Bush lashes out after debate loss (gotta love that headline)

[kskiska]

America's increasingly bitter race for the White House hit a new low as the two candidates traded insults with each other in the aftermath of last week's first presidential debate.

John Kerry is seeking to capitalise on his widely perceived victory in the debate, while George W Bush is seeking to bounce back from a poor performance. Kerry's campaign appearances now include a parody of Bush as an Elmer Fudd-type character who cannot speak clearly on the issue of the Iraq war.

'He keeps trying to say, "Well, we're-not-we-don't-no-we-don't-you-know, we don't want somebody who wants to leave "', Kerry told a cheering audience at a rally in Florida.

Democrats are delighted at Kerry's performance in Thursday's Miami debate. Nearly all pundits and polls of viewers showed he had bested Bush in the 90-minute talk about foreign policy, dominated by Iraq. Bush appeared rattled and angry on several occasions. He mispronounced several words and phrases and even Republican spin doctors privately concede he was not at his best.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1318758,00.html

[alittlelark]

1. Damn, I'd buy a video of that!

[rumguy]

2. Is the Elmer Fudd thing really a regular part of his speeches now

Or was it a one-time thing?

[speedoo]

4. Getting under the coWard's skin for next Friday already. Cool.

eom

[0007]

6. Perhaps John Kerry will tell us that junior talks a lot like Porky Pig

and that pig farm in Crawford is a phenomenon supposed to portend evil?

But that can't be true cuz Laura don't talk like Petunia,(sp) Porky's ho.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

3. Elmer Fudd!!!

:kick:

hahahahahahahaha!!!

[KittyWampus]

5. That Makes Kerry Bugs Bunny! Too Cool

[SoCalDem]

16. OOOOH..That wascawy Kewwy

[DinahMoeHum]

36. Bwahahahahaa!!! You're deththththtspicable!

Love your graphics there!

:evilgrin:

[liberalmuse]

7. Has anyone seen this on video?

'Cause I'm having a hard time picturing John Kerry doing a cartoon character. Now Bush, I could believe, but did Kerry truly do an 'Elmer Fudd' voice??? The description sounds more like Porky Pig, since he's the one who stutters, but I can't see Kerry doing Porky, either. His voice is too deep. It sounds like Rove (Porky) has been on the horn again.

[The empressof all]

8. I saw it

It was funny....but it should be a one time thing. It would get old really fast.

[AlCzervik]

10. He probably wont do it for long

but it's most likely pissing Bush off and that makes it worth it after months of swiftboat attacks and the gop hatefest.

[LiberalFighter]

22. Absolutely... get gw* pissed off and he gets off message and

has more trouble thinking

[Qutzupalotl]

42. Also, ridicule is a good way to steal voters away from Bush.

Who wants to vote for a pathetic, babbling loser?

[Child_Of_Isis]

9. I heard him say it,

but it didn't come across as cartoon, per se. He just stuttered and stammered like shrub did. He didn't use a cartoon voice.

[Glenda]

24. I saw the clip on tv... It took me by surprise

because I hadn't heard Kerry do such a thing before. THe audience burst out laughing!! It was great!

G.

[skooooo]

11. Remember when Clinton said...

..."they'd" try to make Kerry into a cartoon?

LOL...

[ogradda]

12. i taped that debate

and it is now one of my most treasured possessions:evilgrin:

[crossroads]

18. I loved every *flopping* syllable...lol Sweeeet to me ears...

:kick:

[belle]

13. It's about time someone mocked him for the inarticulate twit he is!

Talk about emperor has no clothes syndrome. It's like everyone's been tiptoeing around and pretending that it really doesn't matter that the President of the most powerful nation in the world sounds like a mentally deficient schizophrenic. Or that it's charming or something. Talk about flip-flop--the man can't even keep track of what he's saying from one sentence to the next! And no one ever calls him on it! Good on John Kerry, and way to turn the "flip-flop" crap right back on * and then some. Best of all, as little as Bush can tolerate criticism, he cannot STAND to be made fun of. I think Kerry should taunt him till he snaps. It actually shouldn't take much. I think after all the coddling of the past few years, Bush was really starting to believe that Kerry was going to just lie down and grovel like everyone he surrounds himself with. He must be reeling with shock. *Nobody* talks to (or about) the Boy King that way. *Nobody.*

[crossroads]

19. You got it nailed down...

bushy really thinks he is all that!
What a man and what a cool collected leader NOT!
:eyes:

[crossroads]

20. You got it nailed down...

bushy really thinks he is all that!
What a man and what a cool collected leader NOT!
:eyes:

[JawJaw]

14. Why You........

Dirty Wotten Libwul Tewwowists!!!

