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WILLIAM SAFIRE: BUSH DELIVERED BODY BLOW IN ROUND 2
Star Tribune ^ | 10/12/04 | William Safire

Posted on 10/12/2004 8:04:09 AM PDT by areafiftyone

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- When pro-Kerry commentators solemnly pronounce Debate Round 2 to have been "a draw" -- you know George Bush won that round.

The president won because he went in with a theme spoken by the heavyweight champion Joe Louis, just before his 1946 victory over the lighter, faster Billy Conn: "He can run, but he can't hide." (The Brown Bomber caught up with Conn in the eighth round of that first TV spectacular.)

Bush's debate plan was to keep boring in on the Kerry record: flip-flopping this year on the war, but all too consistently liberal for 20 years on tax increases.

On the war, Kerry almost eagerly made Bush's point, at first saying, "I do believe Saddam Hussein was a threat," and moments later denouncing Bush for being "preoccupied with Iraq, where there wasn't a threat."

(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...


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To: JackFinnegan
"My wife has just come back from a business trip in England. She faced a lot of aggression just for being American. The English think every American votes for Bush. In London she was pushed and spat on when they heard her accent. This was ironic because she didn't even vote for our president. I did. The trouble is: our president has made the US really unpopular"

It's too bad your wife had to experience what our Vietnam HEROES had to experience when they came back TO THEIR OWN COUNTRY, due to the likes of John Kerry.

21 posted on 10/12/2004 8:21:45 AM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: JackFinnegan
My wife has just come back from a business trip in England. She faced a lot of aggression just for being American. The English think every American votes for Bush. In London she was pushed and spat on when they heard her accent. This was ironic because she didn't even vote for our president. I did. The trouble is: our president has made the US really unpopular.

I'm in London all the time and I've never had a problem. The most I get is a taxi driver telling me how bad Bush is. Be careful about generalizing. I know a lot of Brits that are conservative.

22 posted on 10/12/2004 8:21:45 AM PDT by Sir Gawain
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To: JackFinnegan

Hey Jack, if you think we believe this cock and bull story you just told, you need to get off that crack you're smoking.


23 posted on 10/12/2004 8:22:02 AM PDT by no dems (I don't care what people think about me anymore; I speak the truth. Deal with it.)
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To: JackFinnegan

Our first President was not particularly popular in England. Our sixteenth President was not the most popular either. He paid for it with his life. Our forty second President was very popular around the world. He also did nothing to protect the American people and readily traded missile guidance technology for campaign contributions.


24 posted on 10/12/2004 8:22:47 AM PDT by Pharlap
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To: JackFinnegan
In London she was pushed and spat on...

Someone shoved and spit on your wife and you weren't on the next flight over. What kind of man are you. How does someone with a last name like Finnegan take that from some Brits. Why, if I didn't know any better I would think you are a spineless, puny, girlie man, liberal.

25 posted on 10/12/2004 8:23:08 AM PDT by MattinNJ (Only Arnold would have the stones to say Nixon was the reason he was a Republican.)
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To: JackFinnegan
No, the trouble is pansies like you.

Hello, goodbye.

A_R

26 posted on 10/12/2004 8:23:08 AM PDT by arkady_renko
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To: JackFinnegan; Admin Moderator

Are you visiting from DU??

Sounds like it.......

Possible Troll sighting


27 posted on 10/12/2004 8:24:25 AM PDT by sissyjane (Silk pajamas for dress up, and flannel for everyday-perfect Freeper wardrobe!!)
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To: JackFinnegan
The trouble is: our president has made the US really unpopular.

Why didn't you say so?

In that case, we should all just forget this ever happened, and beg the forgiveness of Islamofascist terrorists everywhere.


28 posted on 10/12/2004 8:24:27 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.)
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To: JackFinnegan
"unpopular...??" What?? Is that a disease...are you 15 years old, that popularity should matter??? Is 'unpopular' an unbearable alternative to 'dead', to 'subjugated by Muslims', to 'force fed a religion not of your own choosing', to 'losing your right to vote' or 'leaving your home without a sheet over your head'..??? DUHHH!!!
29 posted on 10/12/2004 8:25:04 AM PDT by SMARTY ('Stay together, pay the soldiers, forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus, to his sons)
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To: JackFinnegan

Don't go to Europe. Seriously, it's going to get worse. I've heard Europeans say that it's Bush's fault now but if we re-elect him it's all American's fault as we will have approved of his policies.

