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Omaha Steve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 05:34 PM
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Bush campaigns in Missouri, heads for Iowa, Nebraska



http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=1673&u_sid=2273673

Published Friday
November 3, 2006

Bush campaigns in Missouri, heads for Iowa, Nebraska

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) - President Bush, working a southwest Missouri campaign crowd like a yell leader, blasted Democrats on Friday, saying they have no plan to keep Americans safe from terrorists.

Bush said Democrats calling for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq aren't unpatriotic, just wrong. He said Democrats who voted against legislation to detain and interrogate suspected terrorists, the National Security Agency's eavesdropping program and the Patriot Act don't understand the stakes in the war on terror.

"If they say they want to win the war on terror, but call for America to pull out of what al-Qaida says is the central front in this war, ask them this question: 'What's your plan?' " Bush said at a rally for Missouri Sen. Jim Talent, who is seeking re-election in one of the tightest races in the nation.


President Bush greets military personnel and members of their families after arriving Friday afternoon at Sioux Gateway Airport in Sioux City, Iowa.


"The truth is the Democrats can't answer that question," Bush said. "Harsh criticism is not a plan for victory. Second guessing is not a strategy.

FULLstory at link above. Reg req.

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Kolesar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 05:36 PM
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1. A yell leader?
Didn't we have those in Boy Scouts? Yell at the kids??
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 05:37 PM
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2. The location screams
they're desperately attempting to get the base motivated. Springfield is the buckle of the bible belt here, solid deep red, if they have to waste time trying to get their base excited they're in deep doo doo.
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Akoto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 05:51 PM
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5. My thoughts exactly.
If they weren't in a horribly desperate position right now, campaigning somewhere normally considered to be that red would be a complete waste of time.
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 05:41 PM
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3. i hope bush is so demoralized by all of the Democratic gains that he ends
up in a puddle of his own puke on the WH floor.
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NJCher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 05:49 PM
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4. what a horrible pic of bush
He has a gray pallor, his mouth is cast downward, and his eyes looks like those of a shark.





Cher


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Malva Zebrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 06:38 PM
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6. Bush looks like a defeated little man in the photo--naturally the military has to be
included in any shot of the "war president". He looks like shit and

come on heartland--you are the ones who are the backbone of America and you cannot vote any Republican into office who supports this crappy little boy, wanting to be a man. He has destroyed your beloved country, Come on heartland--stick up for your country and it's basic values and reject all Republicans, the party who lies to you over an dover and the president who poses with the military, who led them into a war to die, to kill and be killed, on his f*cking lies. HE lied to the troops. He controls the troops on his LIES. He continues to lie, every day, over and over and at this point, as this photo shows, is losing it--yet he continues to lie to you. Rise up heartland and refuse to succumb to this moron who has lied to you.
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MasonJar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 07:23 PM
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7. Hopefully the kiss of death to all the pugs running in those states.
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MasonJar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 07:25 PM
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8. Totally red are only ones who'd have him.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 07:33 PM
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9. Bush paints Republicans as only answer on Iraq
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061103/pl_afp/usvote_061103174345

Bush paints Republicans as only answer on Iraq by Olivier Knox
Fri Nov 3, 1:32 PM ET



SPRINGFIELD, United States (AFP) - Looking to turn the tables on his critics, US President George W. Bush accused Democrats of attacking him on Iraq without having a plan of their own just days before key US elections.

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"Harsh criticism is not a plan for victory. Second-guessing is not a strategy," he told cheering Republican activists at a rally here. "They don't have a plan to win this important front in the war on terror."

The US president was on a six-day campaign blitz aimed at shoring up vulnerable Republican candidates for the Senate and House of Representatives in 10 states that he carried in the 2004 White House race.

With the unpopular Iraq war the central concern on US voters' minds as the November 7 vote neared, Democrats cast the contest as a choice between a Bush's "stay the course" policy and "a new direction" under their stewardship.

"So far the Democrats have refused to tell us their plan on how they're going to secure the United States. There's still four days left before the election, and there's still time for the Democrats to tell the American people their plan to prevail in this war on terror," Bush said.

Individual Democrats have floated various proposals for quelling the violence in Iraq, where more than 2,800 US soldiers have died since the March 2003 invasion, but as a party they have broadly agreed on the idea of a phased withdrawal from the war-torn country.

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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 07:33 PM
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10. Our plan for victory should be to send all the Republicans to Iraq. n/t
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libodem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 07:33 PM
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11. We have to stay to protect our oil
we don't want to be blackmailed by price gouging terrorists.
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 07:33 PM
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12. Should be "Republicans only cause of Iraq"
Typical Bushrot............
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joeldm Donating Member (4 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 07:33 PM
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13. On the Subject of Polls, There's a Poll on Lou Dobbs . . .
. . . entitled:

"Do you believe the Democrats have a plan to win in Iraq?"

You can find the poll here:

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/

Could someone post this as a new thread? I'm new here and don't have new thread rights yet. All Dems should take the poll!

Thanks!

JoeL
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grytpype Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 07:33 PM
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14. Bush has quite a stand-up act going there.
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LisaM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 07:33 PM
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15. And the nation laughs.
I'm beginning to think they are paying people to attend these rallies and cheer in such a zany manner, or else they're just flying in their relatives. Or perhaps stealing a page from the Seahawks' playbook and piping in all the cheers. They're so phony!
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MO_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-04-06 12:40 AM
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16. I heard
that the event in Springfield MO was by invitation only. It sure sounds possible that you are right and the "invited" are actually the "paid". I'm glad to say that the local TV news station also showed a small but very vocal group of protestors. They said that Bush/Blunt/Talent didn't see or hear them, but the attendees did. My hats off to those brave and patriotic neighbors that protested!
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