Apparently Bush really, really wants to get spanked hard on Friday.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

It's gotten to the point where the rhetoric is old, tired and...I never thought I'd say this...I'm starting to actually feel sorry for Bush. I WOULD say "I question his sanity" but I know how ridiculous that sounds.

This is a sad, broken man. I agree with what many of you have said on DU (and I've said it myself a few times)...I don't think he really WANTS a second term. It's too much responsibility. It's too much like work. But he's painted himself into a corner and he can't just quit, so he's going through the motions, he's got to win the love and approval that he will NEVER win from two of the coldest and most uncaring parents on the PLANET, and if this is all he's got, what the hell is Friday night going to look like? He's talking this trash...saying people would DIE because of Kerry's "mindset"...now, Kerry will NOT react emotionally to this, as we have seen, and today Edwards said the Bush-Cheney duo is "living in denial"...but what exactly IS Bush trying to accomplish with this low-rent, hollow attack on Kerry's character?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&e=1&u=/nm/20041006/pl_nm/campaign_dc



"CLEVELAND (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites), going on the attack after a slip in the polls, said on Wednesday Democratic rival John Kerry (news - web sites)'s "mind-set of September 10th" would paralyze the United States and weaken its ability to respond to threats.

Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards (news - web sites), campaigning in Florida the day after a heated debate with Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites), responded that Bush was "in a complete state of denial" about Iraq (news - web sites) and unable to fix the deteriorating security situation.

The exchange came two days before the next debate between White House rivals Kerry, a Massachusetts senator, and Bush and hours after the encounter between their running mates produced plenty of sparks but no decisive winner.

Bush, at a campaign appearance in the swing state of Pennsylvania that was originally slated to address medical liability reform, attacked Kerry's Senate record and said his opponent "has looked for every excuse to constrain America's action in the world."

[Cha]

1. I could NEVER feel sorry for that

sumBITCH! Nothing is too rotten for him to go down to..but he'll always be free of jail and have plenty of blood money to spend his days in luxury.

But as long as he's out of power..we can rebuild our Country.

[Booster]

2. His past record shows that he is a quitter when the going

gets tough. I really think 4 years is about all he's ever given to any "job" he's had. Having an attention span of a minute and a half, you just lose interest. More than 4 years is just "hard work" and, besides, he's tired of clearing brush for his photo-ops. He's really working hard at getting fired.

[Cronus Protagonist]

9. It IS hard work.... it's HARD WORK I tell ya!

http://www.factcheck.com - recommended by Dick Cheney



"So I don't worry about, and people shouldn't
worry about a draft. . . I think we're in good
shape, I really do. And, if not, we'll -- I'll address
the nation. But I don't see any need to right now."
- G. W. Bush (Source: The Whitehouse)

[Cyrano]

3. Tell me how sorry you feel for the swine if he wins or steals it again

Given four more years, there will be many, many more people deserving of your pity given what BushCo will do to them.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

7. I hear ya...

I'm not sure of what the "appropriate" reaction is right now, or if there even is one. I watched Fahrenheit 9/11 yesterday...and I've been a pretty aggressive DU participant since the first of the year, so the content of the movie wasn't "new" to me...but when you EXPERIENCE the grief, the sorrow, the pain that Bush has brought into so many lives around the world...and you see what an evil SOB his old man is...the emotions start kicking in.

I know that losing the election will be a humiliation that Bush will NEVER get over. No matter how "shielded" he is, he MUST have heard the "like father, like son, one term, he's done" chant.

It's hard to believe, even with the evidence that is staring me right in the face, that George W. Bush is the person that he is. That he trivialized and cheapened his own version of "Christianity," that he thinks he is on a personal hotline with God Almighty. I look at Karl Rove and Karen Hughes and I can SEE who they are and WHAT they are and it's hard to accept the fact that these people can just keep GETTING AWAY WITH SHIT.

But in the end, you are right. Until I can figure out exactly what I'm feeling right now, I WILL take back the "feeling sorry for Bush" remark until I find something more appropriate.

:toast:

[bahrbearian]

4. I think Cheney is ready to Pick a new running mate.

[TlalocW]

5. Like Father Like Son

Poppy Bush started losing it when it became apparent that Clinton and Gore had the big Mo and started calling them names like "Bozo" and "Captain Ozone" on the stump.

TlalocW

[heidler1]

6. Edwards did win. Cris M's MSNBC group said a tie would be a win.

Before the debate they said that a tie would be a win for Edwards.

This whole deal is like Pres. Johnson refusing to run after lying about the Tonkin Gulf attack. I wish Bush would suddenly do the same.

[MoonRiver]

8. Message to *: Pull down your britches sonny. Uncle Kerry has this paddle

with your name on it. :spank:

[catbert836]

10. He didn't want a FIRST term

It was just being the avenger of Daddy's legacy that got him to run in the first place. I tell you, after 9/11, he looked like he was ready to admit that he lost the election. He had absolutely no clue what to do then, and he still dosn't.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

11. The most striking moment in "F-9/11" was Moore's narration...

...showing Bush, sitting in the classroom, with the soft-spoken voice-over "Because no one told him what to do...because the secret service did not come and get him...he just sat and read "My Pet Goat" with the children"...

F-9/11 has probably been discussed in one way or another on DU on EVERY SINGLE DAY since its release, but when you SEE it...and HEAR it...and EXPERIENCE this man's FEAR and COWARDICE...I just "don't get" why some people "just don't get it"...why they give him credit for ANY level of "protection."

[txindy]

14. Absolutely

My 12 year old watched it for the first time ever yesterday when I got the DVD. After that scene, he had to get up and leave the room because he was so angry he couldn't stand to stay and watch. He did come back later just as the Iraqi invasion began. Left for good soon after that. I could feel the anger coming off of him. * created a politically-aware child over the last few years. Moore helped turn him into someone who speaks out and wants to make a difference.

[bringbackfdr]

12. It's exasperation, not ambivalence

These people are stunned when confronted with the reality that the world does not follow them in lockstep, seeing things exactly as they do. Bush wants to win a second term so bad he can taste it, but he is too dense to understand his failures and is just now beginning to realize that he now has been exposed as the buffoon he truly is.

[Raenelle]

13. Count the coffins for which * is responsible when you start feeling pity

No one's a throw-away. You're right about that. But priorities, priorities.

[Wapsie B]

15. What is he trying to accomplish?

He's got to at least look like he's putting up a fight. The slams on Kerry just energize the base.