Does the president really feel their pain, or is he just slapping throwaway remarks into his speeches to yank America’s chains?
He should have mentioned the Russian hostage situation at the end of the speech, not sandwiched between more light-hearted, trivial remarks. But I think it reads stranger than it probably was listening to it.
Equipose, thank you for subscribing to Salon so we don’t have to! 
That’s the kind of stuff about Bush that makes my blood pressure rise. He seems like an eleven-year-old boy, and every single day is his birthday! He’s having way too much fun being president, and doesn’t appear (to me) to know, understand, or care about one-tenth of the information and issues an American president must. You can be as conservative as you want to be, but this guy is a child!
Has anyone seen the Retro vs. Metro website and book? It’s nice to hear some confirmation and explanation of the “red vs. blue” cultural faultlines idea in our national politics.
I am so depressed about Bush’s convention bounce. What does it take, already?
I doubt very much that Bush really feels anything, as the most lethal ‘holy crusader’ on the planet today is The American president - who,supposedly under instructions from his God, has wiped out thousands of innocents, many of them women and children. Bush has frequently claimed that his actions are sanctioned by God - and that he has a holy mandate for whatever he wants to do " … I’m not trying to detract here from the horrific situation in Russia - but if Bush feels no regret for " Collateral damage" of his own holy war - I can’t see him having any real empathy for the plight of the Russians.
Bumping this thread because some Bush goodies really don’t rate their own thread:
Me too! After four years, it would be really nice to find out what, if anything, you believe in, Mr. President.
He continues:
I’m all for challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations. Starting at the top. 
BUTCHER’S OUSTER NOT WORTH THE WAR: KERRY
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/30676.htm
<Hangs head in American shame>
The “open and secure” democracy that is currently Iraq? With thousands of foreign terrorists flooding in beheading people like it’s going out of style, “open and secure” are the last words the place should be associated with.
Oh, I dunno - the ‘open’ part applies, since seemingly anyone can just walk in there.
But you’re right about ‘secure’, and I’ll add ‘democracy’.
Heh, yeah, you’re right. I was thinking “open society”, not “open to stroll right in, grab the first person I see, and saw their head off”
I thought it was obvious – record profits for his Texas oil buddies.
They’ve already started the switch of the bait and switch.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/24/iraq.main/index.html
Bush said this yesterday (saw it on Olbermann last night) about the Iraqi people.
“My message is that we will stay the course and stand with these people so that they become free.”
Um, wait, I thought they already free. Didn’t we free them sometime last year?
If they’re not free yet, when will they be free?
Maybe we should have named the Iraq thing “Operation Enduring Freedom”
en·dur·ing
adj.
Lasting; continuing; durable: a novel of enduring interest.
Long-suffering; patient.
‘Operation Enduring Bush’ might be more appropriate. I have doubts about the ‘freedom’ part.
Lately, borrowing off Joe Haldeman, I’ve been starting to call it “The Forever War”. I’ve noticed I’m not the only one.
<sigh>
Leave it up to Musharraf to give us the little soundbite that Kerry should be using.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/24/musharraf/index.html
Just found this wonderful quote from Bush while researching for another thread:
Okay, so ignoring for a moment whether this factual recounting has much basis in reality, I’d like to focus on that last sentence: What he seems to be saying is that Saddam deceived the inspectors in order to try to hide weapons that we thought he had but we now pretty much know with 99% certainty he didn’t have? That is one sneaky fellow we were up against…I mean, any run-of-the-mill dictator might try to hide his weapons that exist but only a really really sneaky one will try to hide his weapons that don’t exist!
Well, I don’t have a quote, but Rummy had something interesting to say on Friday.
Basically, he said that Iraq isn’t all that dangerous - after all, we have cities with hundreds of murders every year in the USA. It’s just that each and every car bombing gets mentioned in the press. If they publicized every murder in the good old USA, we’d see that both places are equally dangerous.
And these are the people in charge folks…
-Joe, didn’t know he had such a good chance of being decapitated here
On the other hand, I guess we can credit Bush with continual improvement in that at least now he acknowledges that Saddam let inspectors in, unlike in response to a question on July 14, 2003:
Of course, this was a few months after the events in question had occurred, so I could understand if his memory had gotten a bit shaky.
“God I wish I had some nukes” written on a cockltail napkin DOES count as ‘WMD Programs Related Activitiy’, right?
See! He was guilty!
-Joe
Why Kerry doesn’t pounce on this, is the very reason he’ll lose. Un-fucking-believable.