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mrgorth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 12:12 PM
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So I guess they've found their meme...
Voting for Kerry means the terrorists win. They're going to spin the Spain thing to mean that AQ intimidated them. They throw that in with Clinton "dropping the ball" and the unnamed euros wanting Kerry to win and make it that only * stands for amerika. Gotta admit. I didn't see that coming.
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 12:17 PM
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1. Another bush catch 22
if only the rubes weren't deaf, DUMB and blind.

GEORGE BUSH IS PRESIDENT AND WE STILL ARE NOT SAFE. That's according to the GOP hate machine.

bush to America: "IT'S NOT MY FAULT. NOT ONE FUCKING THING WRONG THAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE PAST THREE YEARS IS MY FAULT."
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central scrutinizer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 12:20 PM
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2. Krugman has a great response
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/16/opinion/16KRUG.html?n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fOp%2dEd%2fColumnists

excerpt:

The Bush administration, which baffled the world when it used an attack by Islamic fundamentalists to justify the overthrow of a brutal but secular regime, and which has been utterly ruthless in its political exploitation of 9/11, must be very, very afraid.

Polls suggest that a reputation for being tough on terror is just about the only remaining political strength George Bush has. Yet this reputation is based on image, not reality. The truth is that Mr. Bush, while eager to invoke 9/11 on behalf of an unrelated war, has shown consistent reluctance to focus on the terrorists who actually attacked America, or their backers in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

This reluctance dates back to Mr. Bush's first months in office. Why, after all, has his inner circle tried so hard to prevent a serious investigation of what happened on 9/11? There has been much speculation about whether officials ignored specific intelligence warnings, but what we know for sure is that the administration disregarded urgent pleas by departing Clinton officials to focus on the threat from Al Qaeda.

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tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 12:25 PM
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3. Now they are trying to figure out how to spin it...
...so that all of B*'s fuckups in the last 3 years can be blamed on Kerry.



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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 12:28 PM
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4. Yup that's it
Why isn't the Kerry campaign countering this?
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