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The Lowest Blow
NY Times ^ | October 18, 2004 | WILLIAM SAFIRE

Posted on 10/17/2004 8:44:37 PM PDT by neverdem

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To: ASA Vet
I'm going to have fun telling dad they're related.

LOL! Would love to be a fly on the wall!

21 posted on 10/17/2004 9:00:27 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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To: SquirrelKing
Cool. My grandfather was friends with Jack Daniels and Jim Beam.

LOL

Mine raised minnows in the backyard because he liked to fish.

What was this thread about now? :-)

22 posted on 10/17/2004 9:02:02 PM PDT by ladyinred (The simple lie always conquers the more complex truth. (propaganda))
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To: neverdem

I like seeing that this was in the NYSlimes.


23 posted on 10/17/2004 9:02:25 PM PDT by ladyinred (The simple lie always conquers the more complex truth. (propaganda))
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To: neverdem
The sleazier purpose of the Kerry-Edwards spotlight on Mary Cheney is to confuse and dismay Bush supporters who believe that same-sex marriage is wrong, to suggest that Bush is as "soft on same-sex" as Kerry is, and thereby to reduce a Bush core constituency's eagerness to go to the polls.

I've heard this line of argument stated a number of times in slightly different ways but I don't quite buy it.

This battle has been for the undecided voters for quite some time. The way I look at it, Sen. Spitball is basically assuming that most undecided voters are homophobic.

President Bush's core constituency is informed enough to know that John Kerry is the one to worry about when it comes to legalizing marriage between people who engage in homosexual acts. Undecided voters are not.

24 posted on 10/17/2004 9:04:04 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of what he was never reasoned into." Jonathan Swift)
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To: neverdem
Listen: "Have You No Sense of Decency"
25 posted on 10/17/2004 9:04:05 PM PDT by uncleshag (The Insightful Chastigator)
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To: neverdem
Brian Whitman, a Democrat who hosts a weekend radio show in New York, was more upset about Mrs. Edwards' comment than anything else -- and called on her to publicly retract her remarks.

A caller to his show tonight made an excellent point about Kerry's comment:

Suppose the moderator of the debate had asked the two candidates a question about the growing problem of obesity in the United States, and President Bush had said something to this effect: "We should ask the wife of my opponent's running mate about this -- 'cause she's 'bout as big as a house, ain't she?"

26 posted on 10/17/2004 9:04:48 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (I made enough money to buy Miami -- but I pissed it away on the Alternative Minimum Tax.)
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To: neverdem

> Kerry will, I hope, assert his essential decency
> by apologizing with sincerity.

This is not going to happen.

Kerry is psychologically incapable of apology,
about anything.

Further, he incapable of sincerity as well,
and his acting skills are inadequate to fake it.


27 posted on 10/17/2004 9:04:53 PM PDT by Boundless (Was your voter registration sabotaged by ACORN? Don't find out Nov. 2. Vote early.)
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To: onyx eyes
The dummycrats keep saying "But its alright, because VP Cheney thanked Edwards, graciously afterwards..."

***** I BEG YOUR PARDON?

What else was Dick Cheney supposed to do? Turn around and punch the daylights outta Edwards? (I wish...)

John Edwards was on Fox News (I think) Friday explaining that Cheney had thanked him after his (Edwards') bringing up the subject. Either way it's interpreted, Edwards loses: 1) he's clueless about important social clues or 2) he's lying and devious.

28 posted on 10/17/2004 9:04:54 PM PDT by The Doctor
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To: RadioAstronomer
Should be more fun than when I told him I'd found French ancestors in his tree. He'd hassled mom for years about being 1/4 French Canadian.

He's a WW II Vet that didn't much care for the French he'd met.

29 posted on 10/17/2004 9:05:04 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: neverdem

Ms. Edwards is very lucky that W didn't associate her with a serious over-eating disorder when he answered questions recently about health care.


30 posted on 10/17/2004 9:05:52 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze
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To: motherof 3
Another case of the DEMS shooting themselves in the foot.

I think they had planned on using Elisabeth Edwards as a means to attract the mothers of the Country.

You are right. She mean, calculating and obviously has no compassion for mothers and their children.

She probably has a Nanny, a Maid, a Cook and a bad personal trainer!
31 posted on 10/17/2004 9:08:22 PM PDT by not2worry (What goes around comes around!)
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To: neverdem
Other Republicans hope he will let his self-inflicted wound fester.

Such is my hope.

32 posted on 10/17/2004 9:09:12 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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To: neverdem

Safire stated that two-thirds of those polled think that
what Kerry did was wrong. That compares with what I have
seen. However, I believe that, in fact, more than 80% of
Americans likely think that a political stunt of this nature
is generally a rotten thing to do. I would submit that the
reason why the poll revealed only a two to one result is
that many Democrats are willing to let this crap slide
when it is a Democrat candidate doing the sliming.


33 posted on 10/17/2004 9:10:16 PM PDT by Sivad (NorCal Red Turf)
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To: ladyinred
raised minnows in the backyard because he liked to fish.

I've sat in a lounge chair with a beer in one hand and my fishin pole in the other
while fishin in my backyard swimmin pool.
(Special lure with hooks removed so as to not damage the pool while not
catching the non existing fish.)
Drove the neighbors nuts.

34 posted on 10/17/2004 9:10:50 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: Wneighbor

Well after all...we're talking about John (This is NOT a good man) Kerry./


35 posted on 10/17/2004 9:13:07 PM PDT by cubreporter (-I trust Rush...he will prevail in spite of the naysayers.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Sgt,

Yes Sir!

W knows that a farmer somewhere would go under if she cut her meals by only half.

She gets Christmas and birthday cards from her local Mickey D's.


36 posted on 10/17/2004 9:13:30 PM PDT by uncleshag (The Insightful Chastigator)
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To: neverdem

Mightly unfortunate title considering the content.

Kerry is not a good man.


37 posted on 10/17/2004 9:14:21 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (What did Kerry know and when did he know it?)
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To: Alberta's Child
was more upset about Mrs. Edwards' comment than anything else

I was too. Her sleazy pseudopsychological diagnosis of "ashamed" was offensive to everyone, including liberal psychologists and watchers of Oprah. I'll bet TeRAYza sends her a nice big bowl of raisins and gin to help her get over her stupid lowlife gaffe.

38 posted on 10/17/2004 9:16:34 PM PDT by Veto! (Kerry wears a tutu, TeRAYza wears the pants)
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To: Alberta's Child
was more upset about Mrs. Edwards' comment than anything else

I was too. Her sleazy pseudopsychological diagnosis of "ashamed" was offensive to everyone, including liberal psychologists and watchers of Oprah. I'll bet TeRAYza sends her a nice big bowl of raisins and gin to help her get over her stupid lowlife gaffe.

39 posted on 10/17/2004 9:16:55 PM PDT by Veto! (Kerry wears a tutu, TeRAYza wears the pants)
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To: onyx eyes

I sort of wish Cheney had just sat there for .. oh, say, 30 seconds or so, staring at Edwards. Then, just said something like, "I can't believe you said that." And then to Lehrer, "next question."


40 posted on 10/17/2004 9:17:04 PM PDT by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch (Lord, please have mercy on us and don't let John Kerry win.)
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