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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-07-03 03:08 PM
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2004? Bush will beat Bush
The truth of the matter is that in 2004 President Bush will defeat himself. “The cat is out of the bag”. “The genie is out of the bottle”. “The jig is up”. “You can’t fool all of the people all of the time”. President Bush is not a President. He is just a kid. He is just a transient personality in history, passing by, that history will barely mention in a short one hundred years from now.

He will be remembered as the son of a President, who came to office on the strength of “name recognition”. He will be remembered as a President who was lead by the nose by special interest groups, lobbyists, Cabinet appointees, major corporate interests, and the hidden agenda of corrupt Republican politics. He may be remembered as the President that destroyed the Republican Party in the interests of “special interests”. What emerges in its place, no one knows.

He will be remembered, if he is remembered at all, for the sheer folly of a foreign policy that alienated the world against us. He will be remembered for reading a bedtime story to a class of grammar school students as the worst terrorist attack in our history took place. He will be remembered for failing to sense the need to protect our great nation and for failing to take the correct retaliatory action to exact reprisal from the true culprits and prevent further attacks. And there will be further attacks, which he himself alluded too.

He will be remembered for the mess that he left for the President that succeeds him---for a $1 trillion dollar deficit; for the collapse of the health care system with more than 50 million uninsured Americans; for record unemployment levels of over 10%; for chaos in NAFTA, WTO, and trade agreements that went awry leading to millions of jobs permanently lost to foreign workers in foreign countries making as low as 3 cents an hour with no benefits; for record level personal bankruptcies of two million individuals and small business owners a year; for a sense that large, multi-national corporations just about bought the White House with over $300 million in Republican contributions; for wars, threats of wars, incursions, pre-emptive attacks, and full scale assaults on Third World countries in the endless pursuit of shadowy, faceless, nameless (an often non-existent) terrorists.

http://www.opednews.com/boyne1203__bush_will_beat_bush.htm
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-07-03 03:18 PM
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1. I pray that this guy is right. Please God, let this guy be right.
The only thing he doesn't allow for is a suspension of the 2004 elections because of some "catastrophic" event. I am more and more certain that will happen every day.
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Demonaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-03 12:30 AM
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6. My magic eight ball says...............................true
more accurate that the media.
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NJCher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-07-03 03:31 PM
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2. that is a must-read!
That guy can get you going like the best Democratic stump raising speech!

There's also a link to this piece:

http://www.opednews.com/Boyne0903_reasons_to_vote_republican_and_f.htm

BTW, the writer is a former republican who supports Kucinich.

Great read; thanks for posting it, catwoman!


Cher
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MarianJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-07-03 03:50 PM
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3. The Author's Lips...
...to GOD'S ear!
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candy331 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-07-03 04:06 PM
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4. I wish the
stamp of approval could already be on this along with impeachment leading to resignation in disgrace. I really want jail time but that would never happen so I can settle for disgrace from office for criminal acts. Then finally this man will face the music that he has made others dance to for so long.
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Eric J in MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-07-03 09:39 PM
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5. "Truth has a way of prevailing."
"Truth has a way of prevailing."

If that's true, do most Americans know that the only reason Bush won in Florida is that his brother's state government falsely labelled thousands of legal voters as "suspected felons" and stopped them from voting?

Would Bush be treated with any legitimacy if the "Truth has a way of prevailing?"

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grytpype Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-03 01:53 AM
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7. We can do it.
If we have a candidate with substantial cross-over appeal (Clark), we will win in a landslide.

Otherwise (Dean), it will be close, but we will prevail.
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Gin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-03 10:21 AM
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8. another way he can win is touchscreen voting with no paper trail...
Max Cleland was defeated that way...we can't prove it...that proves my point.
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