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Ruthlessly charming Bush runs rings around Kerry
The Times, Irish Independent ^ | 8-14-04 | Tim Reid

Posted on 08/14/2004 6:16:31 AM PDT by veronica

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To: veronica
We survived Clinton, we'd survive Kerry

Kerry is only the second worst thing that could happen to our country. The number one worst thing is the junior senator from New York.

41 posted on 08/14/2004 6:57:57 AM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: veronica

"Attack dog-in-chief?"

42 posted on 08/14/2004 7:00:28 AM PDT by mollynme (cogito, ergo freepum)
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To: blanknoone
Thrughout my pathetic life, I've had maybe a total of two years of bold, agressive successes on a cumulative basis.

Kerry is running on four months! A goofy public lurks out there..........Kerry has squandered an endless string of good luck and fortune in his political life, passing on every opportunity to be something exceptional. Now, claiming to be exceptional purely by osmosis and circumstance, he sells us courage with no inventory to sell.

43 posted on 08/14/2004 7:01:11 AM PDT by blackdog (Hell is an endless hayfield needing to be raked, baled, and put up.)
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To: blanknoone
only his incompetent campaigning made them close.

Former Governor Weld came close and you are right, an entrenched democrat senator in Mass. shouldn't have any problems getting reelected. After all they reelect a murderer time after time.

44 posted on 08/14/2004 7:01:56 AM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: Wait4Truth

Coombes tried to pin that on him last night. He said it in March 2000 and, as Mr. Newt (I think it was Mr. Newt) pointed out, he was talking about diplomacy, not war fighting. Then they showed some montage of everyone that's ever used the word sensitive. I think most of us understand what that word means, and I think most of us understand what Kerry means when he uses it -- he means getting a permission slip from the French, the Germans, and the UN before taking any action. Which, by the way, I don't think sKerry would do... I think he would become arrogant, autocratic, and imperious as hell were he to become the most powerful man in the world.


45 posted on 08/14/2004 7:01:58 AM PDT by johnb838 (John F'n Kerry: If you have to say you're cool (or a war hero), you're not.)
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To: mollynme
You reminded me of something there........

What kind of dog does Kerry have a relationship with? Never trust a man that isn't trusted by a faithful dog.

46 posted on 08/14/2004 7:03:36 AM PDT by blackdog (Hell is an endless hayfield needing to be raked, baled, and put up.)
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To: All

How will the economic impact of the hurricanes affect national economic figures? What reporting date will they be reflected in?


47 posted on 08/14/2004 7:05:06 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Republican - The thinking people's party)
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To: wildwood
contemptuous pompadoured strutting popinjay booming his depressing and ludicrous decrees

lol.
48 posted on 08/14/2004 7:05:53 AM PDT by johnb838 (John F'n Kerry: If you have to say you're cool (or a war hero), you're not.)
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To: Jalapeno
Ruthlessly charming Bush runs rings around Kerry
"The Times, Irish Independent" ^ | 8-14-04 | Tim Reid

LOL.

Ruthlessly charming?

Give me a break.

President Bush is charming because he knows what he is about. Through and through. And when he makes a decision, he sticks to it. He is NOT charming in a malicious ( or ruthless) way, nor is he charming in a psuedo way. We have had experience with this - ala bill clinton - and know a snake oil salesman when we see one.

Kerry-Mr. Gourmet, Mr. do whatever it takes to win, Mr. Vietnam War trasher extraordinaire, has all the charm a fancy life affords with none of the grit it takes to form good character.

Give me a President who has worked in the private sector, has mastered in Business and knows the goodness in people ANYTIME!

49 posted on 08/14/2004 7:07:44 AM PDT by Republic (joe wilson is a LIAR-but since he is a democrat-the mainstream press is OK with it :^()
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To: School of Rational Thought
I don't know, but I find the hurricanes effect on plywood and drywall to be apocolyptic. Sure it's a manufacturing surge for the building products industry, but it's an industry that works on scant inventories and until they run at 90% capacity, they close all their manufacturing sites. I expect plywood and drywall to become as scarce as a consistant response from John Kerry.

I went to Home Depot and Menards and bought a dozen sheets of plywood and drywall on monday, anticipating the next four months of being without a single sheet to sell.

50 posted on 08/14/2004 7:11:37 AM PDT by blackdog (Hell is an endless hayfield needing to be raked, baled, and put up.)
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To: Republic
Give me a President who has worked in the private sector, has mastered in Business and knows the goodness in people ANYTIME!

I agree with you, but I have to say that W turned out to be a heckuva lot better President than he was a businessman. Still, I think failure is good for a man... builds character. And I DO NOT believe he was dishonest in business. That's just libsoc fantasy. If he were crooked why would he have had such mixed success?
51 posted on 08/14/2004 7:17:10 AM PDT by johnb838 (John F'n Kerry: If you have to say you're cool (or a war hero), you're not.)
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To: veronica

1. Bush is filled with the Holy Spirit of God!

2. There is nothing coming to W without passing through the Lord first!

3. God's People are praying for this man, and have since he was elected. A lot folks are on "The Presidential Prayer Team".
I believe the God's people throught-out the world are praying for him too.

