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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Oeconomicus who wrote (33818)	4/29/2005 9:36:33 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 90947

OH DID I FIND A JEWEL! Democrats want intellectual content when they are in an audience. Thus we get very articulate speeches from the likes of Al Gore* and John Kerry.* Message 21279659 ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! D*! I didn't even know Lurch could talk! But that is, by and large, not the language that most Americans want to hear. That's why the Republicans are so much better than Democrats in communicating the raw, red-meat issues (no matter how deceitfully) to the American public. * In brief, if you go back to Bush's 1994 gubernatorial debate with Ann Richards, Bush is presenting what is probably much more characteristic language to him in the privacy of his own office. What is presented to the public today on TV is simply a very manipulative man posing as a NASCAR type "good ol' boy" for the sake of creating empathy among the great preponderance of Americans who are not members of the corporate or policy elite and don't think at a high intellectual level. < sniff sniff > Do I smell sour grapes? From the link in there: Recently I saw an amazing piece of political video. It was ten-year-old footage of George W. Bush, and it changed my mind about an important aspect of the upcoming campaign. [...] ...it was the hour in which Bush faced Ann Richards [in the debate during the 1994 Texas gubernatorial election] that I had to watch several times. The Bush on this tape was almost unrecognizable--and not just because he looked different from the figure we are accustomed to in the WHite House. He was younger, thinner, with much darker hair and a more eager yet less swaggering carriage than he has now. But the real difference was the way he sounded. This Bush was eloquent. He spoke quickly and easily. He rattled off complicated sentences and brought them to the right grammatical conclusions. He mishandled a word or two ..., but fewer than most people would in an hour's debate. More striking, he did not pause before forcing out big words, as he so often does now, or invent mangled new ones. "To lay our my juvenile-justice plan in a minute and a half is a hard task, but I will try to do so," he said fluidly and with a smile midway through the debate, before beginning to list his priniciples. Duh. I think one or two of them FINALLY got it!