Bush Is Turning U.S. Politics Into a Pep Rally

[russian33]

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George's cheerleading skills -- like investing, his family's traditional way of making money -- is based on others doing the grunt work. This served him well after 9/11, when he was televised at Ground Zero in New York hugging a somewhat dazed firefighter and speaking into a bullhorn, rousing a surrounding crowd, still shocked by the recent events, into patriotic fervor. During his current campaign for the presidency, Bush continues to use one of the serviceable skills he mastered in prep school to convince voters nationwide to support him.

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Chief White House political strategist Karl Rove, who, with his metal frame glasses and pale, puffy face, seems to have been separated at birth from the sinister Nazi agent pursuing Indiana Jones in "The Raiders of the Lost Ark," said of Bush, "I love him." (The thought of being loved by Karl Rove leaves one with a certain pity for the object of his affection.) (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH)

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Cheerleading -- also a specialty of Fox News, the popular right-wing network, unashamed in its support of the administration, that got the highest ratings covering the Republican convention -- can be politically useful.


http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2004/09/09/008.html

[Triana]

1. well, he was a cheerleader.... ;) (n/t)

[sui generis]

2. it's a tactic that works for 49% of the American population

it wouldn't hurt us to do a little cheerleading too.

[Tarc]

3. cheer!