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MallRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 09:59 AM
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ABC's "The Note": Bush campaign becoming "wistful."
An interesting narrative is developing in the morning papers, according to ABC's "The Note." Does the Bush inner circle know something the rest of us don't? :-)

    State of the Bush campaign:

    The closer you read, the more you get the sense of a shift in the Bush campaign toward "wistfulness," as perceived by the reporters covering them.

    The Los Angeles Times' leads:

    "Amid all the hope and hoopla of the final day of President Bush's reelection campaign, there was a distinct note of wistfulness, of something coming to an end."

    "At stop after stop, the exuberance of Sen. John F. Kerry's supporters was palpable Monday as his campaign did one final lap around Florida, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio." LINK and LINK

    More: Keen and Benedetto (USA Today) write the best wrap of the last day George Bush will ever spend campaigning for himself, Noting that Bush has been somewhat nostalgic behind the scenes. LINK

    Mike Allen (Washington Post) has a peak into the, uhm, wistfulness, within the Bush campaign. LINK

    Means nothing: Dowd and McKinnon say they like their hand.


http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238
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senseandsensibility Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 10:03 AM
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1. I wanna see them more than "wistful"
I wanna see them DESTROYED!!!!
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StopTheMorans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 10:04 AM
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2. Destroyed, and Jailed
n/t
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AmerDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 10:09 AM
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8. I want them brutally destroyed
I want them to receive ten times the hurt Rove has done to America. I then want the largest and most thorough investigations this country has every seen to bring all of these fascist bastards to justice!
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wellstone_democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 10:05 AM
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3. Fuck that: I wanna see 'em fearing long jail terms
really long ones.
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Bombtrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 10:06 AM
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4. for others who aren't or are afraid to admit they needed to check the def.
Main Entry: wist·ful
Pronunciation: 'wist-f&l
Function: adjective
Etymology: blend of wishful and obsolete English wistly intently
Date: 1714
1 : full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy; also : inspiring such yearning <a wistful memoir>
2 : musingly sad : PENSIVE
- wist·ful·ly /-f&-lE/ adverb
- wist·ful·ness noun
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durablend Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 10:08 AM
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6. Thanks!
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xxqqqzme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 10:12 AM
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10. yea?, well, I've spent the last 4 years 'wistful'
over what should have been!
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 10:21 AM
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16. Pensive? Doesn't that imply a thought process?
I have to say that the amoeba-like tendency of this corrupt administration to nothing more than stimulus-reaction never betrayed to my probing eye any encumbrance of a thought process on their part.

You'd think the wordsmiths writing for "The Note" would have a better grasp of the language.
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Hobarticus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 10:07 AM
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5. I wanna see a public collapse, in tears.
I wanna see him wailing, begging for forgiveness for hundreds of thousands of lives destroyed for his little war to bethe apple in daddy's eye. Begging for forgiveness for dismantling our enviornmental laws and putting public lands up for sale.
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 10:09 AM
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7. Do you think this bunch will ever understand how
detested they are and how despised their policies have been?
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Mad_Dem_X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 10:13 AM
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12. Probably not, but
a little jail time might help.
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 10:11 AM
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9. The whole bush family is pensively sad and melancholy
I can almost hear Barbara screaming, "not another one termer"
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SayitAintSo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 10:12 AM
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11. Hmmm............ How 'bout Babs having a nervous breakdown...n/t
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amber dog democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 10:14 AM
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13. It was their version of Camalot -
I want to see the Chimp heavily sedated, in a wheel chair on the way to an ambulance that will take him to a sanitorum where he can join some of his neocon friemds.
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offcenter Donating Member (105 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 10:16 AM
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15. Heh
Wistfulness is the fist stage in their coming depression, which will be very deep and prolonged.
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amber dog democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 10:34 AM
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18. There is that line from Groundhog Day
"It will be cold and dark and last the rest of your lives "
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 10:15 AM
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14. If you concede now, George-
we promise to take that into consideration during the sentencing phase of the trial.....

(sorry Dick, we won't extend that option to you.)
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faithnotgreed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 10:25 AM
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17. finally! they recognize the "exuberance" of kerrys supporters.
the crowds have been charged up for a long time.
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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 10:35 AM
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19. They know the same thing we know
bush is toast!
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 10:36 AM
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20. Wistful: "remember the good times we had? 911, 2 wars?" sniff, sniff
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justgamma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 11:41 AM
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21. My take on this
Shrub loves the adoration. Win or lose, he will never again have crowds chanting for him. He knows this is the end for him.
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shanti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 12:25 PM
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22. wistfulness....yeah, the MONEY is coming to an end!
n/t
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cubsfan forever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 12:30 PM
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23. How about wistful and in prison?
We have had four years of this pathetic little man who pretends to be everything John Kerry already is. Ass-hat just might have to sleep with his back to the wall once this is all over.

Professor 2
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Pithy Cherub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 12:34 PM
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24. Would wailing and gnashing of teeth
be to much to ask for? sackcloth, ashes and watching Bab's breakdown on reality TV - nope still not enough for how they have desecrated this country, our people and its good name.
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