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

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (657139)	11/4/2004 8:29:17 AM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 769670

Yes, he is all that and yet people blindly vote for him. he needs a bath tub full to wash out all his sins: aldultery, murdering, drunkard, liar ................

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (657139)	11/4/2004 8:45:41 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 769670

Democrats feel need to engage on values By DAVID S. BRODER The Washington Post WASHINGTON — As the Democrats began picking up the pieces Wednesday, leaders focused on the need to re-engage their party with churchgoing and rural constituencies they acknowledge ignoring in the past. The Democratic Party and allied groups waged an expensive and largely effective effort to increase turnout of urban and minority voters, but Republicans trumped them by finding even more support among white voters outside the cities and inner-ring suburbs — many of them people for whom religion is a central element of life. That yielded a quickly emerging consensus Wednesday across the Democrats' ideological spectrum that they “have to take the time to understand the concerns of rural families and Christian families,” as former Clinton White House chief of staff Leon Panetta put it. “We cannot ignore the swath of red (Republican) states across the South and Midwest,” he said. “The party of FDR has become the party of Michael Moore and (his film) ‘Fahrenheit 9/11,' and it does not help us in big parts of the country.” Sen. Blanche Lambert Lincoln, an Arkansas Democrat who was easily re-elected Tuesday even as her state went for President Bush for the second time, said: “People are faced with so many problems, they cling to faith and prayers. I don't hesitate to stand up in a crowd and express how important faith is in my life. It is important to be able to express that in a way that is believable, and Democrats have to get comfortable doing that.” Unlike 2000, when many Democrats blamed former Vice President Al Gore for losing an election to then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush that they expected to win, few said that Sen. John Kerry was personally responsible for the loss. “Kerry comes out of this well,” said Simon Rosenberg, head of the New Democrat Network. “He took on a very tough enemy and fought very well. The other team just beat us, and we have to figure out why.” Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, a Capitol Hill veteran, is poised to take over as minority leader from Sen. Tom Daschle of South Dakota, who was defeated for re-election. Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, the House minority leader, saw her party lose seats in its first test since she moved into that post, and she leads a caucus shrunken in size and in its geographic range. Losses in five Southern Senate races where the Democratic incumbents have retired, and losses of a redistricted Texas Democratic House delegation, cut additional party strength.