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larrygj
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 Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 4:56 am Post subject: Even leftie NY Times' Maureen Dowd ridicules Kerry |
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This is from: NY Times
note: URL changed to hypertext to prevent extended frame
Don't worry Dodge, there's a new sheriff in town:
| Quote: | Westerns and Easterns
By MAUREEN DOWD
It's a remarkable feat, but teeter-tottering John Kerry is even managing to land on both sides of the ambition issue.
For his entire life, he was seen as so ambitious to be president, as so eager to consort with heiresses, that it was off-putting; his St. Paul's classmates played "Hail to the Chief" on kazoos when he walked by, and in the Senate, Bob Dole mocked the Massachusetts senator's love of cameras by nicknaming him Live Shot.
But this summer, when that lust for power should have been coursing through his veins, Mr. Kerry grew timid and logy. He let the Bush crowd and Swift boat character assassins stomp all over him and, for the longest time, didn't fight back. He stumbled into every trap Bush Inc. set.
Finally, the only Democrat who has fended off the WASP Corleones reminded the nominee of the prep-school mantra: punch the bully in the face, and do it in the same news cycle.
When he hasn't been busy with his quadruple-bypass operation, Bill Clinton has been chatting with John Kerry on the phone from the hospital, urging him to juice it up. The Clinton posse - James Carville, Paul Begala, Joe Lockhart, Mike McCurry, Stan Greenberg, Lanny Davis - has intervened to prop up the sagging leadership of Bob Shrum, who had advised Mr. Kerry not to go negative (and allowed the once-hot John Edwards to vanish without a trace).
Mr. Kerry listened to Shrummy, despite the fact that the strategist renowned for his speechwriting talents had not even given his candidate a single stirring speech.
Writing about the Curse of Shrummy in The Washington Post, Mark Leibovich said: "It is common to see him in the back seat of a car driven by a young aide, an image that reinforces a somewhat regal bearing. He loves gourmet food and fine wines and has his suits handmade by a Georgetown tailor."
Democrats were rolling their eyes at the spectacle of a former president in a hospital bed resuscitating a would-be president.
"Howard Dean had the base all warmed up and now Kerry's turned into a girlie-man," said a Democratic insider, comparing it with the scene in "The Godfather" when the singer Johnny Fontane shows up at the wedding of Don Corleone's daughter and whines that a studio chief is being mean to him.
The godfather slaps the singer and barks, "Act like a man!"
Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney jumped in the polls because they cast their convention as a Western. They were the "Magnificent Seven," steely-eyed, gun-slinging samurai riding in to save the frightened town: Rudolph Giuliani, John McCain, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Zell Miller, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush and Poppy Bush, who was on "Imus" comparing Mr. Kerry with Jane Fonda.
The vice president played up the Western motif by giving ABC an interview at his Wyoming ranch.
"The cowboy riding tall in the saddle and holding the reins for a little girl on her pony could have been Shane," wrote Alessandra Stanley in her TV Watch column in The Times.
After 9/11, Americans want tough guys who will protect them from Al Qaeda. They seem to be willing to settle for an impersonation of tough guys by Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, who were so busy with their vanity war in Iraq that they missed critical opportunities to vanquish Al Qaeda and spent money on a foreign occupation that could have been used to secure American ports and come up with plans before the Beslan tragedy to protect children from terrorists. [note: Bush should have seen Beslan coming! Darn, why don't the John-Boys bring that up? -- Larry]
But the White House has cleverly co-opted the imagery of Westerns, leaving Mr. Kerry to star in a far less successful movie genre: the Eastern.
In Westerns, the heroes are men of smoke-'em-out edicts and action, played out in gorges on their ranches; in Easterns, the heroes have windy, nuanced dialogue, delivered with a lockjaw in mansions on Beacon Hill and on windsurfing expeditions off Nantucket.
In Easterns, the effete heroes get upset when the wrong kind of people join their Boston clubs, and quibble, in the style of the "Late George Apley," about the rules when suit jackets must be worn.
In Westerns, the heroes treat womenfolk with gallantry, but tell them to stay back. In Easterns, Teresa rides shotgun and calls the opposition "idiots." There's a reason Easterns never caught on in Hollywood. High tea in a drawing room is just not as compelling as high noon in the town square. |
The rats are leaving the ship pretty doggone fast. |
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msindependent
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| Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 5:07 am Post subject: |
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In Westerns, the heroes treat womenfolk with gallantry, but tell them to stay back.
Tell them to stay back? Whatever, look at Condi Rice. |
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Sandra C.
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| Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 5:32 am Post subject: Using a crystal ball? |
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"come up with plans before the Beslan tragedy to protect children from terrorists. [note: Bush should have seen Beslan coming! Darn, why don't the John-Boys bring that up? -- Larry] "
Do these bleeding heart liberals actually think that our country can protect Russian children in the middle of Russia? What happened is a truly terrible and tragic act, but if Russia is unprepared for their security, it ends up as the fault of the American President? There's something wrong with this thinking.... hmmmm, sounds like more hot air to me.
And, Bush should have seen Beslan coming? We've had to spend billions in order to try to ensure safety for our own people, our own children, and even then we need to enforce our safety with more safety, and we're supposed to use crystal balls and predict the crazies that might want to go out and take children hostage thousands of miles away?
I can just see what would happen if the White House put in a requisition purchase order for a "crystal ball" for the Oval Office!
And the writing is so rational, like it's just the correct thought process to come up with a solution!
Where do these people get their brain matter thoughts from? |
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Navy_Navy_Navy
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That's just Dowd being her usual hysterical self. I don't know how she has even a shred of credibility left even with the left. 
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baldeagl
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| Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 5:39 am Post subject: |
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No the liberals don't think Bush could have protected the Russians from Breslan. They think it's a good think to attack him for not doing. Any port in a storm.
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Dimsdale
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| Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 6:00 am Post subject: |
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Swift boat character assassins?
Maybe "menopausal Mo" ought to look in a mirror.
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CandiM
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Just as I always suspected--Libs eat their own young.......or in this case, their own boring--
So be it--C
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happyday
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| Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 6:49 am Post subject: Re: Using a crystal ball? |
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And the writing is so rational, like it's just the correct thought process to come up with a solution!
Where do these people get their brain matter thoughts from?[/quote]
Wait a sec, the Liberal Democrats are supposed to be using their brains? Since when? Who issued that in a press release? And is there any credible evidence to support it? Other than forged documents that did(n't) come from the Democratic Party? |
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Doc Jerry
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J.F. Kerry probably turned her down for a date.
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| Quote: | | In Easterns, Teresa rides shotgun and calls the opposition "idiots." |
Tacky. We all know that Terrrreeezzzza is the only one in the Eastern camp who really understands the needs of the commoners.
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