George Bush is really 'in trouble' - opinion from Mississippi

[TacticalPeek]

July 18, 2004

George Bush is really 'in trouble'

* So, watch for staging of debates on "values"

By Joe Atkins
Special to The Clarion-Ledger

OXFORD - George W. Bush is in trouble.

It's not just me saying it. It's my apolitical wife ever since the credits rolled on Fahrenheit 911 at the theater the other night. It's the long lines of young people waiting for the next showing of Michael Moore's devastating profile of the president, and polls showing a 54-percent hike in young voter interest since the 2000 presidential campaign.

It's those other polls showing Democrat John Kerry and his new running mate John Edwards with a 5 percent lead over Bush and Richard Cheney.

It's the ever-rising death toll in Iraq - 900 U.S. troops, 11,000 Iraqi civilians. Time magazine says a plurality of Americans now believe Bush is not only mishandling Iraq but the nation in general. Ask your underemployed, benefits-less neighbor. He'll tell you.

You know Bush is in trouble when you listen to the excitement in the voices of longtime Mississippi Democratic Party activists like Eva Noblin. Like Israelites emerging out of Sinai, they're sensing a new party unity and a return to roots in Kerry's choice of a barnstorming Southern populist for the ticket, and, at the state level, in populist former Congressman Wayne Dowdy's recent election as chair of the state party.


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Lordy! :)

[acmavm]

1. Oh please God, make this be so. (Pick your own higher power to pray

to.) Please let the old adage about truth being stronger than lies, that good will overcome bad, and that you reap what you sow. bush* is right up there with some really bad people when it comes to payback time.

[olddem43]

2. I hope this is indicative of a landslide -

We may need one to win.

[KoKo]

3. ROFL! Edwards "A barnstorming populist."

Whatever it takes......

[dumpster_baby]

5. yeah, his votes have not really shown him to be much of a populist

but then again we have to assume that he went into politics 6 years ago that he had his eye on the presidency all along. So maybe we don't really know what he plans to do. I think there is a pretty good chance that JE will be president some day. So, let's hope he does go populist, because we really need one.

[struggle4progress]

4. Oxford? Site of the October 1962 riots around James Meredith? Maybe ...

... things really can change for the better ...

[TacticalPeek]

6. Since some folks may not actually read the linked article, I can't resist.

"You know why I'm a Democrat?" says the fiery Noblin. "It's because I'm a Christian. I've read the Sermon on the Mount. Those are the true Democratic values. 'I was hungry and you fed me.' Those are Jesus' words. I can take that Bible and tear them apart."

What were Vice President Cheney's values when he used the "F-word" in a recent public tongue lashing against Democratic Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, she asks. "I don't allow that word in my house. My mother whipped us if we said 'darn.' I didn't say it, but my sister did and got a whipping. That was enough for me."


Bwaahahahaha! Values? Bring 'em on!