Pelican Parts Forums - Getting Kerry Elected

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Originally posted by island911
Bush is just the opposite. He looks for the good, and trys to celebrate it. When he see bad, he is terribly uncomfortable with it. (lib's leveraging this always) He wants any problems fixed immediately, so they don't cloud the possitive.

This is, IMHO, largely because Bush is the incumbent. Do you really think Rove would miss the opportunity to do exactly what Kerry is doing (and worse) if the tables were turned?

Fint, you said:

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just making them wait for enough trained Iraqi troops to put an Iraqi face on the final battles to take the terrorist strongholds

I posted an article that suggests this isn't happening this side of next summer.

Further, it refers to Pentagon documents as well as to the Democrats on the House of Representative Appropriations Committee in the main. If the Republicans on that committee thought what the Dems said was BS, we'd be hearing about it. Thus, I'm happy to assume it is legit...

Hell, I'm even giving Bush a pass on the fact that he embellished the numbers more than a little - its his right as a politician ;).

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Okay I read only the first post in this thread (I'll read the rest when I have more time), and it occurs to me like the kind of post that may have been written in fear. Of course, fear is the great motivator in this election, or at least the Dubya fans are hoping for the greatest overall volume of fear among Americans, since the only reason Americans might give Dubya four more years is if they are afraid to make a change while we're under attack by those Iraqi terrorists.

After watching the Pres debate, I thought EXACTLY that. I see four (general) types of people watching. The strident Bush supporters will have thought, "well, he coulda done better but he got across his message. Our message.".

Unmoveable Kerry supporters would have spent large portions of the debate tremendously excited because he did better than expected.

To me that leaves two sorts of potentially undecided voters - those who fear (and see and hear Bush as their only safety) and those who don't (and see Kerry as a better option for the US in the world in the future).