Both Candidates Often Shift Positions (AP Extreme BARFARAMA)

AP ^ | 9-12-04 | TOM RAUM

[Colosis]

A very nasty piece of work.

[Brimack34]

But do they both do it in the same sentence. Or the same day?

[VegasBaby]

I didn't know the AP was in the business of editorializing.

[snarkytart]

>"One moment they say the president's too stubborn and the next day accuse him of being a flip-flopper. It's generated to a point of incoherence," said Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt.<


No truer statement has ever been made.
Kerry's campaign is incoherent!

[Shermy]

They're trying to muddy the waters.

The steel tariffs issue is lame. Bush didn't flip flop - foreign states lodged a successful complaint against the tariff.

[Angelus Errare]

Is this a wire story or an editorial?

Sounds like AP's really getting desperate these days ...

[presidentbowen]

An event called 9-11 happened that shifted Bush's position that nation building for countries that harbor terrorists. I think it is a noble shift in the President's plan to protect us and the world.

The only issue I can't defend Bush on is McCain/Feingold. A very big mistake there, but now I think the President knows he made a mistake signing it into law.

[ApplegateRanch]

Holding out on steel until WYO 'court issues an adverse ruling, and oders imposition of sanctions is a 'flip-flop'.

Wonder what they would have said if he had continued to hold out?

Kerry = "nuanced"
Bush = "damned if you do; damned if you don't"

[Brilliant]

For example George Bush went to Pennsylvania yesterday, is in New York today, and will be in Maryland tomorrow. He shifts his positions almost as much as Kerry.

[sinkspur]

"One moment they say the president's too stubborn and the next day accuse him of being a flip-flopper. It's generated to a point of incoherence," said Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt.

Kerry even flip-flops on the flip-flop charge.

[buccaneer81]

Is this your title? Because I have the very same story in front of me on page A6 of The Columbus Dispatch. But the headline in the paper is:

GOP Ignores Bush Flip-Flops in Pinning Label on Kerry.

Please tell me you're using the original AP title so I can stick it to the Dispatch.

[Colosis]

Yep - it's the original AP title as seen on the link.

[buccaneer81]

Awesome!! Thanks!!

[buccaneer81]

I just got off the phone with a Dispatch editor (sorry, I didn't get his name, but I called 614-461-5224). He admitted that the title was changed. I asked him if he thought the title went from being balanced to leftist. He said that was my opinion. Guess we know where the Dispatch stands, on the record.

I told him I was from Free Republic. He said, "Who?" I then mentioned the phony CBS documents and he said, "Oh you guys. Those are alleged phony documents." I laughed and said he'd be hearing more and more about FReepers and directed him to today's LA Times mentioning us.

[FredZarguna]

What in the WORLD is going on at FoxNews? This piece of garbage was actually posted right under their banner about 1/2 an hour ago.

[buccaneer81]

I didn't know the AP was in the business of editorializing.

Check ot my posts 11 and 14 on this thread. You'll see some real editorializing from my local paper.

[nsc68]

Since the AP is objective and balanced, I'm sure they will also hit Kerry to offset this attack on Bush.

In fact, by the time the election is here, I exepct there will have been an exactly equal number of anti-Bush and anti-Kerry hit pieces from the AP.

(Yeah right.)

[buccaneer81]

Check out my posts 11 and 14. You'll see REAL bias.

[LisaMalia]

That's great that you made the call. I will be making one as well to the Dimspatch.

I'm not at all surprised at the response the person gave to you. They are about as liberal as they come. To fight back, we just need keep making the phone calls and writing the e-mails and letters. And canceling our subscriptions, and letting them know WHY.....

I do like to read about our Buckeyes and Blue Jackets, so if I buy the paper, I just get it in the store. That way, I'm not committed to paying for their rag on an everyday basis.

[buccaneer81]

I do like to read about our Buckeyes and Blue Jackets, so if I buy the paper, I just get it in the store. That way, I'm not committed to paying for their rag on an everyday basis.

Me too. And I have to have the Metro section.

BTW, when I first moved here 13 years ago, I lived at Lincoln Park West. That was awful last night.