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DrFunkenstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 07:27 PM
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Bush Is Screwed - This Is The Best He's Got?
Bush, Kerry Seek Support in Rust Belt

The president acknowledged the economy is lagging in eastern Ohio and elsewhere. In fact, he rode into the city on a campaign bus with 10 workers from the Timken Co., which said in May that declining production was behind the decision to close three bearings plants in Canton area, potentially idling 1,300 employees.

"I just traveled on the bus with workers who told me they were nervous about their future," Bush said. "They're concerned. I am, too, and therefore we must have a president who understands that if we're to keep jobs at home, America must be the best place to do business."

"After four more years, there will be better paying jobs in America. After four more years, there will be more small businesses. After four more years, the American economy will continue to be the strongest in the world," the president said.

At a candy store in downtown Dover, Bush bought six chocolate-covered caramels — "150 calories a bite," he joked — six marshmallow candies and a bag of caramel corn. Total bill: $1.50. He stopped later in the day at Cabela's, a super-sized outfitter's store in Triadelphia, W.Va. "I've come by because first I love to hunt and fish," Bush told several hundred employees. "Secondly, because I heard you're expanding the job base here."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=2&u=/ap/bush



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xray s Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 07:31 PM
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1. I can't wait for the debates
Kerry debating Bush will be like Stone Cold Steve Austin wrestling Gary Coleman.
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DemocratSinceBirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 07:43 PM
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4. Kerry Debating Bush
Kerry debating Bush will be like Albert Einstein discussing the theory of relativity with Fred Flintstone...


Kerry debating Bush will be like Marx discussing dialectical materialism with Archie Bunker....


Kerry debating Bush will be like Goldberg wrestling the little fella from Love Boat....
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 07:58 PM
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10. I Think You Mean The Little Fella From Fantasy Island- Tattoo?
:)
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Johnny Arson Donating Member (71 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 09:31 PM
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15. Kerry Debating Bush
Kerry debating Bush will be like Lennox Lewis fighting Michael Jackson!

Kerry debating Bush will be like the UNC women's soccer team playing anybody!

Kerry debating Bush will be like Lance Armstrong having a bicycle race with Josef Stalin!
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22181 Donating Member (215 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 07:32 PM
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2. Oh my God this is sad...
"After four more years..." You know, no one wants to WAIT for *four* more years. They want relief now. And if they can't get a better living immediately, they will want someone who has a different, fresh approach.

He's just sad. "If we're to keep jobs at home..." This is like your parent saying, "Well if you're going to go to the prom..." What's this IF he's talking about? Kerry's approach of "keeping jobs at home" is so much more definite... no if bullshit.

He's imploding. I freakin' love it.
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 07:40 PM
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3. "you're expanding the job base here"
Those couldn't be very good paying jobs at Cabela's. I'll bet the Timken plant paid double or triple Cabela's. I wonder who paid for the trip back home for the Timken people.


The best chimp can do is to claim that Kerry "is gonna raise your taxes". This may or may not hold water anymore, since people realize that somebody has to pay for the deficit, and Kerry has and will make it clear that it only applies to the top 1-2%. Otherwise chimp is empty handed this time around. No UBL, no jobs, no money in the treasury, nobody passing the "no child left behind" tests, no break on gas prices, and on and on.
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MoonRiver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 07:44 PM
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5. OK. This picture begs to be captioned.
How about: 'Hello, is anybody out there?'
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DrFunkenstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 07:51 PM
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8. Cue "Space Oddity"
Ground control to Major Tom...
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MoonRiver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 08:01 PM
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12. Hmmm, must have missed that movie.
Edited on Sat Jul-31-04 08:06 PM by saywhat
Chimp is definitely odd, and spacey. :crazy:

edit: Lol, just googled "space oddity". :D
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DemocratSinceBirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 07:45 PM
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6. If This Is The Best The Simian In Chief HAs....
Bring It On...


I can't rate until November 5th when people parade in Lafayette Park with signs that say "get out of John Kerry's house."
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 07:45 PM
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7. If he wasn't such a bad man, I'd feel bad for him.
He looks and sounds so confused about what's going on.
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 07:54 PM
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9. why after four more years?
I thought those huge tax cuts were supposed to make everything better.

Wait til the Kerry campaign starts throwing those promises back in Bush's face.

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Birthmark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 08:01 PM
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11. So, if we can just learn how to...
...live off sunlight and promises for four more years, everything will be fine? Whatta guy!
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 08:06 PM
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13. After four more years?
What kind of way is that to run a campaign? We're supposed to give him four more years because he spent the first four on vacation? I'd like to see anyone get away with running a business like that! Oh, yeah, Harken......
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Myrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 08:22 PM
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14. he's campaigning for Kerry !!!
"... we must have a president who understands that if we're to keep jobs at home, America must be the best place to do business."

:evilgrin:
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Insomnicole Donating Member (193 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 10:49 PM
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17. Maybe we should send him a Kerry button.
LOL.

Is it just me or does Shrubby sound as if he somehow forgot that he, in fact, has been the president for the last four years?
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Spangle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 09:31 PM
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16. His workers are worried about a Job... Hmmmmm
"I just traveled on the bus with workers who told me they were nervous about their future,"

Sounds like the workers realize they will be out of a job in January 2005. AND it is finaly dawning on them that THERE ARE NO JOBS OUT THERE FOR THEM OR ANYONE ELSE!

Sounds like they are finaly getting a reality check.
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dflprincess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 11:03 PM
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18. If he expects workers to wait four more years
he should immediately send a bill to Congress extending Unemployment Benefits for four years.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 11:50 PM
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19. he is f****ing pathetic
nt
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zulchzulu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 11:57 PM
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20. It sounds like Christian children bus groups are cheering at his speeches
If you bear listening to and watching his speeches, it's almost like some sort of medicated teenagers are cheering every sentence he reads from his script.

Another funny of his speeches is that he needs to read his speech and can barely get through half a paragraph without reading the speech.

I think he already knows he's going to lose.
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