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It's Edwards
NBC | NBC

Posted on 07/06/2004 4:33:22 AM PDT by djf

NBC breaking says for sure it's Edwards for veep


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: 2004; alittledablldooya; ambulance; breck; chaser; edwards; handmemycomb; heezpurty; kerry; ketchup; northcarolina; oldnorthstate; prettyboy; southernfriedham; veep
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The Captain has found his Tinkerbell and he's about as irritating as a buzzing bloodsucker flying around your head.
901 posted on 07/06/2004 10:33:45 AM PDT by Bassfire (what? Not PC enuff?)
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To: Bassfire

Awesome post, so far one of the posts of the week.


902 posted on 07/06/2004 10:36:25 AM PDT by keysguy (Trust the media as far as you can throw them)
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To: section9
"Now George, trump the bastard! Wait two days and pick Condi."

Yup!


903 posted on 07/06/2004 10:43:40 AM PDT by Eastbound
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To: Miss Marple

You might be quite correct that bush is in fact campaigning like Truman in '48 and not being covered by the national media. I cannot descern that from Germany where I am confined to Armed Forces Radio (read NPR and Rush) and Cnn Intl. But I do not see anything on these FR threads which leads me to bellieve he is giving 'em hell.

Last night CNBC Europe carried a show by Tina Brown which was a travesty of journalism. The panalists which included junk psychologist and Gail Shehey undertook to psychoanalyze the president telling us he was a)on a dry drunk b) suffering from dyslexia c) unable to read properly c) unable to adequately use the English language d) uanable to assimilate facts especially e) facts which did not fit his preconceptions d) desperately trying to maintain equilibrium by excessive exercise and obsessive religiosity and f) getting worse. Christopher Hitchens, who did not look drunk, was permitted a few minutes in rebuttal.

If the program were just a dormitory bull session we would dismiss it as merely pathetic. But this presents the administration to my English speaking neighbors here in Bavaria. God knows what effect it is having in the homeland. The mere fact that an affiliate of a major network could indulge in such a travesty is revealing of how the media has declared open season on George Bush.

To counter this and to evade death by a thousand such cuts, I believe Bush must seize the agenda and set the headline every day. Clinton did it in '96. Bush is simply not doing it now.

Time is running out. Look at the polls here (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls.html) and they show a President underwater in the all important approval polls. It means that more than half the people have already passed judgment against Bush and it will be very difficult indeed to change them back especially with the media, not Bush, setting the agenda and beating him up every night like Tina Brown did last night.


904 posted on 07/06/2004 10:45:36 AM PDT by nathanbedford (Passive aggressive behavior betrays a stunted growth.)
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To: Eastbound

Condi: "I could so kick yo' sorry white ass, pretty boy." So now it's Potsie Webber and Lurch. If I want to see either one of them, I'll watch TV land, thanks.


905 posted on 07/06/2004 10:47:22 AM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel (Send Lurch back to the graveyard this November. Remember, it's for the children.)
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To: NonValueAdded
Click here War Room of the John-John Campaign

906 posted on 07/06/2004 10:48:01 AM PDT by towncar1
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To: djf

Does this mean with two senators on the campaign trail the republicans can get some of these judicial nominees through?


907 posted on 07/06/2004 10:48:37 AM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1 (Lock-n-load!)
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To: nathanbedford
"The mere fact that an affiliate of a major network could indulge in such a travesty is revealing of how the media has declared open season on George Bush."

I'd take it a little further. The media has declared open season on America as we knew it.

908 posted on 07/06/2004 10:50:17 AM PDT by Eastbound
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To: djf
Deadwards wasn't the best choice. He should have gotten Bill Richardson or the Babe Governor of Michigan. Edwards had worn off by the end of the campaign season. He was seen as a lightweight on foreign affairs and his anti-trade message was straight out of the Pat Buchanan playbook. Bush will not be too badly damaged by this.
909 posted on 07/06/2004 10:50:48 AM PDT by .cnI redruM (Jimmy Carter provides us all with moments that make us wonder about what was in the drinking water)
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To: Eastbound
"Now George, trump the bastard! Wait two days and pick Condi."

Cheney will be VP.

But don't worry Bush will announce the new head of the CIA and that will refocus the media..

910 posted on 07/06/2004 10:52:33 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: djf

HH and DM were ok; but JFK should have never been President.


