A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....04-08-04...Saddam diehards and holdouts are still doomed

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Saddam diehards and holdouts are still doomed by JohnHuang2

In this hotbed of Saddam support, anger and resentment at the U.S. and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq has intensified dramatically. Fundamentally, the overwhelming majority of these people see the war in Iraq as a U.S. push to control Mideast oil, not to liberate. A ploy by U.S. corporations to rule the world. The discontent is palpable. It's more than just a negative attitude towards America. These people hate America. Intensely. With America's quick victory over Saddam, they feel humiliated. Bitter. Enraged. Vexed beyond words. They resent the U.S. incarceration of al-Qaeda at Gitmo -- reacting in horror to published pictures, accusing the U.S. of torture. Mention Saddam, and immediately tears roll down their cheeks. Memories of U.S. Marines in tanks rolling through Baghdad in triumph, heralding Saddam's collapse, are still painfully fresh one year out. They root for the Iraqi "resistance", extol the radical clerics, and salute the Jihad, but they know, in the end, America will win, the "holy war" will fail, Democracy will come to Iraq, and it pains them. Most striking, their antipathy towards the U.S. is so extreme, so vehement, so visceral that -- get this -- a majority of them even support Osama! That's the scariest part of all. Think about it. That's more than mere displeasure or disagreement with U.S. policy. Their attitude crosses into sheer malice, sheer venom against America.

These people have hate coming out of their pores!
But enough on Ted Kennedy and the Democrat Party.

Speaking of Democrats, have you heard what Sen. John F. Kerry is now proposing? It's incredible. To be frank, I never thought I'd ever hear a Democrat propose such a thing. Seeking to pump new botox into his sagging campaign, Kerry, fully recovered after hurting a shoulder from reaching out too far to foreign leaders and shouldering two different positions on Iraq, proposes something so entirely new, so completely unheard of for a Democrat, that the AP says it will "reverse partisan stereotypes" completely. Once people hear Kerry's proposal, they will start thinking of Kerry as the real conservative in this campaign, Bush as nothing but a liberal. Here's the proposal: Raise taxes on the rich in order to balance the budget! Near as I can tell, the last Democrat presidential hopeful to try this was the last Democrat presidential hopeful, Al Gore. (Democrats say Gore won that election but the U.S. Supremes stole it for Bush. Democrats also say Gore lost that election, but it was Bush and Nader's fault).

Aides say Kerry's push to portray himself as a tax-hiking conservative who will soak the rich to balance the budget is a real winner. "We intend to run to President Bush's right on this" issue of the deficit, says former Clinton deputy treasury secretary Roger Altman, quoted by the AP. (On this issue of the deficit, Walter Mondale ran to the right of that other tax-cutting ultra-liberal, Ronald Reagan, with stunning results).

Kerry will make his proposal to raise taxes on Fat-Cat multi-Thousandaires as a means to shrink the deficit in a speech Wednesday to Fat-Cat multi-Thousandaires at Georgetown University. In cutting taxes by trillions of dollars, Bush, says Kerry, is the big-spending liberal in this campaign, not him. Right-wing Kerry proposes a return to "pay as you go" budget rules, which expired in late 2002. The formula says that when a politician has a left-wing liberal idea like cutting taxes (or increasing defense), that tax cut (or increased defense) should be paid for by tax hikes, a conservative idea, says Kerry. (The ultra-conservative Clinton administration used this formula to raise taxes and frustrate left-wing bleeding-heart Newt Gingrich and his tax-cutting schemes to balloon the deficit and destroy America!) Right-wing Kerry also proposes a shiny brand new $900 billion government-run health care system which Kerry says isn't a government-run health care system.

At the same time, Bush, who vowed a massive response to attacks from Kerry on the economy, massively responded Friday. Dropping his 'Compassionate Conservative' theme, Bush pummeled Kerry with 308,000 new payroll jobs, as reported by the Labor Dept. The report for March employment knocked the Kerry camp on its heels, pressured by growing worries over the growing economy. Even worse, reports for January and February employment were revised upward, with more than 500,000 new jobs in the first quarter. The punishing job gains fueled already widespread anxiety among Democrats. But on Monday Bush kept piling on, pummeling Kerry even harder with U.S. service industries reporting a jump in employment and orders to record levels. The ISM index for March soared to 65.8, from 60.8 the previous month. The robust activity at retail stores and small businesses across the country was blamed on Bush's tax cuts for Halliburton executives. Seizing on Bush's failed economic policies, a flood of Halliburton executives drove up sales at Wal-Mart, world's biggest retailer, almost 6 percent in March, as Halliburton executives "bought more Easter decorations and spring clothing," Bloomberg reports. With such growing momentum propelling this booming economy, the only hope for Democrats now is for Gore to endorse it.

