Rocky Mtn News: Nation has 'choice'

[MallRat]

If there were any question what the central theme of the Bush campaign is, this article's opening graphs pretty much spell it out.

This is about the closest Bush has actually come to saying, "Vote for me or DIE."

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Nation has 'choice'
Bush says re-election key to maintaining a strong America
By David Montero, Rocky Mountain News
June 2, 2004

President Bush warned at a fund- raising speech Tuesday evening in Denver that if he isn't re-elected in November, the nation could suffer through calamities greater than the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.

"It's a choice between an America that leads the world through strength and confidence and an America that is uncertain in the face of danger," he said. "I know exactly what we need to do to win the war on terror and to bring freedom and peace to the world."

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_2931642,00.html

[underpants]

1. Why how elitist-Salmon and CHEESE at an indoor tennis court?

Scenes from the president's visit
• Coloradans shelled out $5,000 per couple to feast on salmon and cheese appetizers at the Phipps mansion's indoor tennis court.

[Warpy]

7. Undoubtedly accompanied by lots of Republican white whine

[htuttle]

17. I'll give that pun a solid '10' points!

ROFL!

[ewagner]

26. LOL

I love it!

Republican White Whine
First I've heard that. With your permission I'll use it early and often.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

30. I'll not only use it without your permission

...I'll swear I thought of it myself!

All kidding aside, you've just created a classic. Take a bow!

[UpInArms]

2. the megalomanicial bent of this thing

is beyond the pale.

Meg`a`lo`ma´ni`a

Noun
1.
megalomania - a psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur

delusions of grandeur - a delusion (common in paranoia) that you are much greater and more powerful and influential than you really are



mental disease, mental illness, psychopathy - any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention

[underpants]

3. "It's like he got the speaking points mixed up with Texas,"

Chris Gates, chairman of the Colorado Democratic Party, said Bush's comments didn't make sense.

"It's like he got the speaking points mixed up with Texas," he said, when he heard the president talking about the need for more oil drilling.

[drscm]

4. Gee. Is this a promise or a threat? eom

eom

[tlcandie]

8. Same here drscm... it made me sit back and go WHAT?!

It came across as rather ambigiously, as a rather implied threat. Glad to know I'm not the only one who caught this!

[salin]

5. Idiot... doesn't get that this statement

except when made exclusively to the hardest core of his fans... works against him:

"It's a choice between an America that leads the world through strength and confidence and an America that is uncertain in the face of danger," he said. "I know exactly what we need to do to win the war on terror and to bring freedom and peace to the world."

As it begs the question to all other listeners... Then why the heck aren't you doing it, and instead seem to keep doing things that make it worse?

[UpInArms]

6. it comes off as the

"I have a secret and I won't tell you what it is" crap that this maladministration has been spinning since Day 1.

[natrat]

23. what a dick

trying to scare people into voting for him

[mirandaod]

18. Oh, I feel SO much safer...

He knows exactly what to do.... Just like they all knew what they were doing when they took Chalabi's advice.... IDIOT.

[sendero]

9. This rhetoric will..

.... blow up in Bush* face if there is another terror attack between now and the election.

[atreides1]

10. Karl Rove

Must have pulled an old Hitler speech from out of the archives, and where it said Germany inserted America.

During the Memorial Day weekend I was watching an old news reel. Hitler was giving one his speeches, and it sounded almost the same as
this one.

[Tempest]

11. Right out of Hitler's playbook

Hitler did the same thing, predicted calamity if he wasn't elected.

And like Hitler, Bush lost the election but took office in behind the scenes maneuvering.

[MallRat]

32. Unlike Bush, Hitler actually won a plurality in 1932.

The Nazis solidified their power through a series of contentious elections in 1932 in which they typically carried only about 33% of the popular vote. But five other parties split much of the rest of the vote, putting them at an increasing disadvantage in the Reichstag. Unlike our current President, the Nazis actually were the top vote-getters in every election that year.

There's also a whole backstory of infighting within the Nazi party during that year and repeated dissolution of the Reichstag... I don't remember the details, but essentially, Hitler and Hindenburg kept pressing until they got their desired outcome. They already had an informal army of 400,000 brownshirts to spread chaos and anarchy across the nation, to rile up fear and longing for order among the citizenry.

By early 1933, Hitler had seized the Chancellorship and control of the Nazi party.

-MR

[mulethree]

12. Imagine this guy in a second term with no re-election concerns. eom

[pinniped]

13. What a maniac!

These are the words of some truly sick, sick subhumans.

[CO Liberal]

14. "I know exactly what we need to do to win the war on terror..."

So do I. Elect John Kerry.

:kick:

[Rose Siding]

15. Says here he's meeting with Dobson today

"...he is scheduled to meet with James Dobson, head of the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family."

Freaky guy.

[colonel odis]

16. this guy's a fucking nutjob

is there a way a president can be relieved of the duties of office due to mental incapacity. not that i ever trusted his judgment before, but he's looking loonier by the day.

[mountainvue]

36. Dobson

represents his base-the vote for him no matter what one.

