A year ahead of presidential vote, Bush vulnerable but still holding cards

[kayell]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20031101/pl_afp/us_politics_bush_031101012901

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Bush has already tipped his hand, showing his strategy during the upcoming campaign.


"I will defend my record at the appropriate time and look forward to it.


"I'll say that the world is more peaceful and more free under my leadership, and America is more secure.


"That will be how I'll begin describing our foreign policy," he told reporters this week.

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[onebigbadwulf]

1. Hmmm

yes, I agree. Our troops dying every day is a good sign of a more peaceful world. :nuke:

[many a good man]

2. And War Is Peace

and slavery is freedom. And we're in the middle of the greatest economic recovery since 1984.

Sheesh.

:crazy:

[grytpype]

6. Seriously, this is pure unadulterated Orwell.

[Cha]

3. bush is "holding" ...

Jack Shit!

[pasadenaboy]

4. thats known as a bluff

he is pretending he has a good hand, but he isn't fooling anyone.

[are_we_united_yet]

5. Face it W

It didn't turn out the way you wanted

[Kinkistyle]

7. Wow, look at him!

He's looking more and more like Mammy Babs with every passing day. I guess the evil and vitriol that runs through his veins is taking its effect on him.

[truthisfreedom]

8. don't worry about it. the cards are marked. his gang has made so many

strategic errors and spent so much time in cya mode that they are extremely vulnerable on all fronts. they will attempt to use fear to control the vote. noam chomsky and many others have been warning about this ever since they started the tactic. however, we've grown so numb already to their nonsensical "color code" (hey, what frigging color are we on now???) and their bumbling/blase approach to actually catching anyone who has terrorized us that we can easily weather it. we must steadfastly focus the spotlight on bush's failures and ignore the whining outcries of the rethugs, who have used up all of their claims to patriotism.

[Cocoa]

9. holding cards is a fitting expression

Every federal agency is at Rove's disposal, and he will use it.

Including goosing economic numbers, and announcing key victories in the terra war. They've already got a bunch of evildoers caught that they haven't announced yet.

[Dover]

10. Bush: "Got any Weapons of Mass Destruction?" Saddam: "Go fish".

......

[Guaranteed]

11. At this point, we WANT him to run on his foreign policy.

PLEASE run on your foreign policy, Bush. You're gonna get creamed, my friend.

[cliss]

12. Bush, at his writing desk,

ponders what he will say about his presidency. He thinks, puts the pencil tip in his mouth... let's see..

"I have created lots of jobs". Scratches that one out.

"I have done a lot to unify the world's religions, in particular the Christian and Muslim faith". Scratches out.

"the economy is improving". Starts to scratch it out, but then remembers the hot news of this week.

"our access to oil is a lot more secure". Leaves that one on the paper.

"I have made the world a safer place". Doesn't know what to do about this one. He doesn't have a lot of sentences left. Decides to leave that one intact.

Well, Bush has certainly given fuel for his enemies with that one. We are practically guaranteed some monumental explosion, or a bridge collapsing, or some attention-getting event to defy what he is going to say. This is as bad as the 'Bring 'Em On" comment, only worse. His enemies thank him for the advance notice.

PS on the photo at post #7: hold your hand over the left half of his face. The right half will tell the whole story.

[samsingh]

13. we can't underestimate Bush

i think many people are hoping for any straw to find an excuse to elect him.

It is only 50-50 right now.