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Live Thread: Final Night: RNC Convention: Bush Speaks
http://gopconvention.com/schedule/ ^ | September 2, 2004

Posted on 09/02/2004 9:45:27 AM PDT by Howlin

Primetime

"A Safer World,
A More Hopeful America"

7:45 p.m. to 11:15 p.m. EDT

Convention Call to Order
Representative Henry Bonilla (TX)
Deputy Permanent Co-Chair

Presentation of Colors
New York Port Authority

Pledge of Allegiance
Mary Lou Retton and Kerri Strug
Olympic Gold Medalists

National Anthem
Nicole C. Mullen, Nashville, TN

Invocation
Bishop Keith Butler, Southfield, MI

Lynn Swann
NFL Hall of Famer

Dorothy Hamill
Olympic Gold Medalist

The Honorable Michael Williams (TX)

Music
Donnie McClurkin

Music
Michael W. Smith

Governor George Pataki (NY)
Biography

President George W. Bush
Biography

Benediction
Cardinal Egan


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: acceptancespeech; bush; fourmoreyears; gwb2004; reelection; rncconvention
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

Kerry is just ticking off the talking points that his handlers gave him. This is wonderful to see.


4,581 posted on 09/02/2004 9:13:33 PM PDT by Gunder
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To: Gunder
Years from now he will be one of those politicians we joke about thinking he could seriously be elected.

This is just unbelievable. He sounds like he has been drinking. He's nasty and pessimistic. I hope a lot of people see this.
Fox just cut him off while speaking with a commercial break for a movie. :)
4,582 posted on 09/02/2004 9:13:52 PM PDT by GodBlessUSA (Support, Prayers and Thanks to our Troops.)
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To: TheLion

President Bush did a masterful job of reminding everyone why he is likeable, and sKerry reminds us he is mean-spirited and petty in his lame, lame, lame jokes about the speech, AS WELL AS being completely without class on speaking during the other party's convention.

(Gee, when even your own running mate looks uncomfortable, probably you aren't hitting all the high notes you could be, lololololol!)


4,583 posted on 09/02/2004 9:13:53 PM PDT by alwaysconservative (Ambien and Sominex not available? Listen to the pedantic, pompous sKerry awhile.)
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To: Fawnn
I'm a WOMAN...join the club. :-)
4,584 posted on 09/02/2004 9:13:56 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: section9

Well, on the bright side for Kerry, in between wiping his brow nervously every few seconds, MSNBC finally decided his boring rambling was ending any chance they have of improving their ratings during the rest of the campaign. They cut him off. In mid wipe. But not before he crammed a grenade into his mouth and had Edwards pull the pin.


4,585 posted on 09/02/2004 9:14:05 PM PDT by Rokke
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To: goldstategop
That self-deprecation and asking the permission of the American people to forgive his shortcomings and help be a better man and a better President did it. Its very different from you know, John F*ckin's opening remark about being born in the "west wing" with its arrogant sense of entitlement. The President is at heart a humble man. And in a few closing paragraphs he punctured the ABB's crowd's caricature of him as man possessed of a sneer, with an arrogant demeanor and a haughty swagger.

Actually, I think that after all is said and done it was this portion of the speech that just may just tilt the election in his favor. Americans want a humble committed man to be their leader. They don't want a prima donna. They want someone that'll look 'em in the eye and tell it to 'em straight.

GW is comfortable in his own skin. He swaggers cuz he's a Texan. He's blunt because he takes after his mama. You gotta love a man that ain't afraid of who he is.

4,586 posted on 09/02/2004 9:14:16 PM PDT by Don'tMessWithTexas
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To: nopardons

Too much makeup?


4,587 posted on 09/02/2004 9:14:34 PM PDT by budman_2001
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To: Howlin; StarFan

MSNBC now has Chrissie Matthews, Joe Scarborough, JC Watts, Andrea Mitchell, et al live in Herald Square...


4,588 posted on 09/02/2004 9:14:38 PM PDT by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Comrade Hillary - 6/28/04)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

CNN broke for a commercial, as did Fox... Right now, his rambling is being covered by no one...


4,589 posted on 09/02/2004 9:14:47 PM PDT by NYC Republican (Liberals are absolutely evil and despicable. SKerry is their leader, how appropriate.)
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To: wardaddy


...well, like somebody I'd want in my deer camp....you know what I mean




I know exactly what you mean. I have been fortunate a couple times in my life to have such friendships. Pres.Bush was extolled in 1999 and 2000 by some FReepers here I trusted. I am so grateful to them ... though I was very skeptical of their almost blind allegiance to him. Now I understand why.

Darn... tears welling up in my eyes again...
/


4,590 posted on 09/02/2004 9:14:51 PM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: nopardons

Kerry campaign introduces new "midnight when nobody is watching" campaign speech program.

4,591 posted on 09/02/2004 9:15:31 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (Give'm hell Zell!)
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To: Don'tMessWithTexas

Did you hear Kerry's "all hat and no cattle" line? Now he's trying to out-Texas GWB?!?!


4,592 posted on 09/02/2004 9:15:41 PM PDT by Gunder
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To: Miss Marple

I TRUST PRESIDENT BUSH.

Gotta go hug my kid now.

G'night all.
/


4,593 posted on 09/02/2004 9:15:45 PM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: My2Cents

Kerry has decided to plow full ahead with lies. Thus the two tours of duty claim.


4,594 posted on 09/02/2004 9:15:52 PM PDT by JLS
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To: Richard-SIA

What, specifically, did you not like in the speech? Which programs? Which themes?
I thought it was fantastic, BTW, but since you didn't care for it, I'd like to know, again *specifically*, why.


4,595 posted on 09/02/2004 9:15:54 PM PDT by A Jovial Cad ("I had no shoes and I complained, until I saw a man who had no feet.")
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To: Will_Zurmacht

No KIDDING...I have images of that podium mound and THE President versus Kerry looking like Lurch at a Midnight Wiccan party is striking to me.


4,596 posted on 09/02/2004 9:16:30 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Don'tMessWithTexas

I'm paraphrasing here - she was saying that Kerry shouldn't have gone out there with a rushed speech and it certainly shows. He should have never done this.

Even Chris Matthews said Kerry shouldn't have done this especially after what a great convention the Republicans had.


4,597 posted on 09/02/2004 9:16:32 PM PDT by jbarkley
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To: section9

And conveniently forgetting his own running mate's (Backwards') deferments and complete lack of military service, you will note. . .


4,598 posted on 09/02/2004 9:16:34 PM PDT by alwaysconservative (Ambien and Sominex not available? Listen to the pedantic, pompous sKerry awhile.)
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To: section9

Yeah,Kerry sais that Bush "DID NOT SERVE." What was the National Guard duty...chopped liver?


4,599 posted on 09/02/2004 9:16:43 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: TheLion

My 16 y.o old daughter was watching Kerry's speech on TV upstairs, came out of the bedroom and yelled, "I hate John Kerry! he makes my skin crawl!, ARRGH". LOL!

She also said GWB is good looking and Kerry is ugly...hey, she's 16!


4,600 posted on 09/02/2004 9:16:44 PM PDT by valleygal
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