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Village Voice Cover Story Asks "Why THEY Like Him: The Baffling Appeal of George W. Bush"
Village Voice ^ | July 20, 2004 | Rick Perlstein

Posted on 07/21/2004 6:49:28 AM PDT by Bonaventure

Here are some things that Christopher Nunneley, a conservative activist in Birmingham, Alabama, believes. That some time in June, apparently unnoticed by the world media, George Bush negotiated an end to the civil war in Sudan. That Bill Clinton is "lazy" and Teresa Heinz Kerry is an "African colonialist." That "we don't do torture," and that the School of the Americas manuals showing we do were "just ancient U.S. disinformation designed to make the Soviets think that we didn't know how to do real interrogations."

Chris Nunneley also believes something crazy: that George W. Bush is a nice guy.

It's a rather different conclusion than many liberals would make. When we think of Bush's character, we're likely to focus on the administration's proposed budget cuts for veterans, the children indefinitely detained at Abu Ghraib, maybe the story of how the young lad Bush loaded up live frogs with firecrackers in order to watch them explode.

Conservatives see it differently.

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


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bush; perlstein; villagevoice; voice
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Nice to see the anthropologists at the Village Voice examining American conservatives -- a plurality of the population -- as if they were Amazon tribesmen.
1 posted on 07/21/2004 6:49:29 AM PDT by Bonaventure
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To: Bonaventure; Perlstein

Rick likes to come play in the FR sandbox every now and then, don't you, Rick?

I'm guessing he shows up sometime today to try to defend this article. He doesn't like criticism.


2 posted on 07/21/2004 6:54:09 AM PDT by EllaMinnow (Re-elect Bush - because Kerry just doesn't have the time.)
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To: Bonaventure
Of course, two years after Bush made his pledge, only 2 percent of the AIDS money has been distributed (in any event, it will mainly go to drug companies). And appearing earnest in the presence of African Americans has been a documented Bush strategy for wooing moderate voters since the beginning.

Ah...so the AIDS initiative is just another sinister BushCo plot to line the pockets of big corporations with taxpayer money. Also, Bush obviously only appears on front of blacks to "woo moderate voters," because seeing as he's from Texas, he must obviously hate blacks. I get it now.

3 posted on 07/21/2004 6:55:35 AM PDT by ICX (This tagline was inadvertently removed from the National Archives.)
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To: Bonaventure

I've been interviewed by these cretins - they routinely misquote to support their storyboards. Bets are that they grossly distorted what was said, or just made it up.


4 posted on 07/21/2004 6:57:29 AM PDT by Fenris6
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To: Bonaventure
You see crap like this and you have to start believing in the two Americas - not John Edwards' view - but an America divided along a sanity gradient.
5 posted on 07/21/2004 6:58:16 AM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: Bonaventure
Headline ........... "John Kerry-Why They Don't Yet Hate Him"

All over the country the informed on John Effin Kerry wonder why a great majority of the voters don't yet outrightly hate him for his deplorable activities when he came back from his bandaid wounds in Vietnam. They wonder why most folks don't hate a guy who referred to his fellow soldiers as murderers, rapists, and baby killers. Why........ the meidia keeps the morons in the dark!

6 posted on 07/21/2004 6:59:47 AM PDT by beyond the sea (There's always one to turn and walk away ........ and one who just wants to stay)
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To: Bonaventure
I don't mention recent poll figures suggesting that more Americans believe John Kerry than Bush when it comes to terrorism.

Haven't seen this poll.

And that is why conservatism is verging on becoming an un-American creed.

Don't see that happening either.

I almost had to vomit by the time I finished reading that crap.

7 posted on 07/21/2004 7:04:41 AM PDT by RockinRight (Liberalism IS the status quo)
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To: Bonaventure

"maybe the story of how the young lad Bush loaded up live frogs with firecrackers in order to watch them explode. "


Huh? So now they're just making stuff up?!


8 posted on 07/21/2004 7:08:50 AM PDT by Blzbba (Hillary Clinton - Dawn of a New Error.)
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To: Bonaventure

Gee the author must be smart, witty, and oh so much better than other people...for instance he says: "They certainly love them some George Bush." ha ha, when I read that I can feel so damn superior... ha,ha.


9 posted on 07/21/2004 7:10:31 AM PDT by woofie ( I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.)
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To: Bonaventure

Gee the author must be smart, witty, and oh so much better than other people...for instance he says: "They certainly love them some George Bush." ha ha, when I read that I can feel so damn superior... ha,ha.


10 posted on 07/21/2004 7:10:36 AM PDT by woofie ( I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.)
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To: Miss Marple; Howlin

The posting of GWB pictures on FR is covered in the latter half of this article.

8 Legislative Days Left Until The AWB Expires

11 posted on 07/21/2004 7:13:09 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Bonaventure
Rick, not only do we like W, we don't like you! Shocking, huh?
12 posted on 07/21/2004 7:14:37 AM PDT by clintonh8r ("Just because I could.......")
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To: Bonaventure

What a bizarre article!

Where do these people (those of the VV) live?


13 posted on 07/21/2004 7:15:30 AM PDT by najida (Who said I could spell? My fingers are faster than my brain.)
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To: Bonaventure
Posted under the actual title here:

Church of Bush: What liberal infidels will never understand about president (FREEPERS quoted)

14 posted on 07/21/2004 7:17:04 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Bonaventure

This is nearly as nutty as some of the rants on DU.

Liberalism is a mental disease.


15 posted on 07/21/2004 7:17:31 AM PDT by Robert Taylor
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To: Southack
dead has posted the entire article on here at Perlstein's request (he is registered at this site). You may find by searching "Church of Bush."

The reason they mock us posting pictures of President Bush is because they know he takes a good picture. I saw no criticism of people who had pictures of President Clinton on their web sites, nor have I seen any criticism of the Clinton fans who like him because of his hair, or because he is "sexy."

The left is trying to make us feel ashamed of posting pictures of the President because the pictures bely the image of a lazy, stupid, uncaring person.

Mr. Perlstein can go pound sand.

16 posted on 07/21/2004 7:17:45 AM PDT by Miss Marple
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To: Blzbba

Interesting article, I'm sure Rick wrote a similar one about all the kool aid drinkers in the Democratic party who protected Clinton (Sand Berger anyone?)


17 posted on 07/21/2004 7:18:04 AM PDT by FastCoyote
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To: Bonaventure
Rick with a capital P?

As in:

PRICK


18 posted on 07/21/2004 7:19:55 AM PDT by Stallone (Make love not war! ~ Lynndie England)
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To: Stallone

Old Socialist whores like Perlstein (of the Jewish faith, or should I say, the Leftist Self-Loathing variation of the Jewish faith that would choose annihilation over honor) are the lifeblood of the Liberal party. Moronic, blind to truth, suicidal, anti-American, and damn ugly.

During the holocaust, scum like Perlstein were rooting, not for his countrymen and family, but for the Nazis.

The kind of guy you would punch the lights out of, if you ever met in person.


19 posted on 07/21/2004 7:23:06 AM PDT by Stallone (Make love not war! ~ Lynndie England)
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