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Posted on 09/04/2004 7:40:42 AM PDT by RepublicanPizza
Both candidates gave speeches late on Thursday night. George W. Bush was more or less expected to. John Kerry didn't have to, but reported for duty even though nobody wanted him to. Unnerved by sagging numbers, he decided to start the post-Labor Day phase of the campaign three days before Labor Day. The way things are going, Democrats seem likely to be launching the post-election catastrophic-defeat vicious-recriminations phase of the campaign round about Sept. 12.
At any rate, less than 60 minutes after President Bush gave a sober, graceful, droll and moving address, Kerry decided to hit back. In the midnight hour, he climbed out of his political coffin, and before his thousands of aides could grab the garlic from Teresa's kitchen and start waving it at him, he found himself in front of an audience and started giving a speech. As in Vietnam, he was in no mood to take prisoners: ''I have five words for Americans,'' he thundered. ''This is your wake up call!''
Is that five words? Or is it six? Well, it's all very nuanced, according to whether you hyphenate the ''wake-up.'' Maybe he should have said, ''I have four words plus a common hyphenated expression for Americans.'' I'd suggest the rewrite to him personally, but I don't want him to stare huffily at me and drone, "How dare you attack my patriotism."
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The whole thing was great but that last paragraph nailed it.
Kerry's late night performance was at best rambling, almost incoherent but mainly an attack. It is obvious he either didn't watch the GOP convention, or his bomb throwers were so angry they misunderstood everything that happened. The DNC was furious about Zell and called his speech HATE...there was no hate in Zell's speech. He came armed with facts...the actual voting record Kerry made in Congress. He named off the things Kerry voted for and then against. Almost every weapon system was voted out by Kerry. That is not hate. That is the truth. The poll numbers which the press is now repeating 51/41 for W were taken BEFORE HIS OUTSTANDING SPEECH! Now put that in your pipe and smoke it, Mr.Kerry! The true numbers haven't even been announced yet, and the Swiftboaters come out with a new ad today!!!!!!!!WOW Could it be said that Kerry and his elitist liberal buddies, the mainstream press, can't handle the truth?????????
Ret. Admiral Stockdale
This is something that has bugged me for the last couple of years: The Left keeps complaining that we've squandered the "good will" that the rest of the world felt toward us for the events of 9/11.
What they're actually pissed about is that the Right stole their ability to bask in victim-hood. The "good will" from the rest of the world wasn't general "good will" at all: it was temporary sympathy, pity, and compassion one naturally feels for a victim.
This is fine as an initial reaction, but the problem is you can't sustain "good will" when it is based on empathy for a temporary event-- especially when the Left seems hell-bent on blaming the incident on ourselves. As soon as the Left is successful at convincing the world that we brought the attack on ourselves, the "good will" would naturally dissolve.
So, even if the "good will" could naturally be sustained, the Left can't have its cake and eat it too.
That's my second-favorite line.
I just heard parts of Kerry's Saturday morning radio address.
He apparently cannot tell the difference betwee truth and fiction, so the debates are going to be difficult to watch.
GWB - in the real world, discussing real problems:solutions.
JFnK - parallel universe where mouthing a response makes it so
Oh, God, the memories.... I was a Perot supporter at the time, I regret to admit, and I remember the VP debates getting ready to start. On comes Admiral Stockdale, and he announces, "I'm Admiral James Stockdale! Why am I here? Uh, why AM I here?" Then he kind of trailed off into some mumbling. He never composed himself after that. It seemed a good start but before he finished his third sentence, the debate was over for him.
God forgive me for voting for Ross Perot anyway.
When leftists are confronted with logic, they can only respond emotionally. They hate it when that happens.
I agree with your statements .. And .. Rush has said for some time that dems/libs believe more in "intentions" than they do in actions.
Admiral Stockdale.
Do a Google search on ... John Kerry, Nicaragua ... and see if you can find Kerry's patriotism.
If the pressure remains on Kerry and he continues to act like he did Thursday night, at some point point he is going to really show it and his campaign will be over just like when Senator Muskie cried when he got angry over the fact that a NH paper was saying nasty things about his wife. If Kerry is going to fall apart in a political campaign, what is he going to do when he's got to make a decision like whether to shoot down a hijacked airliner heading for the Capitol.
Unbelievable.
Even Senator Muskie knew the rules well enough not to give a midnight speech like this.
One of the many problems of the protest generation is that they just don't think the rules apply to them. In the old days, politicians had a certain dignity, even the worst of them. Clinton broke that rule when he started to campaign on talk shows with his clarinet. Now they think anything goes.
Admiral Stockdale
"Who am I and why am I here?" LMAO
That was a good question he asked because I couldn't remember his name.
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