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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


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

LOL!


81 posted on 09/17/2005 7:56:44 AM PDT by hobson
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To: Bar-Face

Is she still having her regular lunches with Karl Rove?


82 posted on 09/17/2005 7:57:32 AM PDT by slyfoxvirden
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To: rockabyebaby
I'm not liking Bush's attitude towards this Katrina thing, he's becoming an enabler.

That's nonsense.

It's an opportunity to give people who experienced generations of welfare payments to feel like "normal" citizens by putting them to work in the reconstruction of the Gulf.

The DNC knows that if the black american won't do it, the hispanic...illegal or otherwise will be there every morning.

The Democratic elite are cornered.

83 posted on 09/17/2005 7:59:32 AM PDT by DCPatriot
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To: maica

Blanco will NOT run again, obviously....so, how does Gov. Brazile sound to you?


84 posted on 09/17/2005 8:04:02 AM PDT by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: linkinpunk

I actually checked to see if this was from scrappleface.


85 posted on 09/17/2005 8:06:06 AM PDT by looney tune
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To: ken5050

Not as good as Gov. Jindal or Gov. Boomstick.


86 posted on 09/17/2005 8:08:51 AM PDT by boomstick (It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.)
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To: linkinpunk

Sorry RatHo, but you are permanently out of power


87 posted on 09/17/2005 8:10:28 AM PDT by bert (K.E. ; N.P . I smell a dead rat in Baton Rouge!)
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To: 1rudeboy
I remember how Democrats were mad at Brazille when she said how proud she was of Condi Rice achieving success as a black woman becoming Secretary of State. She spoke movingly of how tears welled in her eyes when Condi was sworn in.

This tells me that Donna Brazille can put aside partisanship from time to time. I believe her for this incident.

88 posted on 09/17/2005 8:10:51 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (Death to Islamo-Fascists ...)
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To: DCPatriot
It's an opportunity to give people who experienced generations of welfare payments to feel like "normal" citizens by putting them to work in the reconstruction of the Gulf.

The DNC knows that if the black american won't do it, the hispanic...illegal or otherwise will be there every morning.

The Democratic elite are cornered.

As I see it, Bush has proposed an expensive solution, nevertheless a viable solution to cure a set of social ills that the Dems would never consider. Why cure a problem when you can blame the Republicans and collect votes. But perhaps Donna B., for all her vitrol, values her neighbos and family over her hate and partisanship

That being said, GWB should still sleep with one eye open.

89 posted on 09/17/2005 8:11:06 AM PDT by Smedley
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To: Bar-Face; WillMalven


See post 88. She's done this before. Maybe she means it.


90 posted on 09/17/2005 8:14:07 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (Death to Islamo-Fascists ...)
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To: Ann Archy
Hey, it's not Donna's responsibility to help her relatives. That's why we have welfare--it's the taxpayers' job.

I'm reminded of the French newspaper which right after 9/11 had a sympathetic headline (along the lines of "We're all Americans now") but then quickly went back to their usual America-bashing. By making this statement now, Brazile will find it easier to find fault later with how the Bush proposals work.

91 posted on 09/17/2005 8:14:27 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: linkinpunk

oh how sweet. After Democraps blamed him for the hurricane they want to kiss and make up.....until the commision hearing when they start attacking all over again. Same crap card they played after 9/11. Once a rat, always a rat!


92 posted on 09/17/2005 8:19:28 AM PDT by Bommer
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To: RoseofTexas

"Speaking of POLLS, the pollsters have been awful silent lately! The rabid turnips have been trouncing the same old poll numbers before the speech! I bet you W's polls are rebounding back to pre-katrina and the RAT presstitutes are having sh** fits!"

Interesting isn't it? That is why the LSM is now talking about all the money this will cost, etc...hoping that they can peel away some of the republican base and then repoll later next week. Don't fall for it folks.


93 posted on 09/17/2005 8:19:32 AM PDT by penelopesire
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To: linkinpunk

She liked the give away part. What I gleaned from the speech however was a twist on the old give a man a fish thing. Bush says he's gonna give them folks plenty of fish to get them by for awhile, but he's gonna make them learn to catch their own also, instead of just waiting for the first of the month like the great society had them doing.


94 posted on 09/17/2005 8:27:30 AM PDT by weezel
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To: penelopesire

Great point about the silence of the polls!! If W's were down they would be shouting it from the rooftops!!


95 posted on 09/17/2005 8:28:25 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: linkinpunk

Money changes everything.


96 posted on 09/17/2005 8:30:18 AM PDT by JOE6PAK (Make somebody happy. Mind your own business.)
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To: 1rudeboy; All

I think if you take the time to go back and check out some of the other things Donna has said in the last year or so, you will find that she has been leaning this direction.

I'm only surprised she has gone public with it. Check out Rush's website - he has an article by Fineman exposing the KOOK LEFT's power over the dems and how it's transforming the dem party - negatively - which Rush has been exposing for quite some time.

Knowing that .. I believe Donna can see the writing on the wall .. the democrats are going to take a GREAT BIG HIT in Louisana .. and from the comments which ABC so thoughtfully supplied for the public .. Bob Beckel is wrong AGAIN that the "repubs have destroyed all their hard work within the black community".

While I'm probably cynical enough to believe Donna is just doing this to save herself .. and keep herself free from an association with the KOOK LEFT .. she is a very influencial black person and could actually help the repubs.


97 posted on 09/17/2005 8:30:58 AM PDT by CyberAnt (America has the greatest military on the face of the earth.)
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To: Blurblogger
From CNN interview:

http://wizbangblog.com/archives/007077.php

98 posted on 09/17/2005 8:32:30 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: saganite

Of course she loves president Bush when he's ready to spend like a drunk liberal.Those of us who thought this president would move further to the right in his second term couldn't have been more wrong.The republican party is a spineless party made up of empty suits.


99 posted on 09/17/2005 8:35:42 AM PDT by rdcorso (Bill Clinton Stuck His Cigar In Foreign Places And Called It Foreign Policy)
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To: linkinpunk
I think Donna Brazile would be less enthusiastic if the House of Representatives presented GWB with a $200 bil list of offsets. I'd be more enthusiastic in the HOR did that, but Donna would be much less so.
100 posted on 09/17/2005 8:40:49 AM PDT by .cnI redruM ( "Go ahead, punk, make my Earl Grey." - Mark Steyn)
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