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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (67556)	9/26/2005 12:17:08 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

lorne, you have provided logic which implies you are confused. Bush is admitting every day that he has failed on several fronts. Now he is out there trying to understand how the emergency response system works. A tad bit late, is it not? He could have cut short his vacation and spent much less time on fund raising and beating up on his enemies including Senator Frist, the UN etc. Finally he has admitted that he and only he as the US President is responsible for the slow response to hurricane relief. Finally he has tacitly admitted that if he were to do Iraq all over again, he would work with the other nations like he is doing in the Iran situation where he is working for the common goal of a negotiated settlement instead of sabre rattling. Another area that he is still slow to react is in the area of the budget where he continues to run up huge deficits. He needs to raise taxes and not pass on his burden to the next President and the next generation. He cannot shirk his responsibilities any more. Those in his own party who very strongly believe in "pay as you go" are upset at him for running up the deficits.

To: lorne who wrote (67556)	9/26/2005 12:26:19 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Respond to of 81568

The resolution was written by the Bush white house. I've read the entire document, and yes there is not a single reason in the resolution that rises to the need for an invasion. Congress was wrong to vote for that resolution, plain and simple. It was congress that was bamboozled by Bush. Orca

To: lorne who wrote (67556)	9/26/2005 7:07:38 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Kerry's not- so-amazing race, on film By Lloyd Grove I hear that John Kerry loyalists are kicking themselves for cooperating last year with filmmaker Steve Rosenbaum on "Inside the Bubble," a potentially devastating behind-the-scenes look at the Massachusetts senator's failed presidential campaign. I'm also told that Hillary Clinton partisans are licking their chops to see the film, which "could end up being the silver bullet that kills Kerry's presidential chances for 2008," says a Lowdown spy. Kerry spinmeister David Wade - one of the senior staffers who allowed Rosenbaum to film his private moments - tried to dismiss Rosenbaum's effort as "a childish home movie destined to be forgotten." Wade E-mailed me: "The 20 poor souls subjected to this movie will be reaching for caffeine and begging for old Lamar Alexander tapes on C-Span 2. Michael Moore has nothing to fear. I think the working title was 'The Snore Room.'" But people who've screened the documentary say it's compelling and revealing. It features, among other not-ready-for-prime-time moments, Clinton scowling and rolling her eyes over an apparent Kerry gaffe during a presidential debate; Kerry pretending to interview himself and babbling in Italian while waiting for a real interview to begin; Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) cursing at reporters during a campaign stop, and Kerry message guru Robert Shrum confidently declaring a few days before the 2004 election: "Zogby [a prominent pollster] just announced who's gonna win. Us!" Shrum told me he personally didn't cooperate with the movie, which captures him on camera only a couple of times. Asked if he plans to see it, he answered: "Absolutely not." As for media critic Michael Wolff - who severely slags off the Kerryites at regular intervals - "I refused to be interviewed by [Rosenbaum], even though at one point he called me from his bespoke tailor." A press release claims the movie - which won't be shown publicly until Thursday - "turns a harsh but deeply revealing mirror on the campaign ... a disorganized, contentious, self-absorbed team that thought they could win by 'not making mistakes,' and keeping their candidate in the public eye without clarifying a position on anything." Director Rosenbaum, meanwhile, told me: "I'm a lifelong Democrat and I supported Kerry. I think people will see the film as fair, and maybe searing." nydailynews.com