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ewagner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-04 04:17 PM
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When will voters catch on?
Somebody mentioned in another thread that the Daytona 500 stunt by Bush* may not have much effect because the crowd saw/will see it as another theatrical campaign stunt.

They also mentioned that everything Bush* does is a photo op or over-the-top theatrical performance: Carrier landing, Baghdad Turkey Trip, Daytona 500. Everything is scripted to the last, minute detail (remember the Hoosiers who didn't look "Hoosier" enough so they went out and bought shirts for them?) There are WITNESSES to these events who are probably getting their first glimps of the man behind the curtain.

How long will it take for America to wake up and realize that this is a made-for-tv presidency?
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-04 04:27 PM
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1. Move-On or someone needs to create an add showing clips of
all of Bush's big ticket publicity stunts on our dime with calculated cost to the taxpayer for each. Then conclude with the deficit under Bush


Or perhaps one showing Bush's pattern of letting others take the risk while he rides in to take the credit dating back to his ANG days to now with his Air carrier stunt, NASCAR stunt, Turkey day in Iraq-- etc.
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justgamma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-04 04:31 PM
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2. agree
How about the warehouse, when he had his aides put black tape over all the boxes that said Made in China? There he was, giving a speech about American jobs.
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pagerbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-04 04:55 PM
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3. How about the doctored crowds?
Everywhere he goes, supporters are welcome to worship and adore him publicly while dissenters are consigned to a "free speech zone" meant not to be seen by the news media or public.
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lovedems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-04 05:22 PM
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4. Perception is reality. We just need to change the perception.
I think the WH press corps has been slumbering for the past 3 years but it would appear, judging by the last couple of press conferences they have finally snapped out of it. It seems like they know they have alot to make up for because they have been relentless with not so pretty face Scott.

Will the very entity that we have grown to despise be the ones to change the perception and get the voters to see the chimp for the miserable fail that he really is?
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Terwilliger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-04 05:25 PM
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5. how does "never" sound?
the idiotic things he's done up to now have barely persuaded people at all
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