Governor rallies support for brother's re-election

[teach1st]

http://gainesvillesun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040201/LOCAL/202010334/1007

Gainesville Sun, 2/1

MIAMI - Gov. Jeb Bush rallied an army of new volunteers to his brother's re-election campaign Saturday, asking for their help in the state that decided the 2000 presidential election.

"Think of the difference that you made. Reflect on what the world would look like if George W. Bush was not president of the United States right now instead of Al Gore," Bush said as activists booed the mention of the former vice president's name.

"Think about it. Your taxes would be higher. I believe the economy would be in worse shape because there would not have been tax relief. The government would be bigger - not necessarily better," Bush said. "Saddam Hussein - we'd still be talking to the United Nations about Saddam Hussein and his brutality."

Bush spoke during a training meeting for more than 500 volunteers in South Florida to the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign.

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. The difference

Think of the difference that you made. Reflect on what the world would look like if George W. Bush was not president of the United States right now instead of Al Gore.

1. We would have a federal government that was fiscally responsible.

2. We would probably have already captured Osama bin Laden.

3. We would still have a Constitution that works.

4. We wouldn't have over 500 dead Americans and thousands of dead Iraqis.

Think it's time for a regime change.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. Sends chills up your spine.

It's like Satan telling you that the road to disaster is a good thing.

[Racenut20]

3. Scheeze, this is going to get sickening

I think I will file my retirement papers and go live in Arizona or New Mexico until November. Anyone want to lease a house until fall?

[pinniped]

4. Evil running rampant in their regime.

Take a close look at this statement and see what happens when shitheads don't take their meds.

"Think of the difference that you made. Reflect on what the world would look like if George W. Bush was not president of the United States right now instead of Al Gore,"

Is this some sort of sick joke?

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. That's the line that gave me the creeps.

I wonder if Jeb Bush has been taking Rush Limbaugh's medication?

[peekaloo]

8. that's a typical response from Boosh slaves in Florida

sad to say but my sister is one of them.

"he's better than Al Gore".
In what way?
*blank look*

"at least Al Gore wasn't president on 9/11"
How would Al Gore have made that situation worse?
*blank look*

"I like the Bushes and what they've done"
What exactly have they done that you like?
*blank look*

In Florida 4 outta 5 witch doctors agree, Zombies vote Bu$h.

:-(

[RFKHumphreyObama]

10. No, no, it's true

<"Think of the difference that you made. Reflect on what the world would look like if George W. Bush was not president of the United States right now instead of Al Gore,">

It would be a disaster. Haliburton wouldn't have been awarded all of its contracts, the Carlyle group would have not had the right contacts in power to expand its influence and democracy would not have been subverted. What a nightmare scenario!

[colonel odis]

6. they used to try to portray jebbie as "the nice one"

he's as slimy as his big brother. possibly even more so, as a founding member of pnac

[Jacobin]

7. So, how come no reports on Neil, the other brother?

He, of bastard children, venereal disease, whores who come to his hotel door, and savings and loans going bust?

Guess that's not newsworthy, because he's not Roger Clinton

[RFKHumphreyObama]

9. LOL

<"Think of the difference that you made>

Yes, think of your role in contributing to the death of democracy and the coup that promoted an unelected pResident to the White House. You subverted democracy! You should all be so proud!

<Reflect on what the world would look like if George W. Bush was not president of the United States right now instead of Al Gore>

Yes, think of all the peace and prosperity we enjoyed in the 1990s and how vigilant we were in counter terrorism measures and a comprehensive foreign policy back then. Imagine if it had continued! What a disaster that would have been!

<"Saddam Hussein - we'd still be talking to the United Nations about Saddam Hussein and his brutality.>

I’m pretty confident that, as recently as a few months ago, this statement would have been “Saddam Hussein –we’d still be talking to the United Nations about Saddam Hussein and his WMDs while he was building up his nuclear weapons capability and preparing to launch a nuclear strike somewhere” or something along those lines. Notice how the emphasis has suddenly shifted to “Saddam Hussein and his brutality”. Funny how the brutality of the Saudis and some of the leaders that the Bush junta are propping up throughout the globe seems to have escaped them

<Kerri Arnold, a Sunrise middle school teacher volunteering for the Bush campaign, said she planned to knock on doors in her neighborhood, call friends about the campaign and set up a voter registration drive at her local gym. The daughter of two Democrats, this is Arnold's first foray into presidential politics.

"I'm proud of the job he's done," Arnold said.>

Sure, I'm proud of the job he's done as well. A quagmire in Iraq and Afghanistan, failing to catch Bin Laden, a consistent record of complacency in the months leading up to 9/11, the erosion of civil liberties and so many other wonderful things he's done. How could you not be proud of the democratically unelected leader of the free world?

<Bush called the president a "person of action. He says what he's going to do and then he does what he says he's going to do.">
You mean like finding the WMDs in Iraq that were supposed to be just under our noses just a year ago?

<"He's a plainspoken man that speaks from his heart.">
But when you don't have a heart, things can become a bit complicated. I'm glad he's not relying on Dick Cheney's heart -could be a tad unreliable considering its past history.

[bluedeminredstate]

11. What exactly is he trying to say here?

"Reflect on what the world would look like if George W. Bush was not president of the United States right now instead of Al Gore," Bush said as activists booed the mention of the former vice president's name."

I've read and reread this statement about fifty times and I still can't make it sound right. I know I'm being nitpicky, and I know what he is meaning to convey, but he ends up sounding like a total moran. Is it me or is this statement - " ...if George W. Bush was not president of the United States right now instead of Al Gore"- the most ass-backwards, awkward, lame way of saying that he's glad his brother, not Gore "won" the election? Is this grammatically fu*ked up or what?