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KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH HIS SONG
News
reports lately have informed us that the Bush Mama, wife and other women
will be hitting the campaign trail for "W". No
one in the media seemed to notice that the Gore/Leiberman women have been
campaigning for their husbands and fathers and friends for months now.
So prepare yourself for a campaign rally or T.V. spot or radio advert near you featuring the Bushwomen. "W" and his advisors know that the winner of this presidential campaign will be decided by the women's vote. With this in mind they are sending out right-wing women to tell you that "W" STANDS FOR WOMEN.
This is intended to reassure women that Bush is a safe choice who will support women. That he will do more for education, for social security and for well, really for just about anything a woman might desire, and be cute doing it. These women will be poised, informed and will be out to convince voters that Bush will clean the White House that Clinton messed up. Of course they will make Gore guilty by association with Clinton. They will reinforce W's flip-flop on the abortion issue. Now he is claiming that he would do nothing about it except be a leader who would lower the number of abortions.
So expect a "W" type siren song from the Georgie Girls and try not to get sucked into the shoals. They will be out to continue the softer side of George W. that he tried to project during the debates by using what the polls call women's words. Words that women are supposed to respond to with warm fuzzy feelings of regard for the candidate using them. It was so obvious that some people even counted the number of times he said love.
He kept referring to making peace through love in Washington, DC. He rhapsodized about uniting Republicans and Democrats in love. He portrays himself as a leader, a great uniter in love. He spoke using soft, feminine words and phrases aimed at seducing the women's vote. When a farmer asked a question about farm support, his answer was that he "wanted to feed the world." He will solve all the world's problems with love.
By evading direct answers and using this softer language, Bush avoids reminding us about his stand on issues that affect us strongly. He avoids using some key words like gun control, hate crimes, the environment and reproductive rights. We'll know in November if the "undecided" women fall for it, and thereby risk all women on the reefs of Republican legislative horrors.
More Bushisms:
"Families
is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." --
LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000
"If
I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going
to have gag orders."
"Drug
therapies are replacing a lot of medicines as we used to know it."
"It's
one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term."
"I
think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun."
"Mr.
Vice President, in all due respect, it is I'm not sure 80 percent of the
people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I'm the
president."
"Quotas
are bad for America. It's not the way America is all about."
"If
affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm
for it." -- St. Louis, Mo., October 18, 2000
"Our
priorities is our faith." -- Greensboro, N.C., Oct.
10, 200
"I
mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which
is illiterate children." -- Second presidential debate,
Oct. 11, 2000.
"Killing
Me Softly With His Song"
( Roberta Flack )
Strumming my pain
with his fingers,
Singing my life with his words,
Killing me softly with his song,
Killing me softly with his song,
Telling my whole life with his words,
Killing me softly with his song ...
I heard he sang a
good song,
I heard he had a style.
And so I came to see him to listen for a while.
And there he was this young boy, a stranger to my eyes...
Strumming my pain
with his fingers,
Singing my life with his words,
Killing me softly with his song,
Killing me softly with his song,
Telling my whole life with his words,
Killing me softly with his song ...
He was strumming,
oh, he was singing my song.
Killing me softly with his song,
Killing me softly with his song,
Telling my whole life with his words,
Killing me softly with his song...
With his song...
2000-043
Copyright
2000 Renee T. Louise and Ruth M. Sprague, Ph.D. These articles may be republished
for noncommercial use only, provided that they are copied intact, and that
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