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Mavdog · 06-03-2004, 07:03 PM

I do have to mention that this was a good day in the Bush camp, they seem to have stopped the descent with some good news from Iraq and from the other side of the aisle.

The best news came from Iraq, where Al-Sistani ended his seemingly internal exile and issued an approval of the Interim government. This one man seems to be critical to that country's (and the ability to be leaving sooner) succcess.

A UN resolution appears to be close as well, which is the first step in untangling the US occupation. No matter who is elected this fall the look and composition of the forces in Iraq will change, and the sooner this is done the better for all involved.

Domestically, the Bush campaign got the fall guy for the security/intelligence failures. Not saying that Tenet was forced out or even that he is the person responsible, just that his stepping down makes him an easy role player. Nothing wrong with being opportunistic during a campaign. Now they can make the point that there are changes that will take place in our spook area, appearing to confront the intelligence failures.

Ralph Nader came out and criticized Kerry's position on energy, and gave the look of a man who is going to keep on running. That was good enough last time, it may be enough this time too. Kerry will pull 4% less with Nader in the race.

Even OPEC joined in with some positive energy and agreed to boost production. I've read that this is really a fascade, they already pump about the amount they agreed today to raise their levels to, yet the move signals that they feel the price of oil has gone too high for anybody's good.

Yep, there's smiling going on over there today. There's still a lot of time left though...

dude1394 · 06-03-2004, 07:54 PM

Also heard that nader is angling to get the green party nomination/endorsement. Someone said that would put him on either an additiaon 43 or a total of 43 states which was more than last year.

Nader is an interesting wildcard, especially this year as he really DOES have a platform that a lot of libs support. Last year he was just sort of there and had an effect, this year, even though the libs hate bush more than they like kerry, in their blood they are anti-war peaceniks.

reeds · 06-03-2004, 10:03 PM

Yep- I hate to admit it- but Kerry is toast..stick a fork in him- hes done...with all the negative news in the past 6 months on Bush- he should have been way ahead in the polls..Nader is the last straw...another four years of hell....lol

dude1394 · 06-03-2004, 10:16 PM

Well reeds, your momma made you take bad-tasting medicine too. You just don't recognize what is good for you yet, but I have hope. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

kg_veteran · 06-04-2004, 09:59 AM

With the job news that just came out today, Kerry is in real trouble...

Drbio · 06-04-2004, 12:12 PM

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Originally posted by: kg_veteran
With the job news that just came out today, Kerry is in real trouble...

beat me to it.....

Mavdog · 06-04-2004, 03:50 PM

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Originally posted by: kg_veteran
With the job news that just came out today, Kerry is in real trouble...

there's a lot of anger directed at Bush, some earned and some not. If the second half of '04 is no better than the first half has been in Iraq, there's increasing frustration that it's not being executed right and you know where the "buck" (or the foot) stops.

kg_veteran · 06-04-2004, 04:55 PM

Kerry had his chance. He didn't take advantage of it.

dude1394 · 06-04-2004, 05:56 PM

Great line by the WSJ and the pessimism of kerry.

Quote:

More good economic news, for everyone but the Bush-haters: The U.S. economy added some 248,000 jobs in May, according to government figures. The Associated Press reports:

Payrolls swelled by almost 1 million in the last three months alone, the Labor Department said Friday. Employment figures for March and April were revised up to reflect the addition of 353,000 and 346,000 jobs respectively.

On his campaign Web site, John Kerry promises to create 10 million new jobs during his four-year term as president. That's a rate of 625,000 every three months, or only 66% of the past three months' performance under President Bush. Can we really afford to elect someone who sets his sights so low?

madape · 06-07-2004, 10:36 AM

3 month job growth trend:

March: 353,000 jobs added
April: 346,000 jobs added
May: 248,000 jobs added

Three month trend equates to 3,790,000 jobs added annually.

If this is "negative", it's only "negative" for the Kerry campaign. Kerry promised us 2,500,000 jobs a year. That sounds like a threat more than a promise now that the white-hot Bush economy is churning out jobs at 4 million per year pace.

madape · 06-07-2004, 12:54 PM

George Bush and the republican dominated congress has turned the near-depression level economy they inherited from the Democracts into one of the most robust and rapid periods of economic expansion this country has ever seen.. and it took them less than three years to turn the broken ship completely around. It's amazing. The republicans made the Clinton recession so shallow it's hard to remember that it ever even existed.

These job numbers are just another Bush boulder smashing down upon the heads of Mavdog, John Kerry, Al Gore and all the rest of the black helicopter crowd of the far left. The audience for their economic doom and gloom message is quickly disappearing. Last time I checked it was about 5.6% of the population, and getting smaller every day.