Newsview: Retooled Bush Speech Has Zingers
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After his lackluster debate performance and a government report undercutting his rationale for invading Iraq, Bush rolled out a revamped campaign speech Wednesday to refocus attention on his Democratic challenger. The speech bristled with new zingers that laid out in harsh and personal terms why Bush thinks Kerry is unfit to be commander in chief.
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Campaigning in 2000, George Bush promised he would swear on the Bible to restore honor and dignity to a sullied White House and give it "one heck of scrubbing." The conviction of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby gave the White House a scrubbing &#151; but not the one Bush had in mind.
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A few days ago Kerry sent around this ad:  "Yesterday, the Bush-Cheney campaign, losing any last sense of decency, placed a disgusting ad called "The Faces of John Kerry's Democratic Party" as the main feature on its website. Bizarrely, and without explanation, the ad places Adolf Hitler among those faces."  "The Bush-Cheney campaign must pull this ad off of its website. The use of Adolf Hitler by any campaign, politician or party is simply wrong."  Which of course is a mistake.  I went and downloaded the video (which is just stupid btw.  Not a masterpiece by any means.) and there are shots of Hitler in there, but only from the MoveOn contest from a few months back.  Here's the problem.  The ...
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President Bush opened several new scathing lines of attack against Democrat John Kerry, charges that twisted his rival's words on Iraq and made Kerry seem supportive of deposed dictator Saddam Hussein.
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How do you keep a leader as verbally gaffe-prone as U.S. President George W. Bush from making even more slips of the tongue?
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Bush and Kerry have had to adjust their games in light of the alerts, and the match has grown nastier
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Get ready for some more "Zell zingers" from the political convention in New York. But this time, a Bush will be the beneficiary, not the target.
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President Bush's distaste for news conferences isn't limited to his own backyard.
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Comment is free: Gary Younge:  The Bush years have been so crushing that progressives have set their expectations low.
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The text of President Bush's news conference at the White House Friday, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions:
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President Bush&#39;s speech before the UN General Assembly on Tuesday was the verbal equivalent of a &quot;greatest hits&quot; album, repackaging and summarizing the key foreign
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President Bush's re-election campaign is lowering expectations for a big bounce in opinion polls from the Republican nominating convention in New York next week.
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President Bush's campaign acknowledged Thursday that it had doctored a photograph used in a television commercial to remove the president and the podium where he was standing. The campaign said the ad will be re-edited and reshipped to TV stations.
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A text of President Bush's news conference Monday, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions:
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President Bushâs address again raises the question of what Americaâs mission in Iraq really is.
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A favored online tactic to mock the president â altering the Google search engine so the words âmiserable failureâ lead to President Bushâs home page â has been neutralized.
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The Democratic presidential nominee accused the president on Tuesday of hiding embarrassments in Iraq, and Bush chastised Kerry for grasping at passing headlines instead of building a coherent proposal.