THIS guy should write Bush's speeches

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THIS guy should write Bush's speeches
Fri, 10-08-2004 - 4:07pm
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A SHAKESPEARIAN MOMENT

Dr. Jack Wheeler

Friday, October 8, 2004

It was with such "sweet sorrow" that I watched President Bush's speech http://www.georgebush.com/News/Read.aspx?ID=3787 at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on Wednesday. Both the text and the delivery were fabulous. And when he even poked fun at himself - noting that "It wasn't easy for my opponent to become the single most liberal member of the Senate. You might even say, it was hard work"; or after reciting a long list of Kerry flip flops, observing "You hear all that and you can understand why somebody would make a face" - I said to myself, he's back.

But the question remains, back from where? Where did he go during the first debate? I kept muttering as I watched his Wilkes-Barre speech, if only he had been like this for that first debate, the race would be over. But he wasn't and it isn't.

I must confess this didn't dawn on me until 30 hours after the Thursday debate. When you wake up at 4:30 in the morning and can't go back asleep since you keep obsessing on the monumentally disastrous consequences for America and Western Civilization of a Kerry win, you know it's finally sunk in just how bad GW's debate performance was.

So I got up and got on the computer to see the deluge of emails from TTPers bugging me about my claim in "Global Test, Human Test" that Kerry lost because of his "global test" gaffe, and GW's connecting with the audience with a story of personal humanity that Kerry couldn't possibly match.

The "global test" gaffe has quickly become a lead albatross around Kerry's neck. An example is this cartoon appearing in newspapers around the country:

But albatross or no, the more I reflected on Bush's performance in Coral Gables, the madder I got. He did blow it. He could have put Hanoi John away and he failed miserably. Just how bad can be seen in this graph from the University of Iowa Electronic Market http://128.255.244.60/graphs/graph_Pres04_WTA.cfm where people are betting real money on the election's outcome. On the eve of the Republican convention, Kerry and Bush contract prices were even, then rapidly began shooting up for Bush and down for Kerry until the September 30 debate, after which they began collapsing towards each other.

So now the fate of our country rides on which George Bush will show up in St. Louis tonight, the one we saw in Coral Gables or the one in Wilkes-Barre. If the latter, GW has the capacity to do Kerry in once and for all. To go for the jugular, he could make the following points:

My opponent keeps using the word "truth." Well, here's the truth. Our troops who are putting their lives on the line in fighting the war on terrorism in Iraq cannot trust a man who, when he was in uniform, publicly accused his fellow soldiers of war crimes he knew they did not commit. Senator Kerry owes his fellow Vietnam Veterans an apology for calling them war criminals and I expect to hear it right here tonight.

America cannot afford such a man as my opponent as her president. America cannot afford a president who is all style and no substance - tall, big hair, deep voice uttering eloquent phrases that constantly contradict each other. It's all frosting and no cake, folks.

America cannot afford a president who has never owned or managed a business, never met a payroll, doesn't have the slightest clue of how businesses work, never been an employee of a company and hasn't a clue of what it's like to work for a living.

America cannot afford a president who has no record of accomplishment in 20 years in the Senate. America cannot afford a president who has never held any executive position and never managed any sort of organization, who has done nothing in his 20 years as a Senator except talk -- talk on the Senate floor, talk in speeches, talk to the press, and vote badly, vote consistently in ways that would damage American security.

America cannot afford a president who is nothing more than a Monday Morning Quarterback, who claims he could somehow do things better with the benefit of 20-20 hindsight.

The truth is that Senator Kerry hasn't a clue of what is really going on in Iraq. I receive briefings by our intelligence agencies, military officers, and other direct sources on the ground in Iraq every day. We have offered to provide intelligence briefings to Senator Kerry, but as he said on the Larry King television show, quote, "they offered to brief me but I just haven't had the time."

So all my opponent can do is claim we are "failing" in Iraq from what he reads in newspapers that only report bad news and never the good, and on a CIA report based on research conducted in April, written in July - and is now totally obsolete. Mr. Kerry's opinions are as obsolete as his information.

In short, America cannot afford to have a president who has no record of accomplishment and achievement, no managerial or executive experience, no credibility on any issue except his unwavering promise to raise taxes and expand government control over all of our lives, who expects to have trusted alliances with countries he insults as coerced and bribed, who expects to be the respected commander-in-chief of soldiers he called war criminals, and who, in a time of war against the most dangerous enemy America has ever faced, wants to subject our national security to a "global test."

If GW can say anything like this tonight, if he can gut Kerry like we know he has the ability to do, then we can start getting a good night's sleep again. This really is, the cliché notwithstanding, the most important election of our lives. Tonight is Shakespearian drama at its highest.

© 2004, To The Point, Inc.

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