"America misses George W. Bush" (and another Texan won't scare the electorate)
Posted on 09/07/2011 10:15:07 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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BROKAW: Well the stakes are, it seems to me, whether he appears or not because of the wildfires in Texas, he's gonna be the pinata at this debate. Everybody is gonna take a whack at him because he's had such a meteoric rise. And a lot of them will be looking at a book he wrote a couple of years ago called Fed Up. He describes Social Security as a Ponzi scheme. He said that the Supreme Court is an oligarchy with a two-thirds vote. He talked about succession [sic]. Now, this is a man who has raised a lot of money. He's very telegenic. He's obviously captured that part of the Republican Party dominated, at the moment, by the Tea Party. So he's got a lot of things going on. And for Romney and the others, they've got to slow him up.
CURRY: Meantime, the Republican candidates are really courting, as we all know, the, the Tea Party. But a new Quinnipiac poll is finding that just 12 percent of voters consider themselves actually Tea Party members. So do you think the Tea Party will have as big an influence on the national general election as it seems to be having on the primary?.......
BROKAW: Well, we'll see. The fact is that the Tea Party members are extremely well organized and they do show up. It's a small choir but it's very organized and it's very noisy. And Republicans feel that they have to pay attention to them, to advance their cause within the wider Republican Party. The danger for Republican candidates is that if you play only to that narrow part of their party, what happens when the general election comes along? But I've said this before. Tea Party has played the by the rules. They got organized, they got angry, and they got to where they are.
CURRY: In the meantime the New York Times is reporting this morning that the White House is currently trying to remake the image of the President. But, you know, given this deep pessimism, Tom, that we're seeing in the American populace - as evidenced in our most recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll - I mean is it too late to remake the image of the President?
BROKAW: Well in this shake and bake era in which we all live, you can reinvent yourself pretty quickly. But I think that, even among Democrats, especially after his decision about suspending some environmental rules recently, there are real questions about who is this guy? Which one is gonna show up this week? We've seen the cool arbiter. We've seen the guy who took a shot at trying to do something about the debt limit. And then on Labor Day he was the angry populist in Detroit. I think people are looking for a consistency from the White House and a consistent image from this president. I think that's a big part of it. His numbers are way down. People still like him but they don't think he's getting the job done on the economy and all the, all the indications are they're willing to trade him in for someone else.
CURRY: And all this while America is now getting ready, preparing to remember 9/11 ten years later. You know, we, we often have you on our broadcast to give us kind of a sense of the mood of America. Where is America now ten years after this great tragedy?
BROKAW: America is in a kind of an emotional bunker at the moment, wondering where in the world this country is going.. I find that across the political spectrum, small towns and large. Who are we? Where are we gonna get to? And how are we gonna get there? I think this anniversary may be able to reignite some of the feeling that we had ten years ago that we're all in this together. I have a program on, on Friday night called "America Remembers." These are survivors and the widows and the family members of people who died. They are remarkable stories because it's all about will and about making my life better in memory of the people who died. I suppose that should be a kind of a natural calling for all of us.
CURRY: And a reminding of our true American grit.
BROKAW: Well that's true. And we have to be more than the sum of our parts. At the moment we are a deeply, deeply divided, Ann, across the landscape. And 9/11 will be a reminder of - that we're all in this together....
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"America misses George W. Bush" (and another Texan won't scare the electorate)
For a flaming Liberal it's also strange that he can't properly pronounce the letter "L."
Who cares what bad dentures brokaw thinks? I just hope to God that he’s not again chosen to be moderator by the “commission on presidential debates”
1976 
Tom Brokaw On Guns In Arizona: “I Would Be Nervous Going Into A Bar”
On the 8th we'll see the indecisive, floundering Obama THEN on the 11th we'll once again see the images of the strong, decisive George W. Bush.
Brokejaw is still around? Who knew?
When Perry debates Obama, then we’ll see who the pinata is.
anyone who is still watching the Today show is surely in the tank for Obama anyhow
Brokjaw: You’re right, we really don’t know anything about Obama!!!!!!!!! Brokjaw doesn’t know anything PERIOD!
LOL
Thirty years ago I wrote (snail mail in those days!) the program and told them they were not giving their guests the courtesy of letting them answer questions posed to them. I wrote that I’m might agree with the hosts’ positions but I never was given the opportunity to form my own opinion by hearing both sides of the issue and thus the show no longer held any interest for me.
I had toddlers then and now they have children of their own. I have never regretted turning off morning news shows. I can’t stand it when I go to a repair shop and they have one of these programs on the tube. They haven’t changed one bit.
I defy anybody to parse this headline.
It is a jumble, isn’t it?
I gave the interview my own headline in Post #1.
Very good!!
Inspired!
CURRY: And a reminding of our true American grit.
It's painful to read.
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