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"maff" |
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02 Jun 2004 04:27:28 AM |
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OT: Howell Raines |
Must do better
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1229285,00.html
His poll ratings have slumped and each day brings more bad news from
Iraq, but George Bush has one big advantage in the coming campaign: a
ponderous, uncharismatic challenger with no clear message. In the
first of a series of dispatches for G2 on the US election, former New
York Times editor Howell Raines warns that John Kerry must find his
voice or fade away
Wednesday June 2, 2004
The Guardian
A lot of Democrats are nostalgic these days for the exuberance that
Bill Clinton exhibited on the campaign trail and for the clarity of
his message: "It's the economy, stupid." With John Kerry, the message
so far seems to be: It's the war, sort of, and it's the economy,
maybe.
Even against a weakened George Bush, Kerry has to get better as a
candidate. The president may be bruised, but anyone tempted to bet
against him would be ignoring the Republican party's mastery of what
the pundits call "hammer-and-chisel politics", in which an opponent's
reputation is destroyed through relentless pounding on one or two
simple ideas. Ever since Ronald Reagan beat Jimmy Carter in 1980,
presidential elections have been dominated by Republican expertise in
finding a tiny crack - real or imaginary - in a candidate's public
facade and expanding that fissure until the whole edifice crumbles.
And Bush's formidable chiseller-in-chief, Karl Rove, has barely
started tapping.
Howell Raines
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| User: "Carol Lee Smith" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Howell Raines |
02 Jun 2004 04:49:08 AM |
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On 2 Jun 2004, maff wrote:
Must do better
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1229285,00.html
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A lot of Democrats are nostalgic these days for the exuberance that
Bill Clinton exhibited on the campaign trail ...
Hasn't everyone heard, exuberance has gone the way of the dodo bird.
Look what happened when Howard Dean displayed exuberance!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kiss of death, that exuberance.
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| User: "Goodness Godless" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Howell Raines |
02 Jun 2004 06:24:11 AM |
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"Carol Lee Smith" <human@csd.uwm.edu> wrote in message
news:Pine.OSF.3.96.1040602044724.24353E-100000@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu...
On 2 Jun 2004, maff wrote:
Must do better
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1229285,00.html
...
A lot of Democrats are nostalgic these days for the exuberance that
Bill Clinton exhibited on the campaign trail ...
Hasn't everyone heard, exuberance has gone the way of the dodo bird.
Look what happened when Howard Dean displayed exuberance!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kiss of death, that exuberance.
ah! So Timely. It will be so sweet to see:
1st. the Spaniards.
Then the Poles.
Then OZ!
say:- 'Bush a chimpanzee has more brains than you'
--
Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.
Niels Bohr
Goodness Godless
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| User: "Fred Stone" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Howell Raines |
02 Jun 2004 05:46:22 AM |
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Carol Lee Smith <human@csd.uwm.edu> wrote in
news:Pine.OSF.3.96.1040602044724.24353E-100000@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu:
On 2 Jun 2004, maff wrote:
Must do better
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1229285,00.html
...
A lot of Democrats are nostalgic these days for the exuberance that
Bill Clinton exhibited on the campaign trail ...
Hasn't everyone heard, exuberance has gone the way of the dodo bird.
Look what happened when Howard Dean displayed exuberance!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kiss of death, that exuberance.
Exuberant is one thing. Manic is another thing entirely.
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Fred Stone
aa# 1369
Cthulhu for President! Why vote for a lesser evil?
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