Posted on 11/05/2004 10:18:03 AM PST by nikos1121
"Nov. 15 issue - In the winter of 2003-04, Jenna Bush, one of president Bush's 22-year-old twin daughters, dreamed that her father lost the election. Jenna had never before shown any interest in politics or much desire to get involved in her father's campaigns. But now she, along with her sister, Barbara, volunteered to help their father get re-elected. The president was overjoyed to have the girls on the campaign bus, recalled his wife, Laura. His mood lightened, to the relief of his handlers, who had been anxiously discussing their candidate's surliness and impatience."
and
"Nov. 15 issue - John Kerry was really ill. In November he had picked up a cold, the ubiquitous campaign grippe, and by February he had walking pneumonia. He had lost his voice. He looked even gaunter than usual; Lincolnesque, maybe, but he was losing weight and he couldn't sleep. A week after the New Hampshire primary, while campaigning in Kansas City, Mo., he went back to the holding room after an event and lay on the conference table. "I'm really sick," he said. He couldn't seem to get up, making his staff very nervous. "I just want to lie here for a few minutes," he croaked. But then he got up, as he always did. When Teresa was on the road with Kerry, she fussed over her husband, recommending various cures and soothing potions. "Sometimes my mom is very happy when John is sick because she gets to brood over him," said Teresa's son Chris Heinz. But Teresa did not like to campaign constantly with her husband, and she had her own duties running the multimillion-dollar Heinz Family Philanthropies."
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
nick
Where's Keith Olbermann? I'm sure that smile is wiped from his metrosexual face!
I saw two of the writers on CSPAN last night. It was pretty fascinating. I'm going to buy the paper version tonight.
More Theeerraaayyyzzaahhh nutjob stories please.
C'mon MSM, you can't help yourselves.
-R
They made such a big deal on Tuesdy of Kerry "turning" New Hampshire and its 4 EVs...where's the MSM's big reports now?
thanks.. newsweak??? Can't wait for next issue. :)
People got sick of seeing a 60 year old man in Spandex..
This is great stuff. Esp on Kerry going off. This guy would have been the worst President of all time...
see http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6414892/site/newsweek/
nick
Indeed!
and why was the OH race so "close" and PA, OR, NH, MN ignored?
He and his aides were riding in a van on the way to a Time magazine cover-photo shoot. Nicholson had left the hairbrush behind. "Sir, I don't have it," he said, after rummaging in the bags.
"Marvin, f---!" Kerry said. The press secretary, David Wade, offered his brush. "I'm not using Wade's brush," the long-faced senator pouted. "Marvin, f---, it's my Time photo shoot."
Amazing. We are so effin' lucky this idiot and his wife (and the empty suit Edwards) went down. Double lucky they went down so hard....
"Rove is a political strategist genius. If you trace back on how the gay marriage vote ended up on some important state ballots one has to conclude it was by design with the Pres prompting the response with a call for an amendment he knew from the start would fail. His true reason for doing it was to achieve the knee jerk reaction pushing the ballot measure which resulted in energizing the GOP turnout. The guy is always 2 or 3 steps ahead of the dims and they never even realize when they have been taken again. They just stand around with stunned looks on their faces trying to figure out what went wrong. Brilliant"
He's been taking some heat from Ann Coulter whom I admire. She believes that he should have had this electon wrapped up in August and would have if he had pushed the moral agenda harder.
I think the election was closer than it should have been because the MSM lead us to believe Kerry had a chance to win.
nick
PS--The articles are great aren't they!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
"My favorite so far:
He and his aides were riding in a van on the way to a Time magazine cover-photo shoot. Nicholson had left the hairbrush behind. "Sir, I don't have it," he said, after rummaging in the bags.
"Marvin, f---!" Kerry said. The press secretary, David Wade, offered his brush. "I'm not using Wade's brush," the long-faced senator pouted. "Marvin, f---, it's my Time photo shoot." "
I agree, wasn't that great!!!? You just knew that kind of stuff was going on, esp when called the SS agent on the ski slopes an sob.
nick
I love this one, where the Bush Campaign put out an ad showing Kerry vetoing measure to send the troops body armor. And then came out with an ad almost immediately.
"McKinnon and his ad team wasted no time. "The second we saw it, we knew we had a new ad," McKinnon later recalled. "The greatest gifts in politics are the gifts the other side gives you." It was so simple. All they had to do was drop the footage of Kerry saying "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it" into the ad that was already running, chastising Kerry for cutting funding. McKinnon called the new ad "Troops-Fog." Much of its airing was free: news shows picked up the clip of the "flip-flop" and plastered it on screens like wallpaper."
nick
BTTT
Exactly:
What a contrast between us and what the dems had.
nick
There are some nuggets. But too much of that "us liberal intellectuals of the press are so much smarter than these right-wing Texas hicks" for me to read it with any pleasure. Just look at the list of Newsweak authors who put this together. And imagine what kind of an article you would have if the press were fair and balanced and told us what they really saw.
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