Bush Promises to Offer Detailed Plans at Convention

[Rose Siding]

ASHINGTON, Aug. 21 - President Bush will present what aides say will be a detailed second-term agenda when he is nominated in New York in 10 days, part of an ambitious convention program built on invocations of Sept. 11 and efforts to paint Senator John Kerry as untrustworthy and out of the mainstream.

Mr. Bush's advisers said they were girding for the most extensive street demonstrations at any political convention since the Democrats nominated Hubert H. Humphrey in Chicago in 1968. But in contrast to that convention, which was severely undermined by televised displays of street rioting, Republicans said they would seek to turn any disruptions to their advantage, by portraying protests by even independent activists as Democratic-sanctioned displays of disrespect for a sitting president.

And after months in which Mr. Bush stressed issues of concern to conservative supporters - from restrictions on stem cell research to a constitutional amendment to bar gay marriage - the convention will offer its national television audience a decidedly more moderate face for the president and his party. If "strength" was the leitmotif of the Democratic convention in Boston, "compassion" will be the theme in New York, marking the return of a mainstay of Mr. Bush's 2000 campaign, party leaders said.
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With thousands of demonstrators coming to New York, Mr. Bush's aides said they expected competition for attention but said that posed more of a risk for Democrats than for Republicans. Even though Democrats are not involved in organizing the protests, some of the participants are almost certain to be aligned with traditionally Democratic groups, like labor and environmentalists, and Republicans made clear they would seek to link Mr. Kerry and the Democratic Party to any disorder.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/22/politics/campaign/22repubs.html?ex=1250827200&en=31f28a7e8f197325&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland

[napi21]

1. Who cares. Didn't follow the ones from last campaign.

Why believe him this time?

[alcuno]

2. Compassion is the theme? Sounds awfully sensitive to me.

Funny.

[mom cat]

11. "compassion" is the theme for Tuesday...which, I believe is the day

that the networks will not carry the convention.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. Compassion?

Based upon the last four years, there is not one bit of evidence that points to the merest comprehension of the word, on the part of those chuckleheads.

They are falling back to this position because they really have nothing else.

The saddest part is that there is no shortage of mouth-breathers who'll buy what they're selling.

[rsmith6621]

4. Sounds like

A week of LIES........More Lies.....Topped with some FEar and finished off with a BUNCH of baseless.............SMEAR


The only demonstrators to worry about are going to be those TEMPS hired by The ROVESMEAR corporation.

[tlcandie]

5. I hope this isn't the nightmare it feels like it's building up to become!

:cry:

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With thousands of demonstrators coming to New York, Mr. Bush's aides said they expected competition for attention but said that posed more of a risk for Democrats than for Republicans. Even though Democrats are not involved in organizing the protests, some of the participants are almost certain to be aligned with traditionally Democratic groups, like labor and environmentalists, and Republicans made clear they would seek to link Mr. Kerry and the Democratic Party to any disorder.
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EDIT: Veiled threats and more fear for the surprises that will be awaiting American citizens. I hope I'm proved wrong!!!!!

[Rose Siding]

6. Ironic- this idea they have that Kerry's responsible for dem behavior....

while Bush has *nothing* to do with the Slimebuckets.

[MichiganVote]

7. How about the disrespect he shows John Kerry and all vets

Will that be on display too? Detailed plans about how to screw the vets in the future? Promises to eliminate the middle class entirely for the benefit of poor little screwed up Paris Hilton and her doggie friends?

[Calm Like A Bomb]

8. Just like the Iraqi handover specifics?

Remember when * promised a series of six speeches detailing his plans for Iraq. What did we hear? Two?

Serial liars! Ugh.

[nosmokes]

9. detailed plans:

stay the course.
turn the corner.
whichever a soviet dinar buys the most of thses days...

[CHestonsucks]

10. Bush promises

are like Republican assholes, they've all got one and they all stink.

If I were Kerry, I wouldn't hesitate to embrace the demonstrators and their demonstrations as a means of highlighting the absolute failure of this douchebag and his, and I use the term guardedly, administration.

Let's be clear: demonstrations against fucking asshole Bush, his people, and all they stand for and represent constitute a goldmine for Kerry and NOT a liability.

The idea that the douchebag Repugniks are somehow going to use a citizen's right and obligation under the Constitution to protest this rogue administration only shows how completely out of touch these morons are.

I'll say it again: I simply can't wait for November.

[bluestateguy]

12. This paragraph vindicates me

Mr. Bush's advisers said they were girding for the most extensive street demonstrations at any political convention since the Democrats nominated Hubert H. Humphrey in Chicago in 1968. But in contrast to that convention, which was severely undermined by televised displays of street rioting, Republicans said they would seek to turn any disruptions to their advantage, by portraying protests by even independent activists as Democratic-sanctioned displays of disrespect for a sitting president.

They chose New York for a reason, and now they admit it.

And then the echo chamber will be demanding that Kerry "condemn" the protestors (voters they know he needs). "Why doesn't Senator Kerry condemn these agitators? Hmm? Why doesn't he condemn them? Hmm? Why not?" Republicans just like to condemn people.