Tom Friedman BLISTERS BushInc for believing WE ARE STUPID

[blm]

Dem "strategists" who sided with Bush over Kerry on this must believe WE ARE STUPID, TOO.


http://thepremise.com/archives/11/03/2006/556

George Bush, Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld think you’re stupid. Yes, they do.

They think they can take a mangled quip about President Bush and Iraq by John Kerry — a man who is not even running for office but who, unlike Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, never ran away from combat service — and get you to vote against all Democrats in this election.

Every time you hear Mr. Bush or Mr. Cheney lash out against Mr. Kerry, I hope you will say to yourself, “They must think I’m stupid.” Because they surely do.

They think that they can get you to overlook all of the Bush team’s real and deadly insults to the U.S. military over the past six years by hyping and exaggerating Mr. Kerry’s mangled gibe at the president.

What could possibly be more injurious and insulting to the U.S. military than to send it into combat in Iraq without enough men — to launch an invasion of a foreign country not by the Powell Doctrine of overwhelming force, but by the Rumsfeld Doctrine of just enough troops to lose? What could be a bigger insult than that?
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[quiet.american]

1. Wow! His "good twin" wrote this one. Excellent!!! n/t

[blm]

2. He may have had a good dose of Olbermann, too.

This dropped pronoun gate has spurred some of the most POWERFUL commentaries against BushInc that have ever been submitted.

Too bad Dem "leaders" and their "strategists" believe WE are stupid, and sided with Bush over Kerry, yet again.

[Cha]

10. What does this mean?

"This dropped pronoun gate has spurred some of the most POWERFUL commentaries against BushInc that have ever been submitted."

[blm]

14. The essence of the big scandal created by media - Dropped Pronoun Gate

The scandal was created because Kerry's actual crime was that he accidently dropped the word "us" from the sentence he was saying.

Pretty puny, eh?

Karma, though, is a BITCH. Check this out
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2562798

[Cha]

17. Thanks!

I'll check that baby out when I get home from work tonight.

[blm]

18. Maybe Friedman and Matthews are freaks of nature.

They certainly blow hot and cold.

[Hav]

3. .

I think that is the most important point of this whole affair. The Repub's strategy and their smears, they would only work if the people are too stupid to realize that Kerry was in the army and that he made this joke about Bush several times. They count on them to be stupid and uneducated. They think Americans are too stupid. And that is the only offense in that affair.

I heard that even O'Reilly (hello?) knew better but still the smear machine goes on.

[blm]

4. I expect backlash against ALL of BushInc and the Dem STRATEGISTS who think

we are stupid.

[Cha]

11. Yeah, hillary. I wonder

if Bill could have possibly advised her to do this or howard wolfson, or did she come up with it on her own?

[blm]

15. She'll be sorry for that brief moment more than Kerry ever will.

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[musiclawyer]

21. Yes, she done

and she doesn't even know it. I'm very happy she tried to stab Kerry in the back.

[beachmom]

5. It's Iraq, stupid. That' his point, and its well said. nt

[stopbush]

6. But Tommy thinks we're stupid enough to listen to HIM.

I'll bet he doesn't see the irony.

[blm]

7. Eventually he'll have to admit his own role in being duped long ago.

It was articles like his that helped persuade those who were unsure or on the fence about invading Iraq. All that gave BushInc the cover it needed for a war they had planned to execute no matter what anyway.

[blm]

8. and that goes for McCain, too.

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[Cha]

9. Hey, hey, hey...for once I agree

with tom friedman. Has his wormed turned? Yeah, they've thought we're stupid for 6 years now. Sometimes it actually worked. But, they have the media whoring for them so it's not exactly fair and balanced.

But, I was thinking this when it first happened. Looks like hillary stepped in some stupidshit.

[blm]

22. Friedman's a mixed bag - when he stops to think he's not so bad - it's when

he contorts himself to see value in BushInc's Mideast strategy is where he loses himself.

[Tom Joad]

12. Friedman is a bona-fide asshole. Bush is losing the asshole vote even.

He is a very, very, wealthy man. He very much supports war and carnage, properly managed, in the Middle East.

[blm]

16. Oh no...Bush lost his base, the asshole vote.

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[pacalo]

13. I just read this article & was going to post it.

Problem was, every paragraph was so good it was difficult to choose only 4.

Here's a bit more:

Everyone says that Karl Rove is a genius. Yeah, right. So are cigarette companies. They get you to buy cigarettes even though we know they cause cancer. That is the kind of genius Karl Rove is. He is not a man who has designed a strategy to reunite our country around an agenda of renewal for the 21st century — to bring out the best in us. His “genius” is taking some irrelevant aside by John Kerry and twisting it to bring out the worst in us, so you will ignore the mess that the Bush team has visited on this country.

And Karl Rove has succeeded at that in the past because he was sure that he could sell just enough Bush cigarettes, even though people knew they caused cancer. Please, please, for our country’s health, prove him wrong this time.

Let Karl know that you’re not stupid. Let him know that you know that the most patriotic thing to do in this election is to vote against an administration that has — through sheer incompetence — brought us to a point in Iraq that was not inevitable but is now unwinnable.

Let Karl know that you think this is a critical election, because you know as a citizen that if the Bush team can behave with the level of deadly incompetence it has exhibited in Iraq — and then get away with it by holding on to the House and the Senate — it means our country has become a banana republic. It means our democracy is in tatters because it is so gerrymandered, so polluted by money, and so divided by professional political hacks that we can no longer hold the ruling party to account.

[blm]

19. Comparing Rove to cigarette companies was CLASSIC.

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[Kickin_Donkey]

20. Ho-hum ...

a day late and a dollar short, Tommie.

[leesa]

23. Well, Tom, you're part of the reason the BushBots are so stooopid.

I believe it has been the endless, idiotic, partisan arguments put up by you and your ilk that have sent us down these bad roads.