Posted on 08/14/2004 4:01:40 AM PDT by Happygal
Thanks for the post. Bush will get 58%.
O'ping! :-)
YES, YES AND YES! The race goes not to quickest but to the steadiest. And this is no ordinary time and we need the steady leadership of a proven President. And that man, Freepers, Friends and Fellow Americans - is President George W. Bush!!!
Uh, no it isn't, since our president is not elected by popular vote. In 2000, the electoral votes of ONE state were in dispute.
Otherwise, a good read.
And I like the phrase "hotting up". LOL
Yeah, I thought that too. Maybe explaining the electoral college system is a bit too complicated for us Proportional Representation voters in Ireland. ;-)
Thanks for posting the piece. Blumenthal is just one more Clintonista dedicated to the rehabilitation and revision of Clinton's "legacy". Nobody with a IQ larger than their shoe size buys any of the Clintonista tripe, but the RATS feed on it and their hate for GWB like, well, like rats. They are in for such a disappointment come November, and I can't wait for the chance to rub it in.
For those interested, there's more about Sid Vicious here:
-Liars-- and Sleaze, Incorporated... ( my files on the clintons and friends )--
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One final note on George W. Bush’s management style and his Harvard Business School background does not derive from the classroom, per se. One feature of life there is that a subculture of poker players exists. Poker is a natural fit with the inclinations, talents, and skills of many future entrepreneurs. A close reading of the odds, combined with the ability to out-psych the opposition, leads to capital accumulation in many fields, aside from the poker table.
By reputation, the President was a very avid and skillful poker player when he was an MBA student. One of the secrets of a successful poker player is to encourage your opponent to bet a lot of chips on a losing hand. This is a pattern of behavior one sees repeatedly in George W. Bush’s political career. He is not one to loudly proclaim his strengths at the beginning of a campaign. Instead, he bides his time, does not respond forcefully, a least at first, to critiques from his enemies, no matter how loud and annoying they get. If anything, this apparent passivity only goads them into making their case more emphatically.
Only time will tell, whether Saddam ever had any WMDs. Their non-existence has not been proven. Only time will tell whether or not Osama bin Laden (or his corpse) will be taken into custody by American Troops. Only time will tell whether or not Iraq will continue to make progress toward a transition toward a peaceful democratic government. George W. Bush knows much more information about these topics than his domestic political opponents do. At the moment, they are betting a lot of their chips on one side of these questions.
We will see by November who has the winning hand.
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I think G.W. has the cards. Too bad Dimocrats!
That is indeed a fair enough account of how George W. Bush was made President by a vote of the Supreme Court after having narrowly failed to win a popular majority of the electorate.
No, that is NOT a fair account of how George W. Bush became President. In the first place, the only reason the Supreme Court was involved at all was that the Florida Supreme Court decided to completely ignore Florida law as written by the Florida Legislature and make up their own "law". The U.S. Supreme court, in ever so nice language, told them they cannot do that.
In the second place, the writer doesn't seem to know that it's the Electoral College votes that count, not the popular vote. Sigh.
Other than misunderstanding exactly what happened in Florida in 2000, and not realizing that the Governator was elected last year, this is a pretty good assessment of what I think is going to happen over the next two and a half months.
But here it is after the DNC convention and not only does Kerry not have a double-digit lead over Bush (as Dukakis did in 1988, for example), but Bush actually has a small lead!
This is why the lamestream media have not been pushing polls on us lately. Because it doesn't look good for their guy. So the best they can do is make it seem like a close race when in fact, Bush is already pulling away and Kerry is fading into obscurity.
Where is Kerry and Edwards lately? They've been keeping a lower profile then Dole/Kemp at this time in '96!
The fact that Bush is opening up a lead two weeks before his own convention is absolutely devastating to the Democrats. Kerry has lost the momentum (if he had any) and Bush now has the national stage.
The only thing Kerry has going for him is that his sad-sack face will not be featured on national TV again until the debates in the fall. He might at least stop losing support until that time.
S'okay. It's obviously too complicated for half the United States to grasp, as well.
A clear-eyed, on-the-money view from the Emerald Isle. Thanks, and best to you...
The History Channel had a great piece on the Harvard poker players not too long ago. Seems they tore a hole through Atlantic City and Vegas before either burning out or being barred from the casinos.
The article places some significance on the fact that W did not gain a majority of the votes. However, one never hears that in reference to Clinton, who did not receive a majority in two elections. In fact, I seem to remember that W actually received a higher percentage of the vote than Clinton did in his first election. Yet Clinton was the darling of the left Europeans and could do no wrong in their eyes, even though he was so bad he made Jimmy Carter look like a statesman.
I am cheered by the article though. I hope he's right.
Sounds interesting.
Iz 'at En'lish or Irish?
-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)
I didn't know that!
Great, another stick for me to beat my lib friends with! :-)
"Chin up Happy. I got my hand back. ' we've only just...'" Sorry, I've been saying that. It's from Happy Gilmore. I think Kerry is well past his high water mark and will soon be coming upon a drought, with the RNC coming up, then will simply go down in flames in the debates.
I'z be 100 pur sent Paddy! ;-)
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