WP: Broder likes Bush's acceptance speech. Slurp. Slurp.

[MikeG]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62542-2004Sep4.html

NEW YORK -- It demonstrates how much confidence Karl Rove has in his candidate that he left so much of the necessary work of the Republican National Convention to be accomplished by President Bush's acceptance speech on the final night in Madison Square Garden.

The confidence was not misplaced. Bush did almost everything he could on Thursday night, with a major assist from speechwriters Michael Gerson and Karen Hughes, who can write circles around their counterparts in John Kerry's campaign.

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By the end of an hour, he had done almost all those things to greater or lesser degree, while getting in a few above-the-belt shots at his opponent and reminding voters why they were drawn to him when they were first getting to know him -- his parents, his foibles and his lack of self-importance

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The words he speaks on that subject come from Gerson and Hughes, but the emotion is his own, and its authenticity lifts even a partisan political speech such as this one into another and higher realm.

[daddybear]

1. TOTALLY FAKE

"The words he speaks on that subject come from Gerson and Hughes, but the emotion is his own, and its authenticity lifts even a partisan political speech such as this one into another and higher realm."
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Is there one among us who REALLY believes Bush was showing REAL emotion? That was sooooooooooooooo choreographed!!! Strictly a photo-op (like the very few times he DID go to see a family of a deceased (murdered) soldier).

[grasswire]

2. omg

Broder can be bad, but this is truly, truly offensive.

[Lefty48197]

3. Broder is nothing more than a shill for the right. What a loser he is.

You should retire old man. Your senility is growing every day.

[NWHarkness]

4. "His lack of self importance"?????????

Strange thing to say of a man who considers himself God's anointed deputy on earth.

[Vogon_Glory]

5. With "Friends" Like Broder, Progressives Don't Need Enemies eom

[Vitruvius]

6. Broder -- slurp, slurp, and swallow. Like he did for LBJ, the Hump,

and Mayor Daley and his Chicago Police goons back in 1968.

Once a suck-up, always a suck-up

[vixengrl]

7. It's as if all Bush needs to do is fail to publicly soil himself

and someone, somewhere, will applaud. What was Smirk supposed to say--

"I haven't really created meaningful jobs that will lift people out of poverty, but since I made those nice tax cuts that will have your children's children labor 'til they're eighty to pay off my debts and still have the cojones (that's Spanish, y'all!) to hang my bare face out in front of you, the American people, I think I deserve a reward. Ps., even if we aren't exactly safer yet in respect to terra--well, hang on with me and we...uh...might be. Or not."