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Do We Detect a Pattern Here? [Katie got HER talking points]
Opinion Journal - Best of the Web Today ^ | Tuesday, July 15 | JAMES TARANTO

Posted on 07/15/2003 2:07:35 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl

BY JAMES TARANTO
Tuesday, July 15

Do We Detect a Pattern Here?

"Several candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination spoke out yesterday. Rep. Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.) said Bush's 'factual lapse' cannot be easily dismissed 'as an intelligence failure.' He said the president 'has a pattern of using excessive language in his speeches and off-the-cuff remarks' which 'represents a failure of presidential leadership.' "--Associated Press

"Amid questions about the president's justification for war against Iraq, [John Kerry] the Massachusetts senator [who by the way served in jail] plans to question Bush's credibility next week by citing a pattern of deception on national security and domestic issues, aides said."--Associated Press

"What troubles me is not that single episode, but the broader pattern of dishonesty and delusion that helped get us into the Iraq mess."--Nicholas Kristof, New York Times

"The case of the bogus uranium purchases wasn't an isolated instance. It was part of a broad pattern of politicized, corrupted intelligence."--former Enron adviser Paul Krugman, New York Times

"I think the American people are aware this administration has engaged in a pattern of deceit."--Dennis Kucinich


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The Clintons' DEM-PRESS co-conspirators are accusing President Bush of being a habitual liar. Somebody needs a spanking.

The [Fraud] Times, New York, New York ^ | 15 July 2003 | Paul Krugman
 

'Dems plan to undermine America to beat Bush' [Mainstream Press using DNC talking points]

1 posted on 07/15/2003 2:07:35 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
What do you make of all those "patterns" out there?
2 posted on 07/15/2003 2:08:58 PM PDT by Scenic Sounds (Summertime!)
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To: All


SHOW JIM THE MONEY!!!!


3 posted on 07/15/2003 2:09:45 PM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
This "pattern of x" must have played well with Democratic focus groups and is seeping into already biased reporting.
4 posted on 07/15/2003 2:13:07 PM PDT by HRC
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Talking points put out to their lappets in the media by the DNC? ... Shades of 'gravitas', Cowgirl!
5 posted on 07/15/2003 2:13:37 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Thank you for the post, Cowgirl.

Here on FR, I have seen solid evidence of the so-called "urban legend" of the DNC Fax. Here is yet another piece of proof.
6 posted on 07/15/2003 2:18:42 PM PDT by Old Sarge (Serving the Home Front on Operation Noble Eagle!)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
I think that there will be a lot of liberal,socialists dems with egg all over their faces soon enough. Do they not yet understand this President? Bush, Like many good men who know they are right, feels no need to defend himself from unjust attack, things will work out.

In the meantime, let them dems dig their own political graves with their tounges!
7 posted on 07/15/2003 2:22:05 PM PDT by Roughneck (Starve the Beast!)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl

XV. Thou shalt not unnecessarily excerpt.


8 posted on 07/15/2003 2:29:53 PM PDT by Spiff (Liberalism is a mental illness - a precursor disease to terminal Socialism.)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
All of us need to memorize these few words. The actual words used by President Bush in his SOTU speech on this subject:

"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

9 posted on 07/15/2003 2:33:40 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Please invest 17 cents a day/5$ per month in Free Republic as a monthly supporter.)
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To: Grampa Dave
Thanks for the reminder of those words. Seems the Liberal Press arm of the DNC cannot seem to understand English.
10 posted on 07/15/2003 2:37:24 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (Bush Cheney '04 - VICTORY IN '04 -- $4 for '04 - www.GeorgeWBush.com/donate/)
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To: PhiKapMom
They understand English and those exact words of GW.

They didn't count on us understanding English being to go back and find the exact words spoken by GW.
11 posted on 07/15/2003 2:38:43 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Please invest 17 cents a day/5$ per month in Free Republic as a monthly supporter.)
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To: PhiKapMom; FairOpinion
I thank Fair Opinion for posting what GW actually said in his SOTU speech.

"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

12 posted on 07/15/2003 2:40:59 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Please invest 17 cents a day/5$ per month in Free Republic as a monthly supporter.)
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"The Clintons' DEM-PRESS co-conspirators are accusing President Bush of being a habitual liar. Somebody needs a spanking."

If you can wait until a year from this November, you'll see the Dims get the spanking!

13 posted on 07/15/2003 2:48:05 PM PDT by Redbob
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
"The Clintons' DEM-PRESS co-conspirators are accusing President Bush of being a habitual liar. Somebody needs a spanking."

If you can wait until a year from this November, you'll see the Dims get the spanking!

14 posted on 07/15/2003 2:48:09 PM PDT by Redbob
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To: Scenic Sounds
Looks like Barbra Streisand's got her fax machine going again.
15 posted on 07/15/2003 2:53:45 PM PDT by schlitzsmoke (Excuse my parenthetical rantings and tangents)
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To: Grampa Dave
Don't you get the opinion that the press and some posters on here think Bush Supporters are dumb? Or is it that they hope we are?

16 posted on 07/15/2003 3:05:02 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (Bush Cheney '04 - VICTORY IN '04 -- $4 for '04 - www.GeorgeWBush.com/donate/)
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To: Grampa Dave
Not to mention looking at the statement in the full context of the case Bush made for attacking Iraq.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/946730/posts
17 posted on 07/15/2003 3:18:03 PM PDT by FairOpinion
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To: Grampa Dave
They didn't count on us understanding English being to go back and find the exact words spoken by GW.

they likely don't give a hoot about what we think, understand, or do.

they are counting on the average schmuck who watches little peter, dan and tom to
hear nothing but the drumbeat.

nothing but the drumbeat

nothing but the drumbeat

you are getting sleepy

18 posted on 07/15/2003 3:50:52 PM PDT by glock rocks (Remember... only YOU can prevent fundraisers. become a monthly donor.)
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To: Scenic Sounds
We just have to say:

It's just lying to kill a dictator. The American people don't care. It's time to move on.

19 posted on 07/15/2003 3:52:42 PM PDT by PackerBoy
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To: Grampa Dave
They didn't count on us understanding English being to go back and find the exact words spoken by GW.

Yep

20 posted on 07/15/2003 3:54:52 PM PDT by Mo1 (Please help Free Republic and Donate Now !!!)
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