How all of this could've been avoided

[DrMaddVibe]

I did wear the uniform, and it was clear that he was goofing on the troops. The same ones that he claimed raped and murdered innocent civilians...hell, he even went so far as to say HE committed those war crimes as well!

JOhnKErry votes to send troops to war and then votes to cut their budget to wage a victorious campaign and dares to come out and claim that it was the Republicans! Oh hellz no.

He's a double speaking suit wearing politician that wants in the White House with his wife's money!

[DrMaddVibe]

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[DLR'sCock]

Since you pathetic right wing nut job con pukeshave nothing going for you and this is the best you can do, you will of course ride it to the end.

How pathetic.

[DrMaddVibe]

Then again he could've just STFU!

He didn't...deal with it!

[DLR'sCock]

Oh, the difference is that I KNOW he fucked up with his delivery and he should've just gone for the straight shoot against BushCo instead of attempting this lame jab against him, and we are dealing with it, but the numbers of people that know he didn't mean that and are lying through their teeth for political gain is pathetic.

[Ellyllions]

DLRC, this won't hurt or help the upcoming election at all.

But for Dems on this board to act like what he said is all smoke and mirrors by the Reps is EXACTLY what the they accuse the Reps of doing all the time.

Point is, ALL politicians are fucking scum bags who think they're better than the people they want to vote. Doesn't matter what your last name is, if you're veying for a place in DC you're just like everyone else you point a finger at.

[amadeus]

You libs bitch about how the Republicans are going to be "all over this" but you know damn well if the shoe was on the other foot, the libs would be doing the same thing. 'Frenchie' just apologize on the Communist News Network(CNN) and Wolf Blitzer declared that it should be over now that he apologized. Isn't it amazing that when a Reublican makes a mistake, no matter what they do or say, and even if they do apologize, it is constantly in the news and harped on by the libtards. If he would have came out yesterday and said he apologized like he did today instead of saying 'I apologize to no one'; it might have helped his cause just a little. I am giving the benefit of the doubt that today's apology wasn't politically motivated because of the damage it may have caused the Dems, but he still is a real f#$*stick!!

[BigBadBrian]

Originally posted by FORD
The BCE and the mediawhores are taking this completely out of context and spinning it just like the "Dean scream".

And Judas IsKerryot isn't even on the ballot.

If you listen to the whole speech in context, it's obvious that he's referring to Chimpy.

Bullshit!!!!

[BigBadBrian]

Originally posted by DLR'sCock
Since you pathetic right wing nut job con pukeshave nothing going for you and this is the best you can do, you will of course ride it to the end.

How pathetic.

Hypocrite. Oh, you're still a moron.

[FORD]

This bullshit is going to backfire on Chimpy and the Repukelickers

Bush’s Nostalgia

The dust-up between the president and Sen. John Kerry over Iraq is a flashback to 2004. Unfortunately for the GOP, the 2006 outcome could be very different.

WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Richard Wolffe and Holly Bailey
Newsweek

Updated: 9:09 a.m. PT Nov 1, 2006

Nov. 1, 2006 - There’s no fight like an old fight. And this week’s emotional exchanges between President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry were nothing if not old. Kerry screwed up what he called a “botched joke” about Bush’s brainpower when it comes to Iraq; Bush pounced by challenging his ex-rival’s commitment to the troops.

Memo to Bush and Kerry: neither of you are on the ballot next week. And while it may be satisfying to rehash the last election, you both run the risk of looking totally out of touch.

The risks for President Bush are greater than they are for Senator Kerry, who may have suffered the deep embarrassment of falling into a familiar self-made trap. But he leads nothing inside his party, sets no strategy and the Democrats can easily disown him—as several candidates have done by canceling events with him this week.

President Bush, on the other hand, enjoys no such luxuries. In fact, the concerted attack on Kerry—complete with White House and Republican National Committee press releases—threatens to undermine a central premise of the party’s strategy. For months on the campaign trail, GOP candidates have insisted the election isn’t a referendum on Bush or national politics; it’s a choice between two local contenders. The president may have diverted attention back onto Democrats, but he also turned the focus back on himself and the war.

Neither subject is a winning issue for GOP candidates—and that is precisely why the Bush-Kerry fracas is so outdated. Bush’s approval rating in the most recent NEWSWEEK poll stood at 37 percent—10 points lower than the last poll before the 2004 elections, and fully 33 points lower than 2002.

On the two big issues that Bush wants to debate, the political world looks nothing like 2004, as measured by NEWSWEEK polls. Two years ago, Bush held an 11-point lead over Kerry on Iraq, and an 18-point lead on terrorism. Today, the GOP is trailing the Democrats on Iraq by 12 points and is leading on terrorism by just 1 point.

Based on those numbers, it’s easy to see why President Bush is vastly happier campaigning like it’s still 2004. His rhetoric on the campaign trail reflects those relatively comfortable days much more than the somber statements he has recently issued from the White House.