Sooooo, he WILL be RE-ELECTED, because that's what we've been praying about.
So let's praise the Lord for his re-election!

BUSH/CHENEY 2004


52 posted on 08/14/2004 7:18:57 AM PDT by LadyPilgrim (Sealed my pardon with His blood, Hallelujah!!! What a Savior!!!)
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To: veronica
"charming, gifted, relaxed, wily, plainspoken and ruthless..."

...and resolute in his determination to defend freedom and the people of the Free World--just in case this has escaped you, Tim.

"the past ten days have reminded voters and political journalists just what an effective campaigner Mr Bush is."

...AND just what an effective defender of freedom and Western Civilization he is.

"Mr Kerry is still struggling to crystalise a clear message on Iraq..."

...or anything else--except this: He is a morally flexible opportunist who wants to be the most powerful man in the world.

This would not escape the astute observer. Unfortunately, Tim, you do not seem to have grasped it.

It is obvious from his article, that Tim Reid does not comprehend the substance of what he observes.

It's like reading the first part of The Sound and the Fury. The truth can be discerned from the observations of the mentally retarded Benjy, though Benjy has no comprehension of what's happening or what it means.

Tim, George W. Bush is a profoundly intelligent, truthful, capable, and courageous leader, who is determined to protect the United States and the Free World, liberty, justice, and Western Civilization, which have been attacked and drawn into war by a ruthless and formidable enemy that is determined to destroy them all.

John Kerry is a morally vacuous politician, who will take any stand or all stands that would serve his ambitions.

All this is obvious to the keen observer.

It is also sufficiently nuanced.

Unfortunately all this escapes the Benjys...oops! I mean Tim Reids...of the world.

53 posted on 08/14/2004 7:22:16 AM PDT by Savage Beast ("Anybody but Bush!" ~Al Qaida/Vote Democrat!-bin Laden/Kerry for President~Zawahiri/Yeah! ~Streisand)
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To: johnb838

Alan Colmes does nothing more than read the DNC talking points. He never has an original thought in his liberal head. I was happy to see Cheney go after Kerry on his remarks! Our President never uses the word "sensitive" when it comes to fighting and winning a war. I think in 2000 he said something about having a "humble foreign policy" but that was before those maniacs killed 3000 innocent citizens. Kerry is as big a liar as clinton and just as arrogant. I tremble at the thought of him governing the USA.


54 posted on 08/14/2004 7:25:55 AM PDT by Wait4Truth ("There is nothing complicated about supporting our troops in combat!" - GWB)
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To: blackdog
What kind of dog does Kerry have a relationship with?

Speaking of dogs, check out this thread.

55 posted on 08/14/2004 7:25:58 AM PDT by mollynme (cogito, ergo freepum)
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To: veronica
At the same time, Mr Bush has donned a persona with crowds that has proved disarmingly effective all his political life: funny, down to earth, slightly humble, with an artfully simple message delivered in skilfully crafted short sentences. It is an image that deliberately hides a man with formidable political gifts and instinct.

Funny... When the press isn't using the exact same description to call President Bush a dunce, they're using it to call him a "ruthless... politician."

I guess just being who you are, a "funny, down to earth, slightly humble" man makes you ruthless, while being an outright liar, like Clinton or Kerry, makes you "charismatic!"

Mark

56 posted on 08/14/2004 7:26:32 AM PDT by MarkL (Dude!!! You're farting fire!!!!)
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To: ValerieUSA
Mr Kerry's problems began when Mr Bush challenged him for a yes-or-no answer on a critical campaign issue: if he knew last year before the invasion that no weapons of mass destruction would be found in Iraq, would he still have voted for the war?
"when did you stop beating your wife" ping.

57 posted on 08/14/2004 7:29:33 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Unlike some people, I have a profile. Okay, maybe it's a little large...)
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To: veronica
AMERICA was reintroduced this week to one of its most charming, gifted, relaxed, wily, plainspoken and ruthless politicians: George W Bush, the candidate.

At last some of dem der ferreners recognize "The Hammer" for who he really is.

58 posted on 08/14/2004 7:32:08 AM PDT by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: blackdog
What kind of dog does Kerry have a relationship with? Never trust a man that isn't trusted by a faithful dog.

Dogs can be too nice to be good judges of character --- even Clinton managed to find a dog that liked him. I think instead put someone with a horse and see how the horse takes to him. You saw plenty of Reagan pictures with him riding a horse --- but interestingly -- none of Clinton or Gore.

59 posted on 08/14/2004 7:40:48 AM PDT by FITZ
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To: goldstategop
Some of the best, non-biased reporting on the American election campaign comes from the overseas press.

This is one reason why I put little faith in the polls we see. They are a form of reporting and like most in this country, seem to be quite left leaning. A few point lead for kerry is interpreted as 'opening an big gap' and I suspect an 'even race' is actually a large Bush lead. The perspective of an 'off shore' report may be far more accurate sometimes.

60 posted on 08/14/2004 7:45:07 AM PDT by tbpiper (Michael Moore…..the Erich von Däniken of political documentary)
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