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Gore's Arab American Problem ( Oct2000 WSJ
OpinionJournalWSJ ^
| October 17, 2000
| THOMAS J. BRAY
Posted on 05/28/2002 1:16:44 PM PDT by swarthyguy
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:04:32 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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DETROIT--With both the popular and electoral votes balanced on a knife's edge, this year's presidential election could come down to a single battleground state like Michigan, where George W. Bush and Al Gore are neck and neck in the race for 18 electoral votes. That's why the Bush forces are ecstatic over the endorsement they won Sunday from the Arab-American Political Action Committee, a two-year-old organization based in Dearborn that is headed by a Democratic activist who personally favors Mr. Gore. How Mr. Bush got that endorsement is a classic example of retail politics. It might prove to be a key moment of campaign 2000.
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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arab; bush; gore; usa
Let's not tear each other apart over finger pointing and assigning blame. Lots of mis-steps and political considerations everywhere. Let's focus on fighting the war on radical islam.
Calling it the war on terror is like calling WW2 a war on the Blitzkrieg. Terrorism is a tactic used by states to deflect attention from their own culpability. Let's DECLARE War on our enemies; any countries you can think of?
To: swarthyguy
Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, then Iraq maybe after that.
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posted on
05/28/2002 1:21:15 PM PDT
by
weikel
To: weikel
I like your priorities. Now, what can we do about the dreaded Saudi Lobby?
To: swarthyguy
Remind them that if Wahabbism truely spreads worldwide they'll have to abide by Islamic law everywhere ie no more booze and male whores.
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posted on
05/28/2002 1:31:58 PM PDT
by
weikel
To: weikel
Now that's what I'm talking about! The Wahabis can kiss my Red White & Blue Nuclear tipped weapon heading into Mecca. :-)
To: swarthyguy
"When he said that, I turned to my wife and said, 'Bush just won Michigan,' " David Mack, vice president of the Middle East Institute, a Washington think tank, told the Detroit Free Press.
Bush lost both the primary (to John McCain) and the general (to Al Gore) elections in Michigan.
To: self_evident
Bush lost both the primary (to John McCain) and the general (to Al Gore) elections in Michigan.So, how much good (to this day) does his political whoring really do?
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