Posted on 09/06/2004 2:51:58 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The downside of last week's convention was that the Republicans performed brilliantly. The upside is that it may finally have lit a fire under John Kerry.
He has waged the most lackluster campaign so far, but the spectacle at Madison Square Garden, where he was attacked, often unfairly, and mocked relentlessly by the Bushies, seemed to revitalize him. Immediately after the convention wound down, Kerry starting acting like someone who wants to win this election.
....... Talk to Democrats almost anywhere, and you hear their desperation over this campaign. They want mightily to remove George Bush, but are experiencing a mixture of anger, terror and despair. Anger at the Republicans' lies about Kerry's record and their own. Terror over how well the Republican message resonates with other voters. And despair over Kerry's less than dynamic response. They can see the election slipping away if his campaign doesn't dramatically change course.
Even so, there's a well of optimism in these Democrats - maybe it's just plain, old-fashioned hope - that Kerry can still pull this thing off......a group of young Democrats watched Bush's speech on three plasma screen TVs, they booed as the president ticked off the points of an agenda that is growing increasingly more conservative, ......
Melanie McEvoy, 35, and Jeff Altman, 38, both told me they had decided on the spot to go to Florida a week before the election to help bring out the Kerry vote.
.....The Democrats are certainly motivated enough. At 8 o'clock on the morning after the convention, Jeri Famighetti joined 500 other New Yorkers who boarded buses headed to Pennsylvania to spend the day stumping for Kerry. Her sense of urgency is so great that this is the first campaign she's worked on since Hubert Humphrey's against Richard Nixon.......
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
Translation: sKerry is burning himself at the stake.
"Let 'em weep. There's no "milk of human kindness" left in me for those who have relentlessly trashed our President>
Sums up my feeling towards the Rats also.
I didn't know you lived in my town! LOL! It's what they want here too. We are building all new elementary schools (despite declining enrollment) because so many of them are "outdated" - they were actually built in the 50's and 60's. The two schools built in the 70's are also being replaced, since they were built on the trendy "open classroom" philosophy, which turned out to be too chaotic for learning. County government is building a new prison that includes a retractable exercise dome for the recreational area...
What gets me is Kerry's chutzpah, keeping Clinton on the phone for several hours last night, while Clinton faced heart surgery at six am. And whom do reporters hope Clinton's going to be healthy enough to campaign for in forty to sixty days? Do they seriously think dragging Clinton through the battle states will make a difference if Kerry's still on the ticket? clinton, whose inaction is at the bottom of 9/11, the Cole bombing, the embassy bombing, etc..
Kerry's busing in paid flunkies. Ridiculous.
A fire under Rice Butt. Now there's an image.
Terror? What a disgusting use of the word. This woman should be ashamed.
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