Kerry can get George Dubya's goat with his Oedipal complex....

[whistle]

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The New York Times
October 7, 2004
OP-ED COLUMNIST
Getting Junior's Goat
By MAUREEN DOWD

How strange that George W. Bush had his appointment in Samarra: his commanders taking a stand against the relentless Iraqi insurgents, trying once more to turn the corner in a war with endless corners.

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Senator Kerry evoked the voice of Bush 41 to get under 43's thin skin. The more Mr. Kerry played the square, proper, moderate, internationalist war hero, the more the president was reduced to childish scowling and fidgeting, acting like a naughty little boy who refuses to sit in his seat and eat his spinach and do all the hard things a parent wants you to do.

"You know, the president's father did not go into Iraq, into Baghdad beyond Basra," Mr. Kerry said, as W. blinked and burned. "And the reason he didn't is, he said, he wrote in his book, because there was no viable exit strategy. And he said our troops would be occupiers in a bitterly hostile land. That's exactly where we find ourselves today. There's a sense of American occupation."

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Mr. Kerry may take on the voice of Daddy Bush again in Friday's domestic debate, pointing out that W.'s father tried to fix the deficit, rather than mushrooming it to $415 billion.

The Clintonistas have infused the Kerry campaign with a new motto: "It's the couch, stupid!"

<link> http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/07/opinion/07dowd.html?th=&pagewanted=print&position=

[Connie_Corleone]

1. Bringing up Daddy Bush

will always get Bush Jr. in a tizzy. It worked last week. I expect Kerry to do it again Friday.

[Wickerman]

2. That was a great article

but, in typical Dowd fashion she bit off too much. Ignore the first several paragraphs and focus on the campaign. Her O'Hara intro is interesting, but not well developed. DO read the rest, good stuff.

[ProfessorPlum]

3. M. Dowd has a lot of f-ing nerve

to ever criticize the Chimp in Chief. After carrying massive buckets for him all through the 2000 campaign, writing story after story about Gore's "flawed character" because it allowed her to write really snarky things AND NEVER ONCE FACT-CHECKING OR APOLOGIZING the blatent lies she repeated.

Dowd can go Cheney herself. I hope she rots in hell.

[greenman3610]

6. completely agree

Dowd is a fucking whore.
The Pulitzer prize, it seems, is reserved for the
god damnest biggest Assholes in the
known journalistic universe-Dowd, Miller, Friedman

[LuminousX]

7. Clintonistas... the use of this word shows just how vile she can be

[On the Road]

4. Oh Yes, Bring Bush Sr. into Deficit Reduction

Personally, I thought Bush Sr's tax hike was his most courageous move because it was for the good of the country and cost him dearly with his own party. Junior will have to either change his position or disagree with his father, repudiating all semblance of fiscal responsibility in the process.

I also think Kerry should bring Bush Sr. into the global test question, which he will certainly be attacked on. "George, the kind global test I recommended is exactly what your father practiced in how the first Gulf War was fought. And it's the difference between success and failure."

[yellowcanine]

5. It's a trifecta for Kerry - Praise Poppy and get bipartisanship points,

show the obvious contrast with junior's foreign policy trainwreck,
and trigger junior's Oedipal anxieties at the same time.