Come Out, I tell you!!

[meow2u3]

17. Of course you know, dis means WAR!!

Of course you know, dis means WAR!

[crossroads]

15. I feel he should take the high road!

AFTER he gets *maxium* press Sunday morning! Cool it on Elmer Fudd Monday! This could backlash...
:eyes:}(

[mirounga]

21. Favorite

I've always considered him more like "Yosemite Sam"

[0007]

23. Thar 'ya go!

[dweller]

25. huhuhuhuhu . . .

"You fwoggot Powand . . ."


dp

[AspenRose]

26. As they say, payback is a b****

Consider this payback for the "orange" comment about Kerry last week in Florida, Bunnypants.

(As a matter of fact, we Democrats DO fight back.)

[philaguy]

27. Did anyone notice Bush quoting Beavis and Butthead at the end?

Where Bush talked about "I have climbed the mighty mountain"...

I would love to see back-to-back video of that:

"Beavis, I have seen the top of the mountain, and it is good, huh,huh,huh,he,he,he"

[newyawker99]

41. Hi philaguy!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Oilwellian]

28. Businessweek referred to Bush as Elmer Befuddled

But in Coral Gables, Fla., last night, Bush looked -- at least for the first half of the debate -- like Elmer Befuddled, a commander-in-chief not in command. :D

Perhaps what was so unnerving was that Bush found himself in a foreign-policy debate with a seasoned politician who was espousing the same sort of measured, internationalist approach to a dangerous world that was the hallmark of his father's Presidency. Debating the security and future of the nation on live national television isn't easy -- but debating your Dad is downright scary.

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2004/nf2004101_0937_db009.htm

[notadmblnd]

30. I think what would be even more effective for Kerry...

is to capitalize on the number of times he complained about how much hard work it is.

[sidpleasant]

35. Re: "debating your Dad is downright scary"

An excellent point, Business Week. I thought that Kerry throwing a quote from Bush 1 in Shrub's face was absolutely brilliant. Bush's feelings about his father are obviously complex and conflicted. In a drunken rage he once publicly challenged his old man to a fist fight, and the Iraq war is clearly an attempt to both surpass his father and show his love for his father (remember, Shrub once told a crowd "Saddam tried to kill my Daddy").

[PATRICK]

29. Not just for public consumption

it is to keep Bush and his prop men hopping mad and rattled. Bush is capable of collapsing even more and this is just not mere meanness or crowd pleasing on Kerry's part.

Also keeps the shamefully(or politely) ignored issue of Bush's personal deficiencies on the front burner where they belong- not those vacuous ideas and empty promises B/C headlines.

[Wednesdays]

37. Kerry's experience as a prosecutor is starting to pay off...

he's starting to get * to crack, just like you see on Perry Mason!

[Media_Lies_Daily]

31. Kerry has taken up permanent residency in FratBoy's head....

...as part of his psychological warfare campaign against FratBoy.

[DFWJock]

32. Bush is due

a permanent vacation in January. No more of this awful "hard work."

[Mr E McSquare]

33. Bush as Elmer Fudd

Thats an insult to Mr. Fudd!

[Rambis]

34. Bahdee, Bahede, Bahdee, That's all folks!

Kerry in and landslide:toast:

[n2mark]

38. Another fly on the wall

Love to be a fly on the wall, Karen and Rove totally ticked with the debate, Laura and the twins ticked with the leash statement, and Babs ticked that Kerry mentioned Shrub's daddy.... don't think that was a happy household this weekend and Kerry ahead in the polls. Did Shrub fall over the weekend, any new bruises?
Wow!!!

[PATRICK]

40. And Cheney

doesn't know if the smiling young charmer is going to rake him over the coals or what. Imagine the tension building up there. Like watching Mt. St. Helen's.

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