This campaign season is depressing me.

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This campaign season is depressing me.
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Thu, 09-09-2004 - 1:48am
Convention visits to the World Trade Center site... Fenced protest zones (on both sides, yes I know)... Purple heart *BAND-AIDS*... If I see one more misleading/patronizing TV ad, I think I might puke. Anyone else find any of this incredibly offensive, or am I all alone? Glad to get this off my chest, even if no one agrees with me! ;-)

Christine

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Fri, 09-10-2004 - 7:11pm


For once, we agree!



I wouldn't go that far, but I would say that I am less than enthusiastic about the choices.

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Fri, 09-10-2004 - 8:57pm
I have to ask...didn't you used to be a Bush supporter? Have you had a change of heart or am I remembering wrong?
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Fri, 09-10-2004 - 9:54pm
You know, I was downtown today (I live in Milwaukee) and saw these people on the corner with signs, they were called the "Billionaires for Bush" -- they made me laugh really hard! They were dressed up in tuxedos and formal wear outside where Dick Cheney was talking. (I don't know who he was in town talking to, but there were lots of cops around & no good parking -- I was just tyring to get to TJ Max -- LOL!) I think this funny group are the antidote to all of this negative campaigning. I happen to aggree with their message (that the Republican ticket is NOT interested in the prosperity of regular American people) which they communicate with a lot of satire-type flair! But this group had such a charming, fun, and funny way of relating their message. I haven't googled them yet but plan to... my dad and I gave them a thumbs up. It was the first time I really smiled about any of this campaign-related stuff we have going on all around us! I wish these funny "Billionaires" were making the TV ads instead of the sourpuss Swift Boat Vets! (What a bummer of a bunch they are!) I got such a chuckle... felt good!
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Sat, 09-11-2004 - 7:06am
The Kerry campaign last week trotted out its new campaign workers, including CNN commentators James Carville and Paul Begala. In August alone, Begala called President Bush a "gutless wonder," said he has a "lack of intelligence," and called Vice President Cheney a "dirt bag." Carville said the President is "ignorant big time" and said "George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are a couple of nobodies."

In a recent column Democratic strategist Susan Estrich called the President of the United States and the Vice President of the United States alcoholics.

Senator Harkin said Thursday that President Bush lied about his National Guard service, and lied about the War In Iraq; and last month Sen. Harkin called Vice-President Cheney a "coward."

Just this week former Vice President Al Gore compared President Bush's personal faith to the radical impulses of fundamentalist Islam. Earlier this year he implied that campaigners for the President are Nazis by calling them 'brownshirts.'

Next week, NBC's "Today Show" will be featuring, over three consecutive days, Democrat-donor Kitty Kelley's book, which promises to throw unsubstantiated gossip at President Bush in the same way she falsely maligned the late President Reagan as a date rapist who paid for a girlfriend's abortion and wrongly castigated Nancy Reagan as an adulterer who had an affair with Frank Sinatra. And I don't think we even have to go down the Michael Moore path, or the Teresa Heinz Kerry road where everyone has to wear their "asses of evil" pins.

Tell me again, which side would you rather listen to?

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Sat, 09-11-2004 - 10:12am
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Hear, hear!

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Sat, 09-11-2004 - 10:16am
At last! Some true dirt finally coming from the other side (Dems) to balance the really nasty vile stuff coming that has been coming for months against them! I thought it would never happen!
Donna
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Sat, 09-11-2004 - 10:19am
It's sad yet funny to see the liberals lose whatever credibility they have with the public. One can smell the desperation and witness the insanity coming forth from the liberals. I'm sure the three day interview with Kitty what's her name will push undecideds toward the left-wing lib's corner---at least in THEIR dreams. LOL. What SANE person watches the Today Show, a liberal shill outlet?

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Sat, 09-11-2004 - 10:54am
"At last! Some true dirt finally coming from the other side (Dems) to balance the really nasty vile stuff coming that has been coming for months against them! I thought it would never happen!"

News Flash!!! The Dems aren't just now getting into dirty politics. It just seems that way to those whose bias' run so deep. I guess with Kitty Kelly and the questioning of the authenticity of documents along with the widow and son of the supposed writer of these documents and the daughter of what's his name that is behind all this stating that her dad told her that he was going to do such a thing, and that he has a book coming out soon... well I guess it is getting hard for some to realize that their party does stoop so low.

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Sat, 09-11-2004 - 12:07pm
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Actually, just FYI, NBC (home of the Today Show) is owned by GE, a huge defense contractor and major contributor to the Republican party.....

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Sat, 09-11-2004 - 1:16pm
>>>Tell me again, which side would you rather listen to?

My point was that I'm sick of ALL the nonsense. (Although I can't stop myself from pointing out that I thought it was a matter of fact that President Bush - like my DH - IS a recovering alcoholic. Am I wrong? Wasn't this discussed in the 2000 campaign?) My point is that, just once, I'd like the media and the candidates and the campaign staff to talk about something that will really make a difference. And it would be nice if they could do it all at once.