Democrats attempt to "derail the president's re-election bid in November"

[Democat]

This quote is in a Yahoo/Reuters article about the "independent" Iraq probe.

"The commission is expected to be given a timeline of next year to report back, instead of this year and having the probe's results emerge as a campaign issue, as Democrat challengers attempt to derail the president's re-election bid in November."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&ncid=564&e=3&u=/nm/20040201/ts_nm/iraq_usa_bush_dc

Notice how Democrats aren't running against Bush, they are trying to derail his relelection bid - as if he is entitled to be re-elected, but those angry nasty Democrats are trying to derail our great president.

[gorgan]

1. as if he were ever 'elected' in the first place

[number6]

9. yes, as if .....

:)

[aquart]

2. Kinda gave it away with the "Democrat challengers."

Sorta code for whose side they're on.

[Newsjock]

3. "Democrat" as adjective again

Thus revealing where the reporter gets their talking points from.

This meme needs to be stopped.

[Must_B_Free]

4. how dare those Democrats interfere!

[non sociopath skin]

5. My God...

... they'll be asking for one-person one-vote before long!!!

The Skin

[xray s]

6. I would change the wording thusly...

The commission is expected to be given a timeline of next year to report back, instead of this year and having the probe's results emerge as a campaign issue, as Republicans attempt to cover up this monumental failure by the Bush White House until after the election is over.

[patricia92243]

7. Democrats need to learn to master "double-speak" as the pubs do. They

realize the power of words, phrases, innuendo, etc. This is a sly way of spreading propaganda and it works terribly well.

I'm afraid this is one of the things we Dems fail at doing - Realizing the importance of words and phrases.
The quote you just used is an excellent example of that.

[jburton]

8. Democrat Challengers...

sounds like uppity women-folk and non-Anglo people to me!

:eyes:

on edit: and homo-sexurals, too.

:eyes:

[bonemachine]

10. We need more of these

Need to be able to point out specific pro-Bush or pro-Rep bias in the media.

[Shopaholic]

11. Re-election?

How can he be re-elected if he was never elected? Don't they mean reappointed?