Posted on 08/10/2004 6:58:17 AM PDT by SJackson
The pundits are offering all kinds of reasons why John Kerry didn't get the expected bounce out of the Democratic convention. Despite the fact that Kerry's acceptance speech was delivered with authority, conviction, and energy, there's a simple explanation for the nonbounce bounce: The speech was too much like sugarless gum. The taste quickly evaporated because there was too little substance.
This was most glaring on Iraq. Kerry would persuade the world, he said, to "share the burden, reduce the cost to American taxpayers, reduce the risk to American soldiers" so he could bring home a substantial number of them. But how? Under what conditions would he bring the troops home? The next day he said he would look to substantially reduce our forces in Iraq by the end of his first term. How? And doesn't the very suggestion undermine the perception of American resolve, encouraging the insurgents to play the waiting game? The fact is that our troops will be needed in Iraq for a long time. There will be no free and painless exit.
Kerry charged that the Bush administration should have and could have won far greater international support. This overlooks the fact that the coalition included Britain, Spain, Italy, Japan — and that Muslim countries are now thinking of sending their own forces. Yes, two governments were missing, France and Germany.
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The more people see of him, the less they like him. He has the personality of a bucket of you know what.
And a ping for those on Alouette's list, she's away from her computor.
There was no bounce, because there is no undecided. And the internet, email, advanced means of communication have played a large part in people making up their minds (becoming galvanized). Sites just as this one of both sides of the isle have played a large part in the process.
Zuckerman..publisher of the NY Daily News..which will endorse Bush this fall..
"He has the personality of a bucket of you know what."
Crap? Rotting pig intestines? Three day old vomit? What? Inquiring minds want to know! ;^)
You win the prize with a variation of crap.
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