Many Democrats wonder, could this recovery have been prevented? Yes, of course. If Democrats had treated the Bush tax cut threat with sufficient urgency in Congress, killing it well before the recovery began, the Bush boom would not have happened. But Democrats failed to recognize the threat posed by those tax cuts.

Meanwhile, USA Today reports that Bush's TV ads in battleground Missouri are taking a heavy toll on Kerry, even worse than Dick Clarke's testimony. "Conversations with voters in this St. Louis suburb signal that the Bush campaign seems to be achieving its early goal: Define Kerry in a negative way with voters" as a tax-hiking liberal "before he has a chance to make a positive first impression" as a tax-hiking conservative, the paper reports. The Kerry camp has blasted Bush campaign ads which claim Kerry had voted 350 times to raise taxes. Kerry calls the ads false and misleading. As for those 350 votes, Kerry notes it couldn't have been him casting those votes because he was out getting botox injection during the votes.

This week, Kerry began airing a new ad, blasting Bush's tax cuts. (Kerry -- hammering and hammering away at tax cuts. Only a crazed, knuckle-dragging, wingnut Neanderthal thinks this means Kerry's a liberal who loves to raise taxes).

To prove their boss is no liberal, and no drunken sailor on spending, Kerryites on Monday trotted out Ted Kennedy, who's even more conservative than Kerry, his voting record shows. Proving that Kerry meant business when he vowed to wage a really positive campaign, Teddy, after spending month after month after month, telling LIE! after LIE!! after LIE!!! in blasting Bush's Iraq policy, turned his attention squarely on the ailing economy crisis, the"jobless recovery" crisis, the stock market crisis, the consumer confidence crisis, the soaring interest rates crisis, the galloping inflation crisis the real estate crisis, the situation in Iraq, blasting Bush's Iraq policy. (Teddy -- always the uniter not the divider, unlike BushCo!) In almost prepared remarks before the Brookings Institute, a Washington Wishful Thinking Tank, Teddy, the Democrats' most preeminent moral authority, said Bush has "created the largest credibility gap since Richard Nixon." (He's so right! Checking to make sure, I went back, way, waaaaaay back to July, 1969, when some drunk drove off a bridge and left his young female Senate aide to drown while he swam to safety. A sleazebag, yes, but no credibility gap there. Besides, it's silly to compare murder to something as serious as giving no-bid contracts to Halliburton and tax cuts for the wealthy). Teddy, in an apparent flip-flop, called the Iraq war a Quagmire Made In Texas, reversing his long-held position that the Iraq war was a Fraud Made In Texas. He now believes the Iraq war is really happening because he saw it on TV at a bar with his close friend, Straight Bourbon. (He's right again! Just this past week, Iraq had slipped in and out of Quagmire three times! Now there's a civil war that could last 'til tomorrow, or pending the next explosive episode in the Michael Jackson case). Escalating the nuance, Teddy, who says the Iraq war has made the Great Satan unpopular with many Jihadis, slammed the Iraq war as "Bush's Vietnam!" (Reached for comment, officials in Hanoi could not confirm they were toppled from power after U.S. troops first landed). Teddy's comments, his harshest assessment on Iraq since his last harshest assessment on Iraq 3 hours before, were welcomed as a way to rev up the party faithful. The Republican Party faithful. (The Environmental Protection Agency is reportedly examining Teddy's speech for excessive rearend emissions). Reversing his position again, Teddy accused Bush of cooking up this war as a way to divert attention from Bush's horrible failures here at home, like the booming economy and the sizzling job market. (Cooking up a Vietnam-style Quagmire war to divert attention from the Bush Boom. Boy, Bush sure knows how to drum up votes! And what a liar this Bush is, eh? Who's he trying to be, Teddy Kennedy or something?)

Teddy also says Bush is trying to "backdate" the recession he inherited so that Clinton gets the blame. Bush and his Halliburton buddies started this recession on Clinton's watch and they're trying to pin it all on Clinton! As a Halliburton pawn myself, I say, BACKDATE AWAY!)