911 posted on 07/06/2004 10:53:50 AM PDT by freekitty
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To: jveritas

You might have had the courage to address your remarks also to the person whom you were insulting.


912 posted on 07/06/2004 10:54:55 AM PDT by nathanbedford (Passive aggressive behavior betrays a stunted growth.)
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To: TomGuy

That's what happens when you run with something too soon based on a source pulling your leg.

Oops is right.


913 posted on 07/06/2004 11:03:40 AM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" -- Abraham Lincoln)
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To: djf

The democrats obviously didn't want Edwards the first time around so why would they want him now? Edwards and Kerry disagreed on so much before but I guess Edwards is willing to trade it all in to be guy #2.


914 posted on 07/06/2004 11:10:00 AM PDT by helen crump
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To: Eastbound

I am old enough to have seen with my own eyes what they did to Goldwater in '64.

I went to a rally in west Orange NJ and observed supporters cheering as we entered. Later, on the 11 o'clock news they were misrepresented by the film to be protestors. I never forgot that.

I would agree the assault is on America as we knew it probably because those values are personified in Bush.


915 posted on 07/06/2004 11:10:55 AM PDT by nathanbedford
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To: helen crump

Hey!!! Wait ONE MOMENT HERE!!!

From RUSH---
Why wasn't a BLACK MAN selected as VP candidate???
How many BLACK or HISPANIC, for that matter, candidates did John Effin' Kerry INTERVIEW???? Why not DONOVAN McNabb??....Because NEITHER of them could carry Philadelphia..

End of RUSH THOUGHT--

Heck---the NFL REQUIRES that BLACK candidates for a coaching replacement be MINORITY!!!

Come on DemoKrats...WALK THE TALK!!!

GRRRRRRRRRRollin' in the Aisles at the John-John candidacy...


916 posted on 07/06/2004 11:13:51 AM PDT by GRRRRR (Love America? Vote Republican--Early and OFTEN!)
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To: nathanbedford

I think the Kerry campaign likely set out to specifically embarrass the NY Post. They are going to get some payback.


917 posted on 07/06/2004 11:15:10 AM PDT by TheExploited (R-Illinois)
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To: djf

He picked him so he could further mimick the Kennedy thing.

JFK, now John John.


918 posted on 07/06/2004 11:17:05 AM PDT by Vets_Husband_and_Wife
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To: PhiKapMom
May I refer you to #782? The relevant portion reads:
All that doom-and-gloom having been said, I do realize that as bad domestically the Pubbies have been, a RAT-infested Oval Office and a RAT-run Congress, even as a "lesson" to the GOP, would be infinitely worse. It remains to be seen how many others see that.
That's the trouble jumping in mid-stream; things like that get lost.

That part having been straightened out, the "chase for the middling", when conducted with a blatant disregard for the base, is indeed a loser's game. There simply isn't enough votes in the "vast middle" to piss all over the conservatives that, like it or not, gave the Pubbies the last 3 significant close victories (1980, 1994, 2000).

I realize that President Bush is trying to walk a fine line. While he's not the "ideal conservative" (IMHO, nobody is); he has mostly conservative leanings, which is more than good enough for me. He is also getting undercut by the growing fossilized class of Pubbies, at both the federal and state levels, who think they're RATs (see the latest example from yesterday's OpinionJournal article on the House's - that's right, the House of Representatives - wholesale abandonment of any spending controls).

Heck, you want an example from the land of cheese and taxes? The senate Pubbies, a mere few months after passing and having line-item vetoed (veto upheld by a single vote, with 3 of the 4 required RATs joining the entire senate Pubbie majority in attempting to override) by the RAT governor a property tax freeze, promised that a state constitutional amendment that would freeze property taxes would NOT come up for first consideration this year (and thus not in this biannual session of the Legislature). The claim that it would be a nice campaign issue is blown out of the water by the fact that, since amendments have to be passed by consecutive biannual sessions of the Legislature before going to the voters, it won't be on the ballot either before or when that RAT governor is up for reelection in 2006.

919 posted on 07/06/2004 11:23:50 AM PDT by steveegg (The FReepathon is on the air again - donate early and often (monthly is best))
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To: Vets_Husband_and_Wife

The John/John ticket...

920 posted on 07/06/2004 11:24:20 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
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