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Fred Barnes: They Still Haven't Figured Him Out (Bush's unexpected qualities)
The Weekly Standard ^ | December 13, 2004 | Fred Barnes

Posted on 12/03/2004 7:34:52 PM PST by RWR8189

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To: maro

Now that I've thought about it, I'm not 100% confident of 4th Pres as Barnes' home church. I'll have to double-check with my friend in DC...But there is no doubt that he's evangelical. This friend of mine has heard his testimony.


41 posted on 12/03/2004 8:30:46 PM PST by My2Cents ("Well...there you go again.")
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To: pbrown

Amen to that pb.


42 posted on 12/03/2004 8:31:27 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: JustaCowgirl
Agreed. A higher Power directs his feet.

Those who despise him, better get out of his way.

43 posted on 12/03/2004 8:31:57 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: pbrown

The Democrat Party is full of SOBs, and Reid isn't their Senate leader for no reason...he's the chief SOB.


44 posted on 12/03/2004 8:32:18 PM PST by My2Cents ("Well...there you go again.")
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To: 26lemoncharlie

Yep--we will just have to use the mighty power of the FReepers to help get the extra Republicans elected in 2006.


45 posted on 12/03/2004 8:33:15 PM PST by Txsleuth (Proud to be a Texan)
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To: RWR8189

I have been saying this since January, 2001. "Just wait for the second term." I hope he can do something about abortion.


46 posted on 12/03/2004 8:33:24 PM PST by lawgirl (Proud 2 time voter for George W. Bush as of 7:21 AM CST, November 2, 2004. LUVYA DUBYA!!)
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To: maro

I think Fred said on "Beltway Boys" one night that he was an evangelical Christian. I have heard him refer to his faith 5 or 6 times.


47 posted on 12/03/2004 8:35:08 PM PST by Texas Songwriter (p)
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To: msnimje

Strategery!


48 posted on 12/03/2004 8:35:18 PM PST by Fledermaus (Are we a nation divided? Yes. Is it Red-Blue? No. It's the Sane vs. the Insane Left!!!!!)
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To: RWR8189
many in the political community, including the press, still haven't figured him out.

When they lionize Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, Algore and Bill Clinton, it doesn't take rocket science to understand their mental block.

49 posted on 12/03/2004 8:36:39 PM PST by oyez (¡Qué viva la revolución de Reagan!)
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To: My2Cents

I don't think there is a Democratic party anymore, it died four years ago. All that's left of what they were is a leftist, socialist, anarchist, destroy America at any cost cult.


50 posted on 12/03/2004 8:36:41 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: wrathof59

W has done more to get rid of the inept liberals and increase the power of conservatives than, well, Bill Clinton did!

Bring on Hillary and the Dems will be a minority party for the next two generations.


51 posted on 12/03/2004 8:36:59 PM PST by Fledermaus (Are we a nation divided? Yes. Is it Red-Blue? No. It's the Sane vs. the Insane Left!!!!!)
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To: RWR8189
[ A Texas friend recently sent the president a copy of Natan Sharansky's book, "The Case for Democracy". Bush read most of it and asked Sharansky to meet with him at the White House. ]

If you are FOR democracy you are FOR socialism...
No democracy has ever existed that wasn't a socialist system. EVER..
Democracts are FOR democracy, and some republicans are FOR it TOO..
What is Bush for..?.. (read above)..

Democracy is the road to socialism. Karl Marx

Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism. V.I. Lenin

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.- Karl Marx

52 posted on 12/03/2004 8:38:51 PM PST by hosepipe (This Propaganda has been edited to include not a small amount of Hyperbole..)
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To: wrathof59
Dasshole gone Chretien gone. Kerry gone. Gore gone. Rather gone. Brokaw gone. Arafat gone. Gephardt gone. Edwards gone. Saddam gone. Taliban gone. Kofi is on the ledge. Putin is on the ledge. The French still suck. And President Bush is still standing tall.

Super!

'gonna print and put on frig to read every day and feel GOOOOD

THANKS!

53 posted on 12/03/2004 8:39:15 PM PST by maine-iac7
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To: Txsleuth; pbrown

I'll refrain from assessing which President will be deemed by history as greater, as I wish to avoid the competition of sorts that seems to arise among supporters when the two are mentioned. My personal attachment is greater to G.W. I admit, since I was only a child while Reagan was President.

