Including columnists who describe Bush as having "one knee on the canvas".
Clealry one of the ways the media bring about political loss is by repeatedly describing something as in trouble or losing or unpopular. They make -- or at least try to make -- things unpopular by describing them as such.
It's not just Bush who is in trouble. The Nation is in trouble -- in peril! And articles like this, by personalizing the problem around Bush, strike me as possibly well-meant but not helpful.
Sometimes one has to face the truth of it before one can address the problem. We are there as a nation.
Consider this."John L. Perry, an award-winning newspaper editor and writer... he was one of the first American journalists allowed into the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin...
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, science and superstition and it lies at the pit of man's fears and summit of his knowledge.
It is an area which we call
The Twilight Zone.
He served President Lyndon B. Johnson as deputy under secretary of commerce... was a White House speech writer and race-relations trouble-shooter for President Johnson.
In the Jimmy Carter administration... was executive assistant to the under secretary of Housing and Urban Development...was interim director of public information for... (FEMA)"
About the author John L. Perry
Consider this. The writer of the article, John L. Perry is a bleeding heart liberal from long ago.
I come here to get away from all the Bush bashing and the "republicans ain't got a chance in '06 or '08" crap, now Newsmax is in on it? What next? Rush??
I agree. People have already declared him 'down for the count'. ANd then wonder what the problem is.
Including columnists who describe Bush as having "one knee on the canvas".
I BELIEVE in Bush, the media is the ones who want defeat at all costs.
"It's not just Bush who is in trouble. The Nation is in trouble -- in peril"
Just say Civilization, please.