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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 07:16 PM
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Bush Seeks to Bolster Regular-Guy Image
Edited on Sun Mar-07-04 07:17 PM by NNN0LHI
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=703&e=2&u=/ap/20040307/ap_on_el_pr/bush_sporting_politics

CRAWFORD, Texas - Until last month, President Bush (news - web sites) hadn't been to a NASCAR (news - web sites) race since he was governor of Texas and running for president. On Monday, he goes to a rodeo and livestock exhibition in Houston — again, for the first time since he was governor.


Such appearances at sporting events this election year help Bush shore up his standing with his core supporters: white men.


They also show him as a plain-talking boots-wearer with Middle America tastes — an image Bush has cultivated for years to counter his background as an Ivy Leaguer from an old, wealthy, New England-based family. That comes in handy particularly this year, as the president will almost certainly face Democratic Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), a wealthy Northeasterner the Bush campaign aims to paint as out of sync with much of the country. snip

The Kerry campaign has eagerly publicized the senator's penchant for hunting, hockey, windsurfing and other sports. But Kerry spokesman Chad Clanton questioned whether the events are the best use of the president's time when important economic and national security matters face the country.


"Maybe the president is hanging out at spectator sports to try and make people forget the past 3 1/2 years, but it won't work," he said Sunday. "People aren't going to be fooled by this."

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AspenRose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 07:19 PM
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1. Damn straight....
....people aren't going to be fooled by this.

What is so "normal" about a WASP-y, silver-spoon-in-mouth, privileged, bail-my-ass-out-at-every-opportunity lifestyle?
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 07:19 PM
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2. Ha ha ha ha ha ha !
yeah good luck there george :eyes:
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carrowsboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 07:21 PM
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3. just a regular-guy
Bush: "Now I know you just lost your job, but bear with me...I'm just like you and I will use the $200 million to make sure that I get another 4 years worth of month-long vacations. Really we are two of a kind."
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Vickers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 07:21 PM
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4. Yup, lotsa regular guys went to Yale/Harvard
Maybe he can show 'em how to bust that Segway bronco while he's at the rodeo?

Omigosh, I just realized: I bet he pronounces it "ro-DAY-oh."
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GreatCaesarsGhost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 07:25 PM
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5. can't wait to see him at the rodeo
i wonder if he'll get anywhere near a horse.

he should pay a visit here first:
http://www.changethatsrightnow.com/problem_detail.asp?PhobiaID=1536&SDID=1352
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PartyPooper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 10:11 PM
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24. Dumbya IS a coward.
He won't go NEAR those horses!





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Malva Zebrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 07:28 PM
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6. I think that was smart
Edited on Sun Mar-07-04 07:35 PM by Marianne
Kerry obviously has interests other than politics and also hobbies. He looked really good playing hockey and that takes some skill--as opposed to Bush pretending to have skills. But it is smart to make the distiction between hobby and seriousness.

Bush makes it a part of his presiduncy--as bait to those who would vote for him because of this macho man image--and there are quite a few dumbassed people who would vote for him because he pretends to be a regular guy from Texas, macho and tough, and they hate New Englanders and that intellectualism.

But Kerry recongnizes that it takes more than public relations photo ops to sell ideas and he is right and I appreciate that in a candidate.

Bush cannot compete with that because he does not have the intellect to do so.

-he has nothing else but this manufactured PR image and it will collapse as it has already begun to, in the face of actual fact and reality.

Bush has rode in on that horse too long and has fallen into the belief that his manufactured PR image is what will win him the WH --he believes this manufactured image is actually who he is and he perceives his success is based upon all the PR efforts so far--but, he fails to recognize that the American people are fed up, exasperated, with phoney, manufactured images of the little baby Bush cutting brush on his 1,600 acre dried up, ex pig farm, pretending he is a cowboy when he actually cannot even ride a horse and is rumored to be afraid of them.

The people are fed up with the entire scenario and fed up with this adolescent, pouting, crass, growth stunted, frat boy who summers in the northeast with his very rich family as a regular routine that the very rich indulge in regularly her in the NE.

He has done damage to this country--and he has done serious damage to this country.

He must be taken out.

and never ever should another Bush be allowed to enter the field of politics for they have proven that the entire family is nothing but a cheap, crass evil oriented, selfish and greedy family that does not ever again deserve to be elected to anything in this entire country.

NOt even dog catcher.

Tell your children.

They are dispicable, crass without class, without manners, thinking they are elite, when they are only cheap wannabees on the scene.
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salinen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 07:33 PM
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7. Every "plain-talking boots-wearing Middle American"
I've ever met started a war based on lies.
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tinrobot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 07:36 PM
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8. Yeah, right...
...NASCAR dads fly into the Sunday races on Air Force One.

