"Mother, tell me again about how I shall be President one day."
Posted on 01/19/2006 11:36:56 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
In late November, George W. Bush went on the political offensive over the state of the war in Iraq. Determined to get his groove back after weeks of being pummeled by revitalized Democrats, Bush delivered a major speech outlining his “plan for victory.” Democrats, smelling blood, carefully plotted their response. The party’s Senate leadership decided that Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island would deliver their rebuttal. As a former member of the Eighty-second Airborne who had opposed the war from the start, Reed had the perfect credentials to remind Americans about Bush’s mismanagement of the war and of the grim realities the president had refused to acknowledge in his speech. All things considered, it looked like a banner opportunity to inflict more damage on the reeling president.
There was just one problem: John Kerry.
Without checking with his party’s leaders, Kerry scheduled his own response to Bush, which was to take place at 11 A.M., precisely the time that Reed was scheduled to respond. In Senate strategy meetings, mild panic ensued. “It was ‘Oh shit, we can’t have two competing press conferences at the same time,’ ” a senior Senate aide told me recently. “Many calls were made between offices in an effort to make sure we didn’t have two competing events with two messages, because we had ours pretty well ?eshed out.” Rather than make way for Reed, though, Kerry agreed to appear with him at a joint press event. Plenty of Democrats predicted what came next: Kerry was “droney and repetitive,” the aide says, but the press nevertheless overlooked Reed and went with the story line of Kerry, yesterday’s Democrat, still taking swings at the guy who beat him. “Jack Reed did a great job, but in the end he was overshadowed by John Kerry,” said the aide.
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LOL. "I can't believe Bush won. I don't know anybody who voted for him."
You're probably right and these scumbags are in a position to influence, at the very least, the direction into which this country is headed. Let us hope that prevailing wisdom will triumph and cast the entire Democrat party into the garbage pit of history.
Same thing lefty film critic Judith Crist said when Nixon was re-elected.
classic article
Kerry is the long winded insecure arrogant wonk who inspires noone and frustrates everyone.
"One wonders why Massachusetts democrats make such great foils for Republicans."
...If I may correct...One wonders why Massachusetts voters make such great foils for Republicans.
On the other hand, our President is so relaxed cause what you see is what you get, he beams confidence!!
I've seen no voters seeking office, however, several prominent Democrats have, without results, since John Kennedy.
Kerry, my senator served in Viet Nam?
NOthing to do with drugs, but the hubris and hatred of the Left Winged Lunatics. They come out at the full moon, don't ya know.
"Mother, tell me again about how I shall be President one day."
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