I admire both men. God blessed this nation (and the world) at each moment when we needed his intervention most. Each man was gifted with the skilled "weaponry" essential to achieve victory in the climate existant at time office was/is held as he has done throughout our history.

Washinton, Lincoln and down through our years we've had the 'right man at the right time".

Bush's agenda in the 2nd term is aggressive. It is full of risks, I think that partly attracts the Prez. LOL

He'll continue to need prayerful intercession.


54 posted on 12/03/2004 8:41:29 PM PST by Soul Seeker
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To: RWR8189
* OUTSIDER. Bush is an alien inside the Beltway.

When it comes to socializing that's true. But when it comes to government growth, spending, and no vetoes, he's as inside the Beltway as it gets.

55 posted on 12/03/2004 8:41:44 PM PST by Moonman62 (Federal Creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it.)
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To: pbrown
I believe that history will show W. to be a better President than Reagan.

I don't know if it was my age or lack of interest but Reagan never captured my heart and mind in the way President Bush has. I didn't initially back him (I actually didn't like the little I read about him) in the 2000 race but went with a friend to see him at a primary campaign rally. I walked away converted and told everyone I knew that he was a sleeping giant. Little did I know what events would transpire or how he would rise to meet them.

56 posted on 12/03/2004 8:45:01 PM PST by Dolphy
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To: Kevin OMalley
Wow, hold on to your hats. The more I read about Bush, the more I like.

Just gettin' on board are you? Most of us have been with W for years. Albeit, his domestic policies are much too socialist.

57 posted on 12/03/2004 8:45:32 PM PST by Cobra64 (Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
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To: TNCMAXQ

The extraordinary thing about Bush is his simplicity. By that I don't mean simpleton. He is very bright. He is stright ahead. The Democrats have not yet figured this out. If he says something I don't believe Bush has an ancillary calculus. If he says something you can believe him. The very best thing about the president is his core beliefs, which I think Mrs. Bush had a lot to do with. He has discombobulated them with his beliefs which are foreign to them. He is not ashamed to put his belief system front and center. Then they try to ascribe some meaning to it that they would have used it for. When he said Christ was the person who had the most influence on him , they all thought he was pandering to the Christian right. He was answering the question. When the pundents got thru dissecting his statement they didn't understand. But Bush and millions of fundamentalist and evangelicals did understand. He simply gave Jesus the preeminence in his life that the Lord deserved. Bush had them in derision. Now in his wake he has slayed all democrats,liberals, leftist media types. It must be sweet to see Dan Rather going down because of his own venom, after the way Rather tried to sandbag Bushes father. Bush has made nice nice with the left, but now must carry thru on the concervative prescriptions he spoke of in the campaign. Fundamentally President Bush is a good man who mean what he says and says what he means.


58 posted on 12/03/2004 8:45:52 PM PST by Texas Songwriter (p)
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To: Kevin OMalley
Wow, hold on to your hats. The more I read about Bush, the more I like.

Just gettin' on board are you? Most of us have been with W for years. Albeit, his domestic policies are much too socialist. Regardless, he's one tough hombre.

59 posted on 12/03/2004 8:46:13 PM PST by Cobra64 (Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
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To: Txsleuth
hate to tell you this, but I'm beginning to worry that Dashcle getting beat MAY NOT be such a great thing.

I read an article a little while ago on "The Hill" website about Harry Reid, who took Daschle's place. Oh, boy, he is adding something like 17 new staff members, and is forming a Democrat War Room in Wellstone's old offices in order to get "more organized". He also said that if people think because he is "soft spoken" that he will be easier for the Republicans to deal with, forget it, he says he plans on making it harder on the Republicans by not only better organization in the Senate, but with the outside groups like NARAL, AFL/CIO, MOVE.ON.ORG, and other 527's.

Methinks we celebrated too soon. They also already have reams of notes on the records of every possible candidate that Bush will nominate for SCOTUS, with their records and their "negatives" ready to go as soon as name come up. That way their NEW press corps. will be able to get the smear job out before the Republicans can "promote" the candidate.

He then said, that they have to learn to smear people like the Republicans have done all these years, and that they (the Dems)have played "nice" for too long.

Don't take this the wrong way, but why would a good Texan like you be afraid of a rattlesnake like Reid.

He's planning NOTHING NEW! Smear our candidates? Line up all those radical Left groups? Stop being nice?? COME ON!! The 'Rats invented BORKING. They tried to smear Thomas. They still think those tactics will work?

60 posted on 12/03/2004 8:46:25 PM PST by You Dirty Rats
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