Among Delegates, Fear of Bush Becomes Powerful Uniting Force

[kskiska]

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In Democratic circles not so long ago, "FOB" stood for "Friends of Bill." Now a new meaning has permeated the party: Fear of Bush.

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"George W. Bush has done more to unify the Democratic Party than any other Republican in my lifetime, and I've been active in state politics for about 60 years," said Dennis Jenson, 79, an Arizona delegate from Sun City, sounding a variation on a theme that echoed again and again during interviews with delegates from Arizona to Wisconsin. The Rev. Nelson "Fuzzy" Thompson, attending his sixth national convention as a delegate from Kansas City, Mo., said Bush "has galvanized the Democrats because he has been such a divisive force. He has created a real unity within the party, far more than what we had four years ago, when we were a bit complacent. This time there's no playing around."

The delegates have been asked to present a positive agenda and to emphasize the attributes of the Democratic standard-bearer, John F. Kerry, and the FleetCenter orations from former president Bill Clinton on down have more or less tried to hold to that strategy, yet hostility toward Bush among conventioneers is not merely an undercurrent but more like a tidal wave of group thought. Away from the packaged presentations on television at night, Fear of Bush rhetoric has flooded through the delegation breakfast caucuses, midday lunch meetings and evening cocktail parties.

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[thebigidea]

1. Wha happa? The "hate bush" thing didn't work? Now we fear him?

Well fuck that, I'm not scared of that little prancing monkey and his stupid terror alerts.

We'll huff, and we'll puff, and we'll blow your pathetic little house of cards down, Bush.

[mom cat]

3. Let's all send dimson thank you cards on the morning after

he loses. :evilgrin: We really owe him a debt of gratitude. A less obvious slimeball might have been able to fool more of the people more of the time. :dem:

[Rose Siding]

2. This is THE stragegy, talking point, meme

Dems= afraid

an earlier headline-

"Cheney to Democrats: weakness invites terror"

...and Arnold kicked off for the team last week: girlie men.

As Kerry seems to have accepted a head-to-head with Bush on nat'l security, synthetic testosterone is the repub weapon of choice. -A powerful weapon that hits above and below the radar.

In fact, maybe Cheney's choice of using The Obscenity with Leahy might have been the trial balloon.

Our response is good: Wisdom and strength are not opposing values. -but it isn't as noisy as the attack....fingers crossed.