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hexola Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 08:57 AM
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"So today I want to speak to every person who voted for my opponent..."
Edited on Thu Nov-04-04 08:58 AM by hexola
To make this nation stronger and better, I will need your support and I will work to earn it. I will do all I can do to deserve your trust. A new term is a new opportunity to reach out to the whole nation. We have one country, one Constitution, and one future that binds us. And when we come together and work together, there is no limit to the greatness of America.

From Bush Acceptance Speech...

Interesting choice of words..."I will work to earn it...all I can do to deserve your trust..." He doesn't ask us to "come together" (like, basically saying "drop it") - but really seems to send a message that reads..."I know you hate me...I'll gonna try."

Which way does Bush go now?...to the left?...preping the country for a Guliani 2008 run? I dont think Bush supporters would rally around Guiliani the same way...unless Bush really tilts left.
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PretzelWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 09:01 AM
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1. blahbedee fucking blah. same old words.
Edited on Thu Nov-04-04 09:02 AM by bransonfu
he worked himself into quite a humble stance in 2000 when he said something similar. He said something similar in the debates back then about "being humble in our foreign policy" and "compassionate conservatism".

It is a load of horse shit. LIke the misleader himself said..."fool me once..shame on...shame on...fool me..don't-get-fooled-again"
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sendero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 09:03 AM
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2. We heard this same...
... shit 4 years ago. It is a pack of lies like damn near everything that comes out of his mouth.

My support? Bush** will never get it. Nor an ounce of respect.
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JLaw82 Donating Member (13 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 09:06 AM
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3. JLaw82
Words are cheap when you don't mean anything by them. Smirk also said in 2000 that he was a uniter not a divider. Then he proceeded to take the country on an unprecedented ultra right wing course of action. Smirk is a liar. He is a user. He'll say anything to get his way. He'll even lie to take this country to war... again.
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hexola Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 09:09 AM
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6. That's cuz he knew he needed that constituency for 2004...
And that's not the same constituency they are going need in 2008 for Guliani. This is unique situation...since Cheney will likely not run...
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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 09:08 AM
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4. Watch George touch a black person, plant a tree, slop beans on a tray
That's all the reaching out he's done for four full years, and that's all he's ever going to do.

Symbolic bullshit doesn't cut it. You want to "reach out" to us, Chimpy? Try changing your policies. We're not impressed when you visit homeless shelters, schools or groves of trees. We've already seen it, and we already know that it doesn't mean a Goddamned thing.
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AllyCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 09:09 AM
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5. Consider the source n/t
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LeftHander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 09:22 AM
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7. He will work to earn it with....
Dogs, naked pyramids, beatings, riot gear, sonic weapons, plastic bullets, searches, suppression, discrimination, legal gymnastics, arrests....

BUSH IS A LIAR!
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 09:23 AM
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8. You can speak to me all you want to,
shithead, but it's falling on deaf ears. Piss on you, moron.
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 09:26 AM
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9. He put the words out their for the choir. Those people
who think he's god will now be able to say with perfect sincerity that * tried to unite the nation and those damned Dems just won't respect him and unite behind him. It's packaging--he's not moving one iota unless it's farther right where he needs to be to repay the religious right for their turnout.
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hexola Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 09:29 AM
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11. Depends on who Runs in 2008...
Edited on Thu Nov-04-04 09:29 AM by hexola
Breaking to the right isn't going to help Rudy...

Why would he repay them? He doesnt need them anymore...
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michigandem2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 09:28 AM
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10. i heard the "trust" thing and I said
why would you need to earn trust...DID YOU LIE BUSH??? duh...

he wants to try to say he's reaching out but really..he is not going to change...I really think he will move farther right...dividing the country even more..he doesn't see the division..he doesn't see the problems..he is going to say he reached out but we are too far left to make it work
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Jessica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 09:52 AM
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19. Exactly...
To me, that statement was like one of a 15-year-old girl whose parents just found pot in her bedroom, "I'm going to work to earn back your trust." What horseshit - if he was serious about uniting this nation, he would've done it already. I'm not holding my breath, ** ...
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teevee99 Donating Member (170 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 09:39 AM
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12. fuck that noise
he can kiss my ass.
he's not my president.
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 11:30 AM
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37. Giulianni in 2008 for the repubs? no way because
while he cheated on his wife and they were divorcing he was living with 2 gay men who were in a civil union at the time LOLOL

Msongs
Riverside CA

Dean-Obama 2008
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm
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City Lights Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 09:42 AM
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13. Up yours chimpy.
chimpy can go to Hell. He'll never have my support.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 09:43 AM
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14. Fuck You...imposter.
Not in a freezing hell even.
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 09:45 AM
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15. We still have a Constitution?
Fuck him.
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Vickers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 09:47 AM
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16. "and I will work to earn it"
But...will you work HARD?

:eyes:
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 09:49 AM
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17. Fuck off, gargoyle.
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SillyGoose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 09:49 AM
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18. He has alot of nerve using the word "trust"
Leopards don't change their spots. I don't trust this adminstration as far as I can throw it and I never will.
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sgtyellerdawg Donating Member (54 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 10:06 AM
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20. He makes me so angry...
He makes me so crazy angry that this morning all I could say while NBC replayed his "we need to be united" speech was "Fuck you" "Fuck you" "Fuck you" "Fuck you" "Fuck you" "Fuck you" "Fuck you" and I never say that (well rarely...). I will most likely be repeating that chant for four more years.

