quade 4 #1 July 31, 2004 http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/30/bush.issues/index.html Key sound bite. Quote Bush told cheering supporters Friday that "there'll be big differences in this campaign. They're going to raise your taxes; we're not." So, in two sentances he manages to recall the fatal sound bites of Walter Mondale and his own father. Amazing.quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sundevil777 102 #2 July 31, 2004 Bush made good on his promise to lower taxes. Big difference. Not amazing, just following through.People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quade 4 #3 July 31, 2004 I've been making commentary about GWB's speech writing staff for years and they almost never fail to amuse me. How they can write a line like that for GWB is, to me, simply amazing. Or maybe you don't recall 41's problems after he said, "Read my lips. No new taxes"? That's just silly. It's not something a reasonable man can hope to live up to. Of course he's going to raise taxes on somebody.quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FallRate 0 #4 July 31, 2004 Should a moderator be so partisan!? FallRate Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydyvr 0 #5 July 31, 2004 QuoteShould a moderator be so partisan!? Why not? Being a moderator means keeping the peace and maintaining order in the forums, at which Quade does a fine job. The fact that he has a partisan political perspective has nothing to do with moderating, as long as he stays within the rules. . . =(_8^(1) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
newsstand 0 #6 July 31, 2004 QuoteQuoteShould a moderator be so partisan!? Why not? Being a moderator means keeping the peace and maintaining order in the forums, at which Quade does a fine job. The fact that he has a partisan political perspective has nothing to do with moderating, as long as he stays within the rules. Amen "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,148 #7 July 31, 2004 QuoteBush made good on his promise to lower taxes. Big difference. Not amazing, just following through. "Nation building ... ABSOLUTELY NOT", GWB, Campaign speech, 2000 "... deficit will be small and short term", GWB address to Congress, January 2002 How about his follow through on THOSE!... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhillyKev 0 #8 July 31, 2004 Or promising to not open Los Alamos before a full and complete independent study is done. John, do you realize that nearly 80% of the nations nuclear waste will be passing through downtown Chicago by rail? And there will be 1-5 shipments a day for at least the next decade. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quade 4 #9 July 31, 2004 Quote Should a moderator be so partisan!? How is it partisan to point out such obvious speech writing defects? In my original post on this thread I also pointed back to Walter Mondale. Maybe you don't remember what he said in his nomination acceptance speech that pretty much lost him the election to Ronald Reagan. You don't think GWB actually writes most of what he says behind a lecturn do you? No. He has professional speech writers (that appear to be really bad).quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Harksaw 0 #10 August 2, 2004 Some of us were in diapers during Mondale's acceptance speech... What did he say that cost him the election?__________________________________________________ I started skydiving for the money and the chicks. Oh, wait. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Steel 0 #11 August 2, 2004 QuoteSome of us were in diapers during Mondale's acceptance speech... What did he say that cost him the election? Trying to suggest that there was one or two statements that cost Walter Mondale the election in 1984 is a joke. Anybody who knows anything about history or who was there, knows he did not stand a chance in hell of winning. {525 to 13 electoral votes,puleeez let get real}. Reagan was great, invincible and loved. No matter how much liberals try to rewrite history they will never be able to change that.If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quade 4 #12 August 3, 2004 Quote Some of us were in diapers during Mondale's acceptance speech... What did he say that cost him the election? He spoke against what he considered to be unfairness in Reagan's economic policies and the need to reduce federal budget deficits. When he made his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention, Mondale said: "Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did." Although he intended this to demonstrate that he was honest while Reagan was hypocritical, it was widely remembered as simply a campaign pledge to raise taxes. Well, that's just gonna lose you an election right then and there. And, of course, Bush (41) made the exact opposite mistake with his famous "Read my lips, no new taxes."quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