In a related story, "JohnHuang2" assails Ted Kennedy for having created the largest Sobriety Gap since . . . Ted Kennedy.

;-)

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Anyway, that's...

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[Billie]

Sorry it's late, but John's Two Cents is worth the wait! :)

[The Mayor]

They compelled a certain man, Simon a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear His cross. —Mark 15:21

Following Jesus costs more than anything—except not following Him.

[dutchess]

GREAT JOB SISTAH! Love the picture groupings, the final picture AND THE PLEDGE. You definately are the pro!!!!Just stopped home to turn on the VCR. Condi is kicking butt!!!! Alas, back to work!

[rageaholic]

Big Head Ted Kennedy is looking as disgusting as ever. I always thought it would have been funny if, after JFK Jr. & Wife crashed, Ted was found bruised and soaking wet in a Martha's Vinyard bar.

[dutchess]

John...EXCELLENT ESSAY once again. Would love to email this to the Kerry camp :o)

[dutchess]

Darn...thought I might have been first today. Ah well...I welcome you're coffee anyway!

[trebb]

Superb!

[The Mayor]

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[MeekOneGOP]

Mornin', everybody ! Happy Thursday !

Condoleezza Rice & the 9-11 Commission
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[MeekOneGOP]

Condi is doing GREAT too, btw !!

[The Mayor]

April 8, 2004

Bearing His Cross

Read: Mark 15:16-21

They compelled a certain man, Simon a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear His cross. —Mark 15:21

Bible In One Year: 1 Samuel 10-12; Luke 9:37-62

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In the eyes of most people in the crowd, Jesus was a common criminal going to the place of execution. So to help Him bear His cross was both degrading and humiliating.

Simon of Cyrene was pressed into this service (Mark 15:21). Yet this was perhaps the most glorious day in his life. It is possible that he believed in the Savior, and that his wife and children did also. Some Bible teachers come to that conclusion because many years later, when the apostle Paul sent his greetings to the Christians in Rome, he referred to a man named Rufus and his mother (Romans 16:13). I believe that he was the son of Simon mentioned by Mark in his gospel (15:21), which probably was written in Rome. This is likely the reason Mark said that Simon was the father of Rufus and Alexander.

When we walk with Jesus and "take up the cross" (Luke 9:23), we too will experience the ridicule of the world for identifying ourselves with the Savior. Yet through it all, like Simon of Cyrene, our lives will be transformed, and our testimony will have an influence on the lives of family and friends around us.

Simon was "compelled" to bear the cross (Mark 15:21), but Jesus invites us to take up our cross. Have you? —Henry Bosch

"Take up thy cross and follow Me,"
I hear the blessed Savior call;
How can I make a lesser sacrifice
When Jesus gave His all? —Ackley

Following Jesus costs more than anything—except not following Him.

[The Mayor]

I just uploaded some pics of Russ and his family
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I am sending this link to Dawn so she can see it, heading over there right now.

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[Temple Owl]

Wonderful!

[jwfiv]

Good afternoon, Miss Billie...) Thanks for delivering John's Two Cents to ustoday.

JH2, as always and ever, your two pennies are pitched right on target...just love this line:

"Seeking to pump new botox into his sagging campaign..."

Bwahahahahaha.

Woke up too late to catch Condi's opening statement...I tuned into the middle of the Gorelick inquisiion...her heineousosity stood in remarkable contrast to Condi's poise and intellect.

Now listening to Rush, so I can know what to think about it all.

[dansangel]

Thank you ((((Billie))))) and (((((JH2)))) for yet another hard-hitting Thursday essay. I was all right until I reached the photo of His Bloatedness.....now I must go gouge out my eyes!

Trying to make sense of Dr. Rice's appearance before the 9/11 committee this morning as much as I can from work. Been paging through the live thread, but have given up on that. Lots of differing opinions - I think I have a headache.....

((((((HUGS))))))) to all - especially [[[[[{{{{{(((((Louie_Wolfie_Man)))))}}}}}]]]]] and ((((((dood)))))))

Thank you for the photos (((((Rus))))))

[jwfiv]

May I ask you to remove the tagline in my post #19 on the thread:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1113671/posts

I somehow copied the address of my pic into the tagline window...it's a small thing, but definitely a goof...poor Freeper form by me.

Only if it's little trouble to you...and, thanks.