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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (426958)	7/14/2003 5:50:40 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The New Republic, February 13, 2003 "He can't even be straight about his prostate cancer. That was the uncharitable--and off-the-record--reaction from more than one Democratic presidential campaign after Senator John Kerry's February 11 announcement that he had the illness and would be undergoing surgery. What should have been a moment of sympathy for Kerry was already morphing into another story about his candor. It happened with the very first question at Kerry's press conference. "Senator Kerry," The Boston Globe's Glen Johnson demanded, "why didn't you answer truthfully ten days ago when you were asked directly if you were sick, given that you were diagnosed with prostate cancer on December 23 and it's now mid-February?" (Johnson had noticed earlier in the month that Kerry appeared tired and run-down and had asked the senator if he was sick or had a medical problem. Kerry had said no.) Prostategate will probably soon be forgotten. Most voters won't begrudge Kerry for wanting to tell his family about his cancer before he told The Boston Globe, even if that meant telling a white lie. But the story comes at a moment when Kerry has emerged as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, a status that makes him the number-one target for both the press and the rest of the field. In conversations with staff from each of Kerry's four main rivals for the nomination, several lines of criticism and plans of attack surfaced. The most consistent critique is that he is insincere, a little too ready to say whatever seems politically convenient regardless of whether it's really true."

To: American Spirit who wrote (426958)	7/14/2003 7:43:31 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"Darn good" is right up there with "bring em on!" What a stupid thing to say after much of the intel Bushies presented us was either wrong, flawed or exaggerated. I suppose he's appealing to his base who will believe anything he says. But bases can erode once they realize they've been duped. I'm sure thre were many who believed at first that Nixon was innocent of Watergate and Clinton did not have sex with that woman. But eventually they all figured it out. Of late, he's been looking real innocent and using a lot of down home rhetoric like "aw shucks!". I think he's hoping that Americans will think poor Georgie was confused when he said those bad things and it will help get him out of the mess he's in!