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The official response to John Kerry's speech, as seen on GWB's website:
Mhm. You did realize Kerry was talking about Iraq, right?
Actually, that just applies to the last sentence. The rest of it seems to respond to some other speech entirely, so I dunno what to say, other than damn, that's weak. (What, the Bush plan is to occupy Iraq forever? WTF?)
I can't wait for the debates; Bush has no response at all to Kerry's excellent new attack except to use the old responding-to-what-I-wish-you-had-actually-said trick. (Not to say that Kerry, nor every other media-savvy politician, hasn't done this too. But Bush is in so deep, he can do nothing but. To say nothing of his need to suffix all thoughts with "And also, TERRORISTS AND SCARY GHOST-PIRATES! BOO!") If Kerry can keep the heat on, Bush -- finally forced to speak in an environment the he lacks total control, to an audience not cheering his every word and heckling his opponent -- will look like a damned fool to all of Purple America.
I have been bothered by very believable visions of GWB managing to smirk his way out of the debates, citing the fact that he's too busy being president to bother with such needless timewasting while there's a war on.
(I could have said "except to hack at strawmen", but I have a bit of an aversion to the word, I think, seeing it tossed around so freely in Usenet/Webforums by people with no debating skills trying to invalidate every dissenting viewpoint. Strawmen: the new nazis!)
John Kerry's latest position on Iraq is to advocate retreat and defeat in the face of terror. This sends the wrong signal to our troops, our allies and our enemies. The American people understand the stakes and Prime Minister Allawi understands the need to defeat the terrorists trying to destroy the approach of freedom in the Middle East. President Bush has made it clear that we will complete this mission and has made it clear that the status quo is unacceptable in a region that can produce killers capable of flying planes into buildings.
Mhm. You did realize Kerry was talking about Iraq, right?
Actually, that just applies to the last sentence. The rest of it seems to respond to some other speech entirely, so I dunno what to say, other than damn, that's weak. (What, the Bush plan is to occupy Iraq forever? WTF?)
I can't wait for the debates; Bush has no response at all to Kerry's excellent new attack except to use the old responding-to-what-I-wish-you-had-actually-said trick. (Not to say that Kerry, nor every other media-savvy politician, hasn't done this too. But Bush is in so deep, he can do nothing but. To say nothing of his need to suffix all thoughts with "And also, TERRORISTS AND SCARY GHOST-PIRATES! BOO!") If Kerry can keep the heat on, Bush -- finally forced to speak in an environment the he lacks total control, to an audience not cheering his every word and heckling his opponent -- will look like a damned fool to all of Purple America.
I have been bothered by very believable visions of GWB managing to smirk his way out of the debates, citing the fact that he's too busy being president to bother with such needless timewasting while there's a war on.
(I could have said "except to hack at strawmen", but I have a bit of an aversion to the word, I think, seeing it tossed around so freely in Usenet/Webforums by people with no debating skills trying to invalidate every dissenting viewpoint. Strawmen: the new nazis!)