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Bush's 2008 RNC speech: (Reading Between the Lines)

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He is ready to lead this nation.

(Down the primrose path, for four more years of economic ruin for the middle- class and the poor (who ever they are, I forget"-) and prob'ly a couple more cool, never-ending conflicts to show the world we're still #1 at "-standing tall' and kickin' ass!)

From the day of his commissioning,

(when he barely passed the flight training "" something we have in common!)

John McCain was a respected naval officer

(whose father and grandfather were admirals, so those tars and avi-a-tors had damned well better respect him.)

who made decisions on which the lives of others depended.

 (Mostly of course it was decisions like when to drop bombs on the Vietnamese peasants and the like; y'know - "-Life and Death'.)

As an elected public servant,

(of the wonderfully generous lobbyists of Big Oil and my other buddies)

he earned the respect of colleagues in both parties

(who are also deep in the pockets of Big Oil and my other buddies)

as a man to follow when there's a tough call to make.

(F'rinstance when he has to figure out which of his mansions he wants to spend the weekend at.)

John McCain's life is a story of service above self.

(Or is that "-the service of story to self'? Whatever"- But the "-official' story of John's life 40 years ago is the story we're selling here so even if all the facts don't fit, Karl says that's no matter seeing as Americans're such a stupid bunch.)

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