Message: I Don't CARE

[Stephanie]

I Don't CARE about the Hart Rudman Report

I Don't CARE about the August 6 briefing

I Don't CARE about the WMD's

I Don't CARE where Osama is

I Don't CARE about the missing explosives

Message: I Don't CARE

[amber dog democrat]

1. what is the other part to that ?

too dense to figure it out.

[Stephanie]

5. Bush Sr - "Message: I care"

Idiot read the stage directions instead of acting concerned.

[amber dog democrat]

6. Thanks - It was late

Despite all the reasons to despise Father of Chimp, - compared to his 3 criminal offspring, he's still the lesser of evils.

Still I was pleased to see him go down in flames.

JR. is likely to follow in his dad'd cloven footsteps.

[Mr_Spock]

2. Funny sign - "Where's Osama?" on a power poll on my street in NH

Very funny. It's hard to believe how many people do care in conservative NH about what the Preznit doesn't care about.

[GHOSTDANCER]

3. You'll care tomorrow.

You can't push it away. you can have a day off, a breather, a smoke break....... unfortunately It only works for awhile then the Hate returns.

[Stephanie]

4. "Message: I care."

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/827onvta.asp

The first landmark, everyone has heard of. On January 15, 1992, during a gruesome New Hampshire "town meeting" at the dawn of his reelection campaign, the first President Bush struggled heroically, and in the end famously, to get a point across to an indifferent audience in Exeter. His political consultants in Washington had prepared him for a bad reception: Focus groups were united in seeing their president, in those recessionary days, as out of touch and uncaring. The political purpose of his trip to New Hampshire was to dispel the notion.

President Bush opened the town meeting like so: "One of the things that I'm pleased to be able to do here is to at least let the people of this state know that even though I am president and do have two or three other responsibilities, that when people are hurting, we care."

A moment later: "Of course, we care."

A moment more: "And of course, we care."

It wasn't working. The questions became increasingly hostile.

And so: "I'll take my share of the blame. I don't take it for not caring."

nd again: "I do care about it. I just wanted to say that."

"Two things. One, I know you're hurting; two, I care about it."

Still nothing, until, in his frustration with yet another unfriendly question, he let go finally, desperately, deathlessly. "But," he said, "the message: I care."

The veil slipped, the curtain was pulled back, the politician stood exposed. It was as though a magician had invited us backstage to watch as he stuffed the pigeons up his sleeve. Political commentators (not nearly so numerous in that innocent era) noted the oddity. A politician describing his own "message"--the jig was up! It was thought to be inept at best, cynical at worst, artless in any case. "He blurted out his handlers' notes verbatim," said Newsweek, astonished. By the end of the month the New York Times and the Washington Post had printed the phrase more than a dozen times, and since then, in the annals of silly remarks, President Bush's self-referential declamation of his "message" has achieved second place only to Sally Fields's peerless outburst, "You like me, you really like me!"