Besides, I heard Bush was booed at that appearance.
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 07:56 PM
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9. Horseshit! total Horseshit!
I come from a family of regular guys..my dad was a railroad engineer and my first husband who died was a pipefitter .. I KNOW who regular guys are and Bu$h is a lowlife scum sucking fratboy spoiled rich kid who needs a good BOOT up his ass from this regular MOM typing this
He sent MY kid, a regular guy, over to a bloodbath to help his lowlife scumsucking CEO lily livered chickenhawk friends to fill their coffers with the blood of OUR children and shore up Blackhearted CEO short term profits..
Regular guy>? Kiss my Royal American Ass you little Prick! You and Karl Rove can both bend over and Kiss my ASS and until all of you are perp walked out of the White House I wont be satisfied until you are all in chains you Bastards
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salinen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 08:09 PM
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11. You Go Mom!
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Malva Zebrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 08:17 PM
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13. Yeah--stick it to the little prick of a coward frat boy wannabee
let's pretend I am a president who got elected, coward of an AWOL bunnypants, runaway from danger and let others handle it, George the addicted to pretzles and got socked in the eye, presidunce.

He has got to go. Get him out of our house.
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 08:03 PM
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10. Maybe he won't be dumbfounded by a grocery scanner like his Poppy
Yeah, I'm sure that'll go over real well. :eyes:
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Ignis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 09:36 PM
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19. Ah, priceless!
That had to have been one of my favourite memories of King George I; thanks for the delightful memory.
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pinto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 08:11 PM
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12. will the rodeo be televised?
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 08:45 PM
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14. The Rodeo begins with a horseback procession...
If he was really a Texan he'd join in. Not that I ride--for Texans who don't live on ranches or farms, riding is an expensive hobby. Too bad he never learned as a rich kid raised partly in Texas. Too bad his dad didn't care enough to invest in some nice Hill Country property back when it was affordable. (When the elder Bush was president, a Houston hotel was his Texas address; he built a house on a small lot in Tanglewood after he was booted out of Washington.)

Sounds like he won't take part. Probably won't even stay for the show. He'll go through the stock pens--will he exchange country wisdom with some of the ranchers? Maybe he'll catch the pig races.

Hey--the musical act will be Enrique Iglesias. Next Sunday is actually Go Tejano, with Tejano/Norteno music & charro expeditions; Enrique is a bit lame by comparison.

Agriculture is still big business in Texas--ranchers come from as far away as Argentina to take part. Lots of scholarships are awarded to kid who raise livestock (no chickens this year because of Bird Flu.) Every few years I go see the livestock show, just to breathe in the atmosphere of rural Texas. The article says he hasn't been since he was Governor; doubt he visited often even then.

Fake, fake, fake.

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pinto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 09:06 PM
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15. my brother lives in the hill country and they seem to get a laugh 'bout
Bush and his "ranch".....
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young_at_heart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 09:12 PM
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16. One word comes to mind from the article.........phoney!
How does he have the nerve to talk about Kerry changing his views.
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freeforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 09:14 PM
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17. I don't know any "regular guys" like Shrub!
Swaggering, ass-kissing, dumbass who can't even string a proper sentence together.

What truly baffles me, is that there are still so many people who buy into his bullshit!

People astound me.
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JPace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 09:21 PM
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18. Now that NASCAR dads are losing their jobs....
I don't think they are going to be seeing near
the glory in war or the warmongering chimp that
they once did. He is looking full of hot air
and empty promises. I watched film of him recently
going through a factory....the workers looked
restrained and unenthusiastic in his presence.

Everyone is catching on now.

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Media_Lies_Daily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 09:51 PM
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22. He got booed at his last NASCAR appearance.
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 09:45 PM
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20. This reporter has a job and three million of us don't?
They also show him as a plain-talking boots-wearer with Middle America tastes — an image Bush has cultivated for years to counter his background as an Ivy Leaguer from an old, wealthy, New England-based family. That comes in handy particularly this year, as the president will almost certainly face Democratic Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), a wealthy Northeasterner the Bush campaign aims to paint as out of sync with much of the country.

But WHY would it come in handy if it's a lie? Bush is in reality as wealthy, Ivy Leauge and Northeastern as Kerry is, so where is his advantage? It's CERTAINLY not in the perception that Kerry is smarter!!!

:headbang:
rocknation
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 09:50 PM
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21. I am disappointed Kerry hunts
I consider it a cowardly "sport".
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-04 10:10 PM
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23. Maybe Shrubby should start beating Pickles...
And going on about how "Them Messicans" are taking our jobs and using the "N-Word" and THEN he'll get 100% of the Redneck Vote.

Rove is getting so desperate I expect to see junior at a NAMBLA meeting, soon...
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