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

To: microhoogle! who wrote (534897)	2/3/2004 4:01:39 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

Dean is all done...history...McAuliffe and the media have already crowned Kerry.

To: microhoogle! who wrote (534897)	2/3/2004 5:33:47 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Respond to of 769670

Yup. Thanks. I have a clip of a lot more of the speech than this - virtually the entire thing. Dean much more calmly thanks his Iowa supporters and does some further encouraging. Nothing out of the ordinary at all. The speech was actually quite good. It did the job it was intended to do. Those folks were way, way up when the guy left them. Gotta qualify this: I don't like Dean, but what he did was the way it oughta be done. A lot of Dean's Iowa folks publicly caught a lot of hell, being accused of not doing a good job and being disorganized, etc... After their showing, those folks had to have felt crushed and embarrassed. Dean helped them save face in public. My hat's off to him. Were I in his shoes, I would have done the same thing - of course, within the bounds of my personality. I may not have yelled, but somehow I would have communicated my intensity and it may have been a bit edgy. Also, when the press later approached me to try and make me appear a madman, I would not have flinched one friggin' iota. Instead of saying 'the speech hurt me,' as Dean did, I would have given them a very calm and succinct lecture on leadership - something like "Our country is in the pickle it is in because we have had too many uninspiring leaders, whose only conviction is that they must do nothing, say nothing, unless it will look good on your cameras. If my troops are down, you can bet I will pick them up." It was an opportunity Dean lost, I think. This little episode ought to clue all of us into not only the Democrats, but also into the GOP and perhaps into all other political parties. I recently received an official looking envelope that looked like it came straight from the Federal Government. You know how the government envelopes look-- white, with black type and barcodes on it, and text urging immediate attention. It was a 'republican NATIONAL CENSUS' form. The thing came across my desk and upon first glance I thought it was from the government. I looked again and thought, "those filthy, lying blankstards!" Surely some old lady was tugged by the envelope's false authority into opening it, filling it out and sending in her 'census amount.' I tossed the thing without further pause. It was all legal, but underhandedly employed a lie. Apparently the GOP is now brimming with leftists.