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| Kerry Camp and Congressional Dems in Anxiety Mode |
| 2004-09-22 |
| Retiring Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-S.C.) said he was encouraged by the campaign's tougher posture after some recent staff additions. "I feel they're getting it straight," he said. "Now they're finally beginning to fight." Hollings sharply criticized the Kerry campaign's early decision to hold back from responding on the issue of the challenger's Vietnam record, saying it was "touchy-feely crap" and adding, "They don't know how to campaign. Look at the record. We're defending a Silver Star recipient against a damned draft dodger." Still, Hollings expressed hope that the Kerry campaign would be able to focus more attention on Bush's record as president, rather than on Vietnam-era controversies. Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) admitted that "I'd like to see us farther ahead" in his home state of West Virginia. "It's a fight." Byrd noted that Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have spent considerable time in the state, saying, "They've got a lot of people fooled." Byrd said he has advised Kerry: "Stick with the common people. Get a little dirt under his fingernails. Get it in his nostrils. Get it on his hair." Note to Senator Sleets, don't look for Kerry to spread dirt in his well groomed hair. |
| Posted by:Capt America |
| #14 Very well then, a faded blouse with stitchs from past strips still visible. But if your brigade should demand, well then it's your duty and I'll hear none of it! |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-09-22 11:24:26 PM |
| #13 General Lucky - I respectfully decline such an honor... Not worthy. And, well, besides, it was my personal experience that the LtCols and Cols weren't worth warm spit, Sir. Once they got in the neighborhood of Colonel, well Sir, they started thinking about getting that star and went political. Couldn't trust 'em about anything till they either got the damned star - or washed out and retired. Give me a Major who's been passed over, Sir. If they don't drink themselves into oblivion, then they're good guys. With all due respect, Sir. I'd make a fair to middlin' First Shirt, I believe - and aspire to Sgt Major. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-09-22 11:14:00 PM |
| #12 Super Hose, the folks at the breakfast reflexively believe that Bush is enslaved to the Radical Right Christian (ie Pat Buchanan) agenda. They don't realize that a) Bush is a Methodist, b) Bush is the best friend Israel has had since Nixon, or perhaps earlier (I can't say, I don't remember that far back) and c) these days the religious Christians are as a group some of Israel's strongest friends. I heartily agree with you about Kerry, but that's why I am one of those the breakfasters are so concerned about. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-09-22 11:01:20 PM |
| #11 Your Brigade Colonel, you must see to your Brigade. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-09-22 10:57:05 PM |
| #10 Colonel-com, has a nice ring to it. A tunic with braids and piping, by god! They'll snap to at the sight. Huzzah! |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-09-22 10:54:10 PM |
| #9 TW, do the folks at the breakfast consider the Bush administration to be a stalwart friend to Israel when his policy is compared to the policies of the UN and EU? I think a Kerry Administration would be much less likely to demonstrate backbone in defending Israel against European criticism. I don't understand why pro-Israel members of the Jewish community community aren't worried about Kerry's ameoba-like foriegn policy. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-09-22 10:21:16 PM |
| #8 Lucky's Legions are |
| Posted by: .com 2004-09-22 10:03:35 PM |
| #7 Cadres of legions and indeed far flung and at times a little slovenly, but I'm about to issue orders to straigten up soon. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-09-22 9:54:16 PM |
| #6 there is an army of luckies with far flung legions our general guy is their leader |
| Posted by: half 2004-09-22 4:13:56 PM |
| #5 Dearest Lucky, I didn't mean to conflate you and Big Ed, course. You are our own very specialist Lucky of them all. That's why your name is capitalized, and he only got a small 'L', ok? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-09-22 1:54:29 PM |
| #4 Big Ed, I'm sorry for your loss. Even after so long it can still hurt, I know. But, it is lovely that she chose her husband so well that you and he are still friends even though he married out of your family, so to speak. You are lucky. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-09-22 1:52:12 PM |
| #3 tw - My late sister's 2nd husband is Jewish, and we still communicate though my sister died 20 years ago... (My family is Protestant) Many of his views remind me of former Mayor Koch of NYC. The overriding concern to him is National Security. So even though he is a lifellong Democrat, he hasn't voted Dem for president since Carter in 1976... We argue on economics, as he's a little Socialistic around the edges, but Don't get him started on Clinton and "Coffees" for Chinese contributors, Loral missle fiasco, and the like... He's more derisive than me... He remarried, moved to West Virginia, and works as an engineer for a NASA subcontractor there, so let's hope he can help "W" keep those 5 EVs in his column this time. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-09-22 12:21:41 PM |
| #2 I was at an invitation-only breakfast meeting yesterday (I was invited by a soccer acquaintance who felt I might be pursuadable) at which Kerry's brother (the one who converted to Judaism) was to speak about Kerry's position on Israel. What I found interesting -- besides the tidbit that the Kerrys had been Cohens back in Czechoslovakia before they converted (the Temple High Priests, direct descendents of Moses' brother Aaron), were the conversations I overheard afterward. Several different people expressed concern about how to woo back the "Republican Jews," ie those of us who've left the plantation. If the high priced movers'n'shakers are that concerned, Bush must be making a real dent! I know from my own conversations that the more thoughtful of the Jewish teens are leaning strongly toward the Republican party -- as an expression of their idealism, the same way their parents and grandparents chose the Democrats. The Jewish population of this country is somewhere between 1-2% of the whole, but they tend to be influential in their chosen fields of endeavor (I have a cousin in the trucking industry, for instance) and act as a bellweather for the idealists among us. I think Senator Kerry is even deeper in trouble than the polls indicate! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-09-22 11:08:18 AM |
| #1 stick with the common people? "But they're soooo vulgar, Bobby" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-09-22 10:52:15 AM |
