Posted on 11/10/2004 6:13:29 PM PST by pittsburgh gop guy
When the bogus exit polls began coming in on Tuesday, they were a jarring shock to everyone following the presidential campaign on all sides. Returning from Texas to the White House, administration officials on Air Force One reportedly became sickened at the prospect of a vast landslide against President Bush. The president, however, was quoted as saying upon learning this news: "It is what it is."
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After all the bias and fraud exhibited by the old media, its amazing that Bush and company actually believed those stupid exit polls. I didn't believe them for a second, and anyone who did was a bloody fool for doing so.
I didn't believe the exit polls. After the 2000 Florida call and the CBS/Dan Rather tricks, I figured exit polls that contradicted the most recent state by state polling were probably fraudulent.
It may be a "zen" attitude but the source of W's peace is not in any way any form of eastern msyticism.
Yes. Do I ever remember the "it is what it is" from last Tuesday as reported in a bulletin in the afternoon. There may also be another explanation or meaning behind those words. (Sorry I am too lazy to scroll down, so maybe somebody sees it this way, too.)
It is not necessarily the President resigned to his destiny, at peace, knowing he can do no more, it may also be a President who knows they are JUST EXIT POLLS. They are not the REAL POLLS. In essence, then, "it is what it is."
Either way, pretty cool customer there in the White House.
The turning point was when Drudge dumped the exit polls from his site and started reporting the real numbers under a big headline declaring that the exit polls were no good and we should instead follow the actual votes.
In earlier elections, Drudge was famous for making the numbers public before the networks did, i.e., breaking the embargo. Probably the faux pollsters figured they could play Drudge for an idiot this time and fool all the visitors to his website. Fortunately they were wrong.
Things turned around then, or maybe a little earlier on FreeRepublic. The AdminModerators showed good judgment by nuking a lot of those faked stories and exit polls.
He trusts us as much as we trust him.
He is what he is.
POTUS
Contrast Bush to Kerry's comment about "How are we losing to that idiot?".
I am SOOO glad I was at nursing school all day and didn't have time to get onto FR until much later in the day. Had I known what was going on, I would have lost it. As it was, I had none of the stress and all of the joy. I thank God that Bush was reelected!! He will go down in history as one of the greatest presidents this nation ever had.
AMAZING GRACE, literally.
John Fox, the coach of the Carolina Panthers, uses that line a lot down here to describe the team. Started using it myself lately and kinda felt good hearing that the POTUS used it also.
With football so bad this year in Carolina, Fox may be saying internally I wish it is as it was.
I know the Kerry campaign and the MSM jumped all over that remark, but as far as I am concerned, that is where George W. Bush proved he is a leader. And a great man.
Now I need a good W t-shirt to go with my "Vive le Reagan Revolucion!" shirt. Any suggestions?
Big YUP on that one!! I read that Newsweek issue cover to cover...well, I DID skip over some of the Kerry bits. I came away being even more impressed with our president. He(and his wife) are a class act!
It is amazing how much W gets done, being an idiot and all. ;^)
Contrast Bush with the whining f-bomber John Kerry.
When you do the best that you can, things are better.
In a NATION innundated with victims, especially those who call themselves Democrats, who assign BLAME to everything and everyone around them, it is more than refreshing to know that our President is far, far removed from those slackers, and like any man worth his salt, accepts the hand he is dealt with grace and simple wisdom.
The eminent decency of this man comes shining through in so many large and small ways. Faced with this sham of a poll - he accepts his fate comfortably, since he governed for the esoteric good of the nation - to the best of his abilities. The turnaround was sweet justice.
In his press conference last week, the CNN reporter caught GWB off guard by telling him that CNN was reporting that Yasser Arafat had died....
The reporter was actually Bill Sammon from the conservatve Washington Times.
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