Frankly I'm sick and tired of Europeans trying to influence our election. When Bush is re-elected, and he will be, just don't plan any trips to Europe. If you have to go there for business, stay out of bars and public transport. The European economy is sick now. A fall in American tourism is just the ticket to push a sick Europe over the edge.


30 posted on 10/12/2004 8:25:06 AM PDT by Arkie2
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To: JackFinnegan

Your wife was not spat on because she was an American.

She was spat on because of her behaviour.


31 posted on 10/12/2004 8:25:19 AM PDT by stevestras
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To: JackFinnegan

You should have chosen Franceasthe country she visited, it would have made your lie a little more believable. I guess Tony Blair's wife gets spat upon all the time. Not.!


32 posted on 10/12/2004 8:25:57 AM PDT by woodyinscc
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To: JackFinnegan
My wife has just come back from a business trip in England. She faced a lot of aggression just for being American. The English think every American votes for Bush."

Oh....may it be.

I've been over there too. Bush is not the cause of anti-Americanism, but rather the combination of a screed-writing press and a public that believes everything they see on TV. Television came late to Europe, they have very few voices, and 90% of Europeans cannot discuss Bush vs. Kerry with any significant knowledge base at all. I find them, on the whole, grossly ignorant of American politics. My aquaintance is with France, a counrty which just 2 decades ago was still giving 25% of their votes to an avowed Stalinist. Exceedingly stupid people.

----(But great cheese and a gorgeous countryside). As they say: "how odd of God to waste France on the French."

33 posted on 10/12/2004 8:26:55 AM PDT by cookcounty (Kerry: He began by trashing the VN Vets. He ends by trashing the NG. Such class is rarely seen.)
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To: JackFinnegan

I just got back from London a week ago and got the opposite reaction from everyone I spoke to. Taxi drivers and pub patrons make for better conversation I guess.


34 posted on 10/12/2004 8:27:17 AM PDT by RockyMtnMan
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To: JackFinnegan
"our president has made the US really unpopular"

Horse hockey. That's akin to saying that the police negotiator is a murderer when a cowardly thug shoots his hostage.

The Left and its complicit media is largely responsible for portraying President Bush in the worst possible light and "making the US really unpopular." They're using every means at their disposal that they dare use. It's as effective a set of ploys as those they were using on Saddam in the 12 year run-up, while their leaders became even richer and more elitist.

All that deserves to have as little tangible effect on President Bush as it would have had on its continuation with Saddam.

HF

35 posted on 10/12/2004 8:27:45 AM PDT by holden
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To: JackFinnegan

Solution? Don't do business in racist England. Yes, racist:
"she was pushed and spat on when they heard her accent"


36 posted on 10/12/2004 8:27:51 AM PDT by balk (Martin's goin' down (just you wait!))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Incredible picture. We need more reminders of September 11, 2001. It seems as though so many have forgotten why we are at war. Thank you for posting it.


37 posted on 10/12/2004 8:27:56 AM PDT by Quilla
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To: JackFinnegan
Well, if Americans based everything we did on whether or not we're popular with the British, we'd still be colonies.

ww
38 posted on 10/12/2004 8:28:37 AM PDT by worrywart
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To: nmh

"Tell Aleksander Kwasniewski of Poland we're going alone."

Kerry set that one up. The RATS were trying to get Bush to pronounce the the Polish Presidents name incorrectly so that they could pounce on Bush. Kerry jumped, Bush moved and Kerry landed on his face.


39 posted on 10/12/2004 8:29:39 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Control the information given to society and you control society.)
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To: JackFinnegan
This is a war, a WAR on TERROR, not a popularity contest.

Do you think this precious child or her family give a rat's @$$ if anyone spit on your wife? Popular? You should be ashamed.

40 posted on 10/12/2004 8:31:55 AM PDT by Hatteras
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