Fightin' Bob T in Wisconsin Weighs In on Rants & Raves

Tom Terrific (aka Fightin' T) sent along this anti-W editorial that ran this AM in the Madison fishwrap. Tom Terrific suggests that the Democrat candidate (any of them) use the Reagan line in 1980: Are you better off than you were four years ago? The Republican crowds shouted back: Nooooooooo! And then the punch line: Well, it's time to make a change in Washington! Cheers from the faithful. Tom Terrific also raged about W going on vacation for a month in Crawford, TX. Hell, W ain't on vacation. He's raisin' some serious money! W is going to top Bill Clinton and Al Gore or die tryin'. W is presiding over $2K-per-plate dinners. Fine young people are dying in Iraq while W postures and talks tough. I want to see him walk the streets of Baghdad and work the crowd. Press the flesh. Look presidential. Biscuits and gravitas. As P. M. Carpenter wrote, I cringe when I hear W say nuke-u-lar. Dumber than a stump. Of course, the boy is cunning. He has gone further on less firepower than anyone in our history. Hell, name the dumbest president. It has got to be W. Now, that isn't to say that W is not cunning. W listens to Karl Rove. He listened to Karen Hughes. He listens to Grover Norquist. I guess he listens to Dick (the Dickster) Cheney. He does what he is told. Reagan took direction well. W does not have Reagan's theatrical ability. Reagan was an actor. He shook his head and acted embarrassed that he had to stick to Jimmy Carter. W sounds like a bit player in the Senior Class Play at Crawford HS. He is as believable as Jon Lovitz when Lovitz portrays his pathological liar character. Abe Lincoln said that you could fool all of the people some of the time. W has fooled all of the people once and his string is running out. If this be (fair & balanced) treason, make the most of it.

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Bush Reaches sell-by date

An editorial

August 28, 2003

Like many products that appear appealing when they are fresh, the Bush administration is starting to go bad. The president's aides still think they can sell America a used war and a broken economy, but Americans are better consumers than that.

For the first time since Bush became president, more Americans oppose his re-election than support it. An ABC News poll finds that 49 percent of registered voters surveyed want the president out. Only 44 percent would keep him.

Election Day is a long way off. But Bush would do well to ponder these polls and recognize that the American people are sending him a message: The war isn't worth it. And the economy isn't working.


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