What should be the Democratic response to Bush's speech?

Put on your speechwriting hat. How should the Democrats respond? What do people need to hear about what what Bush said? Please interpret his speech for the "average" American.

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constantly. Do they even have to respond? How about with a big YAWN?

After all, it is the same ol' shit. But they have nothing else to offer. Fear. War. Terror. Why can we not as Democrats offer hope, peace, and courage as an alternative? We are better people than to have to live in fear and terror. The "dark vision" from this White House has worn out its welcome. Americans are looking for a change. We can defend ourselves without the fear and the terror. We've had enough.

I'm also tired of feeling like the dead horse that these thugs are beating. I want some PEACE, LOVE AND JOY. Some good old 'happy days are here again' politicking. I want bush and the bushites to shut up, sit down and get out of the way. Guess I want what we all want, Utopia!

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That should be the number one talking point, and the American people are quite receptive to it this time.

The point of Bush's speech today, and of the recent Rumsfeld-Cheney rhetoric, is to DISTRACT Americans from the disastrous Iraq War. By framing it in the context of Terror, they're unwilling to admit failures and are hoping Americans will agree with them and "look over there, look over here."

Democrats should come out with fists flying in terms of the war on terror. And they should continue to hammer Bush on his foreign policy. They can't give into this talking point, this "We're not leaving till the terrorists are all dead" bullshit.

it is true...

At some point somebody might want to point out that the terrorism in Iraq is primarily DOMESTIC--NOT INTERNATIONAL--terrorism and until we have an administration that knows the difference there is not likely to be much progress on either front. Slogans like "we're fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them here" do not apply to domestic terrorism and make the United States look just plain stupid for making such ludicrous statements and repeating them over and over again.

We need good responses like yours. "... The point of Bush's speech today, and of the recent Rumsfeld-Cheney rhetoric, is to DISTRACT Americans from the disastrous Iraq War...."

yeah, good one.

http://securingamerica.com/node/1395

Maybe why Republicans are coming out with this new tactic of calling democrats fascist. I got the definition of fascist on my new web page, Can you see them grouping together...O.k. boys, this is how we'll approach it!...It's all B.S, it's up to us to get the word out. My new Page, http://www.johnlisainmilo.com/liberty_2.html

I sent this to our local Democratic Chair who just took over a morning radio show and Wes's response will help him make a clearly articulate response to the Bush Cheney bullshit.

Thank you for sharing this.

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He murdered more Americans than anyone in history, and this administration gave him a pass while they trotted off to war with Saddam. They won't be able to bring him to justice unless he waltzes into the Green Zone and gives himself up!

In '93, when the first WTC bombing happened, the president hunted down every one of the sons of bitches and put them in prison. He didn't get distracted by political persuasion and special interest lobbies.

Republicans are soft on terror and hard on our troops!

where Bush outsourced the job of getting OBL when he was cornered to Afghan warlords who were on the Taliban side the week before.

(Thanks to Tay Tay - who posted this in the Kerry group)

"The true defeatists today are not those who call for recognizing the facts on the ground in Iraq. The true defeatists are those who believe America is so weak that it must sacrifice its principles to the pursuit of illusory power.

The true pessimists today are not those who know that America can handle the truth about the Administration’s boastful claim of “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq. The true pessimists are those who cannot accept that America’s power and prestige depend on our credibility at home and around the world. The true pessimists are those who do not understand that fidelity to our principles is as critical to national security as our military power itself.

And the most dangerous defeatists, the most dispiriting pessimists, are those who invoke September 11th to argue that our traditional values are a luxury we can no longer afford."

http://kerry.senate.gov/v3/cfm/record.cfm?id=254631

Senator Kerry spoke these words in a speech defending dissent 35 years to the day of when he spoke to the Senate in 1971.

Senator Kerry, by the way, is speaking on National Security on September 9 at Faneuil Hall in Boston. (Faneuil Hall is an incredibly historic, beautiful building in Boston) I assume the the man who even George Will says "had a point" in 2004 on how to fight terrorists may have a response to this.

who cares!!!

He's going over the falls and he knows it. People are just salivating for Halloween to get here.