All You Have to Do Is Believe(can't believe we are losing to Bush!)

TIME ^ | 09/11/04 | JOE KLEIN

[Darkwolf377]

Democrats were perplexed, depressed and awestruck. How could Cheney get away with saying, in effect, that a vote for Kerry was a vote for terrorism?


The same way Kerry got away with saying Bush not extending the gun ban was helping arm terrorists--to NO outcry from the media.

[Happygal]

But Bush truly believes—and these are admirable beliefs—in the power of "freedom" and the evil of Islamist radicalism. He is secure enough to acknowledge the possibility that he might be proved wrong. Two weeks ago, he told TIME that history would be the judge of his policies—it would take decades to sort it all out—but he was confident about the choices he had made.

Well, I'm in Ireland. And I won't vote in this US Presidential election. But the outcome of it WILL affect me. Becaue the leader of Free World, and the policies he pursues, have a knock on affect throughout the free world.

I want to see a man who is SECURE in his own judgement, and a man SECURE in his own mind about terrorism in that position.

History may well be the judge.
And I truly believe, history will be very kind to George W. Bush.

[GoLightly]

They don't just dehumanize all who disagree with them, they do the same to everyone that gets in the way of their getting power back.

Meanwhile, in the real world, Russia was recovering from a horrific terrorist attack that left at least 338 dead—mostly children—which put an exclamation point on the President's claim that we are fighting a global war against terrorism

Russian children should have picked a more convenient time to get themselves murdered.

[DCPatriot]

"You can't allow the enemy to have sanctuaries and expect to win," John McCain told me. "You have to go in and dig them out."

Was he the "prominent Democrat" he spoke to?

[Sam the Sham]

It is my understanding that there is an Arabic word called "Hayba". Hayba is an attribute of leadership. It consists of clearly demonstrated magnanimity towards those who serve him well and savagery towards enemies. A strong leader must be feared.

The Iraqi government must demonstrate its hayba if it is to rule. It must level Fallujah, Ramadi, and Samarra (funny how Sunni militants are swarming there with no where to go.) and generously accept the surrender of the survivors.

[deport]

This one runs all over the field hoping to hit some kind of explosive..... They appear to really have no clue at this stage.... If it can only persist for 50 more days.....

[Mark]

Joey, you forgot to mention that your man served in Vietnam.

[ultima ratio]

Of course Bush has ceded zones in Iraq to insurgents. But this is not a sign of Bush's failure--as the terrorists and leftwing pundits believe. It is rather a measure of Bush's strategic thinking. This was a deliberate tactic--designed to minimize our casualties until after the election when Bush can better focus on an all-out effort. Right now, given how the old media exploits any casualties for political benefit, it is better to temporarily cede some ground. Once the election is over, Bush can pull out the stops and clobber the enemy.

[CFC__VRWC]

President Bush's victory on Nov. 2 is going to be such a bitter pill for them to swallow. The leftists had it all going for them - a candidate whose benefactors and wife have bottomless pockets, all manner of 527 groups set up well in advance to circumvent the CFR law they had passed and wired directly to their benefactors' off shore bank accounts, a media and entertainment establishment that happily threw any pretense of objectivity or reasoned consideration out the window and solidly unified their voices in a chorus to oust the "drunken idiot frat boy" who "stole" their election.

The only thing they didn't have was a viable candidate or a message that was palatable to the sane part of the electorate. Instead, all they had was a empty suit from Massachussetts, a soulless, pandering 60-going-on-18 cad whose only talent was seducing rich widows and who would sooner swallow the fragments of his glass jaw than take a definitive stand on anything. And on top of that, his personality was about as warm and loveable as a syphilitic porcupine.

But the left soldiered on anyway, figuring that they could conceal all this from the public with a slick marketing campaign and a lot of look-the-other-way. After all, they had the media and Hollywood. But they once again underestimated the American people, and they once again underestimated the power of the alternative media that has sprung up to fill the immense demand for news and information that isn't condescendingly presented from the far left perspective.

[Finalapproach29er]

Sadly, our military and political leadership are likely unprepared for the Sunni Tet Offensive that is going to explode soon.

We never seem to be ready for the easily foreseeable. It's going to get bloody; I hope we have the stomach to kill about 4-5000 of them.

[DCPatriot]

"...Kerry could have challenged Bush: "Fight the war, Mr. President..."

LOL! The Mother-of-all Flip-Flops!

Ah, the irony.

[blue-duncan]

Just think, in four more years of President Bush and then eight years of Giuliani, the Kleins, Milbanks, Oliphants, Richs, Dowds, Rathers, Brokaws, Jennings, Finemens, Carlsons etc. are just going to be quaint stories of people with too much time on their hands and not enough wisdom or self discipline to be able to contribute to the common good.

[gogipper]

On what facts do you base this readiness assessment?

[Wil H]

Bush seems to believe what he says and Kerry doesn't quite...

And nor does anyone else...LOL...

[MarkL]

A long time ago last week, the vice president of the United States said that if John Kerry is elected President "the danger is that we'll get hit again" by terrorists. It was an outrageous statement, which exposed the rampaging hubris of the Republican Party these days—and it should have been a big story.

Sorry Joe, but you left out the most important part of the statement! I can't believe that other media will let these "Clymers" get away with completely twisting the meaning of what Vice President Cheyney said. All he had to do was finish the statement, and the meaning becomes clear.

The actual statement was (paraphrased, since I don't have the original text in front of me, and I'm too tired to go look it up...)

"if John Kerry is elected President "the danger is that we'll get hit again" by terrorists, and go back to treating terrorism as a law enforcement problem, like before Sept 11, 2001.

It's a simple statement, and one that Kerry has stated himself.

The fact that no other media outlet is hanging Klein out to dry is proof positive that there's a conspiracy of silence in the main-stream media to get rid of President Bush, and they're willing to sacrifice anything for their goal, including "journalistic integrity," which I now classify with Santa, the Easter Bunny, and tinkerbell: Figments of the imagination.

Mark

[Finalapproach29er]

1000 dead for starters.

Fallujah: We lost several Marines while taking 1/3-1/2 the city, then stopped and pull back. This was Sanchez' plan.

Sadr-city: We fought for more than 2 weeks, then let Sadr go!

We're not serious about winning, otherwise we would be exterminating the 5000-10,000 unfriendlies in Iraq. The pace is way too slow. We are trying to do this operation without breaking any dishes, and to please public opinion.

Public Opinion wouldn't matter if we were serious. The parameters for use of force would be loosened up to complete the job-world opinion be damned.

More Americans will likely have to be rubbed out at home before we get serious, I'm sorry to say. I only hope it isn't too bad, or too late.

That's how I see it.

[okie01]

It is rather a measure of Bush's strategic thinking. This was a deliberate tactic--designed to minimize our casualties until after the election when Bush can better focus on an all-out effort.

One might even suspect that, even as Iraq was "flypaper" for jihadists, Fallujah, et al, might be serving as "flypaper" for those who remain in Iraq.

Let them all gather in a few isolated locales. Then, apply the roachicide...

[woofie]

I want Bush to win for a lot of reasons but one of the main ones is for Joe Klein and his friends to shut the f%$# up!

[Artemis Webb]

"Kerry will defer to the French."

Hell...that's 3 strikes in this ballgame just by itself.

[ladyinred]

"It was an outrageous statement, which exposed the rampaging hubris of the Republican Party these days—and it should have been a big story."

This is an outrageous story which exposes the rampaging bias of the print media, that should be the big story jerk.