Donna Brazile: I Will Rebuild With You, Mr. President (must read)

Washington Post ^ | 9/16/05

[linkinpunk]

I Will Rebuild With You, Mr. President

By Donna Brazile

On Thursday night President Bush spoke to the nation from my city. I am not a Republican. I did not vote for George W. Bush -- in fact, I worked pretty hard against him in 2000 and 2004. But on Thursday night, after watching him speak from the heart, I could not have been prouder of the president and the plan he outlined to empower those who lost everything and to rebuild the Gulf Coast...

I know, maybe better than anyone, that there are times when it seems that our nation is too divided ever to heal. There are times when we feel so different from each other that we can hardly believe that we are all part of the same family. But we are one nation. We are a family. And this is what we do. When the president asked us to pitch in Thursday night, he wasn't really asking us to do anything spectacular. He was asking us to be Americans, and to do what Americans always do...

Mr. President, I am ready for duty. I am ready to stir those old pots again. Let's roll up our sleeves and get to work.

The writer, a Democratic political consultant, managed Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign.

[1rudeboy]

Call me a cynic, but this is damage control from that post-speech ABC broadcast.

[savedbygrace]

Translation: I'm getting a piece of the easy money coming down the track.

[i_dont_chat]

Photo at link:

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/10/11/brazile/

[ncountylee]

"Translation: I'm getting a piece of the easy money coming down the track."

Sad but true. A race baiter only changes its spots for major green.

[silverleaf]

If Donna Brazile likes this plan then
"Ruh Roh...."
(Scooby Doo)

[OpusatFR]

The left went way tooooo far and know it.

This is more damage control.

Won't work. The damage has been done and the Internet has a very very very very long memory.

[dinodino]

Her fingers were SO crossed behind her back as she wrote this.

[rogue yam]

Call me a cynic, but this is damage control from that post-speech ABC broadcast.

What was the post-speech ABC broadcast?

[msnimje]

Well, if you Democrats, who are so blinded by and consumed with your irrational hate for George W. Bush had given him an honest look and listen to years ago you would have seen this is who THIS MAN IS!!!

[Miss Marple]

The DNC must have taken a poll on their response. Continued Bush-bashing was driving the public away. I am convinced of this because Ellen Ratner was positive about the speech this morning.

If you will remember, right after the speech Kerry, Reid, and assorted pundits like Matthews were very negative. Suddenlly, yesterday, all of that stopped.

I don't think they had a change of heart. I think the numbers were in the basement and now they are doing damage control while they think of another way to attack the President. (Moon-bats like Cindy Sheehan don't count.)

We just have to be ready for the next attack, because as sure as God made little green apples, there is going to be another one.

[gridlock]

"I'll hold the football, Charley Brown..."

[TexasCajun]

Governor BlankO is also playing nice too since her unaware live remarks about calling for help earlier have been played and read coast to coast.

[selucreh]

A standing ovation for Ms. Brazile. Now I can only hope some of the others in her entourage will drop the rhetoric and get onboard. I CAN hope, can't I?

[betsyross1776]

Please Donna , do not do us any favors we like the president the way he is. The last two guys you worked for were either a mindless robot or a stiff.

[linkinpunk]

I'll bet Donna Brazile just got banned from DU.

[gridlock]

You just know what would happen...

[Bar-Face]

Donna Brazile? Is this the same Donna Brazile that I have disliked for the past ten years or so? Or is this someone I haven't heard of with the same name.
Something funny is going on and I am not too sure what it is.
Did the Democrats and media overstep and now are trying to move back into the main steam?
If there is anything in this country I do not trust it is a Democrat or the MSM, so we shall see.

[rockabyebaby]

Retranslation: Bush sounds more and more like adem every day.

OMG! If I didn't see the President making the speech, I would have thought I was listening to gigilo or teddy hiccup, I'm not liking Bush's attitude towards this Katrina thing, he's becoming an enabler.