BS: Bush's October Surrpise?

Subject: RE: BS: Bush's October Surrpise?
From: Amos
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 03:06 PM

Aw, PoppaG I gotta admit you're right about that.

So maybe the OCtober surprise will be McCain having a temper tantrum and throwing his shoe at Palin's hairdo?


A

Subject: RE: BS: Bush's October Surrpise?
From: Jayto
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 03:01 PM

I am really nervous about what kid of surprises lay in store for this upcoming election. I expect it to be another for the record books. It is sad that you sit around wonderinga about what is going to happen instead of who is going to win. We are in a sad sad shape.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush's October Surrpise?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 02:40 PM

Well, I see on Saturday Night Live that Bush has endorsed McCain-Palin. In all the seriousness of this election, don't forget the delicious humor.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Bush's October Surrpise?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 02:01 PM

That may have been a surprise early on, Amos, but it played out a while ago. By the time the Katie Couric interviews were broadcast, we all had pretty much formed our ideas about our latest political celebrity.

By October first, Caribou Barbie's vapidity was already a given.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush's October Surrpise?
From: Amos
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 12:37 PM

The real OCtober surprise is how vapid Ms Palin is.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Bush's October Surrpise?
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 12:12 PM

A document was introduced regarding a 27 year old Obama arrested for a DWI.


(I think they whited out Bush's name and put in Barack's :)

Subject: RE: BS: Bush's October Surrpise?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 11:21 AM

Interesting to see how easily the death of a few Arabs gets disregarded...

I note the White House is refusing to comment on this episode - see this White House "press conference".

That seems to suggest that they are maybe worried they might have to distance themselves from it, shift the blame down to some lower level, and say that those responsible were acting on their own. Shades of Abu Ghraib...

And they call this kind of thing a "war on terror"...

Subject: RE: BS: Bush's October Surrpise?
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 10:11 AM

http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=Laura+Bush+Divorce&FORM=QSRE


Condi Rice is part of the problem according the tabloids.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush's October Surrpise?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 10:03 AM

"Bush's October surprise: Laura is pregnant."

For months now, the supermarket tabloids have been rife with rumors about Laura dumping ol' George. I only see the headlines while waiting to check out, never buy them, and only very rarely page through one to actually read what's inside, so I have no details to pass along. The front page headlines usually "hint" at affairs, drugs, drunkenness, etc. ~ the usual celebrity crap.

In that context, my first reaction to the above was to ask:

By whom?

Subject: RE: BS: Bush's October Surrpise?
From: Bobert
Date: 27 Oct 08 - 05:12 PM

This cannot help McCain... The American people aren't buying yet another screwed up war...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Bush's October Surrpise?
From: Stringsinger
Date: 27 Oct 08 - 05:01 PM

This is not a surprise as Carol has stated. Bush has a "Wag The Dog" mentality and
some of you might remember Larry Beinart's book or have seen the movie with Dustin
Hoffman. I would think that if the US was in it's right mind, this strategy would backfire because it would decrease national security rather than increase it.

Obama is talking diplomacy and as long as that path is followed, we may have more
security and less risk than foreign incursions and making enemies.

Nuking a foreign country is a lot like shooting wolves from helicopters.

It's absolutely stupid.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush's October Surrpise?
From: DougR
Date: 27 Oct 08 - 05:00 PM

Bush's October surprise: Laura is pregnant.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Bush's October Surrpise?
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Oct 08 - 04:50 PM

o 1. Increasing or redirecting personnel to address critical emergency needs;
o 2. Assigning emergency response personnel and pre-positioning and mobilizing specially trained teams or resources;
o 3.Monitoring, redirecting, or constraining transportation systems; and
o 4.Closing public and government facilities.

Assuming anyone tried this, Election Day might be postponed but not eliminated. I don't see this happening but I didn't see September 11th either.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush's October Surrpise?
From: jeffp
Date: 27 Oct 08 - 04:44 PM

The "Threat Status." Or Fear Status, if you will.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush's October Surrpise?
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Oct 08 - 04:38 PM

Sorry - what is a "code red decree"?

Subject: RE: BS: Bush's October Surrpise?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 27 Oct 08 - 03:23 PM

If the Syrian foreign minister's claim that the dead were "a father and his three children, a farm guard and his wife, and a fisherman" (Syria hits out at 'terrorist' US - BBC News), stands up, I can't imagine it will really help McCain too much.

They really need a response from Syria (or some group that can be labelled as surrogates for Syria) other than mere diplomatic protest, if they are going to be able to build this up into something that pushes the right buttons with the American public.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush's October Surrpise?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 27 Oct 08 - 03:21 PM

If the Syrian foreign minister's claim that the dead were "a father and his three children, a farm guard and his wife, and a fisherman" (
They really need a response from Syria or some group that can be labelled as surrogates for Syria other than mere diplomatic protest if they are going to be able to build this up into something that pushes te right buttons with the American public.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush's October Surrpise?
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Oct 08 - 02:07 PM

A surprise that would cast a giant shadow would be a code red decree.
Justification for a code red doesn't really have to be something real and catastrophic. I hope they would realize this if a code red is their last resort.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush's October Surrpise?
From: CarolC
Date: 26 Oct 08 - 09:39 PM

It's not much of a surprise if everyone expects it. **rolls eyes**

Subject: RE: BS: Bush's October Surrpise?
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 26 Oct 08 - 09:32 PM

The October surprise may be that the Republicans decided many months ago to throw this election, and let the Democrats clean up the disaster(s). Syria may be just another little vandalism to that end.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush's October Surrpise?
From: Barry Finn
Date: 26 Oct 08 - 08:45 PM

I was a one time worried that Bush would try to pull off a 3rd world war or something to that effect in order to get another republican voted into office but that fear has subsided now, He has had to many fuck-ups, is to unpopular, & is to silenced as the lamest duck in history. BUT, I still wouldn't rule out the republicans dropping a bomb on US to sway a vote their way, in a last ditch effort to retain rule.

Barry

Subject: RE: BS: Bush's October Surrpise?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 26 Oct 08 - 08:43 PM

Could be.

Syria makes more sense than nuking Russia.

But the Republicans will do anything if they're desperate.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Bush's October Surrpise?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 26 Oct 08 - 08:39 PM

Here's a vid of Michael Tomasky of the Guardian today speculating about Bush carrying out a military attack as an electoral ploy, and deciding that it would probably be too blatant for him to get much leverage from it, given how unpopular he is right now. ("Will the Bush administration try to pull a last-minute trick to help John McCain, asks Michael Tomasky")

Of course, this was made before this raid on Syria happened, or at least before the news broke. Still, maybe he is right about it not being likely to work.

Subject: BS: Bush's October Surrpise?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 26 Oct 08 - 06:41 PM

'US troops' strike inside Syria

US helicopter-borne troops have carried out a raid inside Syria along the Iraqi border, killing eight people including four children, Syrian officials say....

This looks very like a last ditch effort by Bush to help his friends in the election. Might even work, especially if he can trigger a response in which a few Americans get killed...