Murphy was dead.Seriously does anybody REALLY believe Kerry was anything but a war hero to North Viet Nam?


20 posted on 11/09/2004 9:34:13 AM PST by edchambers
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