Just last week, at his press conference in the East Room, the president told how the violence in Iraq started with a sophisticated insurgency, fueled in part by Al Qaeda. But more recently the killing turned into “sectarian reprisals” and what he called “the cycle of violence.”

But on the campaign trail, there is no room for the insurgents or sectarian death squads. There are only terrorists, and their apparent friends, the Democrats. “However they put it, the Democrat approach comes down to this: the terrorists win and America loses,” Bush told a rally in Perry, Ga., on Tuesday. “And that’s what’s at stake in this election. The Democrats want to get us out of Iraq, and the Republican goal is to win in Iraq.”

In fact, given the choice between the Democratic and Republican strategies—as described by the president—voters seem to prefer his opponents’ approach. According to the most recent NEWSWEEK poll, 61 percent want to see a timetable set for withdrawal from Iraq—and that includes 39 percent of Republicans.

That’s not the only stark comparison with elections past. When President Bush goes to Missouri on Friday to stump for GOP Senate candidate Jim Talent, it will be four years—almost to the day—since he did the same thing.

On Nov. 4, 2002, in the final hours of the hotly contested midterm elections, Bush was the star attraction at a rally to drive up voter enthusiasm for Talent’s first Senate campaign. The circumstances weren’t much different back then: a dead-heat Senate race in an influential swing state and a president fighting to retain his party’s majority in Congress.

Recently, Bush has explained his optimism for his party’s political chances this year by reminding reporters how many people predicted the GOP’s demise in 2002. “A lot of pundits didn’t get the election right,” Bush said in an interview with Fox News earlier this week. “In 2006, there is a lot of predictors saying that, you know, the Democrats will sweep the House and maybe take the Senate … I just don’t see it that way.”

Yet 2006 is not like 2002. Four years ago, Bush and the GOP were not weighed down by worries over Iraq or ethical scandals. The White House has worked hard to squelch talk that Bush’s low poll numbers have made him politically radioactive on the campaign trail. But the numbers don’t lie.

In 2002, Bush hit 17 cities in 15 states in the final five days of the campaign. This year, a tentative schedule released by the White House has Bush working at half that pace: eight cities in seven states between now and Election Day.

In 2002, Bush devoted the final days of the campaign to helping his party’s most vulnerable candidates—a list that included four Senate candidates, nearly a dozen House races and a handful of Republican gubernatorial candidates. His itinerary included public rallies in states like Tennessee, Missouri, Minnesota, Illinois, Florida and Iowa.

Today most of those stops are scheduled in what has been traditionally regarded as Bush country, a list that includes Iowa, Kansas, Montana and Texas. This week alone, Bush held rallies in what should be friendly territory—including Tom DeLay’s old congressional district in Texas and two straight days of campaigning in Georgia.

Administration officials have said they are keeping Bush’s schedule flexible to aid any last-minute political maneuvering, so additions to his itinerary may yet come.

But Missouri is a case in point: a conservative state that has become ground zero in the fight to control the Senate. A series of polls puts Talent in a dead heat with Democrat Claire McCaskill. Yet Bush’s visit is hardly a slam dunk for the GOP. Bush has visited the state twice this year to raise money for Talent’s campaign, but the Republican candidate has not appeared publicly with the president. On Friday, that will change: Talent is scheduled to travel with Bush to rallies in Springfield and Joplin to, in his words, “get people enthusiastic in the last stretch.”

On that basis, the GOP may be writing off independent voters who have fallen out of love with the president. That might also explain the curious decision to campaign back home in Texas the day before the election. On Monday, Bush is scheduled to headline a rally in Dallas for a roster of Lone Star Republicans, including Gov. Rick Perry—who looks safely on his way to a third term.

Two years ago, Bush wound up his re-election campaign with a last rally in Dallas, where thousands of people turned out to cheer the president onto a second term. This time around, the mood is different. Asked about the Perry rally during an interview with the Dallas Morning News last week, Bush seemed to have mixed feelings. "It'll be a nostalgic moment for me," Bush said. "It's the last time I will be at the head of the ticket, and I'm looking forward to it."

Bush may be feeling nostalgic about the campaign. But judging by the polls, voters are ready to move on.

URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15512649...eek/from/RS.1/

[BigBadBrian]

[FORD]

Wow, all the neocon shitbags like the same dumb fake pictures

[DrMaddVibe]

The only shitbag is YOU frod!

[FORD]

Words of a desperate Bush groupie trying to cling to any faint hope of the neonazis holding on to Congress next week.

It's really pathetic, AssVibe.

Almost as bad as your love for American Idol.

[DrMaddVibe]

You know what's pathetic?

The fact that you're a lying piece of shit.

The fact that you wouldn't know me if you bumped into me, but yet you think you know me.

That fact that the only thing you do here is leghump the Left.

The fact that you post up cut and paste jobs from the DU and post them here like they're your own with no links.

THAT'S pathetic!