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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 05:52 PM
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What's Rove's big surprise for tonight?
Too much is going on and they need to change the topic quick.


Will Bu$h announce enactment of the draft? Nah, I don't think so, not till after the reselection.

Will Bu$h announce that they found WMD's in Iraq?

Or maybe he's finally found bin Laden? Nay, not time yet.


What will it be, any guesses?


Whoever the winner is gets a free ticket to Iraq.
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 05:53 PM
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1. Mission to land a man on the sun?
Initiative to develop brain transplants?
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scubadude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 06:20 PM
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23. Yeah, they'll do it at night..... nt
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 05:54 PM
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2. Rather said Bush is going to replace Bremer with Negroponte.
Is that distraction enough?
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 05:58 PM
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7. Negroponte?
Oh that's an improvement. Not!
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maddezmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 05:58 PM
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8. thought it was going to be Condi? n/t
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Ripley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 06:01 PM
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14. I thought it was going to be Wolfowitz?
As in PNACer.
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maddezmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 06:03 PM
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15. yeah, that's right...Condi might go on to DOD or Sec, State
:crazy:
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Mountainman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 05:55 PM
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3. I don't think they will have a surprise.
I'm beginning to think we are giving Rove too much credit. Nothing that he's tried in the last few weeks has helped Bush.

My thought is that they are in defensive mode. Tonight they will try to make Bush look like he is engaged not fiddling while the country goes to hell in a hand basket.
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 05:58 PM
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I agree.
Asscroft's testimony today is the blueprint for Chimp's talk tonight. The main points:

1. I care deeply about America.
2. God is on my side and yours too if you are a Christian and not a stinking atheist like those Democrat communists who want to wreck our great and wonderful country.
3. They hate our freedoms.
4. Anything bad that happened is all Bill's fault, and the fault of the stinking atheist commie-loving Democrats.

Then he'll take two or three softball pitches from white men wearing red ties, and that'll be it.
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newsguyatl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 05:55 PM
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4. he'll probably announce
the deployment of x amount of troops (10,000 or so) and give an exact date... he'll really try to present "a plan" for us... how we're gonna win over the insurgents... and not to let the violence stand in our way.

that's my guess.


he'll fail miserably tho. because he's a miserable failure :D
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bushbeater Donating Member (56 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 05:57 PM
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5. It will be blamed on Clinton
He will announce that the 911 commission is partisan :-)
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maddezmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 06:04 PM
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16. wonder how he'll blame the Iraq War on Clinton
maybe his poppy for not finishing the job?
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bushbeater Donating Member (56 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 06:29 PM
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24. He'll blame Clinton for using cruise missiles to shoot camels
in the butt instead of hitting the leader of holy terror.
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 05:57 PM
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6. They're out of tricks
just a benign scripted press conference to re-lower our expectations for the upcoming election.

basically, if he survives - which he will - they'll consider it a victory & "move on".

But saying it doesn't make it true. Each time the pull the "everything is great" stunt, they lose that much more credibility with that many more people. And an equal number of people buy it so the numbers don't really change & the election is going to come down to turnout (which we will win).

If I win the contest, I would like to give my free ticket to Iraq to Rush Limbaugh.
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 05:58 PM
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9. No problem
n/t
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 05:59 PM
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13. I don't think that Rush will fit in the deregulated airline seats
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Iceburg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 05:58 PM
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10. Mission accomplished in Iraq -- A G A I N
F-16s are bombing Falluja as we speak ...
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F8388B06-6A1B-43AB-8DF1-529ADBEA24DA.htm

Occupation forces in Iraq have used F16 fighter planes to bomb the Nizal neighbourhood in Falluja, Aljazeera TV's correspondent has reported.

The journalist also said that the occupation on Tuesday pushed several tanks through the only open gateway used as an exit for Iraqi families in an apparent violation of the latest ceasefire in Falluja.

The invading forces were met with fierce resistance by the Falluja defenders which forced the US tanks into a quick withdrawal," correspondent Abd al-Azim Muhammad reported.

"Five were killed and severel others injured in the battles between the resistance fighters and the occupation troops."

The US fighter planes dropped stun bombs to cover their troops withdrawal, he added. more ...
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Emboldened Chimp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 05:58 PM
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11. I don't think we're in for anything big
I think this is designed to make Chimpy look engaged, nothing more.
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 06:06 PM
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17. Agreed...
I think a big bomb would have had less notice. It's kind of hard to trot out, "well, we found Osama" 48 hours after announcing a press conference. If I remember correctly, they carried a press conference at 5 a.m. EST or so (by Bremer in Qatar -- "We got him") to announce Saddam's capture.
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hippiegranny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 05:59 PM
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12. they just need to trot him out
to make it look like he gives a shit about the quagmire. obviously the brush problem in texas is much more pressing, but appearances count, you know. this is just p.r., pure and simple. even the gop-ers were starting to complain about the monkey's lack of response, this being an election year and all.
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maddezmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 06:10 PM
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20. "they just need to trot him out" ~ On a HORSE!!
now that would be newsworthy.:silly:
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JNelson6563 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 06:07 PM
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18. This is a defense move, not offense
We'll hear the usual drinking game phrases; "stay the course", "thugs & murderers", "Iraq/9-11" and all the usual crap.

Julie
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vern Donating Member (25 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 06:11 PM
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21. yup, yup, yup
i completely agree. he'll use all the standard phrasing in his speech, use 'em all again to respond to the questions.

the only interest will derive from watching for a bushism
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John_H Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 06:08 PM
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19. No surprises, plenty of lieses.
Chimp's stringpullers are thinking the 12 minute speech and the handpicked questions will fool the merkun people into believing that, just like they thought, their fearless leader is on the case despite the librul media trying to fool them into thinking otherwise.
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jimshoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 06:15 PM
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22. Chimpy is going to announce
his intention of bowing out of the presidential race. :bounce: (Hopefully)
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 06:41 PM
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25. Bowing out...sweet
But, no. He will tell us how great the economy is doing and how dangerous gay marriage is.
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 06:44 PM
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26. My pray too


I want him to resign and all the rest of the thugs need to go too.
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 06:45 PM
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27. I thought Rove was demoted
:shrug:
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