I honestly think I went from the mourning stage of yesterday straight into the angry stage - and I ain't getting over it.

Ever.

Not. Gonna. Happen.
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hexola Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 10:11 AM
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21. Taking Inventory...
It's like a game of chess...you have to take inventory of your opponent - thier position. I'm not suggesting that we co-operate or "unify". But Bush has some politcal capital to play with it...and play he will.

I dont think he will pay back the right at all. They are not going to go easily for a Guliani. They can be satisfied with lip service. Bush needs to go left...and we have to be careful how that carrot gets dangled.

Is there a candidate for 2008 who can make use of Bush's appeal to the religious right??
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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 10:20 AM
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22. Bush needs to go left? Sorry, I just don't see it.
He lost the PV in 2000, won the Electoral College on a 5-4 vote and governed as a hard-right president. The only check on his dumb-ass policies was fear of the 2004 election.

Why, pray tell, would he move left now? With all restraints removed, it's party time for Grover Norquist, Wall Street & Pat Robertson.
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hexola Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 10:27 AM
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23. This is a special situation...
Since Cheney wont run...they will need to sport an entirely new team. Who? And will they be able to recycle Bush's appeal to the evangelicals? I dont see how they can do it...without the VP as the "candidate in waiting." I think people/evangelicals voted "BUSH" more than they voted "republican".
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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 10:33 AM
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25. Well, maybe, but the Bible-Thumpiness of the GOP's appeal . . .
. . . extends far beyond Bush.

Pious self-righteousness is the new black. Crushing the wall of separation between church & state is stylish and in. And it permeates the GOP.

Santorum, Brownback, DeMint, Thune, Coburn, senile Jim Bunning, DeLay, Jim Ryun, etc., etc. - all of them won, and all of them are tub-thumpingly and explicitly fundamentalist in their approach to issues and to governing.

It's all Jesus, all the time with the GOP, and it ain't just Bush.
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sunnybrook Donating Member (986 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 10:27 AM
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24. I heard this on the radio on my way to class
I was screaming my head off at him, calling him a few cheneyesque words
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 10:39 AM
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26. It's just gas.
Pay it no heed.
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giant_robot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 10:40 AM
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27. "Bipartisanship is just another name for date rape"
That's what Grover Norquist said about reaching across the aisle, and that's what Bush will do. Any democrat who trusts that lying snake is a fool.

(My apologies to any snakes who were offended by that comment.)
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LittleDannySlowhorse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 10:43 AM
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28. It means nothing. 100% rhetoric.
Why start believing him now?
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 10:44 AM
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29. Meanwhile out of the other side of his mouth...
We got the sons of bitches right where we want them.
We will take their kids and send them off to be blown-up
We will steal their social security
Pollute thier environment so they can't breathe

Mother FUCKING ASSHOLE!
He is not my president
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chyjo Donating Member (615 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 10:50 AM
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30. more of the same
I hated him in 2000, and I fucking despise him with all my being now.
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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 10:55 AM
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31. "I will need your support" No, he doesn't...
The consent of the governed is not extended from my house.
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SiouxJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 11:05 AM
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32. Maybe we should write him letters and tell him
Edited on Thu Nov-04-04 11:08 AM by SiouxJ
what we want. Tell him how he can earn our support. Tell him to quit caring about the corporations so much and start caring about the people. Tell him to start spreading peace, not war. Tell him to stop sreading hate etc. Just flood him with letters. I've thought about it. I mean, he's asking for our support so wtf?

on edit: oh yeah, I forgot, he doesn't read. Nevermind.
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Phillycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 11:10 AM
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33. He doesn't have to move anywhere.
He's not running for re-election anymore. He's in. He has a Republican Senate and House. He can do whatever he wants now.

Jeb in 2008! mark my words. This is a dynasty now. The American people would rather vote against their own interests in order to disenfranchise a small number of people who don't affect their lives at all (gays). It's all over. That's why I'm leaving this country.
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Straight Shooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 11:14 AM
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34. "Honey, I've been beating the shit out of you for 4 years now
but I promise I'll change."

Yeah, right. Anyone who believes you should have "STUPID" tattooed on their forehead.
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Marthe48 Donating Member (473 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 11:21 AM
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35. Swallow your lies and choke on them
n/t
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gauguin57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 11:26 AM
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36. Back off the Bible thumping, Chimpy, and we'll talk.
Stop pandering to the bigots and misogynists and homophobes ... stop pandering to the big corporations, and filling the media with lies. Stop warmongering for the sake of your corporate buddies' profits. Stop destroying the environment.

In short, stop trying to destroy my wonderful country, Mister President, and maybe we'll talk about unity.

Until then, kiss my :kick: !!!
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democrat_patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 11:34 AM
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38. He was speaking to his 'base'. "See I asked the left to play nice"

and they refused, so it's OK to royally f**k them now...isn't it"?

The right will repeat ad nauseum: "The Republicans have tried repeatedly to cross the aisle, and they refuse. We can longer help the left. The liberals refuse to listen to reason."

It's coming.

I am not sure how we can evene begin to fight back without an unbiased media.
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SmokingJacket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-04 01:05 PM
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39. Yeah...right.
Pretty words before he slams us with the reeking Right Wing agenda.
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