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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (7334)	9/4/2004 12:12:27 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

Bushies taking advantage of those who died on 9/11 Boy, Gov. George Pataki and President Bush sure talked a lot about 9/11 Thursday night. I mean, a lot. A disturbing lot. At some point, for me -- and I think it was when Pataki was still talking -- the whole parading of the Twin Towers attack stopped being about "Look how America rose to the occasion" and started being a kind of porn. I'm as much of a sucker for wallowing in 9/11 as most Americans are. All someone has to do is repeat that famous phrase "They ran into the buildings," as Pataki did, and I start to well up. Tell a story about Americans acting selflessly to help others in the wake of the tragedy -- for example, those Pennsylvania boys Pataki mentioned who took money they'd saved to go to Disney World and gave it to the firefighters -- and all of a sudden there's something in my eye. The searing pain of that day and the days that followed has faded enough that it almost feels good to go back and revisit it, to poke at the scab a little. I'm not alone here. Those teary-eyed delegates the cameras caught Thursday were having the time of their lives. But at some point, so much harping on 9/11 becomes nothing more than cashing in on the deaths of thousands. It's cashing in politically, not monetarily, but I'm not sure one's any better than the other. I'm not even sure they're different. The single greatest American security and defense failure of the past 60 years happened on the Bush administration's watch, and not without some warning. Yet it's a testament to the administration's political skill that it can turn such a negative into a positive. Hats off to Bush and Co. for that. And very little of what was said about the events surrounding 9/11 Thursday night was disputable. Americans really did rise to the occasion in magnificent ways. And even those of us who think little of Bush had to admit that he had his moments in those days. When he was speaking from that pile of rubble where the towers once stood and someone said, "We can't hear you" and he ad-libbed, "I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon," my goodness, that was a home run. But enough is enough. At some point, a point I think was reached before Bush even hit the stage, rolling around in 9/11 becomes ghoulish. These are the folks who won't let the press take pictures of soldiers' coffins. They sure seem to have a fondness for parading the American dead around when it suits their needs. -- King Kaufman [08:48 PDT, Sept.

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (7334)	9/4/2004 12:14:38 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

Rasmussen has Bush and Kerry almost exactly where they were yesterday. That is good news for Kerry. Only 4% behind after the GOP convention. Now Kerry has to turn this around, and will, but Rasmussen begins proving that the Time poll is an aberation. We will watch for others but this 4% area seems the real shortfall for Kerry, now 11%. Remember, America Research's poll from two days ago showed them tied, and that's a big poll, so that has to be factored in too.

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (7334)	9/4/2004 12:17:28 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 27181

Here are all the recent polls and their averages. realclearpolitics.com Take away the Time poll and it is very close. Include it and things look bright for Bush. But remember, Bush has gotten a big boost on a pack of lies, so if we Dems can proven beyond a sdhadow of a doubt that Kerry is innocent of the smear campaign charges, the smear themselves could backfire back onto Bush. Today's article about two SmearVets being appointed toi a prestigious Bush panel is one more bit of proof Rove-Bush have been lying that they are not connected to the smearies. This is the sixth such piece of evidence.