[LoZoccolo]

19. LIE right here!

"It's a choice between an America that leads the world through strength and confidence and an America that is uncertain in the face of danger," he said.

What?! He expects us not to remember that press conference he gave a few weeks ago where he basically came off as someone who's just not in charge?

Also, how much "decisiveness" did he display after the second plane hit when he sat around reading a childrens' book? People point to that and talk about LIHOP/MIHOP, but you don't have to be paranoid to think that this means he's not really in charge - he can be left out of the decision-making process and it's just as well because his advisors and what not are really making the big decisions. Strength and confidence? What the fuck!

[Lorien]

20. Is he making a threat against America, or just

using terrorism for political gain? Either way, it's despicable behavior, and Kerry should call him on it immediately!

[natrat]

24. kind of like if

you don't reelect us we got some things planned for you

[Francine Frensky]

21. The FACT is that under Bush, MORE PEOPLE HATE US than ever before

American hatred is at an all-time high. Does THAT make us safer????

That's what Kerry and the dems need to say over and over: bush's actions and comments have stirred up this hornet's nest of hatred for america around the world and NONE OF US ARE SAFE AS LONG AS HE IS OUR PRESIDENT.

The Iraq-le Debacle: unjustified and unprovoked war, no weapons of mass destruction found, Saddam was neutered in the nineties, we lost the "hearts and minds" of the Iraqi people with: 10,000 civilians killed, property destroyed by "smart bombs", prison abuses, puppet council, flag redesign, wedding bombing, etc. It's been a complete and total failure.

[Raster]

22. he's right, this nation DOES have a choice...

...do we continue with failed, flawed, racist, homophobic, sexist, testosterone-based politics or inject the American body politic with new blood and a different purpose and direction? I'm going for the new direction...

Buck Fush!

[Shadder]

28. Way I see it is this

We do not have a choice, but an obligation to take back control of our nation and make a serious effort to repair the damage these idiots have caused us, both here and throughout the world

[Raster]

34. I agree, it is beyond choice now. It is now obligation...

Are we a member in good standing of the world community, or the largest, best equipped terrorist organization the world has ever seen? The answer we give is probably far different from the answer the world would give at this time. $hrubco and the neocons are on the verge of destroying all that is good and worthy in this country, not to mention leaving our foreign policy in tatters. We are now considered the biggest obstacle to world peace.

[pinniped]

25. POS* is quoted as saying it deserves re-(S)election and it doesn't plan...

to lose its job come November. The POS definitely has a plan in the works. And this article proves it.

Remember, we are dealing with psychopaths who will stop at nothing.

[Purrfessor]

27. Bush Unwittingly Exposes GOP As Terrorist Organization......

That's what the headline should say based on the lead sentence:

President Bush warned at a fund- raising speech Tuesday evening in Denver that if he isn't re-elected in November, the nation could suffer through calamities greater than the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.

[iconoclastic cat]

29. a full-ride scholarship to a small college in Texas

Further down in the article--coincidence, I'm sure:
<snip>
• Gov. Bill Owens and first lady Frances Owens couldn't help but brag a little before and after Bush's speech about their second child, Mark, who graduated last week from Smoky Hill High School.

Mark has a full-ride scholarship to a small college in Texas.
<snip>

[Shadder]

31. "uncertain in the face of danger"

Oh, like he was on 911 reading a frigging kids book after being informed of what was going on and then flying around the country and telling us a lie about how AF1 was the next target.

[NNN0LHI]

33. Reminds me of a Mafia protection racket. No shit n/t

[mountainvue]

35. Um,

Cliff May used to be the editor of this paper. I stopped reading long ago. It's crap.

[struggle4progress]

37. You're a nitwit, Mr. President!

[AndyTiedye]

38. * to US: "Elect Me or I'll MIHOP Again!"

[struggle4progress]

39. Read the jibber-jabber here!

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/06/20040601-15.html

* got all gushy about Laura: "I bring greetings from First Lady Laura Bush. (Applause.) She is a fabulous First Lady, and she is a wonderful wife ... I'll never forget the time she did the radio address, the presidential radio address, and she spoke to the hopes and aspirations of the women in Afghanistan. And the feedback she got was such incredibly positive feedback. People said -- people from that desperate part of the world sent word back that they so appreciated the fact that Laura lifted their souls and sights and spirits, with just some kind and gentle words. I think there's a lot of reasons you need to put me back in office, but perhaps most important is so that Laura can be the First Lady for four more years."

Well, Laura's radio address did a @#$%ing lot of good for Afghani women, didn't it? Sharia law is back, and so are burkas. Laura may have meant every word of her speech, but the big boys certainly didn't follow through. Hey, I've got an ideas: let's re-elect * so he can hide, behind the nice things his wife says, for another four years.

[Generator]

40. I'd rather die

Fuckface. Oh I signed on just to post on this.

This is the whole nexus of their "message" isn't it? Blackmail!!!!!!!
Vote for me or suffer and die.

Give me liberty or give me death! Get it assholes??? This isn't a fascist country YET.

But they and those that promote this message (Hello Hannity, Rush, Coulter,and all their supporters) are fascists.

[SammyWinstonJack]

41. So would I!

"I'd rather die"