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Donna Brazile: I Will Rebuild With You, Mr. President (must read)
Washington Post ^ | 9/16/05

Posted on 09/17/2005 7:16:59 AM PDT by linkinpunk

I Will Rebuild With You, Mr. President

By Donna Brazile

On Thursday night President Bush spoke to the nation from my city. I am not a Republican. I did not vote for George W. Bush -- in fact, I worked pretty hard against him in 2000 and 2004. But on Thursday night, after watching him speak from the heart, I could not have been prouder of the president and the plan he outlined to empower those who lost everything and to rebuild the Gulf Coast...

I know, maybe better than anyone, that there are times when it seems that our nation is too divided ever to heal. There are times when we feel so different from each other that we can hardly believe that we are all part of the same family. But we are one nation. We are a family. And this is what we do. When the president asked us to pitch in Thursday night, he wasn't really asking us to do anything spectacular. He was asking us to be Americans, and to do what Americans always do...

Mr. President, I am ready for duty. I am ready to stir those old pots again. Let's roll up our sleeves and get to work.

The writer, a Democratic political consultant, managed Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: 1firstkeyword; algore; brazile; bush43; katrina; katrinaspeech; rebuildingno
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To: linkinpunk

RPTFLMAO


101 posted on 09/17/2005 8:40:53 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (THIS IS WAR AND I MEAN TO WIN IT.)
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To: CyberAnt

Bob Beckel is certifiable. I set land speed records reaching for the remote, if I see his face on Fox. Merely muting is not enough. The TV goes OFF.


102 posted on 09/17/2005 8:45:04 AM PDT by maica (Do not believe the garbage the media is feeding you back home. ---Allegra (in Iraq))
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To: linkinpunk

I've heard the hateful things this woman has said about President Bush. All of a sudden she's in warm and fuzzy mode about him? I trust Donna Brazile about as far as I can throw her.


103 posted on 09/17/2005 8:45:50 AM PDT by billnaz (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't you understand?)
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To: linkinpunk

Is she sincere, or looking for a way to get in on some free publicity?


104 posted on 09/17/2005 8:51:55 AM PDT by TheSpottedOwl ("President Bush, start building that wall"!)
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To: cripplecreek
When you wave wads of cash around everybody wants to be your friend.

Sorry, I have no experience in that area, so I can't relate.

;-)

105 posted on 09/17/2005 8:53:27 AM PDT by savedbygrace ("No Monday morning quarterback has ever led a team to victory" GW Bush)
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To: maica

"Bob Beckel is certifiable"


Boy do I agree with that. I've almost stopped watching FOX. I'm so disappointed in the new people - General Clark, etc. They're all frothing at the mouth dems and I'm sick of listening to them. If I wanted to see and hear those points of view, I'd watch CNN.


106 posted on 09/17/2005 8:53:50 AM PDT by CyberAnt (America has the greatest military on the face of the earth.)
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To: CyberAnt

Ditto.


107 posted on 09/17/2005 8:58:45 AM PDT by maica (Do not believe the garbage the media is feeding you back home. ---Allegra (in Iraq))
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To: linkinpunk

If that race baiter is fer it - I'm agin' it.


108 posted on 09/17/2005 8:59:20 AM PDT by leadpenny
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To: linkinpunk
All the posters on this thread have it wrong. They seem to think that Donna Brazille's recent review of the premiere episode of The West Wing had something to do with Bush's Katrina speech.
110 posted on 09/17/2005 9:01:01 AM PDT by trek
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To: linkinpunk
Mr. President, I am ready for duty. I am ready to stir those old pots again. Let's roll up our sleeves and get to work.

Just goes to show, a good whore goes where the $$$ is.

Seems like the DemonRAT Plantation ain't paying so well these day...

111 posted on 09/17/2005 9:01:43 AM PDT by Itzlzha ("The avalanche has already started...it is too late for the pebbles to vote")
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To: linkinpunk

I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. If she's been directly affected by the hurricane, she's likely to have a VEY different viewpoint from the nattering nabobs in the Dem. party.


112 posted on 09/17/2005 9:03:29 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: linkinpunk

President Bush has again out-smarted the Democrats. By taking all the heat and responsibility in the Katrina disaster, he is poised to receive all the credit when New Orleans rises again. Natives, tourists, conventioneers and Mardi Gras celebrators will all have the same thing in mind- that this is the city that George W. Bush re-built!


113 posted on 09/17/2005 9:03:50 AM PDT by citizencon
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To: dleach
I think you are missing the point. The path that Bush is taking to rebuild the gulf coast is the way we want it. With enablement zones and encentives and small business creation, ect...

I think that is part of it. The real thing that the left in this country is terrified of is that the black community in this country have and will see the real difference between liberals and Conservatives.

First.Democrats,flooded buses and the Super dome with starvation.Republican,food and water,buses,Astrodome,and medical help.

The second part and this is the biggie all of the poor neighborhoods will have to be bulldozed flat. President Bush is giving them the opportunity to have a home of thier own, a real chance of economic opportunity,and a future. For the last 40plus years all the democrats have given them is Gov. housing,food stamps,welfare,and dispare with no chance at a future. Then at every election tell them it's the Republicans fault they have no future.

The democrats have to figure out a way to get on board of this train. I don't think they can. The people in New Orleans saw what happened and they see President Bush taking personal control of the rebuilding. Not just talking about it,but they know he is going to do it.

114 posted on 09/17/2005 9:07:07 AM PDT by painter (We celebrate liberty which comes from God not from government.)
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To: linkinpunk

I sent Donna Brazile the article about the Bozeman, Montana City Council, sending back the federal matching funds for a parking garage, so that the funds could be freed for use in rebuilding the gulf region. We need some prominent support to spread this idea. Whichever party picks up on it, will benefit at the polls.


115 posted on 09/17/2005 9:08:07 AM PDT by Eva
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To: gridlock
"I'll hold the football, Charley Brown..."

Lots of good responses but this is the best so far!

116 posted on 09/17/2005 9:09:50 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten (Is your problem ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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To: linkinpunk
Sooner or later they all have to sleep; then we got 'em.


117 posted on 09/17/2005 9:10:16 AM PDT by Graymatter
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To: RoseofTexas
I bet you W's polls are rebounding back to pre-katrina and the RAT presstitutes are having sh** fits!

I bet it is better than that. I bet the polls are closer to post 9/11 speach. Everyone knows when Bush says he going to do something he means it!

118 posted on 09/17/2005 9:16:04 AM PDT by painter (We celebrate liberty which comes from God not from government.)
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To: NCLaw441
"Brazile neglected to help her own family . . . "

Your problem here, sweetheart, is that you're thinking like a conservative. What you and I would do in this situation is to get our families to a safe place--whether we had to take off work and physically go down there and move them, send them money to get out or whatever. Ms. Brazile trusted the govt. to do it and assumed they would be okay. Therein lies the difference.
119 posted on 09/17/2005 9:17:01 AM PDT by adgirl
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To: WillMalven
Wow, I never expected to see this from such a partisan Democrat. I actually detect a hint of honor and honesty in this post rather than the usual politics.

It is surprising. *However*, as I have said many times, one time does not make a trend. Don't make one set of remarks into an epiphany.

120 posted on 09/17/2005 9:22:53 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s......you weren't really there.)
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