People! People! Let’s drop the “low expectations” for Bush mantra!!!

[KansDem]

I’m sick and tired of hearing about Bush’s “low expectations” or how “lowing the bar” for Bush tomorrow night will lead to a GOP victory. Hughes and Rove used this strategy four years ago with some success. Bush got close enough in the polls to Al Gore to steal the election. But that strategy will not work this time no matter how much the Bush Campaign and their whores in the Media try!¹

Let’s consider the facts:

Four years ago Bush ran as a country boy DC outsider. Remember? His campaign people carefully portrayed him as such, even going so far as to purchase his “ranch” in 1999 as “proof” that he was a “man of the soil.”

Now, Bush is the incumbent. He has started a war based on false information. 1,050 Americans are dead as a result. The war is spiraling out of control.

Over 3,000 Americans died on September 11th, and he has not captured the man responsible. In fact, Afghanistan too is out of control.

Nuclear weapon activity has increased in the “axis of evil” countries (N. Korea and Iran) during his tenure.

He has presided over a faltering economy, increasing health care costs, and an exploding US budget, and these are only a little of the malaise that he has festered on the American people.

No way IN HELL can Bush have expectations lowered FOR ANY REASON, and certainly not as a pretense to winning this debate. EVERYONE expects more from him, even the Freepers as evidenced by their comments following the first debate.

NO ONE, save perhaps the corporate media, will believe ANYTHING about “lowered expectations” for G. W Bush.² We expect more from Bush now simply because he’s been in the Oval Office for the last four years.

As "President of the United States," Bush now has a “track record:" He has a reputation. And he needs to defend that tomorrow night against Kerry. And, he WILL LOSE as he did last week.

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¹If I recall correctly, the little son-of-a-bitch exploited that strategy by actually saying himself before the debates that all he needs to do is say his name to win (this was followed by his usual chortling).

²The corporate media tried last week by declaring the debate a “draw,” but internet polls showed overwhelmingly that Kerry won. It was only then the Media Whores had to concede the truth. Perhaps they and the GOP weren’t ready to confront the power of the Internet.

[lanparty]

1. Bush talks so much about "raising the standards" for our schoolchildren ..

You would hope he'd apply the same rational to himself, the president of the United States.

There is a REASON Bush stayed so long in that second grade classroom. He was enjoying himself. THAT was his intellectual peer group. And he didn't want to go back to dealing with all those "smarty, smarty" adults.

Hell, he was even ready to start correcting some of their spelling but praising them for being "phoenetically correct".

[bushisanidiot]

2. If Anything, The Bar Has Been Raised For Little Boy Bush

He has a VERY high hurdle to jump on Friday and there's no way he's gonna make it.

All Kerry has to do is just show up.

[CarolynEC]

5. Absolutely! The Burden is on Bush now to make tomorrow's debate...

... a total and complete GRAND SLAM.

Can he do it?

Can he achieve an unequivocal, no-contest victory over John Kerry tomorrow night?

We'll see.

Meanwhile, THAT'S the question we should be asking, that's the "expectation" we should be sharing with others.

[maxsolomon]

3. i always tell my better half that calling him stupid

is letting him off the hook. his mistakes are CONCIOUS ACTIONS.

they know what they're doing, and they believe its the right thing. which is why they're so dangerous.

[Thrill]

4. This is the debate that scares me

People should expect a good performance from Bush. And Kerry to trounce him in the last one.

You just know this debate is going to be filled with people asking stupid questions about Death Penalty, Gay Marriage, and crap like that.