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Bush is Simply Simplistic... a Simpleton
Hardball with Chris Matthews ^ | March 11, 2004

Posted on 03/11/2004 4:46:05 PM PST by ReleaseTheHounds

Former Governor Mario Cuomo is on Hardball right now -- I can only paraphrase... Bush decided to go into Iraq on his own on a simplistic notion that it had to be done. Bush suffers from being simply too simplistic. He campaigned on no nation building -- we would just sit at home and rake in the dough. But after 9-11, it's time for nation building. This is all the result of Bush simply being too simplistic -- he never traveled before taking the presidency.

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On the prospect of changes in the Supreme Court and the expectation that Judge Renquist (sp?) may be retiring, I can quote Cuomo: "Amen!"

Chris Matthews couldn't have been happier with this "Hardball" interview.

1 posted on 03/11/2004 4:46:05 PM PST by ReleaseTheHounds
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To: ReleaseTheHounds
Cuomo just oozes arrogant elitism. I couldn't stomach the entire interview - had to bail on it.
2 posted on 03/11/2004 4:48:06 PM PST by SolutionsOnly
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To: ReleaseTheHounds
Chrissy is one of the few who still admires and respects Mario, who clinton called a hood.

What I thought was interesting was when Chris admitted that Kerry's lanquage caught on mike was not that uncommon in the back rooms he was part of. Of course, Chris hung out with Dems, Carter, Tip O'Neil, etc.

No surprise.
3 posted on 03/11/2004 4:49:14 PM PST by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: ReleaseTheHounds
Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
4 posted on 03/11/2004 4:50:34 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: ReleaseTheHounds
Cuomo has a point-the idea of kill or be killed is pretty simple. So why doesn't HE get it?
5 posted on 03/11/2004 4:50:41 PM PST by Spok
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To: ReleaseTheHounds
I won't address the idiotic substance of Cuomo's comments, but I'd sure like to see him produce some proof that Bush "hadn't traveled" before becoming President.
6 posted on 03/11/2004 4:51:07 PM PST by GOPrincess
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To: SolutionsOnly
This plays real well in fly-over country.
7 posted on 03/11/2004 4:53:31 PM PST by My2Cents ("Well...there you go again.")
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To: Spok
Cuomo has a point -

I thought you were going to stop there and tell us it is on the top of his head.

8 posted on 03/11/2004 4:54:02 PM PST by vbmoneyspender
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To: TC Rider
Was that a "hardball" interview by Chris or just a 10 minute monologue by a depraved mind? That's the only time I've ever seen Chris just sit there and let someone talk for 10 minutes. It was disgusting.
9 posted on 03/11/2004 4:54:08 PM PST by rocklobster11
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To: rocklobster11
I know my synopsis is pretty lame, so I'll add parts of the transcript when it goes up tomorrow.

I thought Chris was pretty fair in the opening interview with the Republican official (Black) and the Demo (who cares?). But with Cuomo, it really was "Puff-Ball".

10 posted on 03/11/2004 4:57:34 PM PST by ReleaseTheHounds
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To: rocklobster11
Oh? Then you've never seem him go into total wuss mode when Sheila Jackson Lee launches into one of her ridiculous fillibusters.
11 posted on 03/11/2004 4:58:16 PM PST by SolutionsOnly
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To: ReleaseTheHounds
"Bush is Simply Simplistic... a Simpleton"

Wait a minute. I thought the leftists position was that Bush was the mastermind of holding Saddam until he needed a boost in ratings; that he masterminded tricking all the "little" nations into joining the terrorist fighting coalition; that he masterminded the stealing of the 2000 election; etc.
12 posted on 03/11/2004 4:58:46 PM PST by HighWheeler (RATS hero is an impeached, dis-barred, lying, perjuring, cheating, lazy, cowardly sexual predator)
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To: ReleaseTheHounds
Okay. Let's all recall the "simpleton" charge the next time an occasion demands they characterize him as a scheming Ivy Leaguer.
13 posted on 03/11/2004 4:59:56 PM PST by JennysCool
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To: ReleaseTheHounds
The widow Heinz considers herself and John as "complex" people, because of their ability to take both side of every issue.
14 posted on 03/11/2004 5:02:17 PM PST by Rome2000 (Foreign leaders for Kerry!!!!!)
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To: ReleaseTheHounds
Chris gets weak-kneed around Hillary and Mario the Pious.

When he giggles like a kid, you know he's in "kid" mode.

15 posted on 03/11/2004 5:02:50 PM PST by sinkspur (Adopt a dog or a cat from an animal shelter! It will save one life, and may save two.)
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To: HighWheeler
Idiot Savant?
16 posted on 03/11/2004 5:04:59 PM PST by Calamari (Pass enough laws and everyone is guilty of something.)
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To: ReleaseTheHounds
he never traveled before taking the presidency.

Are we making some kind of list? This is fun. I can add to it, too.

Bush didn't spend his formative years in Europe.

Bush's mother didn't grow up in France.

17 posted on 03/11/2004 5:07:54 PM PST by syriacus (1/16/04 Kerry smeared Pickering by calling him a tireless advocate for a cross burner)
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To: ReleaseTheHounds
L'il Andrew is mobbed up, bigtime. I can only assume that Saint Mario is too. Democrats are pure scum, top to bottom, through and through. I woner if Chrissy kissed Saint Mario's ring...
18 posted on 03/11/2004 5:09:06 PM PST by clintonh8r (Vietnam veteran against John Kerry.)
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Bush's mother didn't grow up in France...

...or in an Arkansas trailer park.

19 posted on 03/11/2004 5:10:41 PM PST by clintonh8r (Vietnam veteran against John Kerry.)
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To: ReleaseTheHounds
Mario is confusing simple with stupid. So of us have grown up, like the President, and realized life is not complicated. Life is full of truths and absolutes and all the intellectual arguments in the world won't make that go away.

It is truly a mark of perfect maturity when one understands that the elements of life is not a trade-off. Mario and his ilk are perpetual teenagers.
20 posted on 03/11/2004 5:14:32 PM PST by whereasandsoforth (tagged for migratory purposes only)
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