Dirty Tricks, Patrician Style-ancestral origin of Bush family gut fighting

[Melinda]

If you had any thought that the first presidential campaign after 9/11 would be especially sober and responsible, give it up.

There are a million angles to the saga of John Kerry and his swift boat enemies and none of them reveal anything virtuous about politics. But one element that is missing from this story is surprise.

Any student of Bush family campaigns could have seen the swift boat shiv shining a mile away. This old family has traditions – horseshoes, fishing, bad syntax and having the help do the dirty work in campaigns as well as the kitchen. And they are very good at getting jobs done without leaving fingerprints, without compromising their patrician image and their alleged character.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/08/25/opinion/meyer/main638571.shtml

This one needs be shared - damn that librul media!!

[ClintonTyree]

1. And yet...................

according to polls Bush is perceived as an honest and trustworthy man.

My Mom always tells me I'm the world's biggest cynic. I always tell her that I'm not content to believe all I'm told by the media and that I'll always try to find out the truth, no matter how uncomfortable it is at times. If that makes me a cynic, so be it. I prefer to believe that I'm not a sheep being led to the slaughter.

Bush is an honest man with impeccable integrity? Then I'm the fuckin' Easter Bunny!