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03/10/2004 Archived Entry: "Bush: Running Against Himself"
Bush: Running Against Himself
I'm listening to Bush's speech to female entrepreneurs in Ohio, and I gotta say it's freakin' weird. He's spent the past 5 minutes running down all that's wrong with the economy, blaming it on everyone but himself. He actually just got to a point in the speech where he said, 'There's a better way, and that's what I want to talk about today.'
This may be a first in presidential politics - Bush, in addition to running against John Kerry, seems to be running against himself and his own record - despite the fact that he's blaming everything he's done wrong on others.
No wonder his ratings (both personal approval and re-elect numbers, even in states he won last time) are in the crapper. I don't see how this stump speech is going to pull him out of it, either. As the applause lines started to get less and less applause, CNN broke away from the speech.
White House shill/stooge Bill Schneider came on and said that Bush is running on his record. Well, I watched the speech, and it looked like he was running against his record.
Schneider brought up the 'productivity paradox,' and said it was going to be hard to sell. I nearly fainted.
Carol Costello noted hundreds of union members outside the hall (CNN chose not to show them), and said 'It's going to be really hard to make those union members understand productivity.' I wonder if Costello belongs to a union, and if she considers members of her own union to be as stupid as she does the ones outside the hall.
And bush railing against 'politicians in Washington' doesn't cut it either. Maybe Bush forgets that he's a politician in Washington, and all of the other politicians in Washington are controlled by his party.
I seriously think the GOP has lost touch here - and they're falling back on shopworn cliches that just don't work any more. I hought these guys were supposed to be smart.
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it's also been interesting here in illinois to see the rethuglican candidates for the senate run against busco's record. without identifying it as a concequence of bush's policies, of course. i wonder if the same is occuring elsewhere.
Posted by smiley @ 03/10/2004 01:31 PM NY
Not only is this happening all over the country, the Bushies are accusing Kerry of doing what Bush is doing. They're claiming that Kerry has taken "both sides of every issue."
Have they heard of the Saudis and Gen. Musharaff as opposed to Hussein and Aristide? The wingnuts are smart, but they also underestimate the public's intelligence, which is why they're going to lose worse than the punditry thinks come November.
Posted by Kalonji @ 03/10/2004 01:53 PM NY
reminds me of this article
Posted by yoni @ 03/10/2004 04:07 PM NY
reminds me of this article
Posted by yoni @ 03/10/2004 04:08 PM NY
This is really getting fascinating to watch. The idea seems to be "if we say something often enough, people will believe it." Then they split up, Cheney on foreign affairs and Bush on domestic. The basic lines are:
Cheney: "We had intelligence that there were WMD's in Iraq. WMD's are a threat. Threats must be attacked, there, before they can be used against us, here. IF we haven't found them yet [eyebrow twitch to suggest we really HAVE and just can't tell you for security reasons] because it's a big country, or else they were smuggled out or hidden, and besides our guys are busy rebuilding the evildoer's damage or something."
Bush: "The economy is good and getting better, and if not it's because we need more tax cuts."
Then the Lazy-Ass Media Expounders (not that I would be thinking "acronym" here) present these as facts, since a fact consists of something said by somebody, on tape.
And then there's the matter of Questions Never Asked, and Stories Not Followed Up On, and...well, that's another post.
Posted by Xan @ 03/10/2004 04:15 PM NY
Sounds like CNN (a subsidiary of Time Warner, formerly AOL Time Warner) is being its usual mediawhore self.
Looks like I'll have to watch the CBC tonight to get in-depth, accurate coverage of this event. Sigh, it's a bitch when you have to get news about your own country from a foreign source.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 03/10/2004 04:18 PM NY
Bush is so out of touch, he's trying the "eek, Kerry is another Massachusetts librul like Mike Dukakis" gambit. Jeebus I had to relocate to keep working. I've postponed buying a home and am sick over how much my hard-earned savings have shrunk because of that reckless asshole.
The Rethugs need a reality check. My worst fear has nothing to do with Dukakis (or same sex marriage or the Brown Enemy of The Week.)
I want my democracy back and I want everything Bush stole from me to fill his cronies pockets back. ABB and whatever I can do to cream the regime is my motto.
Posted by Peanut @ 03/10/2004 08:29 PM NY
