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Justice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 05:04 PM
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When will we see pundit article or piece to analyze Shrub's Gamble?
He gambled on being able to campaign -- pretending the war in Iraq was going well, that it was connected to the war on terror and that Iraq had a hand in 9/11.

After all, let's all acknowledge that while at an Alice in Wonderland tea party, Shrub and his people actively decided the campaign position would be: Iraq is going well, Iraq was connected to the war on terror and that Iraq had a hand in 9/11 (despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary).

It was a calculated gamble. The escalating violence, the recently leaked National Intelligence Estimate show us he has lost that gamble.

Where are the musings and analysis from campaign pundits pondering Bush's big gamble? How he was wrong? That this position was a calcalated one? We have already seen a flurry of articles about hey, wait a minute -- Shrub is mistating Kerry's position, then there is today's MSNBC article - Shrub mistated # of trained Iraq troops (he said 100,000, it is 8,100). It should be inevitable that we will see people talking about conversations with senior Bush campaign officials off the record about the calculated risk Shrub took to say Iraq was going well when it is now publicly clear that it is a mess.
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 05:08 PM
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1. they don't seem to want to analyze Bush at all
both the mainstream whores and the right-wing propagadists seem to be focussing totally on Kerry.

And you're right, think about the carrier landing, wasn't that the mother of all political blunders?

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enough Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 05:17 PM
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2. That's right, they relate to him as if he were a totem or a priest.
He is not actually a "president," and they don't expect him to be one.

He seems to fulfill a purely ceremonial function in a religion, and as such, he's not really analysable. To analyze him would be to question the religion.
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