Posted on 07/28/2004 2:13:06 PM PDT by GretchenM
That's too bad. It loads & plays instantly for me with the Macro Media Flash Player but then, we have a fast cable connection.
Thanks, any dose soothes the soul after the RAT saturated news this week.
Just thinking about Gore or Kerry in that same situation just makes me ill. Neither of them have an ounce of sincerity in their system.
mini-dose ping
Gretchen, I sent ride the whirlwind's link to "A Different Laura Bush" (as "USA Today" puts it) to my e-mail buddies and received so many thanks for the link. Everyone loved the pictures and were unhappy with a couple of lines of commentary that they thought were snide swipes at Laura.
It's a great piece and really worth seeing.
RTW, thank you for linking this wonderful photo study of our beautiful First Lady.
He has been told he can't use the Josh Groban song, so he would like us not to send it any more. I'm encouraging him to rework it (or GET PERMISSION TO USE THE SONG!!) and send it to the RNC or to BUSH/CHENEY04
HERE is is post about it.
We don't want to get this FINE young man in trouble!
AND.......I am going to go hunt up some of those pics he used and post here in a minute........
This Dem re-invention convention needs to get over real soon, I'm going through serious Dubya withdrawal here.
Would a jogging photo help? ;o)
THANKS SO MUCH FOR POSTING THESE GREAT PHOTOS OF OUR AWESOME PRESIDENT!
Friday can't get here soon enough for me!!!!!
. . . just tapping my foot waiting for the jogging photo!!
Just one more day - just one more day
Here are a couple.......
And a COUPLE! ;o)
There. That help??
. . . many have asked me if I think Kerry will experience a post-convention bounce. My answer is an emphatic YES -- the left-leaning news organizations, who hire the pollsters, will 'make it so' (to use a Star Trek turn of phrase).
Prediction: CBSNews/NYTimes and Gallup/USAToday/CNN will take the requisite one night 'flash' polls immediately following Kerry's speech -- these polls will use weighting formulas guaranteed to give Kerry an immediate 8-15 point bounce.
ALL media outlets will then repeat these worthless 'flash' poll results incessantly for at least a week, by which time all of the other pollsters will have conducted their quickie 2-3 day polls. . . and, surprise, surprise, these polls will also find that Kerry has experienced a bounce, probably in the range of 5-8 points.
Should we take these polls seriously? NO! . . . for the reasons I outline below [I originally posted these comments on another thread]:
One more time:
1.) This is shaping up to be a VERY unique election cycle with historical similarities closer to the elections involving Lincoln and Truman than contests involving contemporary incumbents!
2.) Contemporary pollsters/polling methodologies have become incredibly PARTISAN and UNRELIABLE. Why?
PARTISAN:
Contemporary pollsters (virtually all of whom are now affiliated with left-leaning news organizations) are brazenly overweighting their polls to benefit Democrats.
The current 'Democrat-leaning' weightings range from +4 (Rasmussen) to +14 (CBSNews/NYTimes).
FYI: It's not surprising that the recent ABCNews/WashingtonPost produced positive data relative to President Bush. WHY? Because INS, the pollster who conducted this poll, FAIRLY weighted the polling sample:
34% Democrat 33% Republican 29% Independents 4% Refused.
BTW: For those of you who worry when Kerry takes a 'within the margin of error' lead over the President in Rasmussen's poll, I suggest that you recalculate the poll results using INS' weighting formula vs Rasmussen's formula that gives Democrats a built-in 4 pt advantage!
UNRELIABLE:
Today's pollsters, including Gallup, are getting response rates WELL BELOW 30% -- unprecedented! [Previously, pollsters have always believed that they needed a response rate ABOVE 50% to produce a representative sample.]
The problems inherent with low response rates are worsened by a.) the prevalent use of 2-3 day 'quickie' polls -- even the left-leaning Pew Research group has indicated that a pollster must poll over 5 days to produce data that is remotely reliable, and b.) the use of sample/subset sizes well below 1,000 respondents -- producing margins of error that render results virtually meaningless!!
I could go on and on and on!!
BOTTOMLINE:
Yes, this is going to be a tough election. As I've indicated before, the President is running against the ENTIRE media-education-entertainment establishment -- a daunting task!!! TO WIN, HE AND WE MUST WORK HARDER AND SMARTER THAN OUR OPPONENTS -- AND WE MUST IGNORE BIASED POLLING DATA THAT IS BEING PRODUCED PRIMARILY TO MANIPULATE AND DEMORALIZE US (THE PRESIDENT'S BASE)!!!!
Yes, that did help!!!! [The President in shorts -- where's my fan?!]
I think everyone else is over at the DNC Live thread -- I just can't take any more of the blatant lying, disparaging and spinning (LDS)! Edward's speech will be a LDS tour de force!!
I'm going to iron hubby's shirts and then get to bed early for a change!!!
Ike was the same way.
GW is in good company.
As you are a Barney fan I thought you would find this interesting on the Whitehouse website yesterday there was a question and answer session with the pastry chef and a little boy asked about Barney eating desserts, I quote below
""Jackie, from Morgantown writes:
Hi Mr. Mesnier Do you ever feed Barney desserts?
Your friend
Jackie (age 7)
Roland Mesnier
No, I don't give Barney desserts because it is against the rules and regulations. The President and First Lady have requested that we do not feed Barney because we want to keep Barney slim and trim like everyone else in the residence.
Why should he get fat?
But Barney has a way of getting his own dessert. If he happens to see me in the elevator or anywhere in the White House, he runs to my shoes and starts licking them.
Guess why? There is sugar on my shoes, and buttercream and chocolate. Barney absolutely loves it. He would know my shoes among thousands of other shoes. ""
GEM, thanks for the new link. I finally got to see the slide show and it is GORGEOUS.
What a difference between the Pubbies and the Libs. The Libs are in Boston with their Botox and abortions and lies and "Moore" lies and that's all they have to offer us. And there's the slide show which says, "When we needed him the most...OUR leader emerged."
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