Bush Plays Not To Lose...........

[Joanne98]

As the presidential campaign drifts through the August doldrums, President Bush appears to be playing not to lose. In sports, the phrase is used to criticize teams that play too timidly. In politics, it means waiting for your opponent to make a blunder.

As the incumbent, Bush is conducting one of the oddest campaigns in American history. Because he can't easily run on vanishing jobs, humongous budget deficits and the mess in Iraq, or say much about the future, what's he going to promise, bigger tax cuts?

Bush preaches to the converted at invitation-only events limited to campaign volunteers, congregations from conservative churches and people willing to sign party loyalty oaths. Anybody wearing a John Kerry T-shirt is hustled off the premises.

Avoiding the national press, he holds so-called "Ask President Bush" sessions at which pre-selected voters toss him verbal bouquets. Miss America contestants face tougher cross-examination. In the aptly named Niceville, Fla., one fellow announced, "I'm 60 years old and I've voted Republican from the very first time I could vote. And I also want to say this is the very first time that I have felt that God was in the White House."


http://www.decaturdailydemocrat.com/articles/2004/08/26/news/opinion/editorial02.txt

[indigobusiness]

1. He has become The Bubble-Boy President

He is vulnerable to the contagion of his own corruption.

[Inland]

2. "what's he going to promise, bigger tax cuts? " Done and done

What, don't you think that's good enough for the crazy